South: The Endurance Expedition: Popular Penguins

Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death. This is the ex...

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La ...

How the Body Works: The Facts Simply Explained

How the Body Works is a fascinating exploration of the weird and wonderful processes that occur within the human body, often without us knowing. This title helps us understand how our bodies keep us alive and thriving and get to the bottom of such niggling questions as why we get dizzy, why we get butte...