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From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of
From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of
What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? John Carey's best-selling Faber Book of Reportage draws its eyewitness account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.' Jeremy
An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient Egypt to modern California, the authors of which, in different ways, attempt to describe a better world than our
These fantastical myths are fun - but what are the real answers to such questions?Professor Richard Dawkins has teamed up with renowned illustrator Dave McKean to take you on an amazing journey from atoms to animals, pollination to paranoia, the big bang to the bigger
What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Ethicists Gregory Beabout and Mike Hannis describe various approaches, ancient and modern, to those timeless questions: 'What kind of person am I?' and 'What should I
'The middle and latter portion of The Professor is as good as I can write. It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre.' - Charlotte Bront The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bront completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the
Accessible guide to the effect - good and bad - of the internet on our everyday
Clever Machinery uses the thrill of the rides to explain what machines are. Pulleys and levers, incredible propulsion, supporting loads just got a lot more interesting! Amusement Park Science a series of 4 books that explain science, using the thrills and spills of rides that have high interest
Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives. Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly--published together here for the first time--offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which
Professor John Dickie's riveting new history of Freemasonry - an organization as mysterious as it is
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and
What are the 'instincts' of a good teacher? Can they be taught? Good teachers use good techniques and routines, but techniques and routines alone do not produce good teaching. The real art of teaching lies in teachers' professional judgement because in teaching there is seldom one 'right
Come along and investigate the continent of Australia. What are its landforms? What are its major cities? What natural resources are found
Presents an overview of the English legal system. This work provides the groundwork for an understanding of legal institutions, processes and materials, and places the study of law within a frameworkof inquiry focusing on the evaluation and explanation of legal decision making at various levels. It
Sunday Times Bestseller How did life on Earth begin? What is the nature of space and time? What are the chances that we will discover life on other
Black Plaques are not to be found proudly mounted on a wall--and for good reason. What with their commemoration of a brutal execution outside Westminster Abbey, the selling of sex toys in St. James's Park, and an intruder at Buckingham Palace with Royal undergarments stuffed down his trousers, this
After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human
With a new introduction by Professor John Sutherland, this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century. Animal Farm is a moral animal fable written to highlight the weakness of humankind, and satirize the rule of Stalin, whose rise through revolution ended in