' For if once a man indulges himself in murder very soon he comes to think little of robbing; & from robbing he comes next to drinking & Sabbath-breaking & from that to incivility & procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays ' On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head celebrating & coolly dissecting the art of murder & its perfections Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage & brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetrating literary & aesthetic criticism the essays had a remarkable impact on crime terror & detective fiction as well as on the rise of nineteenth-century decadence The volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism ' On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' & his finest tale of terror ' The Avenger' a disturbing exploration of violence vigilantism & religious persecution ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

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Leslie Patricelli's beloved baby is back in this first potty board book When you've got to go you've got to go! But where? There comes a point in every toddler's life when the question must be raised
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On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians It explores the apparent tensions between honourable conduct & expediency in public life & the right & wrong ways of attaining political leadership The principles of honourable behaviour are based on the Stoic virtues of wisdom justice magnanimity & propriety; in Cicero's view the intrinsically useful is always identical with the honourable Cicero's famous treatise has played a seminal role in the formation of ethical values in western Christendom Adopted by the fourth-century Christian humanists it beame transmuted into the moral code of the high Middle Ages Thereafter in the Renaissance from the time of Petrarch & in the Age of Enlightenment that followed it was given central prominence in discussion of the government of states Today when corruption & conflict in political life are the focus of so much public attention On Obligations is still the foremost guide to good conduct ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Artist architect poet & philosopher Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435) Inspired by the order & beauty inherent in nature his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance dimension & proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition representation light & colour to create work that is graceful & pleasing to the eye; & stipulates the moral & artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter On Painting had an immediate & profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti Fra Angelico & Veneziano & on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci & remains a compelling theory of art ...

On Palestine is Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region Operation Protective Edge Israel's most recent assault on Gaza left thousands of Palestinians dead & cleared the way for another Israeli land grab The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine discuss the road ahead for Palestinians & how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine This urgent & timely book offers hope & a way forward for all those committed to the struggle to liberate Palestine On Palestine is the sequel to Chomsky & Pappe's acclaimed book Gaza in Crisis ...

Susan Sontag&s On Photography is a seminal & groundbreaking work on the subject Susan Sontag&s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral & aesthetic issues surrounding this art form Photographs are everywhere & the &insatiability of the photographing eye& has profoundly altered our relationship with the world Photographs have the power to shock idealize or seduce they create a sense of nostalgia & act as a memorial & they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us In these six incisive essays Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality & authority in our lives & Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites& The Times&A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world & at ourselves& Washington Post& The most original & illuminating study of the subject& New Yorker One of America&s best-known & most admired writers Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004 Her books include four novels & numerous works of non-fiction among them Regarding the Pain of Others On Photography Illness as Metaphor At the Same Time Against Interpretation & Other Essays & Reborn Early Diaries 1947-1963 all of which are published by Penguin A further eight books including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn & Where the Stress Falls & the novels The Volcano Lover & The Benefactor are available from Penguin Modern Classics ...

Susan Sontag&s On Photography is a seminal & groundbreaking work on the subject Susan Sontag&s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral & aesthetic issues surrounding this art form Photographs are everywhere & the &insatiability of the photographing eye& has profoundly altered our relationship with the world Photographs have the power to shock idealize or seduce they create a sense of nostalgia & act as a memorial & they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us In these six incisive essays Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality & authority in our lives & Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites& The Times&A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world & at ourselves& Washington Post& The most original & illuminating study of the subject& New Yorker One of America&s best-known & most admired writers Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004 Her books include four novels & numerous works of non-fiction among them Regarding the Pain of Others On Photography Illness as Metaphor At the Same Time Against Interpretation & Other Essays & Reborn Early Diaries 1947-1963 all of which are published by Penguin A further eight books including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn & Where the Stress Falls & the novels The Volcano Lover & The Benefactor are available from Penguin Modern Classics ...