Author: Richard P. Bentall
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: explained, madness
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2005-12-28
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0140275401
ISBN-13: 9780140275407

Part of a Growing International Movement to Change the Face of Mental Illness

Author: Abla Amad
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: kitchen, lebanese
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-02-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0670899720
ISBN-13: 9780670899722

Authentic recipes using fresh produce. Abla Amad shares her recipes in this inspiring book, which features the real food of Lebanon - culinary treasures that are centuries old, preserved & adapted for contemporary cooks. Here is the wide variety of small dishes that comprise a mezza table, including kibbee, stuffed vine leaves, tabbouleh, felafel, & bab ghannooj with its essential smoky flavor.

Author: Pauline Gedge
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: saqqara, scroll
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2010-03-17
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0143167448
ISBN-13: 9780143167440

Author: Pauline Gedge
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: illusions, house
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2010-03-17
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 014316743X
ISBN-13: 9780143167433

Pauline Gedge is a master at recreating the golden age in Egypt. Her heroine, Thu, a peasant girl from the village of Aswat, possesses both beauty and intelligence. To her good fortune Thu is found and brought to the center of society. She is chosen and trained for the court of Pharaoh Ramses. Her talent and guile win her a post in the harem. Thu rises in favor, is betrayed in a court intrigue that threatens her life and falls from grace. Pharaoh spares her life but banishes her to serve the priests at the lowly temple of Wepwawet near the first cataract. House of Illusions opens on GedgeR

Author: John Howki
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: ideas, money, people, economy, creative
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0140287949
ISBN-13: 9780140287943

Britain makes more money from music than from its car industry. In the United States, the core copyright industries achieved foreign sales and exports of $60.18 billion-a figure that surpasses, for the first time, every other export sector, including automobiles, agriculture, and aircraft. Howkins sets out to explore how we can harness creativity and the industry it sustains to our common interests. The Creative Economy is not about information and the information society. It is about more basic matters, what we humans want and what we are good at. Managing creative people will be fundamental

Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: disappearances, city, london
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2008-09-03
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0141019484
ISBN-13: 9780141019482

’A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing’ - "Guardian". Welcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. The perfect companion to the city. ’Exhilarating, truly wonderful, a cavalcade of eloquent writing. London demands an anthology like this to remind us of the irascible quirkiness of its residents, and we have Sinclair to thank for marshalling such a perverse and ultimately pleasurable exercise’ - "Independent on Sunday".

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: house
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2008-09-03
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 0143168649
ISBN-13: 9780143168645

Before Guy Gavriel Kay became known for his groundbreaking works of speculative fiction he was an accomplished poet, his work appearing in major literary journals such as The Antigonish Review and Prism. Through the years, while writing his dramatic international bestsellers, Kay has continued to quietly explore the paths and boundaries of poetry as well. Now for the first time, Guy Gavriel Kay’s poetry has been gathered and selected for publication. Readers of contemporary poetry will be captivated by the exquisite craft and power of these poems. Some are ironic and austere, slyly