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Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfast

by Oscar Wilde

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 'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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A Cor e a Palavra | The Color and the Word | La Couleur et le Mot - Criatividade e subjetividade de estilos em arte visual

by Edmund Stolkin

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 «Este livro trata, pois, de reflexões do próprio artista sobre as obras que veio produzindo ao longo dos anos, quase que fazendo uma síntese e um balanço do próprio percurso nas artes visuais. É realmente bastante elevada a criatividade que o Fernando Messias tem vindo a revelar, quer na arte escrita, quer na arte visual, fazendo a integração destas duas formas de arte neste seu livro A Cor e a Palavra, que é de cor, com a apresentação das imagens de dezenas dos quadros que produziu, e de palavra, com a explicitação do sentido que para si próprio têm as imagens que criou. (…) Desde logo, na sua produção artística, revela o descomprometimento com regras ou compromissos que não seja a sua própria expressividade e elevado prazer na realização das suas obras. em muitas delas, a palavra aparece integrada na imagem criada e o pensamento surge como o motor da criação artística. Além disso, as obras têm um título, permitindo dar sentido aos trabalhos produzidos e comunicar com o espetador/leitor esse sentido subjetivo que as imagens criadas têm para o próprio artista, para além da comunicação emocional expressa sobretudo nas cores utilizadas. É assim quase a alma do Fernando Messias que também é partilhada nas suas obras. (…)» Professor Saul Neves de Jesus, in Prefácio
Amnésia Transcultural | Transcultural Amnesia - Para uma cartografia de memórias deslocalizadas | Mapping displaced memories

by Joanne Paisana, Margarida Esteves Pereira e Mário Matos

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 Relativamente à mobilidade transcultural, afirmava James Clifford, há vinte anos, em Routes. Travel and Translation in the late Twentieth Century que, a longo prazo, nenhuma cultura pode sobreviver sem contactos interculturais. Assim, qualquer conceito cultural baseado em visões puristas e idealizações essencialistas deveria ser abandonado em favor de uma visão das culturas como consequências de processos transitórios e complexos de mistura e hibridização. O principal objetivo da conferência, de que resultou este livro, foi o de contribuir para uma cartografia global dos lugares de memória marcados pelos seres humanos que, quer forçados, quer por escolha própria, se viram na contingência de ter de atravessar fronteiras, em diferentes períodos históricos, contextos políticos, sociais e económicos, e cujas experiências raramente são/foram recordadas, e muito menos comemoradas, pelas culturas locais.
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Create Dangerously

by Albert Camus

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 'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Origins Of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

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 Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.
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On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century

by Timothy Snyder

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 History does not repeat, but it does instruct. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. This book deals with this topic.
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We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 **DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!** A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

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Dear Dolly - On Love, Life And Friendship, The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

by Dolly Alderton

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 The hugely popular journalist and author of Everything I Know About Love shares her wisdom, insight and empathy in these collected highlights from her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, friendships, dating, divorce, the pleasures and pitfalls of social media, sex, loneliness, longing, love and everything in between. Without judgement, and with deep empathy informed by her own, much-chronicled adventures in love, friendship and dating, Dolly leads us by the hand through the various labyrinths of life, proving that a problem shared is truly a problem halved.

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How To Stay Sane In An Age Of Division - The Powerful, Pocket-Sized Manifesto

by Elif Shafak

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 The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.

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Fascism And Democracy

by George Orwell

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 'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs' On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World WarFascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the potential of reform, the meaning of literature and free speech in times of violence, and the sustainability of objective truth, Orwell offers a compelling portrayal of a nation where norms and ideals can no longer be taken for granted. Like the best of Orwell's writing, these essays also serve as timeless reminders of the fragility of freedom.

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion

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 Classic literary journalism which defined, for many, the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution
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Notes On Camp

by Susan Sontag

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 'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Notes On Nationalism

by George Orwell

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 'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

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 Features Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) devastating short satire on how to solve a famine.
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The Civil War - Together With The Alexandrian War, The African War, And The Spanish War

by Julius Caesar

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 A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with immediacy and power. "The Civil War" is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world.
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The White Album

by Joan Didion

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 Joan Didionâ€™s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.

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Why I Am Not Going To Buy A Computer

by Wendell Berry

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 'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women - Essays On Art, Sex, And The Mind: 'A Phenomenal Book' - Guardian

by Siri Hustvedt

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 A trailblazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, and psychology by the internationally bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt
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The Portable Atheist - Essential Readings For The Nonbeliever

by Christopher Hitchens

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 Christopher Hitchens's personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan
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Faith, Hope And Carnage

by Nick Cave e Seán O'Hagan

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 A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more - from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave
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Down And Out In Paris And London

by George Orwell

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 Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more.
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Surfacing

by Kathleen Jamie

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 A new collection of writing from the prize-winning author of Findings and Sightlines.
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To Sell Is Human - The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, And Influencing Others

by Daniel H. Pink

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 The New York Times No.1 Bestseller; 'a human guide to how sales might work and be successful in the 21st century' Observer

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

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 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a selection and bridging commentary that enables the reader to acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the author's work.
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