Panopticon Combat / defence skills & manuals

Panopticon Combat / defence skills & manualsA collection of daring short essays on topical themes, including politics, economics, religion, society. Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Benthams famous prison but from a mid 1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. There, writes Enzensberger, viewers could admire, along with implements of torture, all manner of abnormalities and sensational inventions. And thats what he offers here:

000 synonyms and antonyms in a durable format

deeply significant for our soul

Lorna feels about as courageous as the anxious little dachshund trembling beside her

including measuring words and telling the time

Truth and fiction

Tax Administration

the bestselling character finds out that "no

Welshman Jon Gower charts a sea which has carried both Vikings and saints

she wonders if her friends have something to do with the newest crime

His cutting-edge techniques are right on the money

whose predictions keep coming true

accessible and wide-ranging in Australia