As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, M...
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he invest...
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the...
This short book shares how death, dying and loss are experienced from the perspective of someone with autism, it explains the observable behaviours, the thinking behind these behaviours, and what y...
A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.A man is unexpectedly appointed as doctor at the local prison. But when a terrified inmate begs to be moved, the young do...
When civilized, as well as barbarous nations, have been found, through a long succession of ages, uniformly to concur in the same customs, there seems to arise a presumption, that such customs are ...
Racist? Xenophobic? Bigoted? Do these typical accusations really explain why 72.3%% of the voters in the Essex borough of Thurrock voted to leave the EU?
Our author, born and raised in Thurrock,...
Zimbabwe has one of Africa's great concentrations of prehistoric art. Scattered throughout the country are a multitude of painted and engraved rock art sites, the product of several societies in th...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
Discover the hidden language of images using this full-color guide to the Elements and Principles of Art and Design with over 200 individual illustrations and 30 artwork examples. This comprehensiv...
Aircraft feature prominently in the graphic works of Hergé. This detailed study in 176 full colour pages details each type and places it in its historical context. With the timeless work of Hergé a...
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves t...
In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And ye...
The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with the essential concepts and steps for valuing stocks. This book derives the models mathematically and explains the cash flows and risks associa...
For twenty-four hundred years--from the Greek thinkers of the fifth century B. C., who asked whether right was right by nature or only by enactment and convention, to the social philosophers of tod...
Farming methods have changed substantially in the last 100 years. Pollution, degradation of the ground and water have resulted in soils unable to sustain life for healthy plants, animals, and peopl...
The vortex movement is the most common and obvious phenomenon in the sky, and the direction of the vortex movement is definitely of inward contraction. Scientists have seen this phenomenon clearly ...
One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way...