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elcome to the academics section of the Penguin website. Here you can find information on specially selected new and forthcoming titles, browse the online versions of our most recent catalogues, and search the database for titles currently in print.
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Price: £12.99
Pub date: 26/01/06 |
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The Presidents
The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush
'A magisterial tour d'horizon … scintillating and witheringly
ironic … lucid and provocative, likely to induce a glow of pleasure in the reader'
Sunday Times
The US president is the most powerful figure on earth, wielding an unprecedented global influence. This is a brilliant, candid account of the men who have commanded the Oval Office during the twentieth century - revealing their personalities, achievements, crises, secrets and legacies.
From 'saviour' Franklin D. Roosevelt to JFK and the myth of Camelot, from 'Tricky Dick' Nixon to neo-imperialists Reagan and George W. Bush, Stephen Graubard takes us to the heart of the hidden - and increasingly monarchical - nexus of power at the White House. Examining how war, espionage, deception, money and the media have transformed the office in modern times, he asks: has the presidency now become too powerful? |
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Price: £12.99
Pub date: 26/01/05 |
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Restoration
Charles II and his Kingdoms
'Masterful'
Sunday Times
Charles II marched triumphantly into London in 1660 to heal a country torn apart by civil war and restore the crown to its glory. But was he really the 'merry monarch' of legend?
Tim Harris's compelling history looks beneath the traditional image of the Restoration to reveal a brutal, repressive king ruling a bitterly divided realm. He brilliantly re-creates a turbulent era of plague, fire, 'Popish plots', riots, propaganda and a reckless, libertine Court, which would soon see triumph turn to further bloodshed. |
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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 26/01/06 |
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How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Jared Diamond
'Riveting, superb, terrifying'
Observer
'Magnificent'
The New York Times
From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could such mighty societies fall? And could our skyscrapers one day stand derelict and overgrown like ancient temples?
Jared Diamond takes us on an epic journey around the globe, through the history of humanity and on to the future, to discover how - when tomorrow comes - we can be survivors. |
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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 26/01/05 |
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The Bacchae and Other Plays
Euripides
Translated by John Davie with an introduction and notes by Richard Rutherford
Phoenician Women/Orestes/Bacchae/Iphigenia at Aulis/Rhesus
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal, while in Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy. Finally, the Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring Greek and Trojan camps.
John Davie's vibrant translations are accompanied by an introduction by Richard Rutherford discussing Athenian tragedy and Euripides' dramatic career. This edition also includes a timeline, prefaces to each play, notes, a glossary and guidance to further reading. |
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Price: £14.99
Pub date: 26/01/06 |
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The Penguin Freud Reader
Edited by Adam Phillips
This major new collection brings together the key writings from every stage of Freud's career to offer the perfect introduction to his life and work. Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man.
Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading. Here we can see Freud's writings as readings and listenings, deciphering the secrets of the mind, finding words for desires that have never found expression. Much more than this, however, The Penguin Freud Reader presents a compelling reading of life as we experience it today, and a way in to the work of one of the most haunting writers of the modern age. |
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