'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
GET READY FOR THE SCARIEST READ OF 2024 - a gripping new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases‘Genuinely creepy. Sent shivers down my spine’ Mark Edwards, bestselling author of Here to Stay ‘A nerve-shredding start with a thrilling end’ Riely Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The Only One Left ----- April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble. They stop and pick her up. It's only once she's in the car that they see the blood. And then they see the headlights, and at last, the woman speaks, her voice faint. "I'm sorry, he's coming."While April and Eddie are able to escape - this time - their terrifying adventure is only just beginning. The hitchhiker's injuries prove fatal, and the couple are trapped in the small town of Coldlake Falls, prime suspects in the eyes of local police. It turns out that this isn't the first victim to die on this stretch of road, and it isn't the first time that survivors have seen something that can't be explained. But to get out of town, April and Eddie are going to have to drive down that haunted stretch of road one more time... Ingeniously plotted and heartstoppingly terrifying, are you ready to uncover the secret of Murder Road? -----'Fast, chilling, entertaining, unexpectedly touching, and with two broken, memorable characters at its core, this might be St. James’s best novel yet' New York Times Book Review PRAISE FOR SIMONE ST. JAMES 'Clever and wonderfully chilling. It held me hostage' - Fiona Barton 'Downright scary' Lisa Gardner 'Dark and atmospheric' Harriet Tyce 'A brilliant page-turner' Jenny Quintana
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.’Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, to die. Told through memories of his and her life, The Blood of Others paints an intense and moving picture of their love story and life in German occupied Paris during the Second World War. In the face of a seemingly unstoppable force, Hélène and Jean are confronted by the illusion of freedom and made to question their individual roles in the collective struggle against fascism, with devastating consequences.First published in 1945, this powerful novel resonates profoundly today and brings the ideas of one of the most important existentialist thinkers to life in spellbinding prose.With an Introduction by Ali Smith.
1960s: Three siblings are all haunted in three very different ways. Violet wakes to a strange and cold woman looming over her bed, Dodie wakes in a constant state of drowning and Vale wakes to beaming light and probing figures. But the one thing that haunts them the most is the dissapearance of their little brother, Ben, who went missing during a game of hide and seek. 1980s:Violet is notified that Ben's spirit is seen wondering their haunted childhood home calling for them to return and the three siblings do just that. But secrets become un-earthed, their past traumas seem more connected that they thought and all siblings are faced with a very angry spirit who wants revenge.
Spanish Gold is a charming novel that follows in the hoof-prints of a very special Spanish horse on his journey through life, through good times and bad.These memoirs follow Cantinero's journey from the beginning of his life in the beautiful marshland of Spain's Do-ana National Park, to Germany, England and then Cyprus. Cantinero's words weave a story upon life's tapestry; teach us the suffering that horse-kind can endure at man's hand, and yet also shows us the good that can be achieved through selfless acts of kindness. This noble horse became an icon that stole into many people's hearts, helped them to achieve their dreams and changed their lives. He was a great teacher and a true soul-companion, as well as being one of the most majestic and beautiful stallions to walk this earth. Dancer, heart-thief, courageous friend, a soul of fire, a leader and a gentle diplomat. In these memories, is he honoured.
Questo ? un manuale pensato per il cacciatore di libri, sia esso libraio, collezionista, bibliofilo, editore, scrittore o giornalista. Nel corso degli anni ho frequentato librai, collezionisti e altri colleghi ?cacciatori?, molti di loro mi hanno scritto dopo la lettura dei miei libri e sono nate corrispondenze interessanti. Ho fatto mie molte loro segnalazioni, e soprattutto ho dato voce alle pi? diverse esperienze maturate in questo campo. Ognuno ha il suo ?metodo?, ognuno ha i suoi contatti e il suo stile di ricerca. Io ho cercato di estrapolare da ciascuno quei caratteri che possano valere da guida generale principalmente per coloro i quali si accostano al nostro mondo per la prima volta. Il collezionista di libri vedr? confermate o rivoluzionate le sue personali convinzioni. Il libraio forse si riconoscer? in talune situazioni; perdoni, magari, alcune ingenuit? ma tenga conto che il manuale si rivolge prima di tutto al neofita. I cacciatori di libri professionisti affineranno gli artigli.
Amministrare GNU/Linux un testo introduttivo all'amministrazione di sistema che si rivolge a chiunque voglia intraprendere una carriera di sistemista in ambito Linux o voglia approfondire le sue competenze al riguardo. Pu~ essere utilizzato anche dagli sviluppatori intenzionati ad approfondire la conoscenza del sistema operativo. Nonostante vengano affrontati anche argomenti pi complessi della gestione sistemistica, l'approccio adottato nel manuale segue un percorso espositivo che non d^ per scontata la conoscenza di questo sistema operativo. Il testo aggiornato allo stato corrente delle tecnologie utilizzate in ambito Linux e tratta anche quelle introdotte pi recentemente (systemd, EFI e GPT). Inoltre, copre gli argomenti previsti negli esami di certificazione LPI, LPIC-1 101 e 102, e parte significativa degli argomenti dei successivi esami LPIC-2 201 e 202, fornendo un percorso di studio in un'appendice dedicata, pu~ quindi essere usato come testo di studio per la preparazione degli esami.
Integrazione Sistemistica con LDAP e un testo che affronta e analizza tutti gli aspetti dell'uso del Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, uno standard per l'interrogazione e la modifica dei dati mantenuti su un servizio centralizzato, organizzato in maniera gerarchica come per esempio un indirizzario o una rubrica telefonica.L'obiettivo del libro e quello di fornire le basi per installare, configurare e utilizzare LDAP come fonte di informazione da parte di altri servizi di rete. Il libro e suddiviso in tre parti:1. Introduzione a concetti, terminologia e funzionamento di LDAP, per la comprensione sia del protocollo che della strutturazione dei dati.2. Configurazione del servizio, sia lato client che lato server facendo riferimento al progetto OpenLDAP, implementazione libera del servizio LDAP e delle librerie di gestione.3. Integrazione su LDAP di vari servizi di rete e di sistema.
Daniele un comune operaio di Pisa, costretto a lavorare per un imbecille, sviluppando un'incondizionato senso di violenza. Cerca in tutti i modi di distrarsi, di trovare piacere nelle piccole cose, seppur sappia da molto tempo di aver creato un buco nero nella sua esistenza; un buco che lo inghiottir dal momento che incontrer Marta, suo unico grande amore.
Uno scorcio spericolato nel mondo del collezionismo di libri rari in Italia e nel mondo intero; tra libri irraggiungibili, edizioni pirata, libri censurati e misteriosamente scomparsi; autori cult, libri d'artista, libri stampati all'estero, amarcord bibliofilo; casi che hanno fatto epoca. Poeti di estrazione originale, sequestratori, muse, polemisti, matti e mediocri. Scrittori preziosi che pochi conoscono, casi editoriali che hanno fatto discutere; altri che invece nessuno conosce. i segreti del cacciatore di libri per trovare libri rarissimi. I libri su Dracula, il self publishing e le sue perle. Editori benemeriti che sono durati pochi anni ma hanno prodotto libri importanti e lanciato autori di grido. Scrittori che poi sono diventati ladri, omicidi, pazzi criminali e latitanti. Libri di cui nessuno ricorda nulla. Piccole edizioni senza importanza eppure preziose e attendibili.
Si parler? di quei libri perseguitati dai regimi politici, in particolar modo dal Fascismo e dal Nazismo, delle storie che ci sono dietro, del coraggio di chi li ha scritti. Un?attenzione tutta particolare verso le scienze alternative, non ortodosse, che pure hanno prodotto materiale interessante per il collezionista di stranezze. Questi autori temerari hanno sfidato tutte le convenzioni, ricavandone scherno e ?scomuniche?. I libri sui dischi volanti hanno rappresentato, e tutt?ora, uno spaccato autentico del secolo che ci siamo lasciati alle spalle. Con le loro teorie strampalate ma talvolta argute e con le incredibili storie che vi si celano dietro. Le utopie, le distopie, i mondi fantastici e immaginari della letteratura spesso hanno decretato ?perle? assolute. Libri eccezionali che sono scritti in linguaggi impossibili, sconosciuti e pieni di mistero. Anche di queste gemme preziose si parler? nel libro. Cos? come dei ?microcosmi?, da Sherlock Holmes al Mondo Perduto, alle stravaganze letterarie.
Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27-before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre-the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.
Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir’s life and work.Beauvoir's clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenge the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. At the same time, her account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when Sartre had just begun Being and Nothingness questions the traditional view of Beauvoir’s novel as merely illustrating Sartre’s philosophy.Wartime Diary also traces Beauvoir's philosophical transformation as she broke from the prewar solipsism of She Came to Stay in favor of the postwar political engagement of The Second Sex. Beauvoir's emerging existentialist ethics reflect the dramatic collective experiences of refugees fleeing German invasion and life under Nazi occupation. The evolution of her thought also reveals the courageous reaffirmation of her individuality in constructing a humanist ethics of freedom and solidarity.This edition also features previously unpublished material, including her musings about consciousness and order, recommended reading lists, and notes on labor unions. In providing new insights into Beauvoir’s philosophical development, the Wartime Diary promises to rewrite a crucial chapter of Western philosophy and intellectual history.
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in 1986, such as the 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," which contains the seed of what she later would call "the problem of the Other," and a lecture on postwar French theater titled Existentialist Theater. The collection notably includes the eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?"Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales,La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.Contributors are Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff.
Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the "two-state solution" in Israel.Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization.
Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. From generational conflicts resolved around the family table to a vibrant food-based economy of ethnic producers, importers, and restaurateurs, food was essential to the creation of an Italian American identity. Italian American foods offered not only sustenance but also powerful narratives of community and difference, tradition and innovation as immigrants made their way through a city divided by class conflict, ethnic hostility, and racialized inequalities. Drawing on a vast array of resources including fascinating, rarely explored primary documents and fresh approaches in the study of consumer culture, Cinotto argues that Italian immigrants created a distinctive culture of food as a symbolic response to the needs of immigrant life, from the struggle for personal and group identity to the pursuit of social and economic power. Adding a transnational dimension to the study of Italian American foodways, Cinotto recasts Italian American food culture as an American "invention" resonant with traces of tradition.
The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.
