ABOUT THE BOOK: IN "AMERICA'S PERPETUAL PARADISE, REVISED EDITION", THE AUTHOR GOES IN DEPTH TO SHOW, BY AIRING SOME OF BOTH, DIRTY AND CLEAN LAUNDRY IN SOME INSTANCES, SOME ASPECTS OF THE COUNTRY...więcej »
His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream.Prospero...więcej »
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slo...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
Have you ever opened the Bible to look for answers? Maybe life is just too difficult, and you lost all hope? The Word of God has your answers, but is it too hard to understand? God's plan fo...więcej »
Have you ever wondered how Christianity began? Why do we have churches and how do priests know what to do in mass? In this hectic world, it is easy to take this for granted and value Christianit...więcej »
I wrote this book as a wake-up call for anyone who wants a better easier life. It addresses physical health, what to do and what not to do to keep our bodies healthy and working properly. It tak...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
I believe the primary purpose for God's Word is to assist us in living according to His will. It is everyday living alongside God. Although we are ordinary people, we can still have extraordinar...więcej »
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...więcej »
Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, fro...więcej »
Have you ever wondered if God cares for you or if he will really take care of you? We are told in Matthew 6:26 that, 'Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns...więcej »
Jesus said in Mark 4:13 – “And He (Jesus) said to them (the disciples), ‘Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?’” ...więcej »
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and conf...więcej »
Vaughn Spencer.They call him an angry god. To me, he is nothing but a heartless prince. His parents rule this town, its police, every citizen and boutique on Main Street. All I own is a...więcej »