Intimate Universal
William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenom...
PhD Writing Handbook
This is an invaluable guide to developing the writing skills needed to succeed at every stage of postgraduate research. It provides useful guidance on writing clearly and coherently, and covers core topics such as exploring key concepts through wr...
Music and the moderni, 1300-1350
Music theorists labelled the musical art of the 1330s and 1340s as 'new' and 'modern'. A close reading of writings on music theory and the polyphonic repertory from the first half of the fourteenth century reveals a modern musical art that arose d...
In God's Hands
In God's Hands is the 2015 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book. In this little gem of a book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distils the wisdom forged through a childhood of poverty and apartheid, an adulthood lived in the glare of the world's media, an...
God Child
'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi 'Adept, admirable, important' Guardian Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind, spinni...
Exodus
Recounting the greatest event of divine salvation in the Old Testament, the book of Exodus is not merely a story about the Lord God rescuing enslaved Israelites from the power of a despotic and xenophobic dictator. More importantly, it highlights ...
Brief History of the Hundred Years War
For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns...
Flyaway
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer about security consultant, Max Stafford, set in the Sahara. Why is Max Stafford, security consultant, beaten up in his own office? What is the secret of the famous 1930s aircraft, the Lockheed Lodest...
Babywatching
Desmond Morris combines his skills as a zoologist and manwatcher to take a close look at the most remarkable life-form ever to draw breath on this planet - the human baby. In a revealing portrait of life from the baby's point of view, Desmond Morr...
Europe Recast
This is the fully updated 2nd edition of the leading textbook on the history and evolution of the European Union, written by a leading authority, and highly successful textbook author, in a clear, entertaining and accessible style. Dinan tells the...
British Surrealists
The lives, loves and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris. Fêted for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivot...
Music and the moderni, 1300–1350
Music and the moderni, 1300–1350
Essays on Levinas and Law
This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and¿injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.
Songs without Music
In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, read...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * ONE OF TIME 'S¿TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE *¿ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern cla...
Fourteen Wolves
Fourteen Wolves
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY - AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic 'has set a new standard for reporting on poverty' (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur 'Genius' Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as 'wrenching and revelatory' (The Nation), 'vivid and unsettling' (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without
Bodytalk
The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. Desmond Morris has travelled to over 60 countries while making field studies of human body language, and made notes of hand gestures and facial...
Elephant
In this, Jenni Desmond's third nonfiction children's book about one of the large, endangered animals of Earth, we join a young boy as he learns about The Elephant. From Africa to Asia, the elephant makes its home. Light on their feet, despite thei...
Philosophy and Its Others
Philosophy and its Others responds to the widespread sense that philosophy must renew its intellectual community with other significant ways of being and mind. The author articulates philosophy's community of mind with the aesthetic, the religious...
Red Roulette
In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously reappeared four years later on the eve of Red Roulette's publication and global media coverage about it. As Desmond Shum was growing up impoverished in China, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity, he earned an American college degree and returned to his native country to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China's male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of China's Communist Party, the so-called Red Aristocracy, he vaulted into China's billionaire class. Soon they were developing the massive air cargo facility at Beijing International Airport, and they followed that feat with the creation of one of Beijing's premier hotels. They were dazzlingly successful, travelling in private jets, funding multi-million-dollar buildings and endowments, and purchasing expensive homes, vehicles and art. But in 2017, their fates diverged irrevocably when Desmond, while living overseas with his son, learned that his now ex-wife Whitney had vanished along with three co-workers.In Red Roulette Desmond Shum pulls back the curtain on China's ruling elite and reveals the real truth of what is happening inside China's wealth-making machine. This is both Desmond's story and Whitney's, because she has not been able to tell it herself.
God Has A Dream
In it, the Archbishop shows how important it is that, even as we face the harsh realities of our individual lives and global conditions, we remember the importance of hope and dreams - for it is on hope and dreams that a better future will be buil...
High Citadel
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the South American Andes. When Tim O'Hara's plane is hijacked and forced to crash land in the middle of the Andes, his troubles are only beginning. A heavily armed group of communist soldiers ...
Snow Tiger
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in New Zealand. Fifty-four people died in the avalanche that ripped apart a small New Zealand mining town. But the enquiry which follows unleashes more destructive power than the snowfall. As the...
Isbjörnen
Isbjörnen, detta enorma, vackra och vilda djur som väcker vår nyfikenhet. Isbjörnen har 42 långa vassa tänder, en blåsvart tunga och dålig andedräkt. Den lever på iskalla Arktis och håller sig varm tack vare sin tjocka päls och ett tjockt lager med fett som skyddar den mot kyla. Med tassar lika stora som tallrikar tar den sig enkelt fram i vatten och på havsisen där den spanar efter sälar att äta. För att överleva måste en isbjörn äta 40 sälar om året. I en fascinerande bilderbok med inslag av fakta får vi en oemotståndlig presentation av isbjörnen och landskapet där den lever. Boken fångar på ett poetiskt sätt känslan och atmosfären av den arktiska miljön och isbjörnens hårda tillvaro.
Evicted
*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are intertwined, you should read this book' Bill Gates, Best B...
Poverty, by America
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any othe...
Darwin
Hailed as the definitive biography, this monumental work explains the character and paradoxes of Charles Darwin and opens up the full panorama of Victorian science, theology, and mores. The authors bring to life Darwin's reckless student days in C...