Parisian photographer O returns to the place of her sexual initiation
- the elegant chateau Roissy. Here she submits completely
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The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. Its a story with plot twists a murder accidental discoveries disastrous love affairs geniuses idiots monks & vagabonds. At the heart of it all are the ideas & obsessions that have captured great thinkers from the very beginning. Packed with intriguing anecdotes & fascinating detail James Garvey & Jeremy Stangroom bring us face to face with the most important philosophers in western history. Rigorous refreshingly free of academic jargon & highly accessible this is the ideal introduction for anyone who wants to gain a new perspective on philosophys biggest thoughts. ...

This title explores 2 500 years of Western philosophy. In this updated guide to philosophy Professor Bryan Magee expertly guides us through the history of ideas & thinking tracing over 2 500 years of Western philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to modern thinkers. Discover what philosophy is how philosophers have questioned the fundamental principles underlying all knowledge & existence & address lifes big questions such as What is being & Can the existence of God be proved. Covering every major philosopher from Plato to Popper via Saint Augustine Locke & Nietzsche explore these great thinkers in their historical context & learn the influences that shaped their lives & work. It is an essential guide to this fascinating subject. ...

This is the endlessly fascinating story of our planet is told with the aid of lots of pictures & a simple narrative text. It covers the entire history of Planet Earth from the Big Bang to the present day including how life began & evolved the greening of the land the age of dinosaurs & the take-over of mammals. The story then moves to the arrival of people technology & how the planet is changing as we live on it. It

Includes:: links to key specially selected internet sites via Usborne Quicklinks which will enhance the book for the reader.

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This dream-laden & spooked (Marina Warner London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century. Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy labouring unstintingly during typhus cholera & earthquake disasters. It was during this period that he came across the ruined Tiberian villa of San Michele perched high above the glittering Bay of Naples on Capri. With the help of Mastro Nicola & his three sons & with only a charcoal sketch roughly drawn on a garden wall to guide them Munthe devoted himself to rebuilding the house & chapel. Over five long summers they toiled under a sapphire-blue sky their mad-cap project leading them to buried skeletons & ancient coins & to hilarious encounters with a rich cast of vividly-drawn villagers. The Story of San Michele reverberates with the mesmerising hum of a long hot Italian summer. Peopled with unforgettable characters it is as brilliantly enjoyable & readable today as it was upon first publication. The book quickly became an international bestseller & has now been translated into more than 30 languages; it is today an established classic & sales number in the millions. ...

Soho has always been a source of fascination. A district quite unlike any other in London where glamour meets squalor & then often merges. It is different never mirroring the changes of its more fashionable neighbours. It seduces & destroys in equal measures. The Windmill Theatre opened in 1932 & after entertaining audiences through thirty-two years of dramatic change in Soho finally closed its doors in 1964. In this book the Windmill forms the backdrop against which Mike Hutton explores all the diversity taking place in the surrounding streets of this unique district during a period of social & moral change. There is the influence of the many nationalities living there during the years leading up to the war. Organised crime existing alongside leading West End theatres & restaurants. The arrival of the GIs with money to burn & time on their hands. The black market booms. Want some nylons? How about a gun? No problem. Falling bombs bring terror but there is still time to party. Then its all over & nationally austerity takes hold but never quite in Soho. The squeaky clean Windmill girls are joined by models baring all in the burgeoning strip clubs. There is money to be made dodgy policemen to be paid off & violence simmers away to a background of music. ...

The Story of Spain" is a story of kings & poets saints & conquistadors emperors & revolutionaries. It is the story of Torquemada Cervantes Picasso Franco Saint Theresa & of the Alhambra & the Escorial. Drawing on years of rigorous research & written with the flair of a master storyteller this superb new edition draws together the myriad fragments of Spanish history
- from its prehistory right up to the 2008 elections
- to re-create the drama excitement & pathos that is the story of one of Europes most fascinating countries."

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Annie Leonard creator of the internet film sensation The Story of Stuff" viewed over 6 million times offers an astonishing galvanizing book that tells the story of all the stuff we use everyday
- where our bottled water mobile phones & jeans come from how theyre made & distributed & where they really go when we throw them away. Our out-of-control consumption habits are killing the planet & threatening our health but Annie provides hope that change is within reach. Like " An Inconvenient Truth & Silent Spring" " The Story of Stuff" will be an instant classic."
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Batailles first novel published under the pseudonym Lord Auch is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy the young male narrator & his lovers Simone & Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism torture orgies madness & defilement culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking & sacreligious Story of the Eye" is the fullest expression of Batailles obsession with the closeness of sex violence & death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power & is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century." ...

The Story of the Fly & how it could save the world will take you behind the pesky reputation & inside the brain & body of the much misunderstood fly. It investigates the insect as pest & how man has tried (tirelessly often unsuccessfully) to kill it
- exploring everything from how it walks on ceilings to how it survives Ice Ages & outsmart all manner of fly swats toxins & traps. The book also reveals how throughout history innovative humans
- including Napoleon Bonapartes surgeon NASA various forensic entomologists & the UK National Health Services
- have harnessed & researched the fly to help mankind. But ultimately it introduces the fly as a future hero that could help save the world. How? By recycling waste nutrients & generating sustainable protein to spare the fish in the ocean & feed the ever-growing number of people on our Earth. Thats a story worth telling. & one worth reading too.


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