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My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out (Penguin Special) by Jay Rayner
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Shorts/Specials
I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out ...Show more
My Experiences in the Third World War and Other Stories: Volume 1: The Best Short Fiction of Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The Best Short Fiction of Michael Moorcock
The first part of Gollancz's definitive collection of Moorcock's short fiction, this selection features some of his finest work. From 'The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius' to 'The Cairene Purse', the stories here are incredibly varied in their style, execution and subject matter.
My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Emmeline Pankhurst
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Feminism Short Editions Ser.
Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: labels Emmeline Pankhurst wore proudly in her long struggle for women's suffrage. This shortened edition of her autobiography tells of the tireless campaigning, the betrayals by men in power, the relentless arrests and hunger strikes, the horror of f ...Show more
Mystery & Suspense: Short Stories by Great Writers by Various
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories #4
Mystery & Suspense contains stories by Edith Wharton — Charles Dickens — R H Barham — Edgar Allan Poe — Arthur Conan Doyle — Oscar Wilde — James Hogg — Edith Nesbitt — H H Munro (Saki) — Gertrude Atherton — Edgar Wallace — Mary E Wilkins Freeman — Jack London. Sad, funny, chilling, myst ...Show more
Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Robert A. Segal
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philo ...Show more
Nationalism: a Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Throughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communities. This book discusses the concept of nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, geological, th ...Show more
Nature Stories by Enid Blyton
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Bumper Short Story Collections
A collection of thirty wonderful stories about the nature and the countryside from one of the world's best-loved children's authors. Enjoy the freedom of the outdoors, the beauty of the countryside and the charm of all creatures great and small in this bumper short-story collection. Enid Blyton loved t ...Show more
Neoliberalism by Manfred B. Steger
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, 'neoliberalism' has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the wor ...Show more
Neoliberalism: a Very Short Introduction by Manfred B. Steger; Ravi K. Roy
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Very Short Introductions Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to ...Show more
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations of his thought range from the highly irrational to ...Show more
Ninety9 by Vanessa Berry
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Shorts Ser.
In the 1990s, when music was recorded on cassettes and movies on VHS, Vanessa Berry was reacting to the loneliness of life in the suburbs by constructing imaginary worlds and identities from video hits, late-night music programs, band t-shirts, mixtapes and zines, and the dark energy of the Goths. A mem ...Show more
No Fixed Address Short Black 11 by Robyn Davidson
Category: Biography | Series: Short Blacks
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist ko ...Show more