The Legendary Philanthropist Tackles the Dangers We Must Face for the Survival of Civilisation 'Soros has become a standard bearer for liberal democracy' - Financial Times George Soros - universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics and investment success, and now under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites around the world - gives an impassioned...

George Orwell's masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith...

When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its origins back to what he terms the 'mystical stance' - the aspect of human psychology that...

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched...

Almost thirty years after the world was stunned by the shocking death of Pope John Paul I, journalist Sarah Monteiro finds an envelope stuffed in her mailbox. The contents hold the key to uncovering the truth about that mysterious death. Drawn into a vortex in which deadly mercenaries, crooked politicians, and princes of the Church itself have formed an alliance of deception, Sarah must...

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He...

Cette sœur acceptera-t-elle le marché risqué qu'on lui propose pour faire évader son frère de prison ? De quoi ce père sera-t-il capable pour sauver sa famille des quatre prédateurs qui se sont installés dans sa maison ? Comment cinq criminels – un pédophile, un assassin, un ancien légionnaire serbe, un kidnappeur et un braqueur – se retrouvent-ils dans une même histoire et pourquoi Coste...

Booker T. Washington was an American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, best known for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University. In My Larger Education, Washington writes on how he came by his positions on race relations describing the people who influenced him. Washington was constantly criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and...

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a...

Podczas gdy jego ojciec przebywa w podróży Oktaw, syn Arganta, zakochuje się i żeni z Hiacyntą, młodą, biedną dziewczyną nieznanego pochodzenia. Tymczasem Argant zamierza ożenić syna z córką Geronta z Tarentu. Również pod nieobecność swego ojca Leander, syn Geronta i przyjaciel Oktawa, zakochuje się w Zerbinecie, młodej Cygance. W obliczu niespodziewanego powrotu Arganta, Oktaw,...

“This book is not yet another modified version of the so-called biographism in science, so strongly criticized in the ‘serious’ literary studies and in other disciplines adopting the form of easy psychologism. The concept of ‘scientific biographies’ presented here originates from different assumptions and serves different objectives. It concerns a specific tension that is generated (and is...

‘This is a brilliant, shocking book ...also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ...it is a work of great literature’ Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian ‘The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange’ Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times The sensational international bestseller from one of France’s most feted writers - an epic novel telling the story of...

Le 27 octobre 1949, le nouvel avion d’Air France, le Constellation, lancé par l’extravagant M. Howard Hughes, accueille trente-sept passagers. Le 28 octobre, l’avion ne répond plus a la tour de contrôle. Il a disparu en descendant sur l’île Santa Maria, dans l’archipel des Açores. Aucun survivant. La question que pose Adrien Bosc dans cet ambitieux premier roman n’est pas tant comment, mais...

'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven, one of the most original and independent-minded foreign policy thinkers, is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the world's great powers are far more threatened by climate change than they are by each other.' - Ivan Krastev, author of The Light That Failed In the past two...

We leven in tijden van angst. Wat kunnen we doen om IS te stoppen? Hoe voorkomen we dat ze jongeren indoctrineren en rekruteren? Hoe verdedigen we onze samenleving? Met verwijten en simplistische oorlogstaal komen we er niet. Deze tijd verdraagt geen lichtzinnigheid. We hebben een coherente aanpak nodig, die veiligheid verzoent met vrijheid en die opnieuw hoop biedt aan alle burgers...

During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life's work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but she rarely...

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70 lat temu, 1 sierpnia 1944 roku, do walki o wolność swojego miasta przystąpiło kilkanaście tysięcy słabo uzbrojonych powstańców. Dowództwo podziemnej Armii Krajowej, decydując o podjęciu jawnych działań zbrojnych przeciwko przeważającym siłom okupanta niemieckiego, planowało utrzymanie kontroli nad miastem przez tydzień, może 10 dni. Zakładano, że wkrótce do szturmu na Warszawę ruszy Armia...

When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida’s Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people are...

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