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| Halcyon |
J.G. Nicholls's translation makes the richness and subtlety of d'Annunzio's "Halcyon" accessible to the English-speaking reader, and his introduction illuminates the complex themes and structure of the work. He provides a full glossary of places and
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| Water Inc. |
A private American consortium of corporate owners aims to pipe and ship water from northern Quebec to the US. Congressmen, state governors, and a federal administration hostile to Canada ride shotgun for them, aided by a brilliant, existentially-torn
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| In Pale Battalions |
Spanning more than 50 years, this is a novel of dark secrets and extraordinary revelations. It starts when Leonora Galloway visits the war grave of her "father" and discovers that he was killed 11 months before she was born. The author's other books
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| The Hunter |
Jamina spends the day playing hunters in the hot, dry African bush. When she hears a sad, desperate sound, it leads her to a baby elephant calling for its dead mother, and as she tries to help the orphaned creature Jamina realizes that hunting is nei
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| Rosa's Child |
Grace Stocken, living in Rugby, discovers the truth about what happened to her 50 years ago when, in July 1939, she was evacuated from Germany. Her desire to learn her real identity propels her on a journey which reveals her mother's fate and her nat
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| Past Caring |
A thriller about a history graduate who goes to Madeira to investigate the mysterious fall from grace of a politician 70 years earlier, and finds that people still want the truth to remain hidden.
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| One Shot One Kill |
Snipers made up a vital part of the American military machine in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Beirut. They honed the vital art of delivering a single accurate shot from nowhere--devastating enemy morale. Here is a powerful tribute to these import
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| The Japanese Art of Sex |
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| Q.E.D. |
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED for short - is the 'strange theory' that explains how light and electrons interact. This work presents a set of lectures that gives an introduction to QED.
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| The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies |
"Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies".
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| Mansfield |
Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the 'new kind of fiction' which she felt the t
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| Classic Rugby Clangers |
This volume is an amusing collection of accounts of rugby players and teams who have thrown away victory for all kinds of embarassing and highly regrettable reasons.
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| The Magician's Nephew |
"Polly's hand went out to touch one of the rings. Immediately, without a flash or a noise, she vanished". When horrible Uncle Andrew starts experimenting with magic, Digory and Polly find themselves in another world, at the start of an adventure, as
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| Japan |
A collection that guides the reader through the complexity that is Japan. This work guides the reader - from the beauty of northern Honshu through the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, to the many temples in Kyoto, through Osaka and the coastline of the Se
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| Art in Vienna, 1898-1918 |
The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Secession. This book traces the course of this development, of the Wiener Werkstatte that followed, and the individual artists concerned.
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| Locke on "Human Understanding" |
Introduces and assesses Locke's life and the background to the Essay on Human Understanding ; the text and ideas of the Essay, and the continuing importance of Locke's work to philosophy. An ideal introductory text.
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| Scotland: Highlands and Islands |
Explores some of the last wildernesses of Europe, from Inverness to the Outer Hebrides and Shetland. This book features sections on the traditions of caber-tossing, Ceilidh music, and story-telling. It retraces the steps of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and
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| Behaviour in Schools |
Offers an overview of the major theories of behaviour management in primary and secondary schools, illustrated with detailed case studies. This work covers theories ranging from teacher-dominated methods to more democratic approaches. It also shows h
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| The Carpet People |
This is a reading of the author's first novel, published in 1971 when he was a teenager and now extensively re-written. It is an adventure about a group of little people whose whole world consists of a carpet - including the dread world of underlay a
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| No One Left to Lie to |
Leading journalist Christopher Hitchens scrutinizes the features of Bill Clinton's political methods, and argues that the Clinton machine might become a model for pseudo-democracy for the coming century.
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