Prose: Non-fiction

• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-up
  Susan Orlean's collection of profiles ranges from the well-known (Marky Mark) to the unknown (Colin Duffy, a typical American man, aged ten) to the formerly known (the cult sixties girl group the Shaggs). Orlean meets with Cristina Sanchez, Spain's first fully-qualified female matador, Silly Billy,...
• The Essential Spike Milligan
  A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history - as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. Milligan's themes ranged...
• The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story of a romance, from its reckless, ecstatic...
• Reliable Essays
  Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James's essays, selected from 30 years of prose. Including classic pieces such as Postcard from Rome and his observations on Margaret Thatcher, it contains funny examinati...
• The Common Reader
  Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as Modern Fiction and The Modern Essay. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie Index....
• Selected Writings
  Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) were e...
• The Aeneid
  The city of Troy has been ransacked by conquering Greeks and lies in smouldering ruins. A warrior, Aeneas, manages to escape from the ashes. He will go on to change the history of the world ...The Aeneid tells the story of an epic seven year journey that sees Aeneas cross stormy seas, become entang...
• Brief Lives
  Chris Price won the NZSA Award for Best First Book of Poetry with her collection Husk (AUP, 2002). This second book, Brief Lives, is a surprise - a collection of prose poems of varying lengths, followed by a long essay, all elaborate and inventive variations on a theme. Brief Lives is a dictionary ...
• Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist
  Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983) was one of Australia's most important - and controversial - journalists and war correspondents. This, the unexpurgated version of his remarkable autobiography, leads the reader into key moments of twentieth-century history, guided by an eyewitness who is a writer of pas...
• The Confessions
  Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three ...
• Fidel Castro
  Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time - he has become a myth and an icon. He was the first Cuban Caudillo - the man who freed his country from dependence on the USA and who lead his people to rediscover their national identity and pride. Castro has ...
• Prophecy
  More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to ...
• The Art of Dreaming
  Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this stunning new jacket edition of his bestselling book, he takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer don Juan and reveals that there are worlds existing wit...
• Meditations
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. This is the first book Marcus the roman emperor wrote concerning himself. Profound as philosophy these Meditations c...
• Signs of the Times
• Exit Right
  A clear and canny explanation of all the steps required to maximise your profit on selling all or part of your business: deciding on the route and timing, how to choose advisers, grooming your business for sale, valuing the business, finding prospective purchasers, negotiating the sale, steering sa...
• Resistance
  As the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agnes Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind faith and reckless courage. With a handful of her distinguished colleagues at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, she helped to form one of the first organised gr...
• The Book of Five Rings
  Setting down his thoughts on swordplay, on winning, and on spirituality, legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai. He had little idea he was penning a masterpiece that would be eagerly devoured by people...
• Pride and Prejudice
  Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daugher, Elizabeth, but a bad account of him is given to El...
• The Awakening
  First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her fami...
• The Odyssey
  The Homeric text that we have is written in what became the standard verse form for high-serious composition in the classical world. Yet certain recent scholars have speculated that the oral composition of the poem in its early form may have been written with a phrase-by-phrase prosody, not the for...
• The Canterbury Tales
  The RSC's alternative Christmas show this year: a new two-part dramatisation of one of the greatest books in the English language Befell that in that season on that day/ In Southwark at The Tabard - as I lay/ Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage/ To Canterb'ry with full devout courage -/ At night was c...
• Dracula
  A biography of the 15th Century Prince of Romania, Vlad Dracula (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impale and on whom Bram Stoker based his fictional character. It covers his career as ruler of Wallachia, terror of Transylvania and crusader against the Turks and examines how closely he compares to his fict...
• Frankenstein
  Frankenstein began as the nightmare of an unwed teenage mother in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1816. At a time when the moral universe was shifting and advances in scientific knowledge promised humans dominion over that which had been God's alone, Mary Shelley envisioned a story of human presumption and...
• Robert F. Kennedy
  Before his life was tragically cut short, Robert F. Kennedy was attorney general of the United States, a senator from New York, and a charismatic presidential candidate. But even more astonishing was Kennedyas personal odyssey. Born into immense wealth and privilege, Kennedy came to embrace the cau...
• Tragically I Was an Only Twin
  For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's greatest comedians shows no sign of shrinking. Despite his reputation for idleness, Peter Cook was a prolific writer,...
• Africa
  Thirteen/WNET and National Geographic Television have joined forces to create a television event for Fall 2001 - Africa: Land of the Sun - and 8-hour film series showing the majesty and wonder of this remarkable land. The series will be shot on location by some of the world's best filmmakers, and w...
• The Backwoods of Canada
  The toils, troubles and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers an account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a half ...
• After-Words
  More than fifty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, searching for words to convey the enormity of that event. Efforts to express its realities a...
• Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
  No time left for pamphleting and leafleting, picketing and petitioning, talking and walking around. Time to TRASH THE STATE! Abbie Hoffman? Huey Newton? No, it's P. J. O'Rourke, circa 1970. Now America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist - O'Rourke was at one time a raving pinko, with th...
• Another Sky
  This collection of writing from prison, including autobiography, letters and poems, will include new pieces by Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy currently under 'protective custody' in Myanmar, and Orhan Pamuk, who faces prison for a comment published in a Swiss newspape...
• Samuel Johnson
  This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Johnson's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by essays, criticism, and fiction - to give the essence o...
• Prose and Poetry
  Emerson's writings helped to shape literary study, philosophy, politics and social reform,This edition represents the full range of his work- important sermons, lectures, essays, addresses, poems and excerpts from his journals and notebooks....
• Speaking Out of Turn
  Brings together forty-two selected speeches and lectures by Professor Manning Clark. They range over fifty years from What of Germany, delivered in 1940, to the last, delivered in 1991 just before his death at the launch of Barry Humphries' book The Life and Death of Sandy Stone and reveal recurrin...
• The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
  Here's a collection of Mark Twain's most profound reflections, wry observations, and candid witticisms, packaged in an illustrated, collectible Miniature Edition(TM). With excerpts gathered from his novels, short works, letters, and speeches, it's a portable compendium of wisdom from America's most...
• The Letters of the Younger Pliny
  A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an asto...
• The Poetics
  Aristotle was a pupil of Plato and author of numerous works on logic, the natural world and human society. He approaches poetry (drama) not as a literary critic but as an analytical philosopher. Poetics is credited as the source of the Aristotelian doctrine of the three unities - time, place and ac...
• Eyrbyggja Saga
  This is an Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized soci...
• Letters to a Young Poet
  Drawn by some sympathetic note in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. An accompanying chronicl...
• Seven Viking Romances
  Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic imagination, they relate intriguing, often comical...
• An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
  'Now the sport begins!' An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging. A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. Collier describes methods for 'teasing and mortifying' one's int...
• The Quotable Oscar Wilde
  The year 2000 marked the 100th anniversary of the brilliant, controversial Irish poet and dramatist's death, and our Running Press Miniature Edition(TM) showcases his razor-sharp wit with quips and quotes culled from his books and plays, including Th...
• A Life in Letters
  William Wordsworth is usually remembered as the quintessential Victorian Poet Laureate: a dull, worthy, establishment figure, with impeccable middle class, Tory, Anglican credentials, whose moralistic poetry has been required reading for generations of yawning school children. Yet, there is so much...
• Poems and Letters
  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here are primarily devoted to love and religion. Intense and passionate, the love poems focus on two fig...
• Correspondence
  In the autumn of 1924, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille was just 27 and had recently started working at the Bibliotheque nationale. Michel Leiris, 23, was beginning his studies in ethnology. They discussed the idea of founding a movement which would displace Dada and ...
• Letters to a Spiritual Seeker
  Henry David Thoreau is famous for the literary excellence of his political and nature writings. But his friend Harrison Blake understood that the true significance of [Thoreau's] life was in fact spiritual, and he presciently asked the then-little-known Thoreau for guidance in finding a path of his...
• Articles of Faith
  When Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a great Catholic writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted discomfiting themes with a sombre eye. The British Catholic journal The Tablet provided Greene with a forum for both his works-in-progress...
• As If
  This volume seeks to expose the hollowness of condemnation divorced from understanding in relation to the Bulger murder trial. People have almost become desensitized to random murder. It is often explained away by madness, sexual fantasy or rejection. One murder in recent times reduced every person...
• At Large and at Small
  In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favourite genres, the familiar essay - a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With her wonderful combination of wit and erudition, Fadiman ...
• The Compulsive Spike Milligan
  This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, The Essential Spike Milligan. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and varied range of material, this second anthology is as unmissable as the first. Whe...
• Dickens on France
  Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris. This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affinity with the country that would take him back often and that would find ex...
• Disavowals
  Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun's activities as an artist was rediscovered during the wave of interest in women artists, and mor...
• Finders Keepers
  Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his ...
• Graham Greene
  Available for the first time in the United States a new series of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers. Drawing upon the mast recent thinking in English studies, each book considers biographical material, examines recent criticism, includes a...
• Griffith Review 3
  The internet has changed the way we think. Elites are pass networks are the new webs of power. Griffith Review: Webs of Powerexplores the way networks exert influence. From the revolving door or politics to the junior cricket team, from nepotism in business to the experience of new migrants, from c...
• It Is Bliss Here
  Myles Hildyard served as an officer during World War II. He saw action in Palestine, Crete, North Africa, Italy, the D-Day landings and finally Berlin in 1945. He fought and was captured at the battle of Crete, and then embarked on a dramatic escape ...
• The Irresponsible Self
  A collection of dazzling essays from one of the world's finest and most controversial literary critics. When James Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. John Banville described Wood as a 'a close reader of genius...illumin...
• The Kill Bill Diary
  The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Caradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino's contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role. When Carradine landed the lead role in Quentin Tarantino's new film, Kill Bill, it catapulted him into the Hollywood...
• Learning to Live Finally
  A few weeks before his death, Derrida said: 'I am at war with myself, it's true, you couldn't possibly know to what extent ...I know that it is what keeps me alive, and makes me ask precisely ...how does one learn to live?'With death looming, Jacques Derrida, one of the most famous philosophers of ...
• Liverpool Accents
  This anthology is not a historical survey of poetry about Liverpool, neither is it representative of Liverpool poets. Rather, it is an opportunity for seven poets - all with a biographical link to the city - of different ages and affiliations to introduce their poetry. The poets represented have al...
• The Medical Miscellany
  With the average medical textbook now over one thousand pages long and newspapers daily devoting many columns to health issues, no individual can know more than the bare essentials of the subject. What better then than to dip into a small book covering only the amazing, the bizarre, and the amusing...
• The Silent Traveller in Oxford
  In 1940 the Chinese writer Chiang Yee arrived in Oxford as a refugee from the London Blitz, his lodgings having been bombed. He came to Oxford, he writes, in rather a turmoil. What was meant to be a brief escape turned into a five-year stay, an affectionate relationship with the city, and the fifth...
• A Woman in Berlin
  Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and viv...
• What I Saw
  In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. ...
• What We Say Goes
  'An indispensable review of the hottest issues in international affairs today, with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival.'The Boston GlobeThe world's foremost critic of US foreign policy, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns in the world and shows how they affect u...
• The Algebra of Infinite Justice
  A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote the essay The End of Imagination, in which she said: My world has died. And I write to mourn its passing. The essay, as have all its successors, attracted worldwide...
• Best of Myles
  Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and relentless high spirits Myles' 'Cruiskeen Lawn' became t...
• A Conga-Line of Suckholes
  A collection of words of wisdom and witticisms, insults and reflections. From Ben Chifley to Barry Humphries, Julius Caesar to John Faulkner, and including some of the author's more memorable turns of phrase, this is a book of quotations compiled during a public life, on subjects such as sport poli...
• Campo Santo
  Sebald's final collection of essays provides a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Gunter Grass, Bruce Chatwin and Kafka, showing both how...
• Chambers Book of Speeches
  This major anthology brings together a diverse selection of eloquent, powerful, witty and passionate speeches as given by politicians, monarchs, rebels and intellectuals from ancient times to the present day. Speakers from Arafat to Zola are represented biographical information is provided for each...
• Chinese Myths
  Myths were regarded with great scepticism by classical Chinese scholars and remained primarily a diffuse and fragmentary oral tradition, eventually preserved in writing only in a peacemeal fashion. Many of the classical texts were unavailable in translation and the stories have therefore been unkno...
• Chuck Klosterman IV
  Our favourite popular phenomenon offers new introductions, outros, segues, and footnotes around a collection sure to enlarge his following: Part I: Things That Are True showcases Chuck's best profiles and trend stories from the past decade. Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, U2, Radiohead, Wilco, T...
• Culinary History
  This collection of papers presented at the Second International Conference held by the Uni of Adelaide's Research Centre for the History of Food and Drinks covers topics ranging from philosophical speculation by ancient Greeks and Romans to authors of modern cookbooks, even the consumption of olive...
• The Complete Essays
  Nobody in Western civilization had ever tried to do what Montaigne set out to do. In a vivid, contemporary style he moves swiftly from thought to thought, often digressing from an idea only to return, having caught up with it elsewhere. In these essays, Montaigne lays out for his contemporaries and...
• Dear Charlie
  On 3rd December 2005, 13-year-old Charlotte Thompson and her school friend were killed by a train at Elsenham station in Essex. They were crossing the tracks to catch a train to Cambridge to go Christmas shopping. There was no footbridge at the station. Following her death, Charlie's father began w...
• The Dylan Thomas Omnibus
  'In the beginning was the three-pointed star, One smile of light across the empty face One bough of bone across the rooting air, The substance forked that marrowed the first sun And, burning cophers on the round of space, Heaven and hell mixed as they spun.' This is a rich collection of Dylan Thoma...
• Essays
  Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as On Solitude, To Philosophize Is to Learn ...
• Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
  I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a normal girl all along. . . . -- FROM Everything I Needed to Know About Bein...
• Ex Libris
  Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. "Ex Libris" wittily recounts a lifelong obsession...
• Fighting Words
  Is religion inherently violent? If not, what provokes violence in the name of religion? Do we mischaracterize religion by focusing too much on its violent side? In this intriguing, original study of religious violence, Professor Hector Avalos offers a new theory for the role of religion in violent ...
• The Feel of Steel
  Helen Garner's second non-fiction collection moves through loss and desolation into moods of wonder, hilarity and beauty. This weave of working journalism with longer essays has the texture of a memoir, and offers a personal portrait of an always surprising talent....
• The Freud Reader
  Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-century life, and to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. Containing 51 texts which span Freud's entire...
• Henry Handel Richardson
  Henry Handel Richardson is celebrated for her classic Australian novels The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, yet her own life-story is still to be fully told. This enthralling book is the first complete biography of this enigmatic Australian literary icon. Drawing on previously...
• High Tide in Tucson
  A collection of pieces in which Barbara Kingsolver, author of the novel Pigs in Heaven, explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. The topics include Kentucky, housework, promiscuity, health clubs, the Canary Islands, rock and roll, space rockets, and Thoreau....
• How to Achieve True Greatness
  Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you ...
• In Bed with Jocasta
  For better for worse, in sickness and in health, in car park and shopping mall...get in bed with Richard Glover, his wife Jocasta and their children Batboy and The Space Cadet, and experience the traumas, perplexities and strange pleasures of life. Richard Glover writes every Saturday for the "Sydn...
• In Fact
  Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays, all originally published in the journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. With an introduction by Annie Dillard, this collection highlights the importance of a dramatic an...
• Junk Mail
  Everything that makes Will Self' s fiction so arresting and original is in evidence here in this collection of his best articles, book reviews, and interviews from the Observer, the Guardian, the Independent, the Evening Standard, and many more. Whether describing penis operations, narcotics or mer...
• Just Doing My Job
  Imagine what it must be like to attend a fatal accident in which you know the victim or to pull a baby out of a fire who is dressed in the same style of pyjamas that your child wears or to have to knock on a stranger's door and tell a wife that her husband has been murdered, while in the background...
• Let Me Finish
  Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London . . . having fallen not just in lo...
• Letter from America
  When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening...
• The Death of King Arthur
  Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by th...
• Clouds
  This bestselling former Palisades release is book five in the new Glenbrooke series by award-winning author Robin Jones Gunn. Shelly Graham has moved home to Glenbrooke, where she's flooded with memories of her high school sweetheart, who took off for Europe after they broke up. But when Shelly tra...
• On Murder
  'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on th...
• Ethics
  G. E. Moore was a central figure in twentieth-century philosophy. Along with Russell and Wittgenstein, he pioneered analytic philosophy, and his Principia Ethica shaped the contours of twentieth-century ethics. Indeed, until the publication of Rawls's A Theory of Justice, no single book in moral ph...
• An Anthropologist on Mars
• The Worst of Kalaki and the Best of Yuss
  In 2004, it was widely reported in the British and Zambian press that Roy Clarke, columnist and satirist known as 'Kalaki', on the The Post, Zambia's major independent daily, faced deportation. Following a column entitled 'Mfuwe', the government had announced he was 'a threat to peace and good orde...
• Walden
  On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of the nature classic First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben prov...
• Waves
  Who can resist the hypnotic rhythm of the ocean's waves? To understand why the surf and the sea capture us like they do, Waves takes a closer look at the mystery and mechanics behind waves. Author Drew Kampion examines how waves form, what moves them, and why they are important. From rips to unde...