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Basic Income - Guy Standing - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Basic Income - Guy Standing - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing''s analysis is vital'' Paul Mason ''Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough survey he explains how it works and why it has the potential to revitalise life and democracy in our societies. This is an essential book.'' Brian Eno Shouldn''t everyone receive a stake in society''s wealth?Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all?What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?Basic Income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only by a few. Political parties across the world are now adopting it as official policy and the idea generates headlines every day. Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought about Basic Income for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work and labour; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against Basic Income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world and illustrates exactly why a Basic Income has now become such an urgent necessity.

DKK 127.00
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Sir Walter Scott - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Sir Walter Scott - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian dramatizes different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. Based on an anonymous letter Scot received in 1817, this is the seventh and finest of Scott''s ''Waverley'' novels. It was an international bestseller and inspired succeeding novelists from Balzac to George Eliot.

DKK 152.00
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Basic Bech - John Updike - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Basic Bech - John Updike - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Basic Bech combines two classic titles -- Bech: A Book and Bech is Back -- from one of John Updike''s most beloved characters. Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light , has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by reviewers, academics, critics and readers across the world. Suffering from temporary impotence and not-so-temporary writer''s block, Bech finds renewed fame when he returns to his native America and Think Big , his all-time blockbuster, hits the shops . . . In these classic novels by John Updike, we return to a character as compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable Henry Bech. Famous for his writer''s block, Bech is a Jew adrift in a world of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make you laugh with delight and wince in recognition.Praise for John Updike:''Our time''s greatest man of letters - as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short-story writer. His death constitutes a loss to our literature that is immeasurable'' Philip Roth''Alert, funny, sensuous. Here is a writer who can do more or less as he likes'' Martin Amis''One of the most protean of American writers . . . For a writer whose prose can be so lush and hyper-charged, he has always been in contact with the material detritus of everyday life'' The Times ''He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. Salinger, with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather'' James WoodJohn Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels, stories, and nonfiction collections have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.

DKK 161.00
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The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis - Joel Morris - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis - Joel Morris - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE PERFECT GIFT for people who ride their Harleys to work while wearing guyliner and winklepickers, even in freezing temperatures. __________________________________Jason''s mid-life crisis started one Sunday morning in B&Q when he spotted a tub of boat varnish.''I will never own a boat,'' he thought to himself.Jason has never wanted to own a boat. But now, not owning one is all he can think about.''__________________________________''Sally has tried lots of things to make herself feel younger: running, glamping, Pilates, adult colouring books, a ''mummy make-over,'' Bikram planking, Platonic irrigation and having an inappropriate relationship with a rangy twenty-something intern called Zeb, who has three beards and a Lego earring.Sally has given up and is now thinking of joining the National Trust.''__________________________________This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. ''Hilarious'' Stylist Other new titles for Autumn 2017: How it Works: The Brother How it Works: The Sister The Ladybird Book of the Ex The Ladybird Book of the Nerd The Ladybird Book of the New You The Ladybird Book of Balls The Ladybird Book of the Big Night Out The Ladybird Book of the Quiet Night In People at Work: The Rock Star Previous titles in the Ladybirds for Grown Ups series: How it Works: The Husband How it Works: The Wife How it Works: The Mum How it Works: The Dad The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis The Ladybird Book of the Hangover The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness The Ladybird Book of the Shed The Ladybird Book of Dating The Ladybird Book of the Hipster How it Works: The Student How it Works: The Cat How it Works: The Dog How it Works: The Grandparent The Ladybird Book of Red Tape The Ladybird Book of the People Next Door The Ladybird Book of the Sickie The Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse The Ladybird Book of the Do-Gooder

DKK 120.00
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Just an Ordinary Day - Shirley Jackson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Just an Ordinary Day - Shirley Jackson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of ''The Lottery''. An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy''s thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short stories.''Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [ Just an Ordinary Day ] is a gift to a new generation'' - San Francisco Chronicle''For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection'' - Publishers Weekly

DKK 119.00
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A Rusty Gun - Noel "razor" Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Rusty Gun - Noel "razor" Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

As a gun-wielding bank robber, Noel ''Razor'' Smith was top of the criminal tree, enjoying the excitement and benefits of a dangerous and adrenalin-filled career. But he''d also spent the greater part of his adult life in prison, an environment where respect and basic survival were guaranteed only to those prepared to use the most brutal violence. In his new book, Smith takes the story on from his highly acclaimed memoir A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun , and describes how he came to realize that the game wasn''t worth the candle. In his mid-forties he applied to enter Grendon, then the only prison in Britain offering intense therapeutic treatment to hardened criminals. He went from a brutal high-security prison, HMP Whitemoor, to an institution where he was encouraged to investigate just why his life had been given over to violence and crime. Smith paints an unforgettable portrait of the hardened and severely damaged inmates of Grendon, many of them guilty of famous crimes, and their attempts to turn round their lives. And in particular his own arduous five-year journey to re-enter society as a straight citizen.

DKK 182.00
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Quantum mechanics for real. This is the good stuff, the most mysterious aspects of how reality works, set out with crystalline clarity. The place to start'' Sean Carroll, physicist, California Institute of Technology, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe This is the ultimate practical introduction to quantum mechanics. World-renowned physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman give you the basic skills you need to tackle this famously difficult topic yourself.They provide clear, lively explanations of basic concepts, introduce the key fields of quantum mechanics and include step-by-step exercises. Making a complex subject ''as simple as possible, but no simpler'', this is a practical toolkit for amateur scientists that you won''t find anywhere else.

DKK 127.00
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Interzone - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Interzone - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs''s mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning. Burroughs''s close observations of humanity - its ugliness and ignorance - invites the reader to dispense with their traditional notions of decorum, and taste the world as he sees it.

DKK 126.00
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For Lust of Knowing - Robert Irwin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For Lust of Knowing - Robert Irwin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Robert Irwin’s history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid’s military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified not by politics or ideology but by their shared obsession. For Lust of Knowing is an extraordinary, passionate book, both a sustained argument and a brilliant work of original scholarship.

DKK 159.00
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Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Here for the first time in one volume are all the basic and revolutionary concepts on exercise, training principles, contest preparation, diet and nutrition that have evolved into modern bodybuilding from the man who stands at the forefront of the sport. The "Encyclopaedia of modern bodybuilding" will answer every question any dedicated bodybuilder of bodybuilding enthusiast could ever think to ask. It is an exhaustive reference and instructional manual covering every conceivable aspect of the sport.

DKK 587.00
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Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley''s Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian ''sensation'' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley''s Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charming heroine? Lady Audley''s secret is investigated by Robert Audley, aristocrat turned detective, in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain.

DKK 119.00
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A Short History of Decay - E.m. Cioran - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Short History of Decay - E.m. Cioran - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran''s nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man''s need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran''s pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects man''s decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

DKK 120.00
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Earthly Necessities - Keith Wrightson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Earthly Necessities - Keith Wrightson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This important new book, widely praised in hardcover (Yale UP) redefines the economic history of early modern Britain for a new generation of readers. Wrightson writes evocatively about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of change, and examining how these changes affected men, women and children at all social levels. Novel in its structure, scope, and emphasis on the lived experience of the period, the book vividly demonstrates the gains and costs of economic change.

DKK 155.00
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The New Penguin Russian Course - Nicholas J. Brown - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New Penguin Russian Course - Nicholas J. Brown - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Whether you’re learning alone or attending classes, you’ll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable. Designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A’ level standard) the book features thirty lessons punctuated by revision exercises to ensure you have fully understood what you have learned. The emphasis is on acquiring vocabulary, experiencing conversational language and learning useful grammar. The book also includes a vocabulary of 1,500 words and a glossary of grammatical terms.

DKK 139.00
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K. - Roberto Calasso - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

K. - Roberto Calasso - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What are Kafka''s stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen, Calasso attempts to enter the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of the stories to discover what they are meant to signify and to delve into the most basic question: Who is K.?

DKK 141.00
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The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, THE INNOCENTS ABROAD (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain''s perspective was fresh and irreverent: tour guides, he writes, ''interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling'' and the saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are ''battered and broken-nosed old fellows''. As unimpressed by American manners as he is by European attitudes, Twain concludes that ''human nature is very much the same all over the world''.

DKK 110.00
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