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Take Your Best Shot
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
No Australian prime minister has had to face such a difficult and challenging political environment as did Julia Gillard. Her impressive legislative record was overshadowed by pitched battles with jealous rivals and a remarkably hostile media, as well as her own struggles to communicate effectively...
The Economist: State Capitalism
The Visible Hand
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.
As Western liberalist...
Short Stories in Italian
New Penguin Parallel Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating insight into Italian culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool.
The Economist: International Banking
Retail Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.
Retail banking is heading...
Chomping at the Bitcoin
China Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In May 2013, China's main state-run broadcaster aired a documentary about a little known virtual currency called Bitcoin. Over the next six months, the value of Bitcoin rocketed as Chinese money poured in. Unfortunately for many latecomers, the rapid rise in Bitcoin's price and popularity also attracted...
The Economist: Personal Technology
Beyond the PC
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.
Twenty years ago one...
British Society Since 1945
The Penguin Social History of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text.
'Something of a tour de force......
The Map of Me
True Tales of Mixed-Heritage Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
In today's Britain thousands of people have parents from different cultural backgrounds. In February 2008 we asked for people from any background to send us true stories which illuminate the complexities, challenges and joys of having a mixed heritage - those defining moments which seem to say it...
Heart of Darkness
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist...
A Selection Of Smithereens
Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
A short shot of the unique genius of Shaun Micallef. Feel that War and Peace went on a bit? Wish there were more laughs in Catcher in the Rye? Then A Selection of Smithereens is for you. These pieces from one of Australia's funniest men (no, not John Clarke) feature the Borgias, Winston Churchill...
by Desmond Clarke, René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific...
Alpine Giggle Week
How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an Alpine Peak (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A little known, rediscovered letter: an SOS from a woman trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with no idea how to escape—that woman being Dorothy Parker.
“Kids, I have started one thousand (1,000) letters to you, but they all through no will of mine got to sounding so gloomy...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'
Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black...
by Dante Alighieri
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'
A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic...