For many centuries, Aristotle

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger's Tragedy, published anonymously a ..

Kikuchi, a lonely bookstore clerk, can't help buy wonder about Kajinoki, a regular customer of the shop. With each visit, he longs to see Kajinoki again and finds his heart starts to beat wildly in his presence. Is Kikuchi falling in love? And isn't Kajinoki married?

A tale of teen rebellion, with one 17-year old taking on the surveillance state.

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before ..

Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. He was a rebel and nonconformi ..

Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks to the new parliament being resident in Queensbury House, bang in the middle of his pat ..

Der kleine Simplex versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Sein gefesselter Vater, dessen salzüberzogene Füße eine Ziege hemmungslos leckt, lacht zwar, doch richtig fröhlich ist er nicht. Simplex lacht „Gesellschaft halber“ mit und begreift nicht, dass die Rei ..

The terrifying new thriller from the author of the bestselling }The Chemistry Of Death{. Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter travels to the remote Hebridean island of Runa to inspect a grisly discovery. With authentic forensics as found in the wo ..

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhe ..

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-c ..

Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp's revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize w ..