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Coleridge: Everyman's Poetry

Everyman's Poetry

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012

The best of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems in a beautiful new gift edition Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and Jesus College, Cambridge. Close collaboration with Wordsworth resulted in joint production of the volume Lyrical Ballads in 1798, which...
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by Ion Trewin
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009

The unknown life of Alan Clark, celebrated diarist, womaniser, Tory MP and controversial minister in Mrs Thatcher's governments. Celebrated diarist, famous womaniser, Tory MP and controversial minister - a castle-owning toff and lecherous cad to some, to others a colourful and life-enhancing...
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by Tim Pat Coogan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016

The Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties'...
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The Heart of Things

Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

by A.C. Grayling
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. Grayling Everyone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of people one, in turn, respects. And one...
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The Choice Of Hercules

Pleasure, Duty And The Good Life In The 21st Century

by A.C. Grayling
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A.C. Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book. He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today's moral challenges....
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Don Quixote's Delusions

Travels in Castilian Spain

by Miranda France
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012

A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer. When in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid, the post-dictatorship ebullience was at its height. Pornography and soft drugs were legalised...
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by Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011

Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled, while even to professional thinkers in our own time, Spinoza has seemed too clever by half. And yet, as Roger Scruton shows in this strikingly...
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The Xmas Files

The Philosophy of Christmas

by Stephen Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

A philosophical but fun look at the meanings of Christmas myths and rituals, from carving the turkey to why Santa wears red. Picture the scene: Aunt Gertrude has just given you the most appalling Christmas tie, complete with snow-flecked kittens in a bowler hat. Do you smile, nod, and confine...
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Blood and Silk

Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

by Michael Vatikiotis
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017

Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia, and China's growing influence, affect the region and the rest of...
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Globalising Hatred

The New Antisemitism

by Denis MacShane
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008

A hard-hitting essay combined with factual reportage on the new anti-semitism throughout Europe. This book argues that what the 21st century now faces is an ideological assault based on hatred of Jews which is as serious as any major threat to universal values as the world has faced. Anti-semitism...
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Dorothea's War

The Diaries of a First World War Nurse

by Dorothea Crewdson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

The evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War, published for the first time. A rare insight into the great war for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE. In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received...
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by David James Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010

Sarajevo, 28 June 1914: The story of the assassination that changed the world. A historical account of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Using newly available sources and older material, David James Smith brilliantly reinvestigates and reconstructs the events which subsequently...
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by John Sladek
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013

A collection of John Sladek's hilarious SF satires, including: The Last of the Whaleburgers Great Mysteries Explained!Red Noise Guesting Absent Friends After Flaubert The Brass Monkey White Hat The Island of Dr Circe Answers Breakfast with the Murgatroyds The Next Dwarf An Explanation for the Disappearance...
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by Peter Hacker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011

Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 - 1951 P.M.S. Hacker's Wittgenstein offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy. Combining passages from Wittgenstein's writings with detailed interpretation and commentary, Hacker leads us into a world...
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