Penguin Books (2781 kníh )
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Metaphysical Poetry ENSpanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This compelling collection of the best and most enjoyable poems from the era includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as…
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Jack Kerouac Mexico City Blues'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday' Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it...
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Robert Twigger Micromastery ENWe read that we must be passionate about only one thing, that 10,000 hours of hard practice is needed to achieve mastery. But in fact most successful people, including Nobel prize winners, nurture multiple areas of knowledge and activity that feed their central subject. Whether it's making a perfect soufflé, dancing a tango or lighting a fire, when we take the time to cultivate small and quantifiable areas of…
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Robert Twigger MicromasteryWe are not born to be specialists. Feed your curiosity and become a Micromaster...
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Jonathan Coe Middle EnglandThe country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter tries to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, while in...
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George Eliot MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into ...
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Harlan Coben Miracle Cure ENThey're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds—threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time. In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has…
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Jorge Luis Borges Mirror of Ink ENJorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explored philosophy, paradox and the nature of existence. Penguin Modern Classics publish all of his most famous works, including Labyrinths, The Aleph and Fictions. This collection includes seven classic Borges tales which intrigue, inspire and mesmerize through their singular genius.
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Richard H. Thaler Misbehaving ENWhy are we more likely to forgo the opportunity to sell a £100 bottle of wine rather than actually taking money out our wallet to pay for it, when ultimately the 'opportunity cost' of doing so is the same? Why would the 'endowment effect' mean that we value a free ticket worth hundreds of pounds more than the money we would get from selling it? As the most vivacious and vociferous founding member of behavioural…
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Charli Howard MisfitSo, how did a slightly bonkers misfit with anorexia, bulimia and anxiety decide to solve their problems? I became a model. As you do.Charli Howard had always wanted to be normal - but for some reason, she couldn't quite find out how to do it. As a teenage
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Herman Melville Moby Dick ENArguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the culturally and spiritually diverse crew of the Pequod, a 19th century whaling ship. The Pequod is on its last voyage out of New Bedford, Mass, in pursuit…
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Herman Melville Moby-Dick ENOver a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary…
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Emma Straub Modern Lovers ENDitmas Park, Brooklyn. Summer in the city . . . Elizabeth, Zoe and Andrew met at college, had a band, grew up, settled in New York and somehow twenty years passed by. Still living round the corner from one another (and in each other's pockets) they're watching as their kids come of age one hot summer. But just as the kids start making those first hesitant steps into adulthood, so it's the parents who find that the…
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Aziz Ansari Modern Romance ENThis is a hilarious, eye-opening tour of the new romantic landscape, from one of America's sharpest comic voices and one of its leading sociologists. In the old days, most people would find a decent person who lived in their village or neighbourhood, and after deciding they weren't a murderer, get married and have kids - all by the age of 22. Now we spend years of our lives searching for our perfect soul mate and,…
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Geoffrey Willans Molesworth ENSchool is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy poetry with an assortment of swots, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers, in fact he is…
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Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders ENBorn and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. One of the earliest and most vivid female narrators in the history of the English novel, Moll recounts her adventures with irresistible wit and candour—and enough guile…
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Nicole Knepper Moms Who Drink and Swear ENIf you feel like your kids are killing you, you’ve come to the right place. Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a mind it can be to try to civilize those wild little beasts. Based on her hugely popular Facebook…
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Robert Skidelsky Money and GovernmentThe dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market...
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Andrea Camilleri Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories ENFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, twenty-one short stories spanning the beloved detective s career Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels, and now in Montalbano s First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri has selected twenty-one short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy s famous detective through…
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John Updike Month of Sundays ENUpdike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.
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Tove Jansson Moomin and the Birthday Button ENMoomintroll wakes up full of excitement. It's his birthday. But when it appears that his friends have forgotten all about his special day, Moomintroll is very upset. Even Moominmamma finds it hard to comfort him. Then there's a knock at the door... Who can it be, and what will happen next?
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Tove Jansson Moomin's Little Book of Numbers ENA companion volume to Moomin's Little Book of Words that is suitable for little hands and early learning.
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Tove Jansson Moomin's Little Book of Words ENApple, cup, flower, shell... Discover Moomin's favourite first words as you share his busy day all the way to bedtime. A companion volume to Moomin's Little Book of Numbers, this chunky little board book is just right for little hands and early learning - and there's plenty of Moomin magic along the way.
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Tove Jansson Moomin's Touch and Feel Playbook ENIf you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're missing the most magical fun... Discover first words, numbers and concepts with the Moomins in this colourful touch and feel playbook. Just perfect for little hands!