Swift\'s devastating short satire on how to solve a famine Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\'s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century

Raina just wanted to be a normal girl, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there\'s still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion and friends who turn out

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their history, we have to discover it for ourselves, and that discovery,

\"...one of the most unique and subversive artifacts of pop culture in recent memory.\" - Salon.com \"Seldom do comics burst onto the scene and shatter our worldview by being entirely poignant, raw, and captivating - but then, most comics aren\'t Bitch Panet.\" - Entertainment Weekly Eisner Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (X-Factor)

This publication displays twenty top realisations: from restored country estates and farms to stately homes and villas of timeless design.

From Louise Bourgeois, Andreas Gursky, Zaha Hadid, and Shirin Neshat, to David Lynch, Omar Sharif, Sting, and Naguib Mahfouz: many artists and other celebrities from the worlds of film, music, and literature have posed for the camera of Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil (*1972 in Cairo). His first portraits were of friends, taken after he finished studying literature in the early nineties before

The organization of public space raises many challenges. Its very nature of being on public display makes urbanism one of the fields of architecture that is most open to debate and controversy. Urban spaces should not only strive for a balance betweeen solid and void in the urban fabric, but they must also be highly functional. All architecture stems from the need to offer answers and solutions to

The most complete, beautifully illustrated volume ever published on the fascinating world of the shell and its uses in design and decoration.Shells have captivated humans through the ages and been put to a wide range of uses—sharpened into tools, ground to make medicines, blown to make music. Shells were used as currency from the Americas through Africa to Asia, and worn as amulets to bring fertility,

Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuarts lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration in Paris and London, as a spy betrayed in the war an d as an art-dealer in 60s New York, Logan mixes with the men and women who shape his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes

William Shakespeare: Complete Plays collects all thirty-seven of the immortal Bard\'s comedies, tragedies and historical plays. In this volume all of Shakespeare\'s memorable characters - star-crossed lovers, majestic monarchs, wise fools, lovable rog ues, treacherous villains, conflicted heroes, cagey heroines and creatures magical and mythic - strut and fret their hour upon the stage. These characters

It is a frosty December night in Stockholm. Inside the City Hall, over a thousand guests attend the prestigious Nobel Prizewinners\' dinner. With a lavish meal laid on to the backdrop of a full orchestra, this is one of the city\'s most glamorous events of the year. But things are different tonight. Two shots are fired on the dance floor. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon is there, covering the event

?\'«Voina i mir?\'» - roman-epopeia Lva Tolstogo, odno iz krupneishikh proizvedenii mirovoi literatury, opisyvaiushchee zhizn russkogo obshchestva v epokhu Napoleonovskikh voin. ?\'«Voina i mir?\'» - eto masshtabnaia kartina zhizni Rossii, vziataia vo vsekh ee sotcialnykh sloiakh (ot krestian do imperatora Aleksandra I)... eto i i detalnoe opisanie khoda voennykh deistvii, i osmyslenie povedeniia

Catherine Alliott, bestselling author of \"A Rural Affair\" and \"A Crowded Marriage\", examines just the sort of trouble a girl can land herself in when she gets caught in the middle of a love triangle in \"Not That Kind of Girl\". A girl can get into all kinds of trouble just by going back to work...Henrietta Tate gave up everything for her husband Marcus and their kids. But now that the children

This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe\'s Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe\'s meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest \"equivalent\" rendering of the German ever achieved.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World\'s

Without a doubt one of the greatest achievements in children\'s literature, \"Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland\" introduces children to a whole world of humour, fun and invention. Featuring more iconic characters and locations than any other children\'s story, Alice\'s world introduces today\'s children to the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the evil Queen of Hearts, the tea party and, of course, the

The name of Yves Saint Laurent, one of the great fashion designers of the twentieth century, evokes the now-iconic looks he helped popularize as part of the modern woman\'s wardrobe: the Le Smoking tuxedo jacket, the pea coat, the Mondrian dress, the jumpsuit. But seven years after Saint Laurent\'s death, the man himself remains an enigma and a source of fascination (two Yves Saint Laurent biopics

The rediscovery of the city that has been evident recently has by no means superseded the human desire for nature. On the contrary, the goal has been finding urban solutions that do justice to these growing needs and do so in ways that meet the requi rements for design, ecology, sociology, and economy. This publication addresses the subject of designing inner-city spaces. It documents twenty recently

Make the most of your city break with the best of Vienna in your pocket. From Gothic St. Stephen\'s Cathedral to the Imperial Palace to finding your way back to your hotel - find everything you need in this great value, quick reference map and guide that slips easily into your pocket or bag. Great for on-the-go navigation, discover Vienna\'s Top 5 must-sees, great restaurants, bars and shops, plus