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Dear Mr Shaw: Selections from Bernard Shaw's Postbag

Dear Mr Shaw: Selections from Bernard Shaw's Postbag

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___________________ SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S POSTBAG ____________________ '...wonderful entertainment' - Julian Symons, SUNDAY TIMES 'Shaw's charm and brilliance pervade this book' - Piers Brendon, OBSERVER '...sparkling celebration of a...
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British

The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British

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The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: v. 1: Private Years

The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: v. 1: Private Years

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Russell's letters span 70 years, from the late Victorian age to the 1960s, and range from private love letters to impassioned pleas to political leaders to technical philosophical letters. His...
The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

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Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...
Francis Bacon & the Loss of Self

Francis Bacon & the Loss of Self

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Since his death in April 1992 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by...
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

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This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships....
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

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These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...
Recollections at Play: a Life in Australian Theatre

Recollections at Play: a Life in Australian Theatre

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Sumner offers numerous, sometimes surprising, insights into all aspects of theatre life: acting, directing and the production process, the question of standards, the role of government, and of course the...
Has Modernism Failed?

Has Modernism Failed?

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An art critic confronts the current art milieu, characterizing it as being without purpose or moral authority, and questions whether allegedly radical artists now reflect the culture of consumerism more...
Seven Keys to Modern Art

Seven Keys to Modern Art

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As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by...
Europa, Europa

Europa, Europa

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The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...
American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World

American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World

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In this volume, several leading foreign policy and international relations experts consider the long term prospects and implications of US foreign policy as it has been shaped and practiced during...
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

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The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can...
The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers

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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will...
French Painters, Russian Collectors

French Painters, Russian Collectors

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Originally published in 1983, this book tells the story of the two Moscow merchants, Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who between them amassed the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist...
The Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade

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From the beginning of 1948 the Russians gradually mounted a siege against the Western sectors of Berlin occupied by American, British and French troops since the end of the war...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History

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A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the

The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the

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The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement-but...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

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The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India

Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India

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The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End

A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End

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The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men...
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

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A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...
Nuclear Weapons: An International History

Nuclear Weapons: An International History

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A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear...
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

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Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated "Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history-the effort to end...
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate

Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate

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The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him...
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century

The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century

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In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption...
December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor

December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor

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The book titled December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor by the author Gordon W. Prange. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and

The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and

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Dr Hajer's path-breaking study opens the way for a better understanding of the environmental conflict, showing how language can be seen to shape our view of what environmental politics is...
Nature'S Plenty: A History of the City of Whittlesea

Body and Self

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Designed for courses in visual art and critical theory, this analysis of the contemporary art scene in Australia concentrates on performance art.
War of the Running Dogs: Malayan Emergency

War of the Running Dogs: Malayan Emergency

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The book titled War of the Running Dogs: Malayan Emergency by the author Noel Barber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against

Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against

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"Follow the science" is what they said. "Follow our politics" is what they meant. In Panic Attack , nationally bestselling author and physician Nicole Saphier uncovers the hypocrisy and hysteria...
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris

An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris

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It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July-with a touch of Joan Didion-in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an...
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the

Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the

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The book titled Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the by the author Michael Korda. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Tales from the Special Forces Club

Tales from the Special Forces Club

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A unique and poignant record of a club created for heroes. There are just a handful of men and women alive today who served and fought with the Special Forces...
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories

The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories

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No one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost...
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father

When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father

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'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart' JON SWAIN, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time 'Through...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

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'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
Slum Boy: 'One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever

Slum Boy: 'One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever

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'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING 'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN 'If you like Shuggie Bain , then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN...
Want Some Aggro?

Want Some Aggro?

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'A mob of 1000 skinheads running along a road is a frightening sight. Into the tube gates we rushed. On the tube, there was the usual knees up mother brown,...
Neon Roses: SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2024

Neon Roses: SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2024

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A BIG-HEARTED STORY ABOUT FINDING YOUR FEET AND FOLLOWING YOUR HEART'...
When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -

When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -

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'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Ida, in Love and in Trouble

Ida, in Love and in Trouble

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For fans of Bridgerton and The Gilded Age comes a sweeping historical novel that tells the story of Ida B. Wells from her teen years and early romances up through...
American Voyage

American Voyage

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Beautiful portrait of America in the 1960s, rediscovered after 50 years. In 1966, Mario Carnicelli won first place in an Italian national photography competition sponsored by Popular Photography magazine and...
Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass

Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass

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From award-winning booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite alcoholic...
Tokyo

Tokyo

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From sleepy fishing village to samurai capital to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer takes readers through Tokyo's rich history, revealing four centuries of transformation deeply woven into its fabric....
City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule

City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule

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For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

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Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...