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84, Charing Cross Road

Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:11:16 PST

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84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equa ...

Shakespeare e il management

Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:02:31 PST

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Forse i manager di oggi si trovano ad affrontare problemi ben diversi da quelli che caraterizzavano l'età elisabettiana. Eppure, per quanto riguarda le strategie che permettono di far fronte alle difficoltà, i personaggi scakespeariani hanno ancora molto da insegnare. In "Shakespeare e il management", Corrigan prende in esame le loro azioni e i loro processi decisionali, p ...

Gomorra

Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:51:14 PST

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Un libro che racconta il potere della camorra, la sua affermazione economica e finanziaria, e la sua potenza militare, la sua metamorfosi in comitato d'affari. Una scrittura in prima persona fatta dal luogo degli agguati, nei negozi e nelle fabbriche dei clan, raccogliendo testimonianze e leggende. La storia parte dalla guerra di Secondigliano, dall'ascesa del gruppo Di Lauro al conflitto interno ...

The Science of Getting Rich

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:01:32 PST

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This book will without any doubt change your life, by changing your mind about the concept of "money". So many of us were brought up with the idea of money as a finite resource, which you had to compete for. This book is desgined to release every preconcieved idea that is holding us all back from wealth. The basic premise of this book is that becoming wealthy is a science, that once understood, ...

Academic Writing

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:41:12 PST

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Writing essays and dissertations can be a major concern for overseas students studying at English-medium colleges and universities, as most courses are assessed by written work. Academic Writing is a new kind of writing course for all international students who have to write coursework or exams in English. This practical book thoroughly explains the writing process and covers all the key writing ...

The Golden Notebook

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:05:40 PST

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Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, i ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:01:24 PST

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Moc ...

The Kite Runner

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:58:46 PST

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Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage a ...

High Fidelity

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:53:24 PST

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Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's ha ...

Foundations in Nursing and Health Care - Beginning Reflective Practice

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:58:52 PST

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This title introduces the concept of reflective practice and explains its purpose to the healthcare student and professional. It demonstrates the skills necessary for effective practice. It explores the benefits of successful reflection in relation to pre-registration profiles and Continuing Professional Development portfolios.

Take Back Your Life!

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:16:00 PST

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Take control of the unrelenting e-mail, conflicting commitments, and endless interruptions and take back your life! In this popular book updated for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, productivity experts Sally McGhee and John Wittry show you how to reclaim what you thought you d lost forever your work-life balance. Now you can benefit from McGhee Productivity Solutions highly-regarded corporate edu ...

Blind Assassin

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:43:53 PST

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Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as ...

The Remains of the Day

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:43:09 PST

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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

The English Patient

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:41:52 PST

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Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memorie ...

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:40:11 PST

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Susanna Clarke's novel is an epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who emerge to change its history. In the year 1806, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers and becomes a celebrity overnight. Another practising magician emerges: the young and daring Jona ...

Getting Things Done

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:28:05 PST

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In today's world of exponentially increased communication and responsibility, yesterday's methods for staying on top just don't work. Veteran management consultant and trainer David Allen recognizes that "time management" is useless the minute your schedule is interrupted; "setting priorities" isn't relevant when your email is down; "procrastination solutions" won't help if your goals aren't cl ...

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:28:05 PST

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Millions of people around the world have - and continue to - improve their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie. In "How to Win Friends and Influence People", Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques, in his exuberant and conversational style, for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. His advice has stood the test of time and will teach you how to: make frie ...

Leave the Office Earlier

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:28:05 PST

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Long hours. Juggling family and work. Deadlines. High stress levels. Today’s professionals are feeling more overworked and overwhelmed than ever before. Yet you CAN get more done than you ever thought possible—and still get home to your real life sooner. Laura Stack, “The Productivity Pro,”® shows you how. Leave the Office Earlier explores the ten key factors that improve results, lower stress, ...

A Manager's Guide to Self Development

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:28:05 PST

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A Manager's Guide to Self-Development has become the indispensable guide for building management skills. Now in its fifth edition the book details a self-development programme aimed at helping readers improve their managerial performance, advance their careers and realize their full potential.

Reading, Writing and Reasoning

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:28:05 PST

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Getting to Yes

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 6:28:05 PST

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Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:50:27 PST

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Anatomy of an Illness was the first book by a patient that spoke to our current interest in taking charge of our own health. It started the revolution in patients working with their doctors and using humour to boost their bodies' capacity for healing. When Norman Cousins was diagnosed with a crippling and irreversible disease, he forged an unusual collaboration with his physician, and together th ...

The Memory Bible

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:35:12 PST

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ver forget the name of an acquaintance or where you put the keys to your car? If you're like most people, you probably have, but now-thanks to the paperback publication of The Memory Bible-much of this forgetfulness can be eliminated easily. According to Dr. Gary Small, the director of the UCLA Center on Aging, 'Great memories are not born, they are made,' and The Memory Bible provides the innova ...

Jaap Stam

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:25:19 PST

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Now recognized as one of the best central defenders in the world, Jaap Stam was a huge influence in Manchester United's 1998/99 treble winning season and continues to earn the plaudits for his performances at both club level and for Holland. In this his first book, Stam reveals what it is like to play for the biggest and most famous football club in the world, sharing the limelight with the likes ...

Paolo Di Canio

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:22:59 PST

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The autobiography of Italian striker, Paolo Di Canio, worshipped by West Ham fans and a footballer who has won the hearts of supporters wherever he has played - this despite his infamous tantrums and volatile behaviour on the pitch. Born into a working-class family in Rome, Di Canio displays the archetypal Latin temperament, which has seen him get into more trouble with referees than can be good ...

31 Songs

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:21:07 PST

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Here, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. He begins with Teenage Fanclub's "Your Love is the Place that I Come From" and ends with Patti Smith's "Pissing in a River", encompassing varied singers along the way, such as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, and songs as different as "Thunder Road" and "Puff the Magic Dragon" (re ...

The World According to Clarkson

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:14:36 PST

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Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything in "The World According to Clarkson". Jeremy Clarkson has seen rather more of the world than most. He has, as they say, been around a bit. And as a result, he's got one or two things to tell us about how it all works - and being Jeremy Clarkson he's not about to voice them quietly, humbly and without great dollops of humour. In "The Wo ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:05:15 PST

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The first World's Classics were introduced by some of the greatest writers of their day, including Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and T.S. Eliot. In these hardback editions, contemporary novelists including A.S. Byatt and Joyce Carol Oates introduce their favourite classics in original pocketbook size. Echoing the original World's Classics series, the books are produced to gift-book standard with ...

Globalizing Rights

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:16:49 PST

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This book, based on the prestigious Oxford Amnesty Lecture series, investigates the relationship between globalization and human rights. The contributors come to the subject from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, and include Noam Chomsky, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhaba, Susan George, and Joseph Stiglitz, with introductions and commentaries by Richard Rorty, Alan Ryan, Charles Taylo ...

Completely Unexpected Tales

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:45:06 PST

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Take a pinch of unease. Stir it into a large dollop of the macabre, add a generous helping of dark and stylish wit, garnish with the bizarre and what do you have? Roald Dahl at his brilliant, hypnotizing best, cooking up some of the most unusual stories ever told. Here in one volume are "Tales of the Unexpected and More Tales of the Unexpected", making this a superb compendium of vengeance, surpr ...

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:23:12 PST

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A practical guide for improving communication within relationships, helping both sexes get what they want from love and friendship. The author encourages readers to accept the other gender's particular way of expressing love and helps men and women accept each other's emotional needs.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:21:03 PST

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A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? 'A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time ...reads like Anita Loos out of Jane Austen, and any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or indeed a mother will read it and roar' The Times 'I cannot r ...

The Origin of Species

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:17:44 PST

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Charles Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by 'natural selection'.

Alice in Wonderland

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:16:11 PST

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One hot summer's day Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit hole - and finds herself in Wonderland, where everything is topsy-turvy, upside down, and wrong-way round. Here begins a series of fantastical adventures as Alice's body GROWS and shrinks, she swims in a pool of her own tears, attends the maddest of tea parties, and meets such iconic and beloved characters as the smiling Cheshire Cat, t ...

History of Western Philosophy

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:08:15 PST

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First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, Russell's History of Western Philosophy offered a ...

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:05:47 PST

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Placing Bruno--both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake--in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay--and conflict--with magic and occult practices. "Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illumin ...

The Art Of Memory

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:03:35 PST

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One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its ...

Brave New World

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:00:31 PST

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Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his d ...

The Day of the Triffids

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:59:11 PST

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Science fiction classic about dangerous plants who take over the world...

How to be Idle

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:56:34 PST

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As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help. From Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, comes HOW TO BE IDLE, an antidote to the work-obsessed culture which puts so many obstacles between ourselves and our dreams. Hodgkinson presen ...

A Long Way Down

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:53:29 PST

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In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling writer Nick Hornby is at his finest-hilarious, provocative, and moving-as he mines the hearts and psyches of three neurotic Londoners and one neurotic American who meet each other at the end of the line. Unabridged CD - 8 CDs, 9 hours

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:52:24 PST

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An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. 17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, the ...

Middlesex

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:50:20 PST

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'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, before they move out ...