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| Earthquake Impacts |
Describes and explains the underlying physical principles that dominate earthquake occurrence and associated geological faulting in the natural environment, but in relation to humans and their environment. The seismological, tectonic, vulnerability a
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| Between the Acts |
One of the author's works was published shortly after her death in 1941. The story takes place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for 120 years. Its central focus is the performance of a village pageant, written and directed by the
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| Fast Food Nation |
Explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. This book reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.
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| Lytton Strachey |
Drawing on new material, both published and unpublished, this is a revised edition of a biography of Lytton Strachey which was first published in 1967. It is the story of a complex man and his world which it was felt could not be told while many of h
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| Cezanne |
In Paris, but above all in Provence, Paul Cezanne quested tirelessly for "a harmony parallel to nature" - discovering it in still lifes of apples, in bathers, or in the landscapes of Montagne Sainte-Victoire. This book discusses Cezanne's major works
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| Tar Baby |
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-to
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| The River Between |
Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and "magical" customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.
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| The Lion Storyteller Bible |
This read-aloud bible, retells stories from the Old and New Testaments. Bob Hartman's narrative brings characters and scenes to life using rhythm, rhyme, repetition and humour.
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| The Cupboard |
When Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life as novelist, political activist and, above all, lover, fr
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| Captain Corelli's Mandolin |
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiance go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle
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| Burning Your Boats |
As well as her eight novels, the author published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. This work presents a collection of her stories.
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| Groups |
Part of a series in which each text covers material appropriate to a single semester-long module. The clear exposition is augmented by worked examples and exercises to match the expectations of students accustomed to a more student-centred learning a
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| My Life as a Man |
Peter is a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol is the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's deat
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| A Cruel Madness |
When a part-time worker in a mental hospital meets his old girlfriend inside he is not sure at first is she is a patient. Their reunion is haunted and haunting, and from the memory of their past affair there unfolds a labyrinth which darkens from rom
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| The Garden Design and Planning Specialist |
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| B2B Brand Management |
Branding has been the essential factor in the success of consumer goods such as Coca Cola, McDonald's, Kodak, and Mercedes. This book probes the art and science of branding industrial products. It provides the concepts, the theory, and many cases ill
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| The Actor and the Text |
Designed for actors and public speakers who need to bring a spoken text to life, this book is a guide for both the beginner and the professional, showing how to get inside the words we use, see their full possibilities, and bring them alive for an au
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| Kandinsky |
The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. This book covers the work of the painter who nowadays is regarded as the founder of abstract art.
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| Death in Holy Orders |
When the body of a theology student is found on the East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands a re-examination of the accidental death verdict. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to help and returns to his childhood haunt only to find himself embro
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| Koba the Dread |
Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, this work gives us information about Stalin: Koba the Dread, los
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