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On Suicide

On Suicide

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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

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

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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

The Book of Tea

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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

The Stonewall Reader

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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

Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

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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 Tain

The Tain

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Author: Ciaran Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious...
Uncharted: How to Map the Future

Uncharted: How to Map the Future

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Author: Margaret Heffernan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'An urgent read...Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, author of Trust me, PR is Dead' How can...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

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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...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge

The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge

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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 Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

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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

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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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)

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

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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...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century

Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century

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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

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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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...
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings

Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

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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...
Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids

Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids

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Author: Meri Lao Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Their celestial voices drove mast-lashed Ulysses nearly out of his mind with libidinous promises as they beckoned him ever...
Media, Masculinities, and the Machine: F1, Transformers, and Fantasizing Technology at its Limits

Media, Masculinities, and the Machine: F1, Transformers, and Fantasizing Technology at its Limits

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Author: Professor, PhD Dan Fleming Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 Media, Masculinities, and the Machine identifies a distinctive phenomenon in today's media culture - the contemporary male...
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt

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Author: Sinan Aral Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power...
Kings of the Grail: Tracing the Historic Journey of the Cup of Christ from Jerusalem to Modern-Day Spain

Kings of the Grail: Tracing the Historic Journey of the Cup of Christ from Jerusalem to Modern-Day Spain

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Author: Margarita Torres Sevilla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify the location where the...
Secret Societies and the Hermetic Code: The Rosicrucian, Masonic, and Esoteric Transmission in the Arts

Secret Societies and the Hermetic Code: The Rosicrucian, Masonic, and Esoteric Transmission in the Arts

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Author: Ernesto Frers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A look into secrets hidden in music, painting, sculpture, and architecture * Ranges from paintings of Byzantine icons to...
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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Author: The Secret Barrister Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't...
Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think

Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think

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Author: Eyal Winter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Which is smarter,your head or your gut? It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too emotional. Try and think rationally. But is...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

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Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

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Author: Naomi Wolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. The bestselling classic that...