An informative & accessible guide to all of the great philosophers' best-known theories explained through their most famous"es We may have heard of Socrates Plato Descartes & Nietzsche but what did they believe? What were their famous aphorisms? & what did these actually mean? This Book Will Make You Think Philosophical"es & What They Mean explains as simply as possible the ideas behind the world's most highly regarded philosophers examining their beliefs & presenting choice"es that succinctly distil their most famous theories such as' No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience' Locke' If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him' Voltaire' Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent' Wittgenstein Written in an accessible & informative style this book will help readers get to grips with the complex concepts of philosophy through the ages & help match the theories to the names ...

Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007 An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window threatening the foundations of his house A vivid novel about compassion & transformation This Book Will Save Your Life reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you Since her debut in 1989 AM Homes has been among the boldest & most original voices of her generation acclaimed for the psychological accuracy & unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching & funny new novel her first in six years ...

Sleep smarter' The indispensable bedside classic' Leland Carlson Assistant Vice President of the Dull Men's Club This Book Will Send You to Sleep makes no claims to be fun or interesting 192 pages Mc Coy Professor K ...

Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary Not in respect of the poverty which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother & then to no parents at all This is essentially the story of two incredible women Alan's mother Lily who battled against poor health poverty domestic violence & loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; & his sister Linda who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age & who fought to keep the family together & out of care when she herself was still only a child Played out against the background of a vanishing community living in condemned housing the story moves from post-war austerity in pre-gentrified Notting Hill through the race riots school on the Kings Road Chelsea in the Swinging 60s to the rock-&-roll years making a record in Denmark Street & becoming a husband & father whilst still in his teens This Boy is one man's story but it is also a story of England & the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today No matter how harsh the details Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance of humour & openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries ...

A curated collection of some of the most powerful & awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling & much-admired style of architecture It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern bloc & other far flung parts of the world It

Includes:: works by some of the best contemporary architects including Zaha Hadid & David Chipperfield as well as by some of the master architects of the 20th century including Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Paul Rudolph & Marcel Breuer

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In a remote house on a hilltop a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event He tries
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- to flee Left alone with his increasingly

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In a remote house on a hilltop a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event He tries
- & fails
- to flee Left alone with his increasingly

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Naomi Klein's international bestseller This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future one of the defining & most hopeful books of this era Forget everything you think you know about global warming It's not about carbon
- it's about capitalism The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system & build something radically better Once a decade Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era No Logo did so for globalization The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think about austerity In This Changes Everything her most provocative & optimistic book yet Naomi Klein has upended the debate about the stormy era already upon us exposing the myths that are clouding the climate debate You have been told the market will save us when in fact the addiction to profit & growth is digging us in deeper every day You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it
- it just requires breaking every rule in the free-market playbook You have also been told that humanity is too greedy & selfish to rise to this challenge In fact all around the world the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising & inspiring It's about changing the world before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe Either we leap
- or we sink This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era' The most important book I've read all year
- perhaps in a decade crucially she leaves the reader with a sense of optimism' Stephanie Merritt Observer Books of the Year'A book of such ambition & consequence it is almost unreviewable The most momentous & contentious environmental book since Silent Spring' Rob Nixon The New York Times' Naomi is like a great doctor
- she can diagnose problems nobody else sees' Alfonso Cuaron' Damn right this changes everything one of the greatest nonfiction works of all time not just a book It is a path of survival' D R Tucker Washington Monthly




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Four very different women one awfully charming man & a dark secret that binds them all Marian Keyes' This Charming Man follows women who have been caught in a web of modern love ' Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married' Slick handsome politician Paddy de Courcy is on the up His party is set to do well in the elections & he's just announced his engagement to the beautiful Alicia Which is news to his girlfriend Lola who within hours finds herself dumped & warned not to talk to the press Yet journalist Grace is on the prowl She has been after Paddy ever since he ruined her sister Marnie's life way back in college Grace is looking for the inside story & thinks Lola holds the key But do any of them know the real Paddy? ' So funny so perceptive so real I changed my life for this book' Mail on Sunday' The laughs come fast & furious a gripping compelling tale' Sunday Independent' The queen of page-turners brimming with her trademark down-to-earth wit' Cosmopolitan' Gripping from the start the master at her best' Daily Telegraph ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget All the siblings have come home for the first time in years & they&ve brought plenty of baggage with them As the Christmas tree is trimmed & the lights are hung secrets are revealed & family bonds are tested As their lives converge they join together & help each other discover the true meaning of family ...