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Growing up in the Polish village of Tamogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, when the German invation begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends are reduced to starvation. She takes matters into her own hands, sneaking out to the surrounding villages to barter for food. It is on her way back she sees her loved ones rounded up for deportation and receives a smuggled letter from her sister warning her to stay away. With only her cat, Malach, and the strength of the stories taught by her family, she walks away from everything she holds dear.
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‘A group biography of ecclesiastical nuttiness.’Â The Times, Books of the Year 2018
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Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence – how to be a human being in the world? – while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him. He deliberately lived in the swim of human life in Copenhagen, but alone, and died exhausted in 1855 at the age of 42, bequeathing his remarkable writings to his erstwhile fiancée. Clare Carlisle’s innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard’s life as far as possible from his own perspective, to convey what it was like actually being this Socrates of Christendom – as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.
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The Dalai Lama is one of the best-known and respected public figures of modern times. A Nobel Peace Prize Winner, advocate for peace and campaigner for compassion, he regularly speaks at sell-out arena tours across the globe. In this new biography, the first in 25 years, Alexander Norman reveals the complex and compelling character of the Dalai Lama in more detail than ever before. Drawing on his long friendship with His Holiness and with his full support, Norman gives unparalled insights into the Dalai Lama’s life, from being chosen as a young boy, his exile from Tibet and his involvement in political negotiations, to the present day. Uniquely, however, this book also reveals the private life of a very public man, including his personal spiritual experiences, daily Buddhist practice and the issues that are closest to his heart.
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s work blasted the foundation of western thinking. The death of God, the Ãbermensch, and the slave morality permeate our culture, high and low, and yet he is one of history’s most misunderstood philosophers. Nietzsche himself thought that all philosophy was autobiographical and in this myth-shattering book, Sue Prideaux brings readers into the world of a brilliant, eccentric and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. From his placid, devoutly Christian upbringing, overshadowed by the mysterious death of his father, through his lonely philosophising on high mountains, to the horror and pathos of his final descent into madness, Prideaux explores Nietzsche’s intellectual, emotional and spiritual life with insight and sensitivity.
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£20.00
A unique selection of the greatest thinkers from the fields of philosophy, political theory, sociology, art, architecture and literature, with enjoyable profiles of what they have to teach to us today.
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Augustine’s masterpiece, the ‘Confessions’, is a classic study of anguish, hesitation and what he believes to be God’s intervention. It has inspired philosophers, Christian thinkers and monastic followers, but still leaves readers wondering why exactly he chose to compose a work which was like none before it. This study follows him on a brilliantly described journey through his various conversions and their sequels. It combines the latest scholarship with recently found letters and sermons by Augustine himself to give a portrait of the man and his times which is subtly different from older biographies.
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£25.00
One of our most acclaimed and successful historians brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life.
