Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience.In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass.Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America’s greatest poets—an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordi...

Brought to you by Penguin.We tend to think that everything important comes from the centre: from big cities, from established orthodoxies in the sciences and the arts, from the Establishment in all its forms. We think this because the centre tells us it is so, but it's a lie. It is only at the edges that we think, innovate and thrive.This book travels to the frontiers of human culture and consciousness; to the edges of continents, of evolution, of artistic ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Our goal should not be to eliminate vulnerability, but to harness its power. This is a roadmap for figuring out how.**We know the gut-wrenching feeling: that post-conversation replay, cringing at how much we just revealed. We live in fear of saying too much, so we keep quiet, guard our emotions and lock away our most personal thoughts.But what if we’ve been worrying about the wrong thing?A growing body of research shows we vastly ...

Brought to you by Penguin.Most people don't realise they're negotiating until it's too late - until they've already lost ground, damaged relationships, or walked away empty-handed. But what if you could transform every interaction into an opportunity to get what you want while making others feel valued?Fight Less, Win More offers an armoury of negotiation techniques and approaches that are both superbly practical and brilliantly effective. All have...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A GLITTERING NEW COSY MYSTERY STARRING EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE DRAG QUEEN TURNED AMATEUR SLEUTH, MISTY DIVINE...**Photographer Jeremy Edmunds has vanished without a trace. Last known location? Soho.As the owner of Lady’s Bar, no one knows the city – and its secrets – better than drag queen Misty Divine. So who better to help private detective Sylvester Green follow this missing man’s trail than the Queen of Soho herself?But no sooner...

From the author of the hotly anticipated TV series Imperfect Women, starring Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington.‘A thrilling escape with the most unexpected twists’ – Elisabeth MossYOUR SECRETS AREN'T SAFE.Ten years ago, Hope left Somerset with a fatal secret and a broken heart. She has spent a decade in the shadows, living a quiet life of penance to protect the man she once loved – the world-famous author...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry.

'Excellent' New York Times'An instant classic. . . Hamlet but with goats everywhere' Washington Post'Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected - a story for our times' Kevin Barry'A work of genius. Eradication is a beautiful and devastating novel' Luke Kennard**'**A deft, unsettling exploration of what it means to play God'...

Guilt is one of the most powerful—and unpleasant—emotions we experience. When we feel it, we want it gone.But it carries an important purpose we should learn not to ignore.When was the last time you felt guilty? Chances are, you don't even want to think about it—most of us would rather not. It's uncomfortable. We can’t change what we did now, so why dwell on it?But avoiding guilt is a mistake we have to stop making if we want to imp...

Brought to you by Penguin.**The enthralling history of the iconic, world class Jumbo Jet, from former 747 pilot Scott BatemanNothing like Boeing's 747 had ever been seen before.**Everything about it was superlative. When it emerged from the Boeing factory in 1968, the sheer scale of the jet made clear the vision, boldness and scale of the engineering challenge that had been required to build it.When the airliner took to the skies for the fir...

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels, travel writing, plays, autobiography, and political writing. But despi...

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