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A Brief Guide to Self-Help Classics - From How to Win Friends and Influence People to the Chimp Paradox by James M. Russell
Category: Mind Body Spirit
From Dale Carnegie''s How to Win Friends and Influence People, published in 1936, which has sold over 30 million copies to date, to the mind management programme of Professor Steve Peters'' The Chimp Paradox, a concise and insightful guide to seventy of the most influential self-help books ever publishe ...Show more
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking - From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics by James M. Russell
Category: Culture
Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question. The titles covered include thought-p ...Show more
A Brief History of Ancient Greece - Politics, Society, and Culture by Sarah B. Pomeroy; Stanley M. Burstein; Walter Walter Donlan; Jennifer Tolbert Roberts; David W. David W. Tandy; Georgia Tsouvala
Category: History
Written by five leading authorities on the classical world, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, Third Edition, is a shorter version of the authors' highly successful Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Third Edition (OUP, 2011). It offers acaptivat ...Show more
A Brilliant Madness by Robert M. Drake
Category: Gift
This is an anthology of collective writing from Robert M. Drake written during 2004-2014. A Brilliant Madness is a reflection of the social collapses in the 21st century. The social programming, the daily routine and the economic struggles we all go through blindly. What has happen to us? Where did all ...Show more
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ by MILLER WALTER M
Category: Fiction
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of t ...Show more
A Calm Brain: How to Relax Into a Stress-Free, High-Powered Life by Gayatri Devi, M.D.
Category: Health and Wellbeing
In a world filled with too many choices, oppressive technology, and relentlessly overbooked schedules--how do we achieve the calm we so desperately need? Our ancestors used the fight-or-flight mechanism to protect themselves from predators. Today, we use it to fend off daily crises. The result is chron ...Show more
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Category: Science Fiction
The classic science fiction novel of a future dark age and humanity's new renaissance It is a new dark age of fear and ignorance. An atomic Flame Deluge has ravaged the earth, and humanity's survivors have turned against science. In the depths of a hellish desert, the Order of St Leibowitz preserves ...Show more
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, the rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of knowledge. By studying the Holy Relics of the past, the Order of St Leibowitz hopes to raise human ...Show more
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at ...Show more
A Centenary Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa; Eugenio Lisboa (Editor); Keith Bosley (Translator); Bernard McGuirk (Translator); Maria M. Lisboa (Translator); Richard Zenith (Translator); Octavio Paz Lozano (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Aspects of Portugal Ser.
This book brings us Pessoa, the angel and the monster of modern literature: his life, his works, and the works of art he inspired.
A Charlie Brown Christmas Kit by Charles M. Schultz
Category: Activity Books | Series: Miniature Editions Ser.
The classic story of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is one of the most well-known and best-loved of all of Charles M Schultz Peanuts animations. Who can forget Charlie Brown's search for the true meaning of Christmas, and the pathetic little Christmas tree which he chooses for the school nativity play.