A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems (Yoon Emily Jungmin)(Paperback)

A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems (Yoon Emily Jungmin)(Paperback)

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talentIn her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called 'comfort

OUR KIND OF CRUELTY (HALL ARAMINTA)(Paperback)

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback)

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback)

Singing (Yoon Irons J.)(Paperback)

We are 'hard-wired' to sing - singing has defined our evolution. Through singing we express our feelings, communicate and connect with others. We are all singers: singing is part of us and defines cultures worldwide. Singing also, importantly, makes us feel better: it is, undoubtedly, good for us

Our Kind of Cruelty - The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year (Hall Araminta)(Paperback / softback)

Mike and Verity have a special game. The Crave. They play it to prove what they already know: that Verity loves Mike. That she needs Mike. Even though she's marrying another man. Now Mike knows that the stakes of their private game are rising. This time, someone has to die

Complete Poems (Bronte Emily)(Paperback / softback)

The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to her. Many poems describe the mythic

Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics (Elbourne Paul)(Paperback)

Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many others are addressed

Complete Poems (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback / softback)

The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest

Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity (Hare Brian)(Paperback)

A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness'Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring--and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.'--Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and

Our Kind of Cruelty (Hall Araminta)(Paperback)

'A searing, chilling sliver of perfection . . . May well turn out to be the year's best thriller.' --Charles Finch, The New York Times Book Review 'This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line.'

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback)

Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer,

Aesop's Fables - The Cruelty of the Gods (Gebler Carlo)(Paperback / softback)

The greatest collection of fables ever written, updated for our turbulent

Collected Poems 1912-1944 (Doolittle Hilda)(Paperback)

Of special significance are the 'Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944),' the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed 'fallow' period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only

Favourite Poems: 101 Children's Classics (Various)(Paperback / softback)

101 classic poems that every child should read, from Tennyson, Keats, Wordsworth, Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare and many

Kingsley Amis: Collected Poems

'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign), and old age. Collected Poems, arranged

Chimpanzee: Lessons from Our Sister Species (Hunt Kevin D.)(Paperback)

The chimpanzee is one of our planet's best-loved and most instantly recognisable animals. Splitting from the human lineage between four and six million years ago, it is (along with its cousin, the bonobo) our closest living relative, sharing around 94% of our DNA. First encountered by Westerners in

Emily Bronte Reappraised (O'Callaghan Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Emily Bronte occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero, and villain. But Emily herself remains an enigmatic

Day Our Teacher Went Batty (Phinn Gervase)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of poems based on familiar

Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy (Allison C. Fitzsimons)(Paperback)

Ancient heresies have modern expressions that influence our churches and culture, creating cruel dilemmas for today's Christian in the form of error, sin, and various distortions on orthodox faith. In Cruelty of Heresy, Bishop Allison captures the drama and relevance of the Councils of the fourth

Moonstruck! - Poems About Our Moon(Paperback / softback)

An anthology of poems about the moon, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Nelson Maggie)(Paperback)

Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath's poetry to Francis Bacon's paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono's

Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart (Donegan Patricia)(Paperback)

A collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday life Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment--and for that reason haiku can be a

Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (Ginsberg Allen)(Paperback)

'As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to freedom. . . . Kaddish is the perfect poem for these