Sociopathy affects an estimated 1- 4 of the population but not all sociopaths are cold-blooded murderers They're best described as people without a conscience who prey on those with high levels of empathy but themselves lack any concern for others' feelings & show no remorse for their actions Drawing on real life cases The Empathy Trap Coping with Sociopaths explores this taboo subject & looks at how people can protect themselves against these arch-manipulators Topics include Defining sociopathy & related conditions such as psychopathy narcissism & personality disorder How sociopaths operate & why they're often difficult to spot Identifying sociopathic behaviour The sociopath's relations with other people & why they often go unpunished Coping with the aftermath of a destructive relationship Re-establishing boundaries & control of your life Practical advice for keeping sociopaths at bay Resources & further help ...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand with an introduction by Neal Ascherton After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974 which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia & sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories Here their eloquent & ironic voices depict the lavish corrupt world they had known
- from the rituals hierarchies & intrigues at court to the vagaries of a ruler who maintained absolute power over his impoverished people They describe his inexorable downfall as the Ethiopian military approach strange omens appear in the sky & courtiers vanish until only the Emperor & his valet remain in the deserted palace awaiting their fate Dramatic & mesmerising The Emperor is one of the great works of reportage & a haunting epitaph on the last moments of a dying regime Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) was born in Pinsk now in Belarus Kapuscinski was the pre-eminent writer among Polish reporters His best-known book is a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia
- The Emperor which has been translated into many languages Shah of Shahs about the last Shah of Iran & Imperium about the last days of the Soviet Union have enjoyed similar success If you enjoyed The Emperor you might like Norman Mailer's The Fight also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Stunning a magical eloquence' John Updike New Yorker' The Emperor transcends reportage becoming a nightmare of power An unforgettable fiercely comic & finally compassionate book' Salman Rushdie' Kapuscinski trascends the limitations of journalism & writes with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell' Blake Morrison

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play First UK DVD release of this 1933 drama starring acclaimed singer & activist Paul Robeson Digitally Remastered award winning film Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson) is a handsome ambitious & devout churchgoer from the backwoods who leaves to become a Pullman porter in New York City Once there he gives in to his newfound world of fast money & loose women falling for Undine (Fredi Washington) the girl of his friend Jeff (Frank C Wilson) Having failed to pull a quick-buck money deal Jones shoots craps against Jeff before discovering that the dice are crooked When Jeff lies dead after a fight Jones is found guilty of murder & sentenced to life on a chain gang Desperate to escape Jones stages a breakout & kills a warder Making good his escape to a Caribbean island Jones eventually becomes the Island s ruler The Emperor Jones But will his sins catch up with him? This was the film that made a star of Paul Robeson & its significance was that it was the first film to have an African American as its leading man ...

Welcome to Absurdia a strange & wonderful land where nothing is quite what it seems Trees are birds umbrellas are trees & the sky is thick with snoring fish Join one small boy as he tumbles out of bed into a crazy dreamland of wardrobe monsters dragons
- & amazing adventure This gloriously rich & beautiful picture book comes from Chris Riddell a uniquely talented artist at the height of his powers With a story to enchant the youngest reader & pictures to gasp & pore over whatever your age The Emperor of Absurdia is an extraordinary achievement & one to savour
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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee doctor researcher & award-winning science writer examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision a historian's perspective & a biographer's passion The result is an astonishingly lucid & eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with
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- for more than five thousand years The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity resilience & perseverance but also of hubris arrogance & misperception all leveraged against a disease that just three decades ago was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out war against cancer' Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries setbacks victories & deaths told through the eyes of predecessors & peers training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary From the Persian Queen Atossa whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation & chemotherapy & Mukherjee's own leukemia patient Carla The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic bruising & draining regimes to survive & to increase the store of human knowledge Riveting & magesterial The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments & a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors scientists philosophers & lay people have observed & understood the human body for millennia

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In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief & James Gleick's Genius The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin an utterly unusual stubborn scientist his otherworldly gift for perfume his brilliant quixotic theory of how we smell & his struggle to set before the world the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses ...

The Emperor's Blades is the first novel in Brain Staveley's epic Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series The circle is closing The stakes are high & old truths will live again The Emperor has been murdered leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil Now his progeny must prepare to unmask a conspiracy His son Valyn training for the empire's deadliest fighting force hears the news an ocean away & after several 'accidents' & a dying soldier's warning he realizes his life is also in danger Yet before Valyn can act he must survive the mercenaries' brutal final initiation The Emperor's daughter Minister Adare hunts her father's murderer in the capital Court politics can be fatal but she needs justice Lastly Kaden heir to the empire studies in a remote monastery Here the Blank God's disciples teach their harsh ways which Kaden must master to unlock ancient powers But when an imperial delegation arrives has he learnt enough to keep him alive as long-hidden powers make their move? ...

An award-winning picture book about the Emperor penguin's parenting The Emperor penguin is the only large animal to remain on the Antarctic mainland throughout its bitterly inhospitable winter Once the female has laid her egg she heads back to the sea leaving the male to incubate it He then spends two months standing on the freezing cold ice with the egg on his feet! This is his story ...

Based on the classic fairy tale The vain emperor has some beautiful new clothes made that only clever people can see
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For many decades the proponents of 'artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do In his bestselling work of popular science Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics cosmology mathematics & philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas & shaped the way we think ...