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Chinese Whispers: Cultural Essays

Chinese Whispers: Cultural Essays

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This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...
Who Killed My Father

Who Killed My Father

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The non-fiction companion to The End of Eddy- a short, powerful personal-political essay addressed to Louis' father Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the...
Notes from the North

Notes from the North

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This is a personal and perceptive confrontation of racial intolerance in Scotland and notions of Englishness and Scottishness.
Pulphead

Pulphead

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Named A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times , Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high...
The Fifth "Times" Book of Best Sermons

The Fifth "Times" Book of Best Sermons

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A collection of sermons entered into the Times newspaper's competition for the best sermon in the UK. For the second consecutive year the competition now includes sermons from the Jewish...
Step Across This Line

Step Across This Line

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The subjects of Salman Rushdie's new collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers...
I'm A Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader

I'm A Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader

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I'm A Little Special- A Muhammad Ali Reader collects 30 of the best pieces ever written about this sporting legend in an anthology by the greatest about the Greatest. Muhammad...
A Testament of Hope

A Testament of Hope

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"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter...
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

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'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart' -GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed When Lamya...
The Queer Bible

The Queer Bible

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'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
Notes to Self: Essays

Notes to Self: Essays

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The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide-from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love. WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK...
The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 2

The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 2

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This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time - the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas...
The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1

The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1

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Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books...
Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

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"Lorna Doone" is the perenially popular story of how John Ridd, a Devon farmer, falls in love with the aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones...
Natural History

Natural History

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A fascinating view of how the world was perceived in the first century Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography...
The Ukimwi Road

The Ukimwi Road

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In January 1992, Dervla Murphy prescribed herself several carefree months and embarked on a cycle tour (pedalling and pushing) from Kenya to Zimbabwe via Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia on...
Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language and Analysis

Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language and Analysis

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This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and...
Choice of Kipling's Prose

Choice of Kipling's Prose

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Gathers twenty-eight stories about Englishmen in the far reaches of the British Empire.
Past-Present: Essays on Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso

Past-Present: Essays on Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso

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These seven essays of art historian Irving Lavin show how the past plays an explicit role in his explorations. In focusing on specific works such as Donatello's bronze pulpits in...
Twenty Years A-Growing

Twenty Years A-Growing

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Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the...
Pilgrim's Progress

Pilgrim's Progress

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The book titled Pilgrim's Progress by the author John Bunyan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

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Winckelmann was not just an historian of considerable stature. He was also a very powerful writer who offered an unusually eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative charge of the...
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

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See more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease here are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. Presented in...
Beyond within: Philosophy for the Inner Life

Beyond within: Philosophy for the Inner Life

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An anthology of Sri Chinmoy's essays, talks and poems on the integration of spiritual aspiration into daily life.
Moving Beyond Words

Moving Beyond Words

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This is a selection of essays from the feminist author of "Revolution from Within". The topics featured include economic empowerment, the advance of women in politics, the terrorism of anti-abortion...
Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital

Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital

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A timeless guide to one of the world's greatest cities. Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In...
Patience and Fortitude

Patience and Fortitude

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Nicholas Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, focused on the obsessive lives of book collectors. Now, in Patience & Fortitude, he considers the more comprehensive concept of book culture-and the continual relevance...
Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation

Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation

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The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child...
What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday

What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era. 'Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.' - PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE...
Three Danish Comedies

Three Danish Comedies

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Includes the plays No, Jeppe of the Hill and The Scatterbrain Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) and Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) were two of the very few dramatists for whom Henrik Ibsen...
Calendar

Calendar

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A collection of essays in the form of a daybook, written in real-time over a year. Calendar is about tuning in to the unexpected, playful and solemn lives of the...
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works

Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works

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This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas.
On Lust & Longing

On Lust & Longing

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On Lust & Longing brings two of Blanche D'Alpuget's prominent works together. When On Lust was first published it caused a media sensation: d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society...
Picador 21st Book

Picador 21st Book

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In 1993, Picador celebrates its 21st anniversary. This book marks this event. Twenty-one authors who have contributed to Picador's success were each invited to write and choose a year in...
Selected Essays

Selected Essays

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Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that an appreciation of its vast natural resources would become the foundation of American culture. His assertion that human thought and actions proceed from nature, was...
Penguin Book of Death and Dying

Penguin Book of Death and Dying

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A section of non-fiction pieces that explores many questions related to death and dying, including public and private responses to death and cultures as diverse as Ireland, Mexico, Australia and...
Things in Nature Merely Grow

Things in Nature Merely Grow

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'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES 'Courageous' OBSERVER 'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS 'There are few writers with Li's power' DOUGLAS STUART The best book...
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability

black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability

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In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes and tedium? Until recently, not Black women. Kimberly McIntosh...
Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers

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Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from Man Booker Prize-finalist Paul Auster....
Hockney's Alphabet

Hockney's Alphabet

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On behalf of the Aids Crisis Trust in London, Sir Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in Britain and America to contribute original texts, prose or poetry, to...