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Peter Murray, Linda Murray |
Penguin
Books,
Penguin
Reference
Book
A Dictionary of Art and Artists
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Victoria Mary Clarke, Shane MacGowan |
Grove
Press
A Drink with Shane Macgowan
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Best known as the cofounder of the Irish band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan has become a cult figure on the alternative-music scene. His achingly beautiful lyrics, as well as his legendary lifestyle of excess, have earned him an avid following that packs his shows and buys his albums. One of the most unusual memoirs to come along in quite a while, A Drink with Shane MacGowan is structured as a series of interviews between MacGowan and his wife, Clarke. The singer recounts his experiences growing up on a farm in Ireland, where his family began giving him two pints of Guinness a night at the tender age of five and his father took him to hang out with bookies and drunks at the local pub. He tells of moving to London and becoming part of the London club scene in the mid-1970s, just as punk was beginning to emerge, offering a firsthand portrait of a seminal time and place in music history. MacGowan also provides his own, strongly opinionated views on The Pogues' success and the reasons for his abrupt departure from the band. As he invites us into this fascinating world, MacGowan tells many hilarious stories and riffs on a wide range of subjects, from Irish history and politics to literature, film, religion, his own substance abuse, and much more. Sometimes maddening, sometimes charming, often brilliant, and always honest, A Drink with Shane MacGowan is an enjoyable romp with a truly unique personality. PRAISE FOR SHANE MACGOWAN: "MacGowan can be a dazzling songwriter, channeling his unruliness into rambunctious tales of drinking, sporting, drinking, fighting, and drinking."--Los Angeles Times
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Fari Amini, Thomas Lewis, Richard Lannon |
Vintage
A General Theory of Love
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This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain.A General Theory of Love demonstrates that our nervous systems are not self-contained: from earliest childhood, our brains actually link with those of the people close to us, in a silent rhythm that alters the very structure of our brains, establishes life-long emotional patterns, and makes us, in large part, who we are. Explaining how relationships function, how parents shape their child’s developing self, how psychotherapy really works, and how our society dangerously flouts essential emotional laws, this is a work of rare passion and eloquence that will forever change the way you think about human intimacy.
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Jacqueline Tomlins
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New
Holland
Publishers
Pty
Ltd
(aus)
A Girl's Own Adventure
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If you're looking for a memoir that will take you on a wild ride filled with mishaps and unexpected twists, "A Girl's Own Adventure" is the book for you. With vivid storytelling and a sharp eye for detail, Jacqueline Tomlins recounts the misadventures of two women as they travel through Africa in search of adventure. From dealing with tear-gas riots to dodging bed bugs, each chapter is filled with hilarious anecdotes and lessons learned the hard way. This book is perfect for anyone looking for a good laugh and a reminder that sometimes the best adventures are the ones that don't go according to plan.
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Nicholas Cook
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Oxford
University
Press
A Guide To Musical Analysis
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This extremely practical introduction to musical analysis explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces. Having first identified and explained the most important analytical methods, Nicholas Cook examines given compositions from the last two hundred years to show how different analytical procedures suit different types of music.
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Lorraine Bosse Smith
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Barbour
Publishing,
Incorporated
A Healthier, Happier You
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Stay-at-home moms and CEOs live in the same chaotic, frenzied world. Stress may be the energy most of us have learned to thrive on, but our heightened anxiety is taking its toll on our health. In her new book A Healthier, Happier You author and life coach Lorraine Bosse Smith gamely takes on our American cultural idea of "busy is better." Smith helps readers with 101 practical, realistic, biblically-based tips that make enjoying life an everyday practice. Dedicated to improving others' quality of life, Smith helps readers regroup and recharge by organizing and prioritizing each aspect of their lives. Stressed out? Always in a hurry? Take the chaos out of your life and start enjoying what matters with life coach Lorraine Bosse Smith's A Healthier, Happier You.
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Khamboly Dy
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Documentation
Centre
Of
Cambodia
A History Of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)
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This book is an essential read for history students or anyone interested in understanding the Khmer Rouge regime's devastating impact on Cambodia. It offers an in-depth and detailed account of the Democratic Kampuchea period, providing insight into the government's ideology, policies, and practices and how they led to the deaths of nearly two million people. The author's use of personal accounts and unpublished survivor interviews make it a powerful and emotional read.
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Michael Thomas Roeder
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Amadeus
A History Of The Concerto
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This lucid guide traces the concerto's evolution over the major periods of music: baroque, classical, romantic, and 20th century. The compositions of each important composer are discussed in detail, making this a useful companion to the form.
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Fritz M. Heichelheim, Allen Mason Ward |
Routledge
A History of the Roman People
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This comprehensive yet readable book about Roman history gives the reader a fascinating journey from prehistoric Italy to the dissolution of the Roman Empire in A.D. 600. Centered around a traditional political and military narrative, it presents in-depth coverage of Roman social, economic, and cross-cultural developments, providing a reader of a greater understanding of the people, places, and events that shaped the great Roman empire. KEY This comprehensive book covers such topics as the foundations of early Rome and Italy; the Phoenicians, Etruscans and Greeks in pre-Roman Italy, early Rome to 500 B.C.; early Roman society, religion, and values; the rise of the Roman Republic; the Roman Conquest of Italy; the late Republic; the rise of Caesar; the early Roman empire; the impact of Augustus on Roman life; Tiberius and Caligula; Claudius, Nero, and the Julio-Claudians; the Flavians; crisis and change in the third and fourth centuries A.D.; Constantine and Christianity; and the Church and its legacy. For anyone interested in a comprehensive book on the history of the Roman people, from prehistory through 600 A.D.
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Julian Barnes
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Picador
A History of the World in 10 Chapters
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Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...This is no ordinary history, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.
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Robyn Sisman
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Orion
A Hollywood Ending
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This book is a fun read for anyone who loves behind-the-scenes stories of Hollywood or dreams of finding themselves in a new city. A Hollywood Ending is a humorous and charming tale of a spoiled actress who is forced to make a change in her life, and as a result, discovers true friendships and unexpected love in London. Readers will enjoy the protagonist's journey towards self-discovery and the entertaining characters she meets along the way.
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Boyd Cable
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Ivor
Nicholson
And
Watson
A Hundred Year History of the P. & O. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
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UNICEF
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Dorling
Kindersley
Child's
H/b
A Life Like Mine Paper
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All over the world children are leading their lives in completely different ways. Faced with many challenges, they all have one thing in common - a passion for life. Dorling Kindersley and UNICEF have combined forces to provide an insight into the lives and experiences of 14 children from around the world. Guided by the promises of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the book has been divided into universal themes covering food, water, shelter, education, family and health. A donation goes to UNICEF for every copy of "A Life Like Mine" sold.
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Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war.In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.
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From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: a riveting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries—China and the United States—and two families.When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary - an astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia - reveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed. The trail leads Lilian to China, to her father's long-abandoned other family, whose existence she and her Irish American mother never suspected. As Lilian begins to fathom her father's dilemma - torn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted country - she sees how his sense of duty distorted his life. But as she starts to understand that Gary, too, had been betrayed, she finds that it is up to her to prevent his tragedy from damaging yet another generation of her family.
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Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith |
Abacus
A Midsummer's Equation : A DETECTIVE GALILEO NOVEL
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Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed operation, concerned about the environmental impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The other faction, seeing no future in the town as it is, believes its only hope lies in the development project.The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead on the seashore at the base of the local cliffs. The local police at first believe it was a simple accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin to suspect he was murdered, and his body tossed off the cliff to misdirect the police.As the police try to uncover where Tsukahara was killed and why, Yukawa finds himself enmeshed in yet another confounding case of murder. In a series of twists as complex and surprising as any in Higashino's brilliant, critically acclaimed work, Galileo uncovers the hidden relationship behind the tragic events that led to this murder.
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After writing a successful memoir, Donald Miller's life stalled. During what should have been the height of his success, he found himself unwilling to get out of bed, avoiding responsibility, even questioning the meaning of life. But when two movie producers proposed turning his memoir into a movie, he found himself launched into a new story filled with risk, possibility, beauty, and meaning.
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years chronicles Miller's rare opportunity to edit his life into a great story, to reinvent himself so nobody shrugs their shoulders when the credits roll. Through heart-wrenching honesty and hilarious self-inspection, Donald Miller takes readers through the life that emerges when it turns from boring reality into meaningful narrative.
Miller goes from sleeping all day to riding his bike across America, from living in romantic daydreams to fearful encounters with love, from wasting his money to founding a nonprofit with a passionate cause. Guided by a host of outlandish but very real characters, Miller shows us how to get a second chance at life the first time around. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years is a rare celebration of the beauty of life.
Author: Donald Miller
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher: Thomas Nelson s
Publication Date: 02 Sep 2011
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Robert W. Krajenke
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Bantam
Books,
Inc.
A Million Years to the Promised Land: Edgar Cayce's Story of the Old Testament Genesis through Deuteronomy
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Paul Borthwick
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Navpress
A Mind For Missions - 10 Ways To Build Your World Vision
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Discover the 10 building blocks for sensitizing yourself or your small group to needs of missions. From prayer and giving to current events and lifestyle choices, learno practical ways of sharpening your world vision, growing your concern for missions, and sharing the gospel.
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Bernard Cassen, Walden F. Bello (contributor), Tom Mertes |
Verso
A Movement of Movements : Is Another World Really Possible?
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A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization. Leading theorists and activists—the Zapatistas’ Subcomandante Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane, Brazilian Sem Terra leader João Pedro Stedile, and many more—discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of their movements, their analyses of globalization, and the nuts and bolts of mobilizing against a US-dominated world system.Explaining how the Global South and the experience of indigenous peoples have provided such a dynamic and practical inspiration, the contributors describe the roles anarchism and direct democracy have played, the contributions and limitations of the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre as a coordinating focus, and the effects of and responses to the economic downturn, September 11, and Washington’s war on terror. Their statements, at once personal and visionary, offer a dazzling new insight into the political imagination of the global resistance movements.
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John D. Cox, Stephen Greenblatt, David Scott Kastan |
Columbia
University
Press
A New History Of Early English Drama
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For many years the study of pre-seventeenth-century English drama was shaped largely by an understanding that everything written revolved around the individual author, either as part of the tradition that prepared the way for Shakespeare or as part of his legacy.Now twenty-five original essays by leading theorists and historians chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors here explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space.The essays are organized into three sections: "Early English Drama and Physical Space" examines the settings in which plays were acted; "Early English Drama and Social Space" juxtaposes the theater with such contemporary subcultures as the church, the city, and the court. Finally, "Early English Drama and Conditions of Performance and Publication" explores a wide range of material conditions and contexts, from props to printers.A major summary of contemporary scholarship and a storehouse of new theoretical and historical information, "A New History of Early English Drama" skillfully illustrates the complex influence of physical and social elements woven into the texts, and provides an innovative approach to literary studies and cultural history.
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David M. Katzman, Howard P. Chudacoff, David W. Blight |
Houghton
Mifflin
College
Div
A People and a Nation: Complete Student Text v.A & B
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A People and a Nation, Brief Sixth Edition, weaves the rich fabric of social history into a political, diplomatic, and economic narrative to tell "the whole story" of American history. The thoughtful discussion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture brings America's history to life. New content in this edition includes new coverage of slavery in the colonial period; enhanced discussion of regional interconnections in the emerging market economy in the antebellum era; coordinated examination of the development of race theory and the social construction of racial identity; expanded consideration of the West throughout; new "integration" of the South into the national picture; new attention to the role of religion in American social and political history; new treatment of 20th century foreign relations culture; stronger emphasis on women; and enhanced discussion of the U.S. in the world.
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Bexhill, Hastings and St. Leonards, Pevensey, Herstmonceux, Battle, Rye, Winchelsea, etc.
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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Paignton, Torquay, Dartmouth, Kingsbridge, Totnes, and Other South Devon Resorts
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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Penzance and West Cornwall including St. Ives, Land’s End, and the Isles of Scilly
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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Swanage, Studland, Corfe, Wareham, Lulworth, Weymouth, etc.
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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to The Channel Islands with Excursions to Brittany and Normandy
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The magical new novel from the number 1 bestselling author of `PS, I Love You' and `Where Rainbows End'.
Since Sandy Shortt's childhood schoolmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding becomes her goal - whether it's the odd sock that vanished in the washing machine, the car keys she misplaced in her rush to get to work or the graver issue of finding the people who vanish from their lives. Sandy dedicates her life to finding these missing people, offering devastated families a flicker of hope.
Jack Ruttle is one of those desperate people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air and the sleepless nights and frantic days aren't getting any easier. He thinks Sandy Shortt could well be the answer to his prayers.
But when Sandy goes missing too, her search ends when she stumbles upon the place - and people - she's been looking for all of her life. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home...
Author: Cecelia Ahern
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 400
Publisher: HarperCollins s
Publication Date: 16 Oct 2006
Judith Flanders
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Picador
A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
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If you're intrigued by the unnoticed frameworks shaping our world, "A Place for Everything" might just satiate that curiosity. Judith Flanders takes us on a historical adventure, revealing how something as commonplace as alphabetical order can have a rich and surprisingly contentious past. It's a tale woven with quirky anecdotes and tenacious characters that could change the way you look at every index, dictionary, and phone book.
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John Irving
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Bloomsbury
A Prayer for Owen Meany : 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century
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Louise Heal Kawai, Seichō Matsumoto |
Bitter
Lemon
Press
A Quiet Place
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While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...
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Virginia Woolf
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Albatross
Publishers
A Room of One's Own
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2015 Reprint of the Original Edition of 1929. "A Room of One's Own" is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published in 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction," and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figurative space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.
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Virginia Woolf, Michèle Barrett |
Penguin
Classic
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
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A Room of One's Own , based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and women's attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf's fiery spirit and sophisticated wit and confirm her status as a highly inspirational essayist.
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She’s your best friend.She knows all your secrets.That’s why she’s so dangerous.A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes.It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together—just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR executive whose job in Manhattan demands so much of her time.But Emily doesn’t come back. She doesn’t answer calls or return texts. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong—Emily would never leave Nicky, no matter what the police say. Terrified, she reaches out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the handsome, reticent Sean, offering emotional support. It’s the least she can do for her best friend. Then, she and Sean receive shocking news. Emily is dead. The nightmare of her disappearance is over.Or is it? Because soon, Stephanie will begin to see that nothing—not friendship, love, or even an ordinary favor—is as simple as it seems.
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Tennessee Williams
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Methuen
Drama
A Streetcar Named Desire
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This classic play shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South – an old-world graciousness and beauty running decoratively to seed – set against the rough-edged, aggressive materialism of the new world.
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Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book.
Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. "Each person," writes Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.
Author: John Rawls
Format: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number of Pages: 560
Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Date: 30 Sep 1999
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a heart-wrenching story of survival, love, and sacrifices. The book is particularly recommended for those who appreciate stories of resilience and female empowerment. The book captures the essence of the Afghan culture, and its most unique feature is the way it unearths the harsh realities women face in war-torn Afghanistan while showcasing their undeniable strength. Readers are sure to be moved by the unexpected twists in the story and the surprising heroism of its characters.
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Hilary Adamson, Isobel Shaw |
Asian
Study
Group
A Traveller's Guide to Pakistan
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John D. Yohannan (Ed.)
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The
New
American
Library
A Treasury of Asian Literature
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Jennifer Kaufman, Karen Mack |
Bantam
Discovery
A Version of the Truth
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From the critically acclaimed authors of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Literacy and Longing in L.A. comes the ultimate story for late bloomers of every exotic shade. And a quirky young heroine with a knack for reinvention and a flair for the unexpected no reader will ever forget.Thirty, newly single, and desperately in need of a paycheck, inveterate bird-watcher Cassie Shaw finds herself doing something that goes against all her principles. She lies on a résumé to land a job and finds herself employed at an elite university working for a pair of professors as unique as the rare birds she covets. One of them is the sexy, handsome, cheerfully aristocratic expert in animal behavior Professor William Conner. Under his charismatic tutelage, Cassie begins her personal transformation into the person she was meant to be while meeting the kinds of people she has never met before. But when your entire future and your unlikely new career teeter on an unbearable untruth, the masquerade can’t go on forever. And when Cassie steps out from behind her mask it will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever.