Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries....
Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of...
What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really...
You want to go freelance. You want to make your career work for you, on your terms and determined żeby your own definition of success. You want autonomy, flexibility and variety. But where do you...
As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, "Tomorrow Is Now" is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she...
THE SCORCHING HOT RICHARD & JUDY LOVE AFFAIR THAT WILL LEAVE YOU OBSESSED!'IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS' 5***** reader review'SUMMER'S SAUCIEST, SEXIEST...
One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart. From a leading cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey,...
The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant organization in America'In 1974...
Arguably the greatest /Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B. C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece-a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical...
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing...
A romantic story of three couples, packed full of heart and drama, and set in winter in the beautiful city of Prague. Appeal for readers of Lucy Diamond.
This is a black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York...
'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he finally...
For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world-view was shattered aby revolutionary new ideas. This book shows that the creation of this...
First published in "The New Yorker" in the 1950s, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction" are two novellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often...
The man lying beside you is not your husband. And he's not breathing... THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Full of corkscrew twists' Daily Mail'Brilliantly...
The opening book in the world famous "Lymond chronicles", Dorothy Dunnett's bestselling series. Lymond is back...the whisper spreads quickly on that warm August night in 1547. Francis...
Being an agile seller virtually guarantees a prosperous career. When salespeople are promoted, switch jobs, or face new business conditions, they need to learn lots of new information and skills...
BASED ON THE NO 1 HIT PODCAST 'The Lazarus Heist''You'll never see North Korea the same way again' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland'One of the most incredible...
For years, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. The author explores what the mysterious silence it has encountered could mean. He looks at ways to make contact...
This funny play is about rich people. These people always want more money, so Volpone and his servant play a game. People think Volpone is dying. They bring beautiful things for him. They want his...
'One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction... A masterpiece' Daily TelegraphUnforgettably funny...
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, "A Confession" is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for...
George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed żeby the joy of fatherhood, "Silas Marner" is edited with an introduction and notes żeby David Carroll in "Penguin...