THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWitty & erudite stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless' Nick Duerden Independent Particularly good Forsyth takes words & draws us into their & our murky history' William Leith Evening Standard The Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald frequently witty & unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language What is the actual connection between disgruntled & gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime California to the Caliphate or brackets to codpieces? Mark Forsyth's riotous celebration of the idiosyncratic & sometimes absurd connections between words isa classic of its kind a mine of fascinating information & a must-read for word-lovers everywhere Highly recommended' Spectator ...

' We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble & happy lifeand what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life worth living Aristotle considers the role of happiness & what happiness consists of & he analyses various factors that contribute to it human agency the relation between action & virtue & the concept of virtue itself Moral & intellectual virtues are classified & considered & finally the roles of friendship & pleasure It deals with the same issues as the better-known Nicomachean Ethics with which it holds three books in common & its special qualities as well as the similarities & differences between the two works are of fundamental concern to anyone interested in Aristotle's philosophy This is the first time the Eudemian Ethics has been published in its entirety in any modern language Anthony Kenny's fine translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction & explanatory notes which assist the reader in understanding this important work 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 ...

Can the Euro be saved? Should it be? Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe
- arguing that economic stagnation is a direct result of the Euro's flawed birth demolishing the champions of austerity & offering solutions that can rescue the continent from further devastation' Stiglitz could hardly have timed The Euro better one of those economists with a rare ability to help readers understand complex ideas' Philip Aldrick The Times' Original hard-hitting Much more than a demolition job These chapters are full of constructive proposals' Martin Sandbu Financial Times' Terrific & clarifying' Peter Goodman The New York Times' Coolly analytical he is surely right without a radical overhaul of its workings the Euro seems all but certain to fail' Economist
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The European Game is an adventure Over three months Dan Fieldsend travelled the continent discovering the methods for success used at some of the biggest clubs in Europe from Ajax & Juventus to Feyenoord Inter Milan Bayern Munch Benfica Athletic Bilbao & many more At each institution he visited Fieldsend delved to the very heart of what made the club tick speaking to members of staff all the way up the hierarchical ladder from scouts & academy coaches to first team managers analysts & board members pulling back the curtain to reveal their day to day workings This book is about travel about society about identity & attachment It comprises leadership tactics coaching & scouting as well as politics finance fandom & culture This is a broad investigation into Europe's relationship with football & what nations can learn from one another celebrating the uniqueness of football clubs around the continent & the culture of their nations & exploring whether or not the methods they implement with success can be instilled in other domestic leagues ...

This revised & expanded volume brings together a carefully-selected collection of primary sources drawn from medieval & sixteenth-century texts Notable for its comprehensive coverage it consolidates a broad range of important documents which until now have been scattered through numerous volumes of primary materials An invaluable collection of primary sources edited by a renowned reformations scholar which brings together significant & illuminating documents from this influential period Revised & updated to include catechetical writings by Luther & Calvin & increased analysis of their theological writings as well as coverage of women reformers such as Caritas Pirckheimer Katharina Schutz-Zell & Olimpia Morata
Includes: a broad range of documents spanning major theological writings through to confessions political grievances & writings drawn from tracts poems & satires Features observer accounts of events & debates that lucidly depict the personalities of the reformers offering students their first direct engagement with participants in the European reformations Creates an ideal accompaniment to Lindberg s The European Reformations 2nd edition or can be used alongside any text on the European reformations for a complete learning guide
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' Hoodwink'd in faery fancy' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse
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Shot down on his first RAF mission James Hunter spends his war in a German prison camp The other captive soldiers busy themselves planning their escapes but James dedicates himself to a detailed study of the redstarts nesting just beyond the camp boundaries -- a project that gives him something to live for & earns him an unusual ally in the Kommandant in charge of the camp Rose James's young wife is spending her war in a cottage on the lip of Ashdown Forest in Sussex with her dog Harris for company She'd hardly known James before he went away & can barely engage with his letters which talk of nothing but birds Now she has fallen in love with someone else -- Toby a young pilot home on sick leave They meet secretly at night Then James's brusque sister Enid is bombed out of her flat in London & comes to live in Rose's tiny cottage Little more than strangers both women are guarded & Rose tries to conceal her affair from Enid But later both look back on this strange interlude as one of their happiest Beautifully written & full of moments of hope The Evening Chorus is a stirring story about love & the natural world set against the backdrop of the Second World War ...

'I work in an office I take cards out of a file Once I have taken them out I put them back in again That is it' Twenty-three-year-old Frits
- office worker daydreamer teller of inappropriate jokes
- finds life absurd & inexplicable He lives with his parents who drive him mad He has terrible disturbing dreams of death & destruction Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December as he drinks smokes sees friends aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets & tries to make sense of the minutes hours & days that stretch before him Darkly funny & mesmerising The Evenings takes the tiny"idian triumphs & heartbreaks of our everyday lives & turns them into a work of brilliant wit & profound beauty

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'I work in an office I take cards out of a file Once I have taken them out I put them back in again That is it' Twenty-three-year-old Frits
- office worker daydreamer teller of inappropriate jokes
- finds life absurd & inexplicable He lives with his parents who drive him mad He has terrible disturbing dreams of death & destruction Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December as he drinks smokes sees friends aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets & tries to make sense of the minutes hours & days that stretch before him Darkly funny & mesmerising The Evenings takes the tiny"idian triumphs & heartbreaks of our everyday lives & turns them into a work of brilliant wit & profound beauty" The funniest most exhilarating novel about boredom ever written If The Evenings had appeared in English in the 1950s it would have become every bit as much a classic as On the Road & The Catcher in the Rye" Herman Koch author of The Dinner" Unlike John Williams Gerard Reve's work was critically acclaimed & sold exceptionally well during his lifetime But just like Stoner The Evenings is brilliantly written & has a maximum impact on the reader's soul" Oscar van Gelderen the Dutch publisher who rediscovered John Williams's Stoner" Very funny & strange Reve is a writer who may yet 'catch on' in the Anglophone world" Lydia Davis winner of the Man Booker International Prize Gerard Reve (1923-2006) is considered one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors & was also the first openly gay writer in the country's history A complicated & controversial character Reve is also hugely popular & critically acclaimed- his 1947 debut The Evenings was chosen as one of the nation's 10 favourite books by the readers of a leading Dutch newspaper while the Society of Dutch Literature ranked it as the Netherlands' best novel of all time

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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 What if there was a cover-up so big that even the President was on a need-to-know basis? And what if some average guy stumbled upon the truth-a secret so powerful it could literally change the course of humanity? You think that guy would stand a chance of survival? From Nick Wauters (Eureka) & Steve Stark (Medium) comes a suspense-filled journey where the answers only lead to bigger questions What will you Believe? ...