Книги издательства Penguin

Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything in For Crying Out Loud. Jeremy';s one man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And out hero';s still scratching his head at the madness of it all. But it';s not all bad. He';s learnt a little along the way...

';What we all need,'; said Larry, ';is sunshine…a country where we can grow.'; ';Yes, dear, that would be nice,'; agreed Mother, not really listening. ';I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu';s wonderful. Why don';t we pack up and go to Greece?'; ';Very well, dear, if you like,'...

';You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them';. George Orwell';s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world...

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Сборник эссе американского писателя Томаса Лиготти, в которых выражен его философский пессимизм и антинаталистские взгляды. В числе прочих Лиготти цитирует эссе Петера Весселя Цапффе «Последний Мессия», а также труды Эмиля Чорана и Филиппа Майнлендера как источники вдохновения для его философского...

';This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark';s thought-provoking book will help you join it'; Stephen Hawking THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman...

The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can';t speak or write properly anymore." Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from experts in...

Why are some words rude and others aren';t? Why can launching into expletives be so shocking - and sometimes so amusing? In this hilarious extract from his bestselling "The Stuff of Thought" Steven Pinker takes us on a fascinating journey through the world of profanities, to show us...

The first edition of W. B. Yeats';s "The Tower" appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine';s Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics...

In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don`t. These are...