{"title":"Davies Guttmann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"100-poems-that-everyone-should-read-book-davies-guttmann-9783735721914","title":"100 Poems that everyone should read","description":"You might think poetry is not for you - but I believe there is a poem for everyoneand this book seeks to present a wide variety of styles, themes, cultures and forms to ensure that as many perspectives as possible are catered for. The early epic poems such as Gilgamesh and The Odyssey are represented in fragments and some of the later great long poems such as The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost are also included in extract. But if you have simpler tastes there are modern poems from the 20th century plus a set of three line Japanese haikus for those who like their poetry pithy and to the point. And the point is there is something for all to enjoy here. Why not dip in and try it. You might found an enduring passion you have never indulged and open up a whole new vista for your future reading.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51061098414353,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061100839185,"sku":"NIN9783735721914","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52532641693969,"sku":"NLS9783735721914","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3735721915.jpg?v=1751190839"},{"product_id":"50-greatest-books-ever-book-davies-guttmann-9783735719850","title":"50 greatest books ever","description":"I will start by saying there is no such thing as the best 50 books ever. Pick a hundred people and, inevitably you will get a hundred different lists - quite possibly very different indeed depending on the age, nationality, situation and culture of the people. Equally, I am not setting myself up as the arbiter of good taste and judgement in this matter. I have used a number of existing sources, various polls and lists that feature across the media as well as personal knowledge and taste, to inform the selection. Whatever your taste or opinion there is no denying the power and continued relevance of a lot of these works. Reading them will repay you with knowledge, enjoyment, insight - and an enduring regard for the written word.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51116106842385,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51116109955345,"sku":"NIN9783735719850","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52671709413649,"sku":"NLS9783735719850","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3735719856.jpg?v=1751383744"},{"product_id":"55-secrets-tricks-of-mathematics-book-davies-guttmann-9783735741264","title":"55 Secrets \u0026 Tricks of Mathematics","description":"Mathematics rules our lives -whether we realise it, like it or not. Anything that relates to numbers, formula, electronics, will have depended on mathematics for their origination and development. Every time you add up a bill, do your tax return, work out your change - you are employing mathematical techniques to arrive at your answer. Obviously more complicated techniques and calculations are involved where computers, TVs or other complex machines are concerned - but all of these are integral to our daily lives and how we interact with the world around us. This compilation of tricks, secrets and techniques can help you understand how mathematics works and help you become more confident, proficient - and comfortable - in the realm of mathematics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51116115525905,"sku":"NIN9783735741264","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52672293929233,"sku":"NLS9783735741264","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3735741266.jpg?v=1751416305"},{"product_id":"poker-code-book-davies-guttmann-9783735738394","title":"The Poker Code","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51117342818577,"sku":"NIN9783735738394","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668322119953,"sku":"NLS9783735738394","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3735738397.jpg?v=1751383747"},{"product_id":"power-of-positivity-book-davies-guttmann-9783735737687","title":"The Power Of Positivity","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52532668793105,"sku":"NLS9783735737687","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783735737687.jpg?v=1760661869"},{"product_id":"alice-in-wonderland-through-the-lookung-glass-book-davies-guttmann-9783735790408","title":"Alice in Wonderland \u0026 Through the Lookung-Glass","description":"Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) was an interesting and idiosyncratic character, to say the least. He was a mathematics lecturer at Cambridge University and a deacon in the Anglican Church. Obviously a very bright man he suffered from physical impairments such as partial deafness and a stammer which, perhaps, made him reserved and slightly aloof from the society of the day. He also had a predilection for young female companionship, which would seem highly contentious to us today but was, perhaps, more acceptable (and possibly entirely innocent) in the latter part of the 19th century. The books can be read on a number of levels. They originally emerged from a boat trip that Dodgson took with a family he knew (the Liddells) including their three daughters and he told them a tale to while away the journey. The children were so taken with it that they asked him to write it down - and so the legend began. It is quite possible that, initially, Dodgson has simply intended the tale to be a children's story for their amusement; but when he set about writing it down, expanding and structuring it he introduced some darker, perhaps even sinister elements to the tale. His penchant for logic, dry humour and nonsense pervades the stories but there is also a suggestion of themes running through the books. Inevitably the states of childhood and maturity feature strongly given Dodgson's own situation and the nature of his relationships with both adults and children. The topsyturvy nature of Wonderland could be seen as a commentary on the outside world where the child, Alice, seems to be the only sane and sensible person around. Dodgson himself seemed to live more in a child's world than adults. The nature of his occupations - in academia, the church and finally writing - would all serve to contain him in an unreal existence, somewhat separate from the harsh truths of the world around him. Perhaps it was all an acting out of his own fantasy - a world full of conundrum","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52663534453009,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52663535501585,"sku":"NLS9783735790408","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783735790408.jpg?v=1762272268"},{"product_id":"adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-book-davies-guttmann-9783735790460","title":"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679979008273,"sku":"NLS9783735790460","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783735790460.jpg?v=1762311970"},{"product_id":"metamorphosis-book-davies-guttmann-9783735790422","title":"Metamorphosis","description":"Few 20th century novelists can have been subjected to quite as much dissection and analysis as Franz Kafka. Nor can many have bestowed such a powerful and pervasive version of reality through their writing; so much so that the term Kafkaesque is now commonly used to describe situations or environments in modern society. Being a Czech Jew trapped approximately between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany (both temporally and geographically) it is perhaps not surprising he was obsessed with state control and persecution of individuals. All three of his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika reflect this and, perhaps, foreshadow what was about to happen in a world that became even more nightmarish than even Kafka's universe. The novella Metamorphosis, arguably his most famous work, looks at a more microcosmic example of alienation and rejection. All of Kafka's writings are hugely allegorical devising elaborate metaphors for authority, society and the human condition. In Metamorphosis the metaphor is for illness and difference when the story's protagonist awakes one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. How his life and relationships change and how people react to him over a period of time is a parable of human callousness and indifference and could be seen as a chilling precursor to the Holocaust and Stalin's terror. Being a Jew himself Kafka would already have known something of anti-Semitism and discrimination, even hatred. The Russians had been persecuting the Jews with their pogroms for centuries; the German attempt at genocide was about to start and, perhaps Kafka had a foreboding of the way the world was heading and the tragic and pivotal role that Jews would, unwillingly, play. Metamorphosis stands as a fascinating exploration of difference, cruelty and, ultimately, inertia. Nazi Germany gave it an unlooked for and terrible manifestation in the real world where the stuff of horror and twisted fantasy became sickening reality for many, whil","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679998865681,"sku":"NLS9783735790422","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52762006028561,"sku":"NIN9783735790422","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783735790422.jpg?v=1762312024"},{"product_id":"fresh-book-davies-guttmann-9783735737854","title":"Fresh","description":"Davies Guttmann advises you for your own personal path to freshness. Keeping your mind and body fresh through the right way of living and thinking is key to overcome many of today's common psychological and physiological problems and many other health related problems that make us shy, keep us from interacting and leading a rich and active life. Keeping yourself fresh will also change the way you see and feel yourself. Not being fresh leads to many often combined health and other issues. Whether it is some form of body odour, a physical peculiarity, skin problems or some sexually-oriented issue these are the types of personal condition that we don't feel comfortable with. This collection encourages people who suffer from these ailments to understand that they are not alone in their situation and it is nothing to be embarrassed or humiliated about. Find the remedies and where you can get help - start feeling normal again and be fresh","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52683336614161,"sku":"NLS9783735737854","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783735737854.jpg?v=1762320406"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-davies-guttmann.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}