Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.'
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook ... Read more
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Over a hundred years have passed since Charles Creighton's A History of Epidemics in Britain was published. Then, epidemics of infectious diseases accounted for a third of all deaths in the British Is ... Read more
I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.'
Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfas ... Read more
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Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665 which continues to exert ... Read more
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'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Fo ... Read more
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Ming T. Tsuang; Stephen V. Faraone; Stephen J. Glatt
Pub date
Aug 2011
Series
Facts
Schizophrenia is one of the most traumatic psychiatric disorders, both for the affected person and their family. It also carries an unfortunate stigma and suffers from frequent misinterpretation by t ... Read more
Explores one of the key technologies of the modern world and its impact
Considers the use of robots in a variety of contexts - including the established manufacturing and warehouse automation to ... Read more
An authoritative and comprehensive dictionary containing clear, concise definitions of over 3,400 key economic terms, this A to Z covers all aspects of economics including economic theory, applied mic ... Read more
...behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscrapers'
Entering New York harbour, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, 'her ... Read more
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An authoritative and accessible exploration of the science of stars
Examines the processes that allow stars to form, to shine, to maintain their size, and looks at their various forms of death
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