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The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi
Renowned for his poignant renderings of Hafiz's mystical texts, Daniel Ladinsky here captures the beauty, intimacy, and musicality of Jalaluddin Rumi, one of the world's most revered and widely read poets. Rumi was born in 1207 on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire. Fleeing from the invasion of the ...
Strange Medicine Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatmentsand biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behaviour to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true fact...
Jim Henson - The Biography
For the first time ever - a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic...
Modest Proposal : Little Black Classic
'...a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...' Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world ...
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Robert Chandler (Editor, Notes by); Boris Dralyuk (Editor, Notes by); Irina Mashinski (Editor)
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporari...
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