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4.50 from Paddington

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:14:19 +0000

4.50 from Paddington is a classic Agatha Christie mystery novel featuring Miss Marple, first published in 1957. Elspeth McGillicuddy witnesses a man strangling a woman on a passing train while traveling from Paddington station, but authorities dismiss her account due to lack of evidence. She enlists her friend Miss Marple, who deduces the body likely landed in the grounds of Rutherford Hall and hires efficient detective Lucy Eyelesbarrow to infiltrate the dysfunctional Crackenthorpe family as a housekeeper to investigate. As further murders occur amid family tensions over inheritance, Miss Marple unravels the killer’s identity through keen observation and intuition, delivering Christie’s signature twist in a tale of greed, secrets, and misdirection.

Thinking about Thinking

Wed, 22 May 2024 17:37:14 +0000

Because we need to know how clearly about our social thinking and how to resist the allure of self-deception, everyone skeptical about or confused by the findings of the social sciences will appreciate Antony Flew’s crisp analysis of the methodological flaws and systematic misunderstandings corrupting their content and application. Thinking About Social Thinking seeks to establish what can and cannot be learned from such studies, indicating where good work has been ignored, or much-needed work has yet to be done. Flew’s clear and incisive arguments are illustrated with abundant examples and references — many entertaining, others surprising. Flew issues a refreshing, impassioned warning against the perils of complacent, muddled thinking and false but comfortable conclusions.

Popper

Wed, 22 May 2024 17:37:09 +0000

Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper’s importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.

Chomsky

Thu, 02 May 2024 18:37:41 +0000

Curtain : Poirot’s Last Case

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:41:26 +0000

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1975 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie’s works. It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in 1937. It was adapted for television in 2013. It is the last novel published by Christie before her death. Sleeping Murder, written during the Blitz and published posthumously, is her final published novel.

Doctor Zhivago

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:46:47 +0000

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak’s complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller. Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak’s alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.

A History of Europe 1-2

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:08:45 +0000