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The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Islands of Abandonment
Author: Cal Flyn
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Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 These early Irish stories, probably first written down around the eighth century A.D., represent the oral tradition of the...
The Power of Privilege: How white people can challenge racism
Author: June Sarpong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality of...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In...
Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis
Author: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Riot police are shutting down borders, 800 lives are lost in a single shipwreck, a boy's body washes up...
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Author: Cedric J. Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Author: Robin DiAngelo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism Anger. Fear....
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us...
One World
Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 365 Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Author: Kate Manne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de...
Growing Up Disabled in Australia
Author: Carly Findlay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins
Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella
Author: Jack Charles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian...
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)
Author: Helen Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them...
I Am Not Your Negro
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work...
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...
Status Anxiety
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering...
My Story
Author: Julia Gillard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three...
A Matter of Death and Life
Author: Irvin D. Yalom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her fatal diagnosis, as they reflect...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'If you think...
The Origins of Psychic Phenomena: Poltergeists Incubi Succubi and the Unconscious Mind
Author: Stan Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Examines unexplained phenomena in psychiatric and psychological terms rather than occult terms * Explores how the unconscious mind manifests...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life
Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans -...
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Author: Christopher A. Bail Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A revealing look at how user behaviour is powering deep social divisions online - and how we might...
Peace, Love, Goats of Anarchy: How My Little Goats Taught Me Huge Lessons about Life
Author: Leanne Lauricella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Weve all seen the goats of Goats of Anarchy, now goat mama Leanne Lauricella will tell her stories of what the...
The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
The Home Stretch: Why the Gender Revolution Stalled at the Kitchen Sink
Author: Sally Howard (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Forty years of feminism, and still women do the majority of the housework. Why? In fact, whilst we're...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection
Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
On Suicide
Author: Emile Durkheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of...
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann
Author: Peter Wortsman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
The Stonewall Reader
Author: Jason Baumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...
The Female Eunuch
Author: Germaine Greer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 436 The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. 'The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation;...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
Orientalism
Author: Edward W. Said Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 25th anniversary of first publication Orientalism is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The extraordinary story of modern Europe on the move. A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries. In l978 Sontag...
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...
The Unconscious
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
Author: David Goodhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Author: Kate Manne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of...
The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, The Second Sex is the crowning...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...