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...
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...
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...
This book shares with its readers relevant information as it relates to understanding what True Friendship means and implies. We're created independent; yet it is vital that we understand the impo...
A deadly global pandemic, tragic natural disasters, and political upheaval occupy made 2020 an unusual year. Nonetheless, some were able to thrive, mostly through innovation, tenaciousness, and of...
Through the ages man has been pre-occupied with logic, sanity and moral standards, probably more than other concepts. Societies through their various stages of evolution varied the theme with disti...
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...
ANCIENT PASSIONS is a work that boldly assumes humanity is facing an immense, global spiritual crisis. It addresses this crisis by offering a well-organised collection of lively exhortations, medit...
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...
This book is an actual, uncensored diary translated from Polish. It reveals a young wife's intimate feelings and candid opinions during her flight from Europe after the outbreak of World War II. ...
Once considered the "Holy Grail" of hallucinogens, over the last quarter century, DMT has entered the public mind like never before. No longer a taboo topic to be discussed in the hushed tones amon...
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...
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cun...