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Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
[Paperback]Reading provides a unique kind of pleasure and no-one should live without it. This title tells us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken for granted, how reading transforms our brains, and how literature can save lives. -
Teach Us to Sit Still A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
[Paperback]Author(s):Tim ParksA story of the author's quest to overcome ill health. It confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. -
The Prince
[Paperback]How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? This title discusses on how power really works. It examines regimes and their rulers the world over and throughout history. -
Teach Us to Sit Still A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing
[Hardback]Author(s):Tim ParksOverwhelmed by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise that eventually leads him to take up meditation. -
The Complete Cosmicomics
[Paperback]Author(s):Italo CalvinoIncludes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. -
Dreams of Rivers and Seas
[Paperback]Author(s):Tim Parks'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. -
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
[Paperback]Author(s):Italo CalvinoPin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. -
The Prince
[Paperback]How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? How do you keep your enemies in check? Is it better to be feared than loved? When is it necessary to break the rules? This book answers these questions by examining regimes and their rulers around the world and throughout history. -
Why Read the Classics?
[Paperback]Author(s):Italo CalvinoBeginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism. -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
[Paperback]Author(s):Italo CalvinoItalo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of lightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude and visibility in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale.
