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We know that trauma can leave syndromes in its wake. But can the anticipation of violence be a form of violence as well? Tense Future argues that it can-that twentieth-century war technologies and practices, particularly the aerial bombing of population centers,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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‘A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant’ Simon SchamaAmos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In How...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-28
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'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar.Introducing Little...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?'Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday....
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone'In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracián shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...'The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a magical ability with words, never more so than in The Terrors of the Night, where he mulls over ghosts, demons, nightmares and the supernatural.Introducing Little Black...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.'A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.'Glittering essays by the Renaissance master of the form, exploring contradictions in human thoughts and actions.
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied'
As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-08
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'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied'
As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-08
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While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go' Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they...
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E-Penguin
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2014-11-28
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The Russian reception of the greatest Roman poet, Vergil, provided Russian thinkers with a way in which to define Russian-European features. This volume looks to uncover the nature of Russian reception of Vergil, and argues that the best way to analyse his presence in...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-27
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Discontent and its Civilizations is the essential first collection of non fiction from Mohsin Hamid.Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; the death of Osama Bin Laden...
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Penguin
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2014-11-27
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After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-11-27
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'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of great letter-writing, Keats's letters are outstanding. They begin in summer 1816, as he...
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Penguin
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2014-11-27
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Writing a letter can be an act of confession or celebration, while receiving one can bring joy, insight and vivid memories. Ambassadors for correspondence Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire have lured some of our best and brightest to the literary afternoons of Women of...
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E-Penguin
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2014-11-14
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Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely.This volume...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2014-11-11
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