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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the indi ...Show more
Civilization and its Discontents: Pocket Hardbacks by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Destination Moon (Tintin #16 HB) by Herge
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Category: Picture Books | Series: Tintin (Hardback)
In this adventure, Tintin and Captain Haddock are suddenly called away to Syldavia, where Professor Calculus is working on a moon rocket and requires passengers for the trip.
Dune (SF Masterworks) by Frank Herbert
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Hardback
The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke and his son, ...Show more
Essays and Aphorisms: Pocket Hardbacks by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
The Art of War by Sun-tzu; John Minford (Introduction by, Translator); Coralie Bickford-smith (Cover Design by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
"Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of Waris still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on eve ...Show more
The Calculus Affair (Tintin #18 HB) by Herge
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Category: Classics | Series: Tintin (Hardback)
In this adventure, breaking glass in Captain Haddock's mansion take him and Tintin to Geneva, where Professor Calculus's latest invention is sought by an evil power.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection | Reading Level: very good
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world ...Show more
Tintin and Alph-Art by Herge
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Category: Picture Books | Series: Tintin (Hardback)
Join the world's most famous travelling reporter in his final unfinished adventure, Tintin and Alph-Art In an interview shortly before his death, Herge wrote of the last Tintin adventure: "The plot revolves around a tale of forgers ...The book is set in the world of contemporary art. The narration itsel ...Show more