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By: Bruno Munari
ISBN: 9780141035819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sets out the author's ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday.
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141184548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature.
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By: Virginia M. Axline
ISBN: 9780241547977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241386019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141393032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Documents the author's 'first contact with poverty'. This title shows a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141184388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This is Orwell's record of a period in the late 1920s when he lived among the tramps of London and Paris. Orwell's publishers initially took the book as a sign of him abandoning Socialism, but this was denied by the author himself. The book attempts to offer insights, rather than solutions.
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By: Laurie Lee
ISBN: 9780241411698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141394893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this title follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141185071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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By: Arne Nss
ISBN: 9780241257197
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 9780241552292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Peter Shaffer
ISBN: 9780141188904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so will open up his own wounds. This work uses an act of violence to explore faith and insanity.
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By: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780141195568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Linking the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, this title offers an array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as includes comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141183060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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These essays, reviews and articles describe the life and work of this writer.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241435090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780141188256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. This book evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of author's native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.
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By: L. P. Hartley
ISBN: 9780141395067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed. For Jael lives in the New State, created out of the devastation of the Third World War.
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hunter S Thompson
ISBN: 9780241960417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map.
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By: Michael Hofmann
ISBN: 9780241441336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stanislaw Lem
ISBN: 9780241334355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9780141183848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers accounts of 'Funes the Memorious', the man who can forget nothing; 'Pierre Menard, Author of the "Quixote"', who recreates Miguel de Cervantes' epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in 'The Lottery in Babylon'.
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505373
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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