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(H/B) A HISTORY OF LONDON IN 100 PLACES
Shaped by invasion, occupation and immigration, by upheavals as diverse as the Great Fire, the Blitz and the Big Bang, London's history is unmatched for variety and drama. Choosing 100 places that best tell this incredible story, David Long shares his passion and expert knowledge of the city. From the early modern frost fairs, Victorian stations and Saxon burial grounds, to medieval plague pits, Roman barges and modern megaliths, each place gives a unique insight into a critical period of London's evolution. Discover little-known gems amon...
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(P/B) THE PECULIAR CASE OF THE ELECTRIC CONSTABLE
The electrifying story of a criminal Quaker, a poisoned mistress, and the dawn of the information age in Victorian England. John Tawell was a sincere Quaker but a sinning one. Convicted of forgery, he was transported to Sydney, where he made a fortune. When he returned home to England, he thought he would be welcomed, but he was shunned. Then on New Year's Day 1845 Tawell boarded the train from Slough to London Paddington. Soon, men arrived chasing a suspected murderer - but the train had departed. The Great Western Railway was experimenti...
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(P/B) THE CRACK
Gentle but highly strung, Janet must support her Afrikaner husband in his new job as a plain-clothes policeman and specialist interrogator. Hektor-Jan heads off to work on New Year's Day, aware that he is unbearably close to a bloody drama about to unfold. As Janet's world tightens and threatens to fracture, she must look to her children and cling to the support of Alice, her black maid, and Solomon, her ever-faithful gardener. All too conscious of her own emotional fragility, Janet watches her mother slip into the folds of 'Old Timers' di...
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(P/B) MALARKY
Our Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her. She's just caught her son Jimmy in the barn with another man. She's been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done the unmentionable with her husband. And now her son's gone and joined the only group that will have him: an army division on its way to Afghanistan. Setting aside her prim and proper ways, Our Woman promptly embarks on an odyssey of her own - one that forces her to look grief in the eye and come face-to-face with the mad agony of longing. (From the publis...
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(P/B) KICKING THE KREMLIN
As 2011 came to a close, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscow's freezing streets to protest the election victory of United Russia - Vladimir Putin's party - amid widespread allegations of corruption and vote-rigging. A few months later, Pussy Riot hit headlines around the world when they were arrested following their anti-Putin demonstration in a Russian Orthodox cathedral. The vicious battle for Russia's soul continues to this day. In the first book to take the reader straight to the beating heart of the opposition movem...
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(P/B) GULP
The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating (and what comes after). Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled 'nutritional economist' Horace Fletcher...
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(P/B) IN BETWEEN DREAMS
Growing up in a sleepy town with parents who seem to adore her, it's difficult to understand why Frances is the way she is. Strange, manipulating, and at times cruel, she is a mystery to Marienne, her bewildered mother. But, on closer inspection, hiding beyond the white picket fence and cherry-blossom tree that umbrellas their cosy life, something dark lies heavy on both Frances and her father. Following a disastrous sixteenth birthday party and a grandmother found dead in the bathtub, Frances is sent away to boarding school. The Academy i...
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(P/B) DEAREST FATHER
Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, Dearest Father is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent and highly conflicted relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely s...
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(P/B) LOSING THE HEAD OF PHILIP K. DICK
The Philip K. Dick android looked eerily like the iconic science fiction writer and counter culture guru. The android would "watch" people as they approached, "hear" their voices, answer their questions in Dick's own words. Then, a young roboticist on his way to Google headquarters lost the android head on a flight to Las Vegas. It has never been recovered. In a story that could have been lifted from one of Philip K. Dick's celebrated novels, which have been made into such blockbuster films as Blade Runner and The Adjustment Bureau, David ...
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(P/B) PROGRESSIVE MUSLIMS (185168316X)

(P/B) THE ITALIAN
First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance between Vincenzo di Vivaldi and Elena di Rosalba and lofty poetics of the sublime, is the masterpiece of Gothic fiction. Enlisted by Vincenzo's mother Marchesa di Vivaldi, the perfidious monk Schedoni casts a malevolent presence throughout the book as he tries to thwart the passion of the two young lovers. Against the backdrop of the Catholic Inquisition and the unforgettable scenery of the Bay of Naples and the Apennines, The Italian celebrates...
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(P/B) CULTURAL POLITICS IN A GLOBAL AGE
With contributions from Homi Bhabha, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Will Hutton, Jurgen Habermas and Amartya Sen, among others, this compendium of some of the world's most prominent and diverse thinkers gathers together a broad range of answers to the question, 'What is the future of culture in the age of globalization?' From the perspectives of academia, business, policy making, cultural institutions, artists, and their audiences, these diverse essays represent a major theoretical and methodological challenge to the social sciences, and raise que...
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(P/B) DANCE WITH CHANCE
Uneasy with how chance determines a huge part of our lives, we try to control what cannot be controlled and predict what cannot be predicted. It's a self-delusion that can have serious consequences for our personal finances, careers, happiness, and health. "Dance with Chance" explains how we all fall foul of this 'Illusion of Control'. Fortunately, when we understand how luck operates, we can lessen its ill effects. From simple investment strategies to warning against health screenings, three world experts in statistics, decision science, ...
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(P/B) SARTRE
Combining information with an entertaining style, this concise guide to the life and work of the great philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre focuses uniquely on his life as a whole, not simply on his theories of existentialism. Covering everything from Sartre's concept of human freedom to his espousal of Marxism and his impact on twentieth-century thought, this is an authoritative work that will challenge undergraduates and general readers alike to think again about human freedom and moral choice. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TENDER IS THE NIGHT
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignan...
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(P/B) QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY
Rewritten by the author fifteen years after its initial creation, Quiet Days in Clichy shows a different side of Miller from some of his more famous works such as Tropic of Capricorn, as he depicts the bohemian life he enjoyed in his younger years in Paris with a fellow writer. Miller characteristically focuses on the seamier side of Paris, its seedy world of cheap sex, booze and destitution. The work captures the free-love spirit of a generation, and sheds light on the formative years of one of the most controversial writers of the twenti...
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(P/B) A HERO OF OUR TIME
On his travels through the savage mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and seduction, Pechorin, an archetypal Byronic anti-hero, combines cynicism and arrogance with melancholy and sensitivity. Causing an uproar in Russian literary circles when it was first published in 1840, Lermontov's brilliant, seminal study...
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(P/B) WILHELM MEISTER
Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to negotiate love, desire and the need to face up to his own past and responsibilities. A landmark in the history of European literature, Goethe's novel is not only one of the key works of Weimar Classicism and the prototype for the Bildungsroman genre, but also a timeless tale of ...
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(P/B) SEPULCHRES AND OTHER POEMS
Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in J.G. Nicholss lucid verse translation. Expressing the authors political, civic and sentimental concerns, these poems will surprise the English reader with their immediacy and intimacy. On Sepulchres, Foscolos masterpiece, as well as being one of the pinnacles of European neoclassical literature, is still one of the most widely studied poems in...
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(P/B) RENAISSANCE ART
The fifteenth century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European artistic culture. But what does the familiar phrase "Renaissance Art" actually refer to? Through engaging discussion of timeless works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, Tom Nichols offers a masterpiece of his own as he explores the truly original and diverse character of the art of the Renaissance.(from the publisher)...
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