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In these short lyrical essayettes-a follow-up volume to the New York Times bestselling The Book of Delights: Essays-the award-winning poet continues his celebration of the everyday delights we so often miss and inspires readers to rediscover the ordinary joys in the world around us.

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This is a text on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory, originally composed in 1643 by an undefeated samurai. Appropriate for martial artists and leaders in all professions, this book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction.

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The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa,winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-and an authorwho is 'tireless in his quest to probe the nature of thehuman animal' - Washington Post

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St. Augustine's view of history and humanity reflect his dedication to Christian thought and theology.

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Covering civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, murder trials that gripped her, and sketches for various occasions, this title gathers over fifty essays for a retrospective of moral courage, as Joan Didion described her. It defines literature itself.

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Critical commentary illuminating Blake's allusions and references accompanies the texts of his poetic and prose works.

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A brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre's most distinguished practitioners.

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Jodi and her mother were both diagnosed with breast cancer nearly a decade later, and then Jodi lost her too.

In this searing, candid collection of essays, Jodi illuminates the roles that identity and memory play in preserving those we love.

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Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only art worth loving is that built on complete untruths.

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A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.

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Presents a translation of the Greek philosopher's works.

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A timely collection of 64 essays about dictators through the ages by acclaimed historians, politicians, journalists and academics, edited by Iain Dale.

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A second collection of prose, published posthumously in 1978. In these essays, Jones explores his deep connection to Wales through its culture, symbolism and through the notion of heroic defeat.

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

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'A quite stunning collection. There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.' - Jeremy Paxman

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Presents a critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain. This work examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution.

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It contains fifty-one key texts, spanning Freud's entire career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilisation and Its Discontents.

Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud, has put together this selection to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought.

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Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture and his commitment to the environment.

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Offers a selection from author's startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire.

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A timely reissue of a classic collection from the 1980s by one of Britain most radical cultural commentators

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A fascinatingly diverse anthology of the literature of exile, from the myths of Ancient Egypt to contemporary poetry.

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Gregory of tours wrote this dramatic narrative of sixth-century French history as a chronicle of the events leading up to and including his 21-year tenure as bishop of tours.

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Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip.