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Westland Publications Limited Happily Never After
Book SynopsisJuhi falls in love with Abhay who loves someone else. She struggles with her feelings and must decide between losing herself or finding her true center. "Happily Never After" by Sudeep Nagarkar explores themes of love, sacrifice, and self-discovery.
£12.39
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press A Critique of Novels
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. This book consists of reviews for 30 Arabic novels. It is part of a six-book series that, altogether, reviews a total of 262 Arabic novels providing insight and criticism to various texts from Arabic literature published in the last two decades.
£8.07
Palgrave Macmillan Philosophy and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book SynopsisThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.Trade Review'...very readable and mind-expanding collection...' - PD Smith, The GuardianTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements ('thanks for all the fish') Introduction Nicholas Joll Notes on Contributors PART I: ETHICS 'Eat Me': Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals; B.Saunders & E.Harding Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker's and the Ethics of Entertainment; N.Joll PART II: THE MEANING OF LIFE Life, the Universe, and Absurdity; A.Kind The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful; T.Chappell PART III: METAPHYSICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 'I Think You Ought To Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed': Marvin and Artificial Intelligence; J.Goodenough From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics; B.Dainton PART IV: LOGIC, METHOD, AND SATIRE 'God . . Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic'; M.Friend The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method, and the Logic of Jokes; A.Aberdein The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds Hitchhiker's as Philosophical Satire; A.Pawlak & N.Joll Glossary Bibliography (of Adams, Philosophy, and Everything) Indexes
£26.59
Penguin Random House LLC The Psychology of Art MIT Press The MIT Press
£38.78
Moonrise Press Ltd Jane Austen Fashion Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen
£13.62
Mobius Bookish
£21.84
MX Publishing Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and Companion
Book SynopsisThe definitive tour guide for anyone looking to retrace the steps, physically or virtually, of Arthur Conan Doyle during his time in Devon and see the places that inspired the Sherlock Holmes stories. The book features a comprehensive tour map with GPS co-ordinates for around thirty key sites. Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered for writing sixty tales that feature his legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. Between 1882 and 1923, Doyle visited Devon on no fewer than ten occasions and he resided there for some four months in total.
£16.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton
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Headline Publishing Group The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisWritten by his trusted friend and companion, Dr John Watson, The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Notes chronicles nine of the most fascinating cases solved by the world's most famous detective.Table of ContentsContains a selection of carefully researched scrapbook material based on the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The cases included are: The Empty House; The Norwood Builder; The Solitary Cyclist; Black Peter; Charles Augustus Milverton; The Priory School; The Three Students; The Golden Pince-Nez; The Second Stain.
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Thomas Hardys Shorter Fiction
Book SynopsisThis critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Wessex Tales; 2. A Group of Noble Dames; 3. Life's Little Ironies; 4. A Changed Man; Bibliography; Index.
£85.50
Running Press,U.S. Harry Potter Hogwarts Coaster Book
Book SynopsisTwenty years since its debut, the Wizarding World remains a pop culture phenomenon, keeping fans worldwide spellbound with a continual stream of exciting new experiences. This one-of-a-kind board book with embedded wooden coasters builds on the range of Running Press's bestselling licensed series!
£18.12
Austin Macauley Publishers The Story of Molly Mitter
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£8.99
The Amazing Maurice Jigsaw Puzzle
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£12.74
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe essential companion to Stieg Larsson''s bestselling trilogy and director David Fincher''s 2011 film adaptation Stieg Larsson''s bestselling Millennium TrilogyThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet''s Nestis an international phenomenon. These books express Larsson''s lifelong war against injustice, his ethical beliefs, and his deep concern for women''s rights. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical issues behind the entire trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in common? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be ethical? Drawing on some of history''s greatest philosophical minds, this book gives fresh insights into Larsson''s ingeniously plotted tale of crime and corruption. Looks at compelling philosophical issues such as a feminist reading of Lisbeth Salander, AristoteliTrade Review"In this excellent and timely addition to the series, Bronson (humanities, York University, Toronto) pulls together 18 international scholars and writers who examine both Stieg Larsson's novels and the movies based on them. Main characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist each receive a section devoted to essays on identity politics, feminist dimensions in culture, and other salient and philosophical concerns they personify. Larsson is treated in a third section of essays, with the final two sections taking on secrets and ethics. Contributors include Karen Adkins (philosophy, Regis Coll.), Ester Pollack (journalism, Stockholm University), Andrew Terjesen, who has contributed to other volumes in the series, and James E. Mahon (philosophy & law, Washington and Lee Univ.). They take up such specific considerations as Lisbeth's sexual identity, Mikael's investigatory methodology, and the ethical nature of social institutions; of course, each essay suggests philosophical assertions that can be and are argued against as well as for, making for a heady and welcome whole. You'll learn how Aristotle and Kant—among others—can be illuminated through the "Millennium Trilogy." VERDICT This volume belongs in both popular and scholarly collections." [The book is not an officially licensed product of the Larsson books or the movies.—Ed.]—Francisca Goldsmith, Infopeople Project, Berkeley, CA (Library Journal, November 15, 2011)Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Confi dential Sources xv Introduction: The Girl Who Kicked the Sophists' Nest 1 PART ONE: LISBETH "THE IDIOT" SALANDER 1 Labeling Lisbeth: Sti(e)gma and Spoiled Identity 7 Aryn Martin and Mary Simms 2 The Mis- Education of Lisbeth Salander and the Alchemy of the At- Risk Child 19 Chad William Timm 3 The Girl Who Turned the Tables: A Queer Reading of Lisbeth Salander 33 Kim Surkan PART TWO: MIKAEL "DO-GOODER" BLOMKVIST 4 Why Are So Many Women F***ing Kalle Blomkvist?: Larsson’s Philosophy of Female Attraction 49 Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen 5 Why Journalists and Geniuses Love Coffee and Hate Themselves 65 Eric Bronson 6 The Making of Kalle Blomkvist: Crime Journalism in Postwar Sweden 75 Ester Pollack PART THREE: STIEG LARSSON, MYSTERY MAN 7 The Philosopher Who Knew Stieg Larsson: A Brief Memoir 91 Sven Ove Hansson 8 "This Isn't Some Damned Locked- Room Mystery Novel": Is The Millennium Trilogy Popular Fiction or Literature? 107 Tyler Shores 9 Why We Enjoy Reading about Men Who Hate Women: Aristotle's Cathartic Appeal 120 Dennis Knepp 10 The Dragon Tattoo and the Voyeuristic Reader 128 Jaime Weida PART FOUR: "EVERYONE HAS SECRETS" 11 Hacker's Republic: Information Junkies in a Free Society 141 Andrew Zimmerman Jones 12 Kicking the Hornet's Nest: The Hidden "Section" in Every Institution 155 Adriel M. Trott 13 Secret Meetings: The Truth Is in the Gossip 166 Karen C. Adkins PART FIVE: 75,000 VOLTS OF VENGEANCE CAN'T BE WRONG, CAN IT? 14 The Principled Pleasure: Lisbeth's Aristotelian Revenge 181 Emma L. E. Rees 15 Acting Out of Duty or Just Acting Out?: Salander and Kant 189 Tanja Barazon 16 To Catch a Thief: The Ethics of Deceiving Bad People 198 James Edwin Mahon CONTRIBUTORS: The Knights of the Philosophic Table 211 INDEX: Code Words 217
£14.50
H.W. Wilson Publishing Co. Novels into Film: Adaptations & Interpretation
Book SynopsisWith 100 concise essays on significant novels and movie adaptations, ranging from classics to contemporary favorites, this new Salem edition will appeal to students of literature and film, not to mention movie lovers from every walk of life. This reference work brings value to students and teachers at the high school and undergraduate levels, and the essays can be used to complement individual or classroom study.
£147.20
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction Cambridge Companions to Literature
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£21.84
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
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£71.65
WW Norton & Co Patricia Highsmith
Book Synopsis"Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."—The New YorkerTrade Review"Starred Review. The short stories range in tone from the truly unsettling (“A Mighty Nice Man”; “Oona, the Jolly Cave Woman”) to the biting (“The Baby Spoon”; “Not One of Us”). While Highsmith may be best known for The Talented Mr. Ripley, this collection is proof positive that her savagely sedate prose expands far beyond her hero-villain Tom Ripley." -- Publishers Weekly
£30.39
Sequence Press Doomed and Famous Selected Obituaries
Book SynopsisAn obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.In Doomed and Famous, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences. This book is a selection of some of the best—meaning most improbable—of these miniature biographies.Here are arranged an almost fictive cast of characters including an imaginary Sephardic count in Wisconsin, a sadomasochist collector of the world's rarest clocks, a dis
£22.95
University of Massachusetts Press Freak Weather: stories
Book SynopsisFrom a nurse who sees a rattlesnake in the pediatric ICU to an animal control officer convinced she's found her abducted daughter in the house of a dog hoarder, the thirteen stories in Freak Weather are as unpredictable as the atmospheric changes that give this collection its name. With dark and raucous humor, Mary Kuryla creates female characters who, at times, combine a violent urgency with lack of introspection as they struggle to get out from under the thumb of a perceived authority. The intricate language is inseparable from the narrator's conviction; the characters lie with such bravado they're soon tangled up in their own webs. This brand of romanticism in a female character is little tolerated, and Freak Weather's mission - Kuryla's artistic mission overall - is to scratch at the intolerable. Call it bad instructions for moral behavior.
£19.76
Strange Attractor Press In a Sound World
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£14.24
Penguin Random House India Desperate In Dubai
Book SynopsisDubai is a lavish playground for women seeking wealth and status. Leila hunts for a rich husband, Nadia faces sacrifices, Sugar flees her past, and Lady Luxe rebels against tradition. Their stories intertwine in a quest for truth and self-discovery amidst luxury and cultural clashes.
£14.24
