Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Viktor E Frankl

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...

Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford

Donald Spoto

'I've been protected by studio publicity men most of my life, so in some ways I'm a goddam image, not a person. I was a commodity, a piece of property...I felt an overwhelming obligation to my career, and so I was an actress first, a wife second. I worked almost constantly, and even when I wasn't workin...

Phoenix

S. F. Said

The supernova is coming...One boy alone can save the galaxy! Lucky thinks he's an ordinary Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing - and wakes to find an uncontrollable power rising inside him. Now he's on the run, racing through space, searching for answers. In a galaxy at war, w...

Reclaiming Conversation

Sherry Turkle

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection....

Stone Age (DK Find Out!)

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DKfindout! Stone Age takes kids back in time to discover what life was like in the Stone Ages. The most popular topic on www.dkfindout.com. With beautiful photography, lively illustrations, and key curriculum information, the DKfindout! series will satisfy any child who is eager to learn and acquire fac...

The Bromeliad Trilogy - Hardback Collection

Terry Pratchett

All three instalments of the amazing Bromeliad trilogy available again in one very special edition.To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store, there is no Outside. No Day or Night, no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until they hear the devastating...