The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought For over half a century it has inspired politicians & thinkers around the world & has had a crucial impact on our political & cultural history With trademark brilliance Hayek argues convincingly that while socialist ideals may be tempting they cannot be accomplished except by means that few would approve of Addressing economics fascism history socialism & the Holocaust Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology He reveals to the world that little can result from such ideas except oppression & tyranny Today more than fifty years on Hayek's warnings are just as valid as when The Road to Serfdom was first published ...

This is a condensed edition of ' The Road to Serfdom' republished in this edition with ' The Intellectuals & Socialism' (originally published in 1949) In ' The Road to Serfdom' F A Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the principles of wartime economic & social planning to the problems of peacetime Hayek argued that the rise of Nazism was not due to any character failure on the part of the German people but was a consequence of the socialist ideas that had gained common currency in Germany in the decades preceding the outbreak of war Such ideas Hayek argued were now becoming similarly accepted in Britain & the USA On its publication in 1944 ' The Road to Serfdom' caused a sensation Its publishers could not keep up with demand owing to wartime paper rationing Then in April 1945 Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book & Hayek's work found a mass audience This condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 Since then it has been frequently reprinted There is an enduring demand for Hayek's relevant & accessible message The ' Road to Serfdom' is republished in this impression with ' The Intellectuals & Socialism' originally published in 1949 in which Hayek explained the appeal of socialist ideas to intellectuals
- the 'second-hand dealers in ideas' Intellectuals Hayek argued are attracted to socialism because it involves the rational application of the intellect to the organisation of society while its utopianism captures their imagination & satisfies their desire to make the world submit to their own design
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SUNDAY TIMES GUARDIAN TELEGRAPH & ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'A provocative take on the UK's new tribal divisions a book whose timing is pitch-perfect' Andrew Marr Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country In fact they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years Fifty years ago people in leafy North London & people in working-class Northern towns could vote for a Labour party that broadly encompassed all of their interests Today their priorities are poles apart In this groundbreaking & timely book Goodhart shows us how people have come to be divided into two camps the ' Anywheres' who have 'achieved' identities derived from their careers & education & ' Somewheres' who get their identity from a sense of place & from the people around them & who feel a sense of loss due to mass immigration & rapid social change In a world increasingly divided by Brexit & Trump Goodhart shows how Anywheres must come to understand & respect Somewhere values to stand a fighting chance against the rise of populism ...

In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion He was hailed as a hero & his run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in history Dean Karnazes honours this achievement & his own Greek heritage by attempting this ancient journey in modern times His account of running the gruelling Spartathlon fuelled only by the figs olives & meats available to Pheidippides will captivate even the most sedentary readers ...

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire & Lancashire in the 1930s The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant & bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice cramped slum housing dangerous mining conditions squalor hunger & growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty fury & great humanity It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works & novels & remains a powerful portrait of poverty injustice & class divisions in Britain Published with an introduction by Richard Hoggart in Penguin Modern Classics' It is easy to see why the book created & still creates so sharp an impact exceptional immediacy freshness & vigour opinionated & bold Above all it is a study of poverty & behind that of the strength of class-divisions' Richard Hoggart ...

The Roald Dahl Treasury is a delightful collection by & about the World's Number One Storyteller Four exciting sections
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THE 1 EBOOK BESTSELLER' Darkly sexy & compelling' HEAT' Fans of The Girls will love this' RED ONLINE' You'll be gripped' RICHARD MADELEY' One of the best books I've read' REBECCA DONE' This book is stunning Wow' CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLINEVERYONE WANTS TO BE A ROANOKE GIRL BUT YOU WON'T WHEN YOU KNOW THE TRUTHThe girls of the Roanoke family
- beautiful rich mysterious
- seem to have it all But there's a dark truth about them that's never spoken Either the girls run away or they die Lane is one of the lucky ones When she was fifteen over one long hot summer at her grandparents' estate in rural Kansas she found out what it really means to be a Roanoke girl Lane ran far & fast Until eleven years later when her cousin Allegra goes missing
- & Lane has no choice but to go back She is a Roanoke girl Is she strong enough to escape a second time?FOR FANS OF SWEET LITTLE LIES GOOD ME BAD ME & THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR THIS IS THE MOST SHOCKING THRILLER YOU'LL READ ALL YEAR'A must-have' SUNDAY EXPRESS'A mini-masterpiece' JUDY FINNIGAN' One of the most unsettling & thought-provoking books I've read stunning & gripping' LISA CUTTS' You won't stop reading until you've unraveled the darkest of Roanoke's shocking secrets' LAURA MCHUGH' Deliciously writtenpulls you relentlessly into its twisted heart' AVA MARSH' Deeply darkly twisted I loved it' SARAH HILARY' One of the most disturbingly gripping books I have ever read' RUTH DUGDALL


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Millions watched the 2015 Women's World Cup as the England Lionesses roared in Canada winning bronze Their fighting spirit & fabulous skill captured the fascination of the entire country as their campaign unfolded in the small hours of the 2015 summer mornings On the back of this success attendances in the FA Women's Super League increased as interest in women's football accelerated Top stars talked enthusiastically about the dawn of a new era for women's football Carrie Dunn spent a year following some of the most famous
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- female footballers in the country to see what the future holds for women's football Can the smaller lower-profile teams ever compete with the big bucks & big names of the Women's Super League? How are grassroots clubs going to rise to the top when elite divisions of women's football depend on the award of licences? Can the women win a World Cup before the men do? & if they do what reward & recognition will they get? Roar of the Lionesses tells the tale of an increasingly popular yet still woefully underrepresented sport

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Pop your ingredients in a tin & let the oven do the work The Roasting Tin has recipes for 75 delicious one dish dinners ranging from chicken traybakes to supergrains The concept is simple fresh easy ingredients a few minutes prep & let the oven do the work Each chapter also

Includes:: a helpful infographic for how to build you own roasting tin dinner using whatever is in your fridge tonight These quick clever & delicious recipes are for anyone who wants to eat nutritious food made from scratch that fits around their busy lives (And for anyone who doesn't like washing up)

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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace Zenia is beautiful smart & greedy by turns manipulative & vulnerable needy & ruthless; a man's dream & a woman''s nightmare She is also dead Just to make sure Tony Roz andd Charis are there for the funeral But five years on as the three women share an indulgent sisterly lunch the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation' Zenia is back ...