Barbarians Arrive Today
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020 A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020 With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cava...
The Semantics of Colour
Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, su...
Indian Medicinal Plants
In an easy to use dictionary style of A-Z presentation, this volume lists the taxonomy and medicinal usage of Indian plants. Also given are both traditional Indian and international synonyms along with details of the habitats of the plants. Indian...
The Will to Reason
Offering an original perspective on the central project of Descartes' Meditations, this book argues that Descartes' free will theodicy is crucial to his refutation of skepticism. A common thread runs through Descartes' radical First Meditation dou...
Beautiful Torture: Enemies to Lovers - Dark Romance Book 2
Harper left me to rot in jail for a crime that she committed. I was put away for five years. During that time, there was only one thing that got me through the night - the desire to get even.It was all too easy to kidnap her. She's now locked away in my basement awaiting her punishment. I intend to find out by any means necessary why she lied. If that means hurting her, so be it. She's put me through more than any man should have to cope with in a lifetime, so a little payback is only fair.If she were my only problem, life would be peachy, but my parents are giving me hell. They're trying to force me into marriage, and wriggling out of that will be a full-time job.I'll get what I want, eventually. Everyone has a breaking point - and Harper will be getting close to hers shortly. That's a promise.
The Two Cultures
This fiftieth anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate,...
Time of Hope
The life of Lewis Eliot - documented across eleven novels with C. P. Snow's distinctive blend of precision and compassion - begins in Time of Hope. The novel opens in the summer of 1914 when nine-year-old Lewis hears the news of his father's bankr...
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
2013 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the publication of the influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that...
Masters
Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Widely regarded as C. P. Snow's masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is the fifth novel in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strang...
Remember, Body...
'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...
Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has written some of the most powerful poems in history. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document. Though Cavafy is wickedly satirical, many of his poems are locate...
Complete Plus - The Poems of C.P. Cavafy in English
This book contains 162 poems: the 154 canonical Collected Poems, presented by year and within each year's order of composition and/or first printing, plus seven of the Uncollected Poems interspersed chronologically among them. Only one of his reje...
George Passant
George Passant
Chomsky on Democracy and Education
Engaging and incisive, Chomsky on Democracy and Education is the first collection of writings, talks, and interviews, some previously unpublished, of his views on language, power, policy, and method in education.
Critique of the Gotha Program
One of the fundamental and classic texts of Marxist political / economy wherein he employs the methods of dialectical and historical materialism in his critique of an early program proposed by the German Social Democratic Party of the time, the SPD.
Community and Society
This extraordinary prescient work by Ferdinand Toennies was written in 1887 for a small coterie of scholars, and over the next fifty years continued to grow in importance and adherents. Its translator into English, Charles P. Loomis, well describe...
Japan Extolled and Decried
This edition makes available once again Thunberg's extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus - of the great fathers of modern science - s...
C. P. Cavafy
The acclaimed translation of the most important modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Edmund K...
Introduction to Effective Field Theory
Using examples from across the sub-disciplines of physics, this introduction shows why effective field theories are the language in which physical laws are written. The tools of effective field theory are demonstrated using worked examples from ar...
The Collected Poems
'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on hist...
The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
Torts--personal injury law--is a fundamental yet controversial part of our legal system. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts provides a clear and comprehensive account of what tort law is, how it works, what it stands to accomplish, and wh...
