Category Archives: Shower Curtains
Auschwitz: A History
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher`s terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Robert Service`s The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia`s recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now revised and updated with
Everything is Connected: Reimagining the World One Postcard at a Time
Keri Smith`s Everything is Connected is not just a book of postcards. It`s a series of experiments designed to shake us out of our ruts. Through the ingenious use of the common postcard, Keri Smith encourages us to embark on a quest to reanimate everyday life. No matter how hard we try, everyday life always
Keith Haring Journals
Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980`s. His artwork – with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion – filtered in to the world`s consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic
All That is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About it
In All That is Solid Danny Dorling offers an agenda-shaping look at the UK`s dangerous relationship with housing – and how it`s all going to come crashing down. Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this ground-breaking book, Danny Dorling argues
Red Famine: Stalin`s War on Ukraine
Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648
Mark Greengrass` gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change Sunday Times and Financial Times Books of the Year 2014. This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom
Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere
`Addictive …a charter for wistfulness` Observer `An enchanting rabbit hole of handmade houses` The New York Times `The Bible of pared back, natural living` Der Spiegel `Take a deep breath and let the inspiration sink in` GQ Cabin Porn began as an on-line project created by a group of friends to inspire their own home
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
This book offers a vivid and human glimpse into Europe`s borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule – back in print after nearly 20 years. “In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands comes to life.” (Ryszard Kapuscinski). As Europe`s
The Road to Character
The No. 1 New York Times bestseller on the secret to leading a good life We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us? David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent`s politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
An urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern frontline near the Russian border, Tim Judah brings a rare glimpse
Britain`s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
`Dazzling … a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other` Prospect Magazine`Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging … this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously different one` Literary ReviewBritain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe`s history. It has
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours
`One of our best-known living philosophers` Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis – by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity: a unique chance for Europe to redefine
The Vikings
Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword `The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today` Far from being just
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
HE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER `Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it` Eric Schmidt Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall Ferguson, the international bestselling author
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
New York Times Bestseller`Fascinating and deeply disturbing` – Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year `A manual for the 21st-century citizen… accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent` – Federica Cocco, Financial Times A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life – and threaten to rip apart
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
The New York Times bestsellerFinancial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year`Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it` Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity?In this book, free speech campaigner
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events, often at great cost to society. In
