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Pico Iyer
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• Author(s): Pico Iyer • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralPico Iyer—one of the most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers—invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, ...
View full detailsThe Other Woman
Jane Green
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• Author(s): Jane Green • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEllie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. He loves sports whereas Ellie's all...
View full detailsSultana's Dream And Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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• Author(s): Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Black Classics • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryPlayful, fascinating and intelligent, these novellas offer a keen insight into the psyche o...
View full detailsThe Stories of English
David Crystal
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• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a...
View full detailsThe Mystery of Olga Chekhova
Antony Beevor
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• Author(s): Antony Beevor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOlga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of Anton C...
View full detailsOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
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• Author(s): Ken Kesey • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBoisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible ma...
View full detailsThe Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill
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• Author(s): Winston Churchill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDescribes the steps that led to the Second World War, a period that ended with Churchill as Prime Minister - the aftermath of the First World War,...
View full detailsTheir Finest Hour
Winston Churchill
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• Author(s): Winston Churchill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramat...
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Winston Churchill
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• Author(s): Winston Churchill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramat...
View full detailsThe Hinge of Fate
Winston Churchill
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• Author(s): Winston Churchill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramat...
View full detailsClosing the Ring
Winston Churchill
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• Author(s): Winston Churchill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramat...
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Winston Churchill
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• Author(s): Winston Churchill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramat...
View full detailsThe Dictators
Richard Overy
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• Author(s): Richard Overy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHalf a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the m...
View full detailsForgotten Armies
Christopher Bayly
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• Author(s): Christopher Bayly • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: HistoryThe vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War ...
View full detailsA Death in Vienna
Daniel Silva
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• Author(s): Daniel Silva • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFollowing 'The English Assassin' and 'The Confessor', this is the final novel in the trilogy to feature art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon. In 'A Death...
View full detailsHindu Myths
Wendy Doniger O' Flaherty
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• Author(s): Wendy Doniger O' Flaherty • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Black Classics • BISAC: Hinduism - General
The Wall Jumper
Peter Schneider
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• Author(s): Peter Schneider • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWith an introduction by Ian McEwan, 'The Wall Jumper' is a novella that captures the mood of Cold War Berlin. The characters are all, in their diffe...
View full detailsSimone Weil: An Anthology
Simone Weil
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• Author(s): Simone Weil • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSimone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century: a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This antho...
View full detailsGhost Wars
Steve Coll
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• Author(s): Steve Coll • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret i...
View full detailsPrince of Ayodhya
Ashok K. Banker
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• Author(s): Ashok K. Banker • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury PressThe original Ramayana was written three thousand years ago. Now, with breathtaking imagination and brilliant storytelling, Ashok K. Banker has...
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Ashok K. Banker
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• Author(s): Ashok K. Banker • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury Press • BISAC: Hinduism - General
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene
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• Author(s): Brian Greene • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas' Financial Times 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it...
View full detailsThe Anatomy of Fascism
Robert O. Paxton
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• Author(s): Robert O. Paxton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and ...
View full detailsA Legacy
Sybille Bedford
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• Author(s): Sybille Bedford • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this deeply involved study of the German Upper Class before 1914, Sybille Bedford has re-created a way of life in a manner that is absorbing, mov...
View full detailsDeep Simplicity
John Gribbin
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• Author(s): John Gribbin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is ...
View full detailsPurple Cow
Seth Godin
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• Author(s): Seth Godin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdYou're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have...
View full detailsThe Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler
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• Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: English LiteratureSix people five women and a man meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, n...
View full detailsStatus Anxiety
Alain de Botton
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• Author(s): Alain de Botton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWe all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately ...
View full detailsThis Blinding Absence of Light
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a fai...
View full detailsAspects of the Novel
E.M. Forster
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• Author(s): E.M. Forster • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdE.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun...
View full detailsThe Collector's Wife
Phukan Mitra
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• Author(s): Phukan Mitra • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin-Zubaan • BISAC: General
Collected Poems
Roger McGough
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• Author(s): Roger McGough • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRoger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his lat...
View full detailsCollected Stories
Shashi Deshpande
• Author(s): Shashi Deshpande • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralWriting is to me a way of exploring the world, says the best selling author, Deshpande.
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean
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• Author(s): Bethany McLean • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe fall of Enron was much more than a business scandal. Not only did the events of October 2001 have a more damaging effect on the markets than 9/11...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdExploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The ...
View full detailsIndian Economy
Bimal Jalan
• Author(s): Bimal Jalan • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Economics - General
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyFeatures an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, an...
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Terry Eagleton
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• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age...
View full detailsThe Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey
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• Author(s): Edward Abbey • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe US government and big business teamed up to build dams and bridges across the American West. A band of individuals teamed up to prevent it happenin...
View full detailsRude Food
Vir Sanghvi
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• Author(s): Vir Sanghvi • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralInspired and witty, this book is a collection of the author's essays on food and drink. Full of culinary secrets and gastronomic tips, this b...
View full detailsThe Whole Story and Other Stories
Ali Smith
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• Author(s): Ali Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and...
View full detailsSelected Poems
Rumi
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• Author(s): Rumi • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Other Stories and Other Stories
Ali Smith
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• Author(s): Ali Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOther Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith. Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and ex...
View full detailsBound for Glory
Woody Guthrie
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• Author(s): Woody Guthrie • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdChronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory includes an intr...
View full detailsChristianity In India: Two Thousand Years of Faith
G. Gispert-Sauch
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• Author(s): G. Gispert-Sauch • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Viking • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralChristians have lived in India since the early centuries of this era. In South India they believe their ancestors ...
View full detailsHegemony or Survival
Noam Chomsky
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• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow. This title reveals...
View full detailsPiano Notes
Charles Rosen
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• Author(s): Charles Rosen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn exploration of the delights and demands of the piano. It considers various aspects of the instrument: from what makes a beautiful sound to sufferin...
View full detailsStupid White Men
Michael Moore
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• Author(s): Michael Moore • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTells you what you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. This title reveals - among other things - how 'President' Bush stole a...
View full detailsOther Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote
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• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, ev...
View full detailsCollected Poems 19542004
Dom Moraes
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• Author(s): Dom Moraes • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
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• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
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• Author(s): Richard J. Evans • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis title tells perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Eu...
View full detailsCitizens
Simon Schama
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• Author(s): Simon Schama • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis award-winning, worldwide bestseller is an authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell
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• Author(s): Robert Tressell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA sustained attack on selfish capitalism, and a Socialist critique of Edwardian England's social inequality, Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered ...
View full detailsMadness Explained
Richard P Bentall
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• Author(s): Richard P Bentall • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTHIS BOOK WILL EXPLAIN WHAT MADNESS IS, TO SHOW THAT IT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS, AND THAT BY STUDYING IT WE CAN LEARN IMPORTANT I...
View full detailsGulag
Anne Applebaum
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• Author(s): Anne Applebaum • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdReveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This w...
View full detailsThe Truth About Markets
John Kay
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• Author(s): John Kay • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCapitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model - unfettere...
View full detailsAlexander the Great
Robin Lane Fox
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• Author(s): Robin Lane Fox • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander a...
View full detailsOn The Natural History Of Destruction
W. G. Sebald
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• Author(s): W. G. Sebald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd