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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
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• Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTold with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, wo...
View full detailsTales Of The Ten Princes
Dandin
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• Author(s): Dandin • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Essays
Frontier In Flames
Jaideep Saikia
Hardcover
• Author(s): Jaideep Saikia • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Viking • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaFeatures eleven specialist commentators of the North East who critically examine aspects of security in the r...
View full detailsPOPism
Andy Warhol
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• Author(s): Andy Warhol • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this book the authors examine the pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s. They look at the paintings, movies and music and reveal the stories behind...
View full detailsWeight Loss
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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• Author(s): Upamanyu Chatterjee • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralThe grotesquery of the sexual and the spiritual pervades the pages of Weight Loss . . . An unrepentant pornographers bumpy road to sa...
View full detailsThe Penguin U.g. Krishnamurti Reader
Mukunda Rao
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• Author(s): Mukunda Rao • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Non-Classifiable
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Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Black Classics • BISAC: ClassicsThis is the first-ever complete translation of Tagore's grand fantasy. Tagore planned a story that had no end, and to...
View full detailsHenderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels."(Sa...
View full detailsIdentity and Violence
Amartya, FBA Sen
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• Author(s): Amartya, FBA Sen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAmartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belo...
View full detailsHumboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At ...
View full detailsDangling Man
Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdExpecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-up...
View full detailsCollected Stories
Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSome of the stories in this collection recount the events of a single day whilst others are contained in a wider frame. Each story is a characteristic c...
View full detailsMore Die of Heartbreak
Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdKenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his be...
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Saadat Hasan Manto
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• Author(s): Saadat Hasan Manto • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Black Classics • BISAC: ClassicsThis collection includes some of Manto's finest stories, ranging from his chilling account of the horrors of Partition...
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Rajmohan Gandhi
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• Author(s): Rajmohan Gandhi • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaMohandas answers questions long asked about the timid youth from India's West coast who became a conscience and hel...
View full detailsThe Terrorist At My Table
Imtiaz Dharker
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• Author(s): Imtiaz Dharker • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinAsks questions about how we live - working, travelling, eating, listening to the news and preparing for attack. What do any of us know about who we share t...
View full detailsDiscordant Democrats
Arun Maira
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• Author(s): Arun Maira • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Viking • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis work is a roadmap to collaborative governance by the author who is one of the finest thinkers on the subjec...
View full detailsThe Ball is Round
David Goldblatt
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• Author(s): David Goldblatt • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGoldblatt describes the rise of football, from a chaotic folk ritual to a sector of the global-entertainment industry. It's the story of players and...
View full detailsAll the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
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• Author(s): Robert Penn Warren • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet in the 1930s, this novel traces the rise and fall of Louisiana Governor Willie Stark, a once humble man of the people who was steadily corrup...
View full detailsBoyhood Days
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: General'I was then about seven or eight. I had no useful role to play in this world; and that old palki, too, had been dismissed from all for...
View full detailsThe Messenger
Daniel Silva
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• Author(s): Daniel Silva • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen an al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, photographs on his computer lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning its most audac...
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John Updike
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• Author(s): John Updike • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this extraordinary and highly charged novel, John Updike, one of America's greatest living writers, tackles one of America's most burning issues - th...
View full detailsHow to be Free
Tom Hodgkinson
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• Author(s): Tom Hodgkinson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHow to be Free is Tom Hodgkinson's manifesto for a liberated life. Modern life is absurd. How can we be free? If you've ever wondered why you bother ...
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George Monbiot
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• Author(s): George Monbiot • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdStarted to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the...
View full detailsThe Mersey Sound
Roger McGough
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• Author(s): Roger McGough • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'I wanted your soft verges But you gave me the hard shoulder' The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the ...
View full detailsChowringhee
Mani Sankar Mukherji
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• Author(s): Mani Sankar Mukherji • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralSet in 1950s Calcutta, this is a saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, t...
View full detailsOn Balance: An Autobiography
Leila Seth
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• Author(s): Leila Seth • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesIt also includes her happy marriage of over fifty years, and the upbringing of her three children. It is simultaneouly intimate, ...
View full detailsAutobiography of Malcolm X
X Malcolm
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• Author(s): X Malcolm • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThey called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This autobiography, tells of a young, disenfra...
View full detailsLove in a Fallen City
Eileen Chang
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• Author(s): Eileen Chang • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the...
View full detailsIron Kingdom
Christopher Clark
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• Author(s): Christopher Clark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a cou...
View full detailsA Dog's Heart
Mikhail Bulgakov
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• Author(s): Mikhail Bulgakov • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: General BooksA Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story is Mikhail Bulgakov's hilarious satire on Communist hypocrisies. This Penguin Classics edition is translated...
View full detailsThe Master And Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
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• Author(s): Mikhail Bulgakov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is a fiercely satirical fantasy that remained unpublished in its author's home country for over thirty ...
View full detailsOn Royalty
Jeremy Paxman
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• Author(s): Jeremy Paxman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn On Royalty Jeremy Paxman delves deep into Britain's royal past. What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it me...
View full detailsMaking Globalization Work
Joseph E. Stiglitz
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• Author(s): Joseph E. Stiglitz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJoseph Stiglitz presents this thought-provoking analysis of the problems inherent in the world economic order, and how they can be solved.
That Extra Half An Inch
Daniel Crena De Iongh
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• Author(s): Daniel Crena De Iongh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: PhotographyVictoria Beckham is one of the most famous and photographed women in the world. Her best-selling autobiography Learning t...
View full detailsThe Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
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• Author(s): Lawrence Wright • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The Looming Tower' tells the story of Al-Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraor...
View full details'What Do You Care What Other People Think?'
Richard P Feynman
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• Author(s): Richard P Feynman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRichard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life. In this...
View full detailsI Dreamed of Africa
Kuki Gallmann
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• Author(s): Kuki Gallmann • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up t...
View full detailsLove in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionFlorentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina marrie...
View full detailsJamie at Home
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJamie Oliver presents this no-nonsense guide to simple cooking with great flavours all year round. He finds inspiration from his vegetable patch at hom...
View full detailsFavorites Stories For Boys
Prhi Editorial
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• Author(s): Prhi Editorial • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: GeneralBrings together stories especially written for boys, by the finest children's writers in India. Several kinds of boys such as witty boys, s...
View full detailsThe Goldilocks Enigma
Paul Davies
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• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPaul Davies tackles all the 'big questions' in cosmology and introduces the latest discoveries that have allowed scientists to piece together the story ...
View full detailsThe World is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
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• Author(s): Thomas L. Friedman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis text presents a picture of the state of globalisation, its successes and discontents, in the 21st century. The author demystifies the brave ...
View full detailsThe Road to Oxiana
Robert Byron
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• Author(s): Robert Byron • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact and fiction, the Penguin Classics edition of Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana include...
View full detailsDisobedience
Naomi Alderman
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• Author(s): Naomi Alderman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBy the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in...
View full detailsThe Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
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• Author(s): S.E. Hinton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAdapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is a young...
View full detailsCaravan to Tibet
Deepa Agarwal
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• Author(s): Deepa Agarwal • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralIn the last years of the nineteenth century, a caravan of traders sets off from the high hills of Kumaon, India, fo...
View full detailsSelected Poems: Keats
John Keats
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• Author(s): John Keats • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA selection of Keats's greatest poemsOver the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By th...
View full detailsThe Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
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• Author(s): Kim Edwards • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt's 1964 and Dr David Henry finds himself delivering his wife's twins. Relieved, he sees that his son is born healthy, but recognises the signs of Down...
View full detailsFamily and Kinship in East London
Michael Young
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• Author(s): Michael Young • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAlthough housing in Bethnal Green was often appalling, a complex network of relatives - families of three generations held together by the powerful mo...
View full detailsBaumgartner’S Bombay
Anita Desai
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• Author(s): Anita Desai • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin‘A daring, colorful novel almost impossible to absorb in one reading.’ the New York times book review hugo baumgartner is a firanghi wherever he goes – too da...
View full detailsGod's War
Christopher Tyerman
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• Author(s): Christopher Tyerman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of ...
View full detailsAnd Another Thing
Jeremy Clarkson
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• Author(s): Jeremy Clarkson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn And Another Thing. . . the outspoken and outrageous presenter Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything. Jeremy Clarkson finds...
View full detailsBerlin
Antony Beevor
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• Author(s): Antony Beevor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Berlin' tells the story of those men, women and children caught up in the crescendo of the Third Reich's final defeat, who suffered to the end from f...
View full detailsStalingrad
Antony Beevor
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• Author(s): Antony Beevor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis authoritative text recreates the battle for Stalingrad that became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome and vicious...
View full detailsParis After the Liberation
Antony Beevor
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• Author(s): Antony Beevor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe authors explore virtually every facet of life in Paris between 1944 and 1949. Behind colourful anecdotes they puncture national myths without swap...
View full detailsOrganization Theory
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• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis book spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterm...
View full detailsVictoria's Wars
Saul David
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• Author(s): Saul David • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the ...
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