In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato\'s mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates\' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said \'No!\' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have

\'A bold anthology ...alive with provocations and insights\' John Carey, Sunday Times \'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I\'ve had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see\' The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its writers,

Pointed, dry, witty and endlessly inventive, rhyming slang is held in greater popular affection than any other type of English colloquial language. The Big Book of Rhyming Slang is a dictionary of over 3000 rhyming slang words and phrases defined in Standard English, constituting the foremost collection of contemporary and historical rhyming slang ever published. Whether you\'re a true-blood Cockney

Graphis Poster Annual 2007 features the year’s finest poster designs, selected from thousands of international entries. Stunning, striking, even shocking, the award-winning posters were produced for a variety of corporate and social causes. Taken together, they clearly illustrate the power of the poster. Full information for each project, including designer, writer, illustrator, photographer, art director,

The first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons In the first half of the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp redefined what we consider art and what it means to be an artist. Many of his ideas return, transformed, in the work of Jeff Koons, born when Duchamp was 68 years old and whose own career lit up the art world of the late

Butler Jack tracks down his childhood sweetheart, Monica, the daughter of Morton Sampson, president of Fiesta Cruise Lines. When he offers her the chance to avenge her mother and humiliate her father, she jumps at it, not realizing his true motives until he begins to kill the passengers one by one.

This remarkable collection of maps, photographs, engravings and paintings from the early ages to modern day provides a stunning new look at the world as defined by our struggles and alliances with the monsters and supernatural creatures that have defined our existence. Learn how a mechanical man helped write America\'s Declaration of Independence. Track the course of the Living Dead virus from Africa

Back on the farm, the pigs are restless, and pissed. Smoking, pork-eating, overweight and without any s**t to roll in, these pigs aren\'t your cuddly, oinking kind of farmyard brother. They are mean and they are angry. From the genius behind the bestselling BUNNY SUICIDES series comes a hilarious new collection of illustrations that confirms all our worst fears: the pigs won\'t take it lying down.

Dr Alex Hoffman is a legend. An American physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the worlds financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffmans hedge fund built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or \'Fear Index\' generates astonishing

Hailed by many as their cookbook of the 1990s, How To Eat is far more than just an imaginative collection of over 350 uncomplicated, delicious recipes. Nigella Lawson combines a refreshingly down-to-earth practicality with a passion for food and a writer\'s ability to find just the right words to evoke the taste of a succulent roast chicken or homemade custard. Her excellent advice on how to organise

Vienna’s elegance and monumentality reflect its once exalted status as the showpiece of an empire but Austria’s capital is also a generous, open-armed city where everyday life plays itself out in world-famous cafés, wine taverns, and restaurants. Here is a selection of the most fashionable places to enjoy excellent meals in beautifully designed interiors. Another in teNeues’ best-selling restaurant

\"Amikor roma honfitársaink portréit ezzel a címmel tárjuk közönségünk elé, azt mondjuk, tessék, ez a mi cigányaink listája és fényképsorozata, sorban arcról arcra, szeretnivaló büszkeségeink mindnyájan, mind ez a huszonnégy mai magyar. Mert ugyan ki vonhatná kétségbe a magyarságukat? De címválasztásunknak oka az a közös szégyen is, amely elöntött bennünket korunk talán legiszonyatosabb magyar rigmusa

Nach zwei ambitionierten Ausflügen in andere literarische Gefilde -- dem Entwicklungsroman A Painted House und der \"Weihnachtsgeschichte\" Skipping Christmas -- wendet sich John Grisham wieder jener Gattung zu, der er seine größten Erfolge verdankt: dem Justizthriller. Und dabei spart er nicht mit Überraschungen -- bevor der Roman richtig angefangen hat, ist die titelgebende Hauptfigur bereits tot.

Who are the British? This book will tell you about their lives, TV programmes, business, family, life, pets – and the food. This is a book about real people and real life in Britain today.

Things are hotting up in this latest thriller from bestselling author Felix Francis, in his fifth solo novel Front Runner. Jefferson Hinkley is back. In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff is approached by the multi-time champion jockey, Dave Swinton, to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does Jeff realise that the call would

A Pocketful of Houses features more than 60 great houses from around the world, including Europe and the UK, North America, Australia and South America. The book\'s pocket size makes it an excellent option for the smart traveller. The format closely follows the best-selling 100 of the World\'s Best series, which continues to inspire and delight not only architects, but also the general savvy book-buying

Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History In a sweeping narrative, Peter Cozzens tells the gripping story of the wars that destroyed native ways of life as the American nation continued its expansion onto tribal lands after the Civil War, setting off a conflict that would last nearly three decades. By using original research and first-hand sources from both sides, Cozzens illuminates

Das lyrische Werk Hermann Hesses (1877-1962) steht gleichwertig neben den großen Romanen \"Siddharta\", \"Der Steppenwolf\", \"Narziss und Goldmund\". Dem Autor selbst waren seine Gedichte stets unverzichtbare Möglichkeit zu unmittelbarem, wahrem Ausdruck von Sorgen und Sehnsüchten. Der Band \"Musik des Einsamen\" (1915) führt dies in eindrücklicher Weise vor Augen. In den leisen und zarten Tönen dieser

Рассказы Франца Кафки, одного из самых загадочных писателей XX века, \"непостижимого мастера и повелителя царства немецкого языка\" (Г. Гессе). В настоящее издание вошли повесть \"Исследования одной собаки\", а также рассказы из циклов \"Мастер пост-арта\", \"Сельский врач\", \"Наблюдение\" и др.