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The Elegant Lie
The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients...
White Egrets
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam),...
The Cinder Path
Andrew Motion's new collection offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how...
The Reel Truth
Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their careers? The Reel Truth details...
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature
Many of the great books of English literature were first published without their authors' names upon them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity...
Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets
James Spada is the author of 12 books about figures in the movie business, including the bestselling Streisand: The Woman and Her Legend, Monroe: Her Life in Pictures and Grace:...
Red Wolf
AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH? Reporter Annika Bengtzon is working on the story of a devastating crime when she hears that a journalist investigating the same incident has been killed. It appears...
Exposed
The chilling second novel from the Scandinavian crime queen 'That night he did something so controversial that he'd rather be suspected of murder than tell anyone what he was really...
Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled
No human being has ever seen a triceratops or velociraptor or even the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. They left behind only their impressive bones. So how can scientists know what colour...
Bad Bye, Good Bye
"Bad truck, bad guy; bad wave, bad bye . . ." A boy and his family are packing up their old home, and the morning feels scary and sad. But...
Where Is Curious George? A Look And Find Book
Join Curious George as he snoops around a wide variety of houses and homes. Twelve full-to-bursting spreads represent home interiors from lighthouses to castles. Jaunty rhymes introduce each inviting scene...
Five Little Monkeys Jump in the Bath
When five little monkeys eat some ice cream and play in the mud, they become icky, sticky monkeys . . . and Mama says it's time for a bath! But...
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants
George and Harold aren't bad kids. They just like to 'liven things up' for everybody. Unfortunately, their thoughtful jokes sometimes get them into a lot of trouble. When Professor Pippy...
The 39 Clues: Unstoppable Book 2: Breakaway - Library Edition: Volume
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A Nightmare Come True As a member of the most powerful family history has ever known, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill has been shot at, kidnapped, and even thrown into a pit...
Nowhere to Run
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The Cahill family has a secret. For five hundred years, they have guarded the 39 Clues thirty-nine ingredients in a serum that transforms whomever takes it into the most powerful...
39 Clues: the Cahill Files: Operation Trinity
A STOLEN MASTERPIECEFor the past 500 years the Cahills have been the world's most powerful family. For 500 years they've guarded their secrets with their very lives. Until now.The Cahills...
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
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An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of...
Secrets of Crewe House; The Story of a Famous Campaign
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the...
The Sex Diaries: Why Women Go Off Sex And Other Bedroom Battles
With her characteristic humour and insight, Bettina Arndt proposes a new approach to how couples can enjoy regular sex-and sustain loving relationships. In The Sex Diaries Australia's best known sex...
The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War
Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy...
The Eye and Visual Optical Instruments
A wide variety of optical instruments exists in which the human eye forms an integral part of the system. This book provides a detailed description of the visual ergonomics of...
Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work,
A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US. It describes the development of management techniques...
A History of the Greek City States, 700-338 B. C.
This book introduces the reader to the serious study of Greek history, concentrating more on problems than on narrative. The topics selected have been prominent in modern research and references...
Pictorial Souvenir of New York City
Photographs and text celebrate the boroughs of New York, focusing on such landmarks as Ellis Island, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Chrysler Building, Central Park, Yankee Stadium, Coney Island, and the...
Van Gogh: The Passionate Eye
Through his intense vision Van Gogh was able to create paintings that speak directly to us all, and today this disturbed and rejected misfit is the most universally loved of...
Creative Haven Tattoo Inspirations Coloring Book
These 31 stunning, full-page illustrations offer a modern spin on a variety of classic tattoo themes. The beautifully detailed designs include anchors, dragons, pinups, roses, skulls, snakes, swallows, and more....
Voyage out
This acclaimed work marked the debut of one of the 20th century's most brilliant and important authors. Virginia Woolf's captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness parallels a shipboard...
The Golden Bough: Abridged Edition
According to legend, runaway slaves could attain a sort of freedom by breaking off a branch - the Golden Bough - from a sacred tree. If the runaway could kill...
Tom Jones
A masterful work that recaptures the spirit of 18th-century English life, Tom Jones was an instant sensation upon its 1749 publication. The mock epic traces the adventures of its lusty,...
War Poems
At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English...
Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic
Bureaucrats perform most of the tasks of government, profoundly influencing the daily lives of Americans. But who, or what, controls what bureaucrats do? John Brehm and Scott Gates examine who...
Our Final Hour
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A scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Martin Rees now warns that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise--and that...
Poor Support: Poverty In The American Family
The subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one of the country's leading experts on poverty. In this book he describes...
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas's letters to the many women in his life most important among them his wife Caitlin are among the most beautiful and lyrical he wrote. Provoked on the most...
Royal Diaries: Anacaona, Royal Flower
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a...
Generation A
New from the best selling author of Generation X GENERATION A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people...
The Philosophy of As if
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
France, 1814-1940
The history of 19th and early 20th century France has often seemed complex and confusing. "France, 1814-1940" presents a an authoritative account of this fascinating period. It describes the characteristics...
Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology
Classical Mythology in English Literature brings together an enormous range of English versions of three classical myths, allowing students explore for the first time the ways in which they have...
A History of the Roman World 753-146 BC
This edition takes account of recent discoveries, and of the reappraisal of older evidence and of literary sources that has inevitably taken place. The chapters on the first beginnings of...
Popular Fiction Reader
This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies and literary studies.
Instruction to Deliver: Fighting to Transform Britain's Public
With fascinating inside and personal accounts of Blair, Brown, key cabinet members and top civil servants, this title reveals how real progress was made on 17 key targets in public...