When Jennings' new diary is made public, the thought of his most private thoughts being made public spur him to invent a secret language. Will anyone be able to decode it? And how does Jennings...
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Auteur: Buckeridge, AnthonySommaire: -
Auteur: Porter, RoySommaire:In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work...
Genre: History -
Auteur: Trollope, AnthonySommaire:
Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.
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Auteur: Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
Follow the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving...
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Auteur: Broers, MichaelSommaire:
All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This is the first that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence...
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies , History -
Auteur: Benson, Robert HughSommaire:
Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians believed would bring human happiness has been achieved, but what has been created is a sterile world of crass materialism. And now it...
Genre: Dystopian fiction , Science fiction , Religious fiction -
Auteur: Al-Khalili, JimSommaire:
British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili here unveils the Arabic legacy of science and philosophy--a legacy that has long been hidden from the West.
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Auteur: De Botton, AlainSommaire:
Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common problems....
Genre: Philosophy -
Auteur: De Botton, AlainSommaire:
Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in...
Genre: Philosophy , Psychology , Self-help publications -
Auteur: De Botton, AlainSommaire:
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a...
Genre: Art and architecture , Philosophy -
Auteur: Alan Moore and David LloydSommaire:In a near-future Britain ruled by a totalitarian regime, Evey is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V," a beguiling and charismatic figure who launches a one-man...
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Auteur: Nesser, HakanSommaire:The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one...
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Auteur: Wheen, FrancisSommaire:In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished...
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Auteur: Novik, NaomiSommaire:A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have...
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Auteur: Dickens, CharlesSommaire:The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall,...