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By: Vitruvius
ISBN: 9780141441689
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In "De architectura" (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, "De architectura" has been an invaluable source of information for scholars.
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By: Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780241989166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780141019451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Why do we fall in love with the people we do Why do we visit our mistakes on our children What makes life truly beautiful This is a story about a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love.
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By: Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780141026664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Henry Kissinger
ISBN: 9780141049427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Examining China's history from the classical era to the present day, this title describes the essence of its millennia-old approach to diplomacy, strategy and negotiation, reflecting on these attitudes for our own uncertain future.
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By: Naomi Klein
ISBN: 9780141991306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Adam Phillips
ISBN: 9780241541883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Adam Phillips
ISBN: 9781405958035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Adam Phillips
ISBN: 9780241656594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 9780141987224
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ernesto Sabato
ISBN: 9780141985862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Stuart Mill
ISBN: 9780141441474
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents two works by the political and social radical English-speaking philosopher. One is regarded as a sacred text of liberalism. The other stresses the importance of equality for the sexes. These works provide a testimony to the hopes and anxieties of mid-Victorian England, and offer a consideration of what it truly means to be free.
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By: Cicero
ISBN: 9780140455564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry.
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By: Devorah Baum
ISBN: 9780241618011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Devorah Baum
ISBN: 9780241998021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sigmund Freud
ISBN: 9780141183794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Written against a background of war and racism, this work sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide.
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By: Noam Chomsky
ISBN: 9780241973523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. This book offers hope and a way forward for all those committed to the struggle to liberate Palestine.
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By: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141035789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
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By: Michel De Montaigne
ISBN: 9780141043852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, and the importance of sleep.
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By: Plutarch
ISBN: 9780140449433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC.
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By: Emile Durkheim
ISBN: 9780140449679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide. This work was the result of his research.
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By: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9780141396965
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hendrik Groen
ISBN: 9781405930307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780141195377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features three essays that offer insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.
