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The Medium is the Massage - Bruno Munari - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore''s bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan''s unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsMarshall McLuhan is the man who predicted the all-pervasive rise of modern mass media. Blending text, image and photography, his 1960 classic The Medium is the Massage illustrates how the growth of technology utterly reshapes society, personal lives and sensory perceptions, so that we are effectively transformed by the means we use to communicate. His theories, many of which are illustrated in this astonishing ''inventory of effects'', force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society. This concept, and his ideas such as rolling, up-to-the-minute news broadcasts and the media ''Global Village'' have proved decades ahead of their time.How do we see the world around us? The ''Penguin on Design'' series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher and scholar - a professor of English Literature, a literary critic and a communications theorist. McLuhan''s work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Among his other works are The Mechanical Bride (1951), The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media (1964). Quentin Fiore (b. 1920) is a graphic designer renowned for his collaborations with writers including the academic Marshall McLuhan and the futurist and engineer Buckminster Fuller.If you enjoyed The Medium is the Massage , you might like Bruno Munari''s Design as Art , also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''The media prophet of the 1960s'' The New York Times ''In the tumult of the digital revolution, McLuhan is relevant anew'' Wired

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Mess - Keri Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In Mess , Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal , asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance -- on purpose.Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) onto a page from a good height (at least five feet); draw in the dark (or with eyes closed); creatively misspell words; paint a picture in a water-based medium (pen, marker, watercolour, etc) and leave it out during a rain or snowstorm; and bury this book, then dig it up.This book is unlike any other you''ve encountered and will allow you to open yourself up to the possibility of creating something new and unexpected.

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Selected Writings - Meister Eckhart - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic concept of oneness - the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided - with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond.

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The Man Who Sees Dead People - Joe Power - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For almost a decade, psychic medium Joe Power has used his extraordinary powers to investigate high-profile, unsolved crimes around the world, including, most recently, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.But it wasn''t always this way. Joe had denied his psychic abilities until the day his brother was found dead. Then messages from the spirit world led him to see the shocking truth behind the tragedy . . . his brother had been murdered.Joe realized he could no longer ignore the startling visions and voices in his head. He vowed to use his psychic gift to help solve the murder cases that were leaving detectives baffled, and loved ones without closure. In The Man Who Sees Dead People he tells the astonishing story of his life for the first time.

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I Paint What I Want to See - Philip Guston - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century ''Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'' How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing.''Among the most important, powerful and influential American painters of the last 100 years ... he''s an art world hero'' Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine ''Guston''s paintings make us think hard'' Aindrea Emelife, Guardian

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BRUGT BOG - I Paint What I Want to See - Philip Guston - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

BRUGT BOG Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century ''Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'' How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing.''Among the most important, powerful and influential American painters of the last 100 years ... he''s an art world hero'' Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine ''Guston''s paintings make us think hard'' Aindrea Emelife, Guardian

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Wine Folly - Justin Hammack - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Want to pick the perfect wine for dinner? Red, white or Rose? Dry or Fruity? Spanish or Portuguese? Become the expert with Wine Folly''s Magnum Edition: The Master Guide. A Fortnum & Mason Drink Book of the Year 2015 Red or white? Cabernet or Merlot? Medium or full-bodied?Drinking great wine isn''t hard, but finding a great wine is much easier when you understand the fundamentals.Using visual infographics, charts and maps, the expert founders of Wine Folly have created the ultimate wine resource packed with countless facts, information and guidance.From tips on which glasses to use, and easy-to-grasp flavour wheels for each wine type, to simple tasting and food-pairing notes, Wine Folly is a fascinating modern and colourful guide. This accessible book will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to enjoy great wines in a whole new way.

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My Psychic Life - Sally Morgan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

DISCOVER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR, MY PHYSIC LIFE BY SALLY MORGAN AS SHE EMBARKS ON HER 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR. Sally Morgan is an ordinary woman with an extraordinary gift: she can communicate with the dead.At just nine months old, Sally had her first psychic experience. It took a personal disaster in Sally''s life to understand how to take control of the mysteries of the spirit world and become a globally respected professional medium. Now in her 11th year of touring, Sally has done thousands of readings for people who have experienced a personal tragedy, passing on the messages of spirits to their loved ones with astonishing accuracy.Discover amazing anecdotes that will send a shiver down the spine and the experiences that have shaped Sally''s long and successful career. My Physic Life is packed with honesty as Sally opens up about her most chilling spiritual readings, while chatting about her life as one would with a friend over a cup of tea.

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How to Speak Machine - John Maeda - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

John Maeda is one of the world''s preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine , he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Machines are already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at an exponential pace. Once set in motion, algorithms never tire. And when a program''s size, speed and endlessness combine with its ability to learn and transform itself, the outcome can be unpredictable and dangerous. Take the seemingly instant transformation of Microsoft''s chatbot into a hate-spewing racist, or how crime-predicting algorithms reinforce racial bias. How To Speak Machine provides a coherent framework for today''s product designers, business leaders and policymakers to grasp this brave new world. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience from engineering to computer science to design, Maeda shows how businesses and individuals can identify opportunities afforded by technology to make world-changing and inclusive products while avoiding the pitfalls inherent to the medium.

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There's Always This Year - Hanif Abdurraqib - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO TIME, NPR, Chicago Review of Books , Lit Hub , Medium , The Millions , Book Riot , and more It might do all of us some good to reconsider what ''making it'' even means. Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged -- and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. There’s Always This Year is a triumph from one of America’s most celebrated and insightful writers. It brims with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject, Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, and ourselves.

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Here - Richard Mcguire - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

COMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TOM HANKS AND ROBIN WRIGHT Here is Richard McGuire''s unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name. Richard McGuire''s groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman''s editorship at RAW in 1989.Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it collapsed time and space to tell the story of the corner of a room - and its inhabitants - between the years 500,957,406,073 BC and 2033 AD.The strip remains one of the most influential and widely discussed contributions to the medium, and it has now been developed, expanded and reimagined by the artist into this full-length, full-colour graphic novel - a must for any fan of the genre. ''From now on, McGuire will be known as the author of the novel Here , because it''s a work of literature and art unlike any seen or read before. A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century'' Chris Ware, Guardian ''Promises to leapfrog immediately to the front ranks of the graphic-novel genre'' New York Times

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Breakdowns - Art Spiegelman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him! **In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword** This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! , creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist''s evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents'' memories of Auschwitz on his own son.The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns , the long-sought after collection of the artist''s comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story "Ace Hole-Midget Detective."Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir. ''Art Spiegelman is the single most important comic creator'' Alan Moore

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Sailing Alone - Richard J. King - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

**Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book 2024** ''An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea'' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen ''Colourful and inventive'' The Times Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a medium wholly inimical to our existence. But the deep ocean is also a remarkable place on which to think.Richard King''s enormously engaging and curious new book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone. Spending weeks and months alone, slowly, quietly and close to the ocean surface is to create the world''s largest laboratory: an endlessly changing, capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars and myriad sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening.This is a book for anyone who is fascinated by sailing, solitude and the vast seas that cover so much of our planet.

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The Age of Earthquakes - Shumon Basar - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it The future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains why Fifty years after Marshall McLuhan''s ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture The Medium is the Massage , Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that''s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the ''extreme present''. The Age of Earthquakes is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ''mindsource'' images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly''s striking graphic design imports the surreal, juxtaposed, mashed mannerisms of screen to page. It''s like a culturally prescient, all-knowing email to the reader: possibly the best email they will ever read.Welcome to The Age of Earthquakes , a paper portrait of Now, where the Internet hasn''t just changed the structure of our brains these past few years, it''s also changing the structure of the planet. This is a new history of the world that fits perfectly in your back pocket.

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The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher''s timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been published this year'' Sunday Times A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive Penguin Book of British Short Stories , has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day.Includes short stories by A.L. Kennedy, Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackie Kay, Graham Swift, Jane Gardam, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis, China Miéville, Peter Hobbs, Thomas Morris, David Rose, David Szalay, Irvine Welsh, Lucy Caldwell, Rose Tremain, Helen Oyeyemi, Leone Ross, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Will Self, Gerard Woodward, James Kelman, Lucy Wood, Hilary Mantel, Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Mark Haddon and Helen Dunmore.

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All The Blood We Share - Camilla Bruce - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discover the darkly addictive new historical crime based on a twisted true story, from the author of Triflers Need Not Apply ''Creepy and compelling'' THE TIMES CRIME CLUB ''Atmospheric and addictive'' CRIME MONTHLY ''Sinister. A pulse-pounding read'' WOMAN & HOME ''A mixture of black humour and psychological insight'' SUNDAY TIMES , ''Best Historical Fiction Books of 2023''__________ Blood is thicker than water . . . and murder is best kept in the family __________ Kate Bender has killed before. She has felt the warm trickle of a man''s blood. Known what it is like to hold his life in her hands. But that is in the past.Laying low in a new town, she vows to change. When she gains the locals'' trust as an esteemed medium, a life closer to virtue finally seems within reach.But can Kate deny her lingering urges? For while the town praise her promising work, she is drawn to darker business behind closed doors . . . __________ ''I was absolutely captivated. Chilling, terrifying, utterly addictive, All the Blood We Share is a beautifully written, spellbinding read for 2023'' KAREN COLES, author of The Asylum Praise for Camilla Bruce ''Extraordinary'' The Times ''Dark glee and tragedy - you''ll gobble this up'' Laura Purcell ''An amazing book, riveting, heart-breaking and intense. I couldn''t put it down'' My Favourite Murder Podcast

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The Black Feathers - Rebecca Netley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The perfect book for a cold winter’s night...an immersive gothic tale, dark and mysterious. Truly haunting!'' ANITA FRANK ''An atmospheric, eerie read’ PRIMA ‘A chilling and atmospheric tale…you are drawn into a haunting mystery that will keep you guessing’ Yours Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken . . . Edward''s sister, Iris, still lives in the family home. A taxidermist and medium, she urges Annie to watch out for black feathers - claiming that they mark the spot where a spirt has visited. At first, Annie dismisses her warnings. But, before long, an eerie almost haunting feeling takes over her. What exactly happened to Edward''s first wife? Why is Iris so disturbed? And should Annie be watching for signs from the dead - or rather is she the one being watched? SET ON THE YORKSHIRE MOORS IN THE 1800S, THE BLACK FEATHERS IS A GHOSTLY TALE OF MAGIC AND WICKEDNESS. '' Reminiscent of Jane Eyre and The Silent Companions... Spooky, twisty, with a surprisingly emotional pay off'' KATE COLLINS ''Looking for an atmospheric read to while away the autumn nights? This Gothic ghost story delivers intrigue and suspense in spades'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ''Chilling, haunting and incredibly moving'' BARBARA COPPERTHWAITE ''With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca... a spine-tingling ghost story'' IRIS COSTELLO ‘If Halloween whets your appetite for Victorian Gothic, the author of The Whistling delivers once again.’ – Saga ‘A chilling gothic thriller’ – Woman’s Own Praise for THE WHISTLING ''Wonderfully atmospheric, genuinely eerie'' GUARDIAN ''A wicked twist . . . brilliant, scary, clever'' 5***** READER REVIEW ''Gripping, chilling and very, very satisfying'' DAILY MAIL

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The Black Feathers - Rebecca Netley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The perfect book for a cold winter’s night...an immersive gothic tale, dark and mysterious. Truly haunting!'' ANITA FRANK ''An atmospheric, eerie read’ PRIMA ‘A chilling and atmospheric tale…you are drawn into a haunting mystery that will keep you guessing’ Yours Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken . . . Edward''s sister, Iris, still lives in the family home. A taxidermist and medium, she urges Annie to watch out for black feathers - claiming that they mark the spot where a spirt has visited. At first, Annie dismisses her warnings. But, before long, an eerie almost haunting feeling takes over her. What exactly happened to Edward''s first wife? Why is Iris so disturbed? And should Annie be watching for signs from the dead - or rather is she the one being watched? SET ON THE YORKSHIRE MOORS IN THE 1800S, THE BLACK FEATHERS IS A GHOSTLY TALE OF MAGIC AND WICKEDNESS. '' Reminiscent of Jane Eyre and The Silent Companions... Spooky, twisty, with a surprisingly emotional pay off'' KATE COLLINS ''Looking for an atmospheric read to while away the autumn nights? This Gothic ghost story delivers intrigue and suspense in spades'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ''Chilling, haunting and incredibly moving'' BARBARA COPPERTHWAITE ''With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca... a spine-tingling ghost story'' IRIS COSTELLO ‘If Halloween whets your appetite for Victorian Gothic, the author of The Whistling delivers once again.’ – Saga ‘A chilling gothic thriller’ – Woman’s Own Praise for THE WHISTLING ''Wonderfully atmospheric, genuinely eerie'' GUARDIAN ''A wicked twist . . . brilliant, scary, clever'' 5***** READER REVIEW ''Gripping, chilling and very, very satisfying'' DAILY MAIL

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The House of Velvet and Glass - Katherine Howe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane returns with her dazzling new historical novel, The House of Velvet and Glass , set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.1915, and the ghosts of the dead haunt a wealthy Boston family...Sibyl Allston is devastated by the recent deaths of her mother and sister aboard the Titanic. Hoping to heal her wounded heart, she seeks solace in the parlour of a medium who promises to contact her lost loved ones.But Sibyl finds herself drawn into a strange new world where she can never be sure that what she sees or hears is real. In fear and desperation she turns to psychology professor Benton Jones - despite the unspoken tensions of their shared past...From the opium dens of Boston''s Chinatown to the upscale salons of high society , Sibyl and Benton are drawn into a world of occult magic, of truth and lies, and into a race to understand Sibyl''s own apparent talent for scrying before it is too late.Katherine Howe''s The House of Velvet and Glass is a harrowing story of darkness and danger vanquished by the redemptive power of love.Praise for Katherine Howe:''Spellbinding... A terrific story'' Daily Express ''A transfixing tale of black magic, hauntings and real-life tricks that will keep you up all night'' Glamour ''A brilliant take on the 17th Century Salem witch trials'' Mirror Katherine Howe''s family has lived in the area around Salem Massachusetts for generations dating back to the 1620s. She is a descendant of two accused Salem witches - Elizabeth Proctor and Elizabeth Howe. Katherine is a PhD candidate at Boston University. She lived in Massachusetts and New York with her husband. The House of Velvet and Glass is her second novel to be published by Penguin.

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The Black Feathers - Rebecca Netley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO THE YORKSHIRE MOORS IN THE 1800s AND DISCOVER A GHOSTLY TALE OF MAGIC AND WICKEDNESS IN REBECCA NETLEY'S NEXT NOVEL'The perfect book for a cold winter’s night...an immersive gothic tale, dark and mysterious. Truly haunting!' ANITA FRANK'An atmospheric, eerie read’ PRIMA‘A chilling and atmospheric tale…you are drawn into a haunting mystery that will keep you guessing’ Yours---Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken . . . Edward's sister, Iris, still lives in the family home. A taxidermist and medium, she urges Annie to watch out for black feathers - claiming that they mark the spot where a spirt has visited. At first, Annie dismisses her warnings. But, before long, an eerie almost haunting feeling takes over her. What exactly happened to Edward's first wife? Why is Iris so disturbed?And should Annie be watching for signs from the dead - or rather is she the one being watched?---Praise for THE BLACK FEATHERS'Reminiscent of Jane Eyre and The Silent Companions... Spooky, twisty, with a surprisingly emotional pay off' KATE COLLINS'Looking for an atmospheric read to while away the autumn nights? This Gothic ghost story delivers intrigue and suspense in spades' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Chilling, haunting and incredibly moving' BARBARA COPPERTHWAITE'With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca...a spine-tingling ghost story' IRIS COSTELLO‘If Halloween whets your appetite for Victorian Gothic, the author of The Whistling delivers once again.’ – Saga‘A chilling gothic thriller’ – Woman’s OwnPraise for THE WHISTLING'Wonderfully atmospheric, genuinely eerie' GUARDIAN'A wicked twist . . . brilliant, scary, clever' 5***** READER REVIEW'Gripping, chilling and very, very satisfying' DAILY MAIL

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Money and Government - Robert Skidelsky - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''In this remarkable work, Robert Skidelsky unites his experience, knowledge and talents in a sweeping account of money and power'' James K. GalbraithThe dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the ''invisible hand'' of the market. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty make money and government essential features of any market economy. One reason we need money is because we don''t know what the future will bring. Government - good government - makes the future more predictable and therefore reduces this kind of demand for money.After Adam Smith orthodoxy persistently espoused non-intervention, but the Great Depression of 1929-32 stopped the artificers of orthodox economics in their tracks. A precarious balance of forces between government, employers, and trade unions enabled Keynesian economics to emerge as the new policy paradigm of the Western world. However, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the rejection of Keynesian policy and a return to small-state neoclassical orthodoxy. Thirty years later, the 2008 global financial crash was severe enough to have shaken the re-vamped classical orthodoxy, but, curiously, this did not happen. Once the crisis had been overcome - by Keynesian measures taken in desperation - the pre-crash orthodoxy was reinstated, undermined but unbowed. Since 2008, no new ''big idea'' has emerged, and orthodoxy has maintained its sway, enacting punishing austerity agendas that leave us with a still-anaemic global economy.This book aims to familiarise the reader with essential elements of Keynes''s ''big idea''. By showing that much of economic orthodoxy is far from being the hard science it claims to be, it aims to embolden the next generation of economists to break free from their conceptual prisons and afford money and government the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve.

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Henri Matisse - Alastair Sooke - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century''s greatest artists''One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artist Henri Matisse was lying in a hospital bed preparing to die.''Diagnosed with cancer, the acclaimed painter, and rival of Picasso, seemed to be facing his demise. Then something unexpected happened. After a life-saving operation that left him too weak to paint, and often too frail to even get out of bed, Matisse invented a ground-breaking and effortless new way of making art. The results rank among his greatest work.In an astonishing blaze of creativity, he began conjuring mesmerising designs of dazzling dancers and thrilling tightrope walkers, sensuous swimmers and mythical figures falling from the heavens. His joyful and unprecedented new works were as spontaneous as jazz music and as wondrous as crystal-clear lagoons. Their medium? Coloured paper and scissors.This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, focuses on Matisse''s extraordinary final decade, which he called ''a second life'', after he had returned from the grave. Both a biography and a guide to Matisse''s ''cut-outs'', it tells the story of the valedictory flourish of one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century.Published in time for a major Tate Modern retrospective.''Sooke is an immensely engaging character. He has none of the weighty self-regard that often afflicts art experts and critics; rather he approaches his subjects with a questioning, open, exploratory attitude'' Sarah Vine, The Times ''His shows are excellent - clever, lively, scholarly, but not too lecturey; he''s very good at linking his painters with the world outside the studio, and at how these artists have affected the world today'' Sam Wollaston reviewing ''Modern Masters'', Guardian Alastair Sooke is art critic of the Daily Telegraph . He has written and presented documentaries on television and radio for the BBC, including Modern Masters, The World''s Most Expensive Paintings , Treasures of Ancient Rome and, most recently, Treasures of Ancient Egypt. He is a regular reporter for The Culture Show on BBC Two. He is the author of Roy Lichtenstein: How Modern Art was Saved by Donald Duck.

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A Certain Idea of France - Julian Jackson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique du Touquet A SUNDAY TIMES , THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR''Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. ''Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.'' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history.For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France''s Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of ''a certain idea of France'' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts.Julian Jackson''s magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.

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Fight Me - Austin Grossman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

READ THE THRILLING, ACERBIC AND HILARIOUS NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE '' The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club… wry and engaging'' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of Nomad ''A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes'' Charles Stross, bestselling author of The Atrocity Archives ''Blending the lurid, anything-goes madness of Silver Age comic books with emotionally complicated characters and realistic consequences on a cosmic scale'' SFX ----Dr Rick Tower is a mild-mannered English professor easing into middle-age at a medium-sized New England college. A genial blur, he thinks. Even his vices are unremarkable. But it wasn’t always like this. Not until they changed his name, altered his looks and told him: ‘pretend you were never different’. Because, decades earlier after a very bad day at high school, he was committed to a secret government facility with three other kids, Cat, Jack and Stephanie, each special in their own way. Tested, tutored and trained, this extraordinary quartet were then told to save the world. It was the best thing that ever happened to them. Until it became the worst.Now, twenty years after the tragedy that forced him into academic non-entity, a mysterious disappearance means Tower must reunite with his former comrades. Each returns with their own agenda. And while great power might come with great responsibility, there’s little of that on display from any of them.Combining compelling storytelling and fierce imagination with a rich cast of characters, Fight Me is a page-turning and distinctive thriller, a unique tale of good and evil, and a memorable portrait of man trying to do the right thing at any cost. Against impossible odds . . .---- PRAISE FOR FIGHT ME ''Hugely enjoyable… kept me up till 3am'' Conn Iggulden, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lion ‘Combining a coming-of-age story with costume thrills . . . it has sly, smart things to say’ Herald '' Fight Me embraces the fun of the genre, while treating its battle-weary characters with heart and empathy. A noir-tinged Big Chill for the superhero set'' Bob Proehl, author of The Nobody People ‘A treasure that manages to be sad, funny, and hilariously fun at all once . A thrilling adventure but also a searing, intimate look at what it would really cost to have such incredible power, and yet still be human’ Peng Shepherd , bestselling author of The Cartographers ''There is a vibrancy to the writing, and a beating heart, reminiscent of my favourite coming-of-age novels'' Nick Cutter ''A sucker-punch of sheer delight, and couldn''t be happier to be on the receiving end'' Adam Christopher

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Mount Merrion - Justin Quinn - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Justin Quinn''s Mount Merrion : a gripping family story spanning half a century, in the mould of Jonathan Franzen and John Lanchester .Declan and Sinead Boyle are pillars of society - born into prosperous families, educated at Dublin''s finest schools, dwellers in a fine house in a leafy suburb. So why are they in so much trouble?Declan wants to serve his country - but he also wants to serve his own ambition. Sinead wonders if she is allowed, in the Ireland of the sixties and seventies, to have ambitions at all. Their son, Owen, seems intent on squandering the advantages of a prosperous upbringing and an expensive education. Their daughter Issie, gifted and attractive, has all the options in the world - and keeps choosing the wrong one. Mount Merrion , the dazzling debut novel by Justin Quinn, tells the story of the Boyles from Declan and Sinead''s first meeting, in the late fifties, through decades of success, failure and tragedy. Set against the brilliantly realized backdrop of a changing Ireland, it is a page-turning drama, a biting satire and a lovingly detailed portrait of a marriage and a family. ''Imaginative and compassionate ... Mount Merrion is about how a decent man, anxious to play by the rules - even if they''re someone else''s rules - can make the sort of choices that may end up ruining him'' Mail on Sunday (four stars) ''Taking the form of a family saga, [Quinn''s] assured debut plays out over half a century - a state-of-the-nation novel as told through the fast-changing fortunes of middle-class married life ... his novel is filled with perfectly judged moments'' Independent '' Mesmerising ... The story is a page-turner, and Quinn''s prose consistently light and controlled'' Irish Independent ''A book that people will find hard to put down ... a gripping story'' Sunday Business Post ''A great story ... both beautifully written and a well-paced page-turner '' Irish Times ''Justin Quinn''s debut novel is poignant - but it is also fiercely and poetically written, a beautifully observed trajectory of the rise and fall of a society and its assumptions, through the medium of a family story ... This is one of the best books of the year '' Evening Herald '' Exquisite '' Irish Examiner '' Absorbing ... A closely and sympathetically observed portrait of family life and Ireland''s changing face, Quinn''s wide-ranging tale culminates in a conclusion of considerable pathos'' Daily Mail ''An impressively accomplished trip through forty-odd years of Ireland''s recent history ... quite brilliant '' RTÉ Guide ''A bona fide thumping good read '' Image ''An ambitious take on both personal dramas and the altering political landscape of Europe'' Sunday Telegraph '' An epic yet intimate account of one family caught in the maelstrom of recent history'' Metro Herald ''Accomplished ... as a condition-of-Ireland novel it makes for salutary reading'' TLS '' Mount Merrion is epic and intimate, deliciously observed and wholly enjoyable . Justin Quinn is a shining talent.'' Claire Kilroy

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