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A Nation Without Borders
The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston Globe
Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner**
In...
The Battle for Ireland
A Story of National Liberation--A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Trac ks)
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The history of contemporary Ireland and its struggle for independence—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms
Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt...
Haunted England
The Penguin Book of Ghosts
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall
Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt
Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing
Beware the black dog of Shap Fell:...
The First Dismissal
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go' Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay...
Fellow Citizens
The Penguin Book of U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
The complete American presidential inaugural addresses featuring historical background by a National Book Award winner
A testament to the power of oratory, this stirring and often surprising collection includes all fifty-five United States presidential inaugural addresses, as well as a general...
CatWise
America's Favorite Cat Expert Answers Your Cat Behavior Questions
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**Mark your calendars for Pam's CatWise Cat Café Tour! Beginning in March, she'll travel to some of the greatest cat cafés across the country to share tips and tricks from her brand new book, Catwise.
Top feline behavior expert (and author of Penguin's bestselling Think Like a Cat and Cat...
by Mo Zi
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling and definitive translation, new to Penguin Classics.
Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded. However, the book containing his philosphical ideas has survived centuries of neglect...
Betrayal in Paris
How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution: Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan at the start of the war. Yet, despite early encouragement from the world's superpowers,...
Squeaker's Mate
Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
A classic short story from one Australia's most celebrated writers. Squeaker, a selector, is slowly clearing his piece of the Australian bush. However, lazy and shiftless, he leaves most of the work to his uncomplaining and hardworking mate. When she is crushed under a falling yellow gum, Squeaker...
by Theodor Fontane
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor Fontane.
Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love, yet know they have only a short time...
by Soren Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great...
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps
A Penguin Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
First issued in 1941, when the national crisis made it essential for every scrap of kitchen waste and spare time to be used for increasing the nation's food resources, this book enabled the meagre official wartime rations to be supplemented in thousands of homes by a regular supply of eggs and meat,...
From Despair to Hope
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A few days before the terrorist attacks in Paris, a car bomb exploded in Beirut killing dozens. Though this may happen on the other side of the world, deep divisions occur that are exploited here for political expediency. Strangers are no longer people reading quietly on the bus, but potential threats....
The Chinese Labour Corps
China Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
As the young men of Europe were fighting in the trenches, a little known contingent of Chinese labourers crossed the world to provide support vital to the Allied war effort. Largely illiterate farmers from northern China, these men were simply attempting to make a better life for themselves, ignorant...