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Cold Earth

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 1:21:00 PST

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Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse society under attack, they also come to uncover some of their own demons, as it becomes apparent that a plague pandemic is sweeping across the planet and communication with the outside world is breaking down. Increasingly unsure whether their missives will ever reach their ...

It's a Don's Life

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 1:18:16 PST

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"While many scholars build careers through increasingly elaborate reconstructions of the ancient world, [Mary] Beard consistently stresses the limits of our ...

An introduction to Anglo-Saxon England

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:19:26 PST

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This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history.

Widower's House

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 7:56:46 PST

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With this volume, John Bayley completes his trilogy, looking back on the years in sickness and health which he and Iris spent together, and attempting to come to terms with her absence. As time goes by he finds himself beset with new and alarmingly unfamiliar problems: he suffers equally from the helplessness of being alone and the kindly harassment of well-wishers; discovering too that a widower ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:05:32 PST

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Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction .

The Mindful Way through Depression

Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:04:42 PST

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The Mindful Way through Depression draws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned mindfulness experts, including bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, to help you break the mental habits that can lead to despair. This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is based on methods clinically proven to reduce the recurrence of chronic unhappiness. Informative chapters reveal the hid ...

Ojingogo

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 5:35:06 PST

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Small Boat, Big Sea

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 4:25:15 PST

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Peter Owen-Jones puts the spotlight on the village church in this diary recalling a yearas Rector of three parishes in rural Cambridgeshire.

Shoot The Damn Dog

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:18:45 PST

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"Shoot the Damn Dog" blasts the stigma of depression as a character flaw and confronts the illness Winston Churchill called 'the black dog', a condition that humiliates, punishes and isolates its sufferers. It is a personal account of a journey through (and out of) severe depression, as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it w ...

Metrostop Paris

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:17:54 PST

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The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story. In Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the metro. Both the armchair traveller and the visitor wil enjoy an illuminating journey in the company of a compelling storyteller and veteran of the city. The book includes visits to Paris catacombs at Hell's Gat ...

China Cuckoo

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:16:42 PST

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In booming Shanghai, Mark Kitto hit the big time. "The Financial Times" called him a 'mini media mogul'. One weekend, Mark escapes to Moganshan, a dilapidated mountaintop village built by foreigners in the early 1900s as a summer retreat. It's a familiar story: Mark falls in love with the place and decides to restore one of the villas, as if he were in Tuscany or Provence. But here the familiarit ...

The Great War for Civilisation

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:16:06 PST

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Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis. The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It is a story that Robert Fisk has been reporting for over thirty years. His masterful narrative spans the most volatile regions of the Middle East ...

(普及版) 英文版極道な月 - Yakuza Moon

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:15:41 PST

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Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:15:02 PST

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Who can you trust when you can't even trust yourself? Benton Kirby's life hasn't exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiance, a brother who drives death around London in his black cab, and a girlfriend with a history of suicidal pets, Benton - ambitionless and emotionally disengaged - embark ...

Death at Intervals

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:14:37 PST

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In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity - eternal life. Death is on strike. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. For several months undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinven ...

Suckers

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 7:14:18 PST

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'Alternative' medicine is now used by one in three of us. In the UK, we spend an estimated GBP4.5 billion a year on it and its practitioners are now insinuating themselves into the mainstream. There are methods based on ancient or far-eastern medicine, as well as ones invented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many are promoted as natural treatments. What they have in common is that ther ...

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:36:26 PST

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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her anywhere. Meanwhile, Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, will not believe what he hea ...

Wuthering Heights

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 3:37:51 PST

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The novel "Wuthering Heights" is the name of the large home of the family, located on the isolated moorlands of England. One of the main themes in this novel is love and hate between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. It is not your typical romance novel. It unquestionably has its dark moments, as well as its brilliant moments.

Fanny Hill

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 3:37:14 PST

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"Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", commonly known as "Fanny Hill", has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since John Cleland completed it in 1749. The Bishop of London called the work 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners' and James Boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. The story of a prostitute's rise to respectability, it has been recognized more recent ...

The picture of Dorian Gray

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 3:36:51 PST

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Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting inf ...

Elizabeth's Spymaster

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 3:35:32 PST

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Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain - the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her Protestant regime. His entrapment of Mary Queen of Scots is a classic intelligence operation that resul ...

Under the Glacier

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 3:34:41 PST

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Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this der ...

Creepy Cute Crochet

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 3:33:52 PST

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One of today's hippest craft trends is amigurumi, Japanese-inspired crochet and knit stuffed dolls that have inspired crafters everywhere to create gaggles of adorable creatures. Most patterns are for little kitties, bears, bunnies, and the like, but here's an offering for those who prefer their cute a little less saccharine. Author Christen Haden combines the infamous cuteness of Japanese crafts ...

Lighthousekeeping

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:17:44 PST

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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 2:23:13 PST

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Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England's queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry's second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign?In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we ...

The Rose Labyrinth

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 7:55:45 PST

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An enthralling novel of mystery, adventure and romanceBefore his death in 1609, the brilliant Elizabethan spy, astrologer and mathematician John Dee hid many of his papers, believing that the world was not prepared for the ideas they held. In spring 2003, Dees many times great granddaughter and final holder of the secret was forced to pass the enigmatic legacy to one of her two sons. Diana chose ...

The Wagamama Cookbook

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 1:22:52 PST

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Our aim at wagamama for now and in the future is to serve great, fresh and nutritious food in an elegant, yet simple environment; to provide a helpful, friendly service and value for money. Change for us is in the form of continuous improvement.' the wagamama ethos. True to the positive eating, positive living ethos of wagamama's idiosyncratic chain of noodle restaurants, this official collection ...

Wagamama

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 1:22:31 PST

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"The Wagamama Cookbook" told the story of the company and was driven by the menu and the specials attached to it. "Ways with Noodles" takes its inspiration from wagamama's core expertise; noodles: how to cook, serve and eat them. Noodles are the fast food of today, the pasta of the 21st century. The distinctive wagamama flavour originates from the traditional 200-year-old ramen (noodle) stalls of ...

The Medici Conspiracy

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 1:21:58 PST

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A true-life thriller completely exposes the network behind the illegal trade in ancient artifacts--and features a rich cast of rogues and some of the world's most prestigious art institutions The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art sm ...

A Factory of Cunning

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 1:21:34 PST

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One freezing April morning, two veiled women step off the boat from Holland. They are on the run: a scheming French aristocrat, who goes by her nom de plume of Mrs Fox, and her loyal maidservant. With only a handful of gold and fearing for her life, Mrs Fox sets about establishing herslf with high society. Immoral and beautiful, Mrs Fox has always used men to support and amuse her. Trusting on he ...

The Lady in the Tower

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 1:20:59 PST

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One of history’s most complex and alluring women comes to life in this classic novel by the legendary Jean Plaidy. Young Anne Boleyn was not beautiful but she was irresistible, capturing the hearts of kings and commoners alike. Daughter of an ambitious country lord, Anne was sent to France to learn sophistication, and then to court to marry well and raise the family’s fortunes. She soon surpa ...

Moomin

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 6:33:52 PST

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Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Tove Jansson’s observations of everyday life—whimsical but with biting undertones—easily caught the attention of an international audience and ...

A Book of Silence

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 1:26:29 PST

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After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Her memoir of these experiences is interwoven with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth, Western and Eastern ...

Stones of Aran Pilgrimage

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 1:25:24 PST

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"Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage" is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, 'one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out'. That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Tim Robinson's epic exploration of the desolate, storm-lashed, limestone ro ...

News from Nowhere and Other Writings

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 1:24:36 PST

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Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834 96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year ...

Real Aberystwyth

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 6:24:26 PST

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The travel guide details an enthralling account of a city that is any number ofconflicting and complimentary things—from its medieval beginnings through its...

Around the World in 80 Treasures

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 6:18:29 PST

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Portmahomack

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:14:01 PST

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Cities of Vesuvius

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:13:18 PST

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"At a tavern in the Via di Nola, gladiators abandoned their...drinks and fled for their lives..." The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 quickly and completely buried all the materials of the inhabitants' daily lives under a sea of ash--ironically, preserving them intact for us to see today. Here is a picture of life in a Roman provincial town, from the graffiti on the walls to the fruit in the market ...

Spells for the Witch in You

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:11:52 PST

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Marina Baker has put together a collection of spells for the aspiring witch wishing to get in touch with nature and take control of her or his life. She introduces Wicca and its basic tenets complete with one of the golden rules: respect for the environment and each other. With the basics in hand, the readers can go on to try out the spells for dealing with nasty bosses or stress with children am ...

The Book of Spells

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:11:20 PST

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Contains 50 spells for health, wealth and happiness, using ingredients found easily in shops, garden or home. From the author of "Spells & Charms : 52 Charms and Spells to Help Get the Best Out of Life".

Winnie the Witch

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:10:47 PST

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This book is intended for children 3-5 years

Just Grace

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:10:28 PST

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Well known manual of doctrine for all those requiring an introduction to the Christianfaith.This edition contains the addition of scripture proofs in full...

BFG, Matilda and Georges Marvellous Medicine

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:04:08 PST

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The Real Deal

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:03:37 PST

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James Caan is one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs. Dropping out of school at just sixteen, he started his business life with no qualifications and two pieces of advice: 'observe the masses and do the opposite' and 'always look for opportunities where both parties benefit'. Armed with just these two pieces of fatherly wisdom, extraordinary charm and the yellow pages, James Caan built a ...

"Dragons' Den"

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:03:19 PST

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4 million people watch the Dragons on TV, now they can read their book. Britain's best loved business brains - Duncan Bannatyne, Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones, Theo Paphitis and Richard Farleigh along with economics expert and presenter Evan Davies - divulge the secrets of their success in this essential read. Joining them is James Caan, a new addition to the team in Series 5 which aired in Septemb ...

Meditation

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:02:47 PST

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Mediation is based on the ancient science of chakras which has been perfected over many years. This guide introduces an unparalleled technique that shows ...

Ornamental Knots for Beaded Jewellery

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 5:02:26 PST

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Knotted necklaces look great when combined with beautiful ceramic, metal or wooden beads.Just one knot with several semi-precious beads is stunning.Once the techniques are mastered, designs can be as extravagent, or as simple as you want - no specialist equipment is required and no special skills.This book includes detailed step-by-step photographs, accompanying diagrams, helpful advice and inspi ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:14:42 PST

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Saland ...

Simply Sparkling Christmas Beading

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 5:05:14 PST

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* Author's previous three beading titles have sold a total of 175,000 copies *Beading is as popular as ever, and Christmas is one of the key crafting...

Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 5:04:44 PST

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Debbie does crochet! Debbie Stoller, the “knitting superstar,” has been leading an entire movement of hip young knitters with her New York Times bestseller Stitch ’n Bitch and its follow-up, Stitch ’n Bitch Nation, together with over 521,000 copies in print. But guess what? For every one knitter in the world there are three crocheters—which translates into millions of hip, crafty, 18- to 35-year- ...

Crochet Bouquet

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 5:04:28 PST

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Crochet bouquets of nearly 50 whimsical, wonderful flowers, in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors! Done in upscale yarns like ribbon, chenille, and silk, this contemporary garden will get intermediate-level crocheters grasping their hooks. Some of the flora looks realistic; others are beautifully fanciful, pure products of the imagination. A simple, well-photographed basics section explains h ...

Crochet Jewellery

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 5:04:11 PST

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This book features 40 original pieces.

The Angry Aztecs ; And, The Incredible Incas

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 3:38:48 PST

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"The Angry Aztecs" fills you in on the foulest facts about people whose ideaof fun was ripping out human hearts.

Hoff Gerdii Serch Cymru

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:46:53 PST

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Malory

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:46:30 PST

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This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sir Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance.

A History of the English Language

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:46:11 PST

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The Craneskin Bag

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:45:48 PST

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Collected Poems, 1945-1990

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:45:24 PST

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This is a collection of the poems of R.S. Thomas.

Carrington

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:42:50 PST

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This absorbing biography of Dora Carrington, the Bloomsbury artist who lived with the noted writer Lytton Strachey, is the basis for the movie starring Emma Thompson. It is a fascinating portrait of a highly individualistic woman and her many remarkable friendships, illustrated with numerous photographs and sketches.

Unpunished Crimes

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:41:42 PST

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"This is a shortened edition of Okupācijas varu nodarītie postījumi Latvijā1940-1990, in Latvian, by the same publishers, 2000"--T.p. verso.

History of Danish Dreams

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:41:01 PST

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The first novel by the author of "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow".

Tales of the Night

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:40:30 PST

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From the author of MISS SMILLA'S FEELING FOR SNOW, a collection of nine shortstories about different aspects of love.

Treading Air

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:38:53 PST

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Treading Air follows the life of Ullo Paerand through 30 years of violent political upheaval. Abandoned by his father as a child, he grows up to become an electoral assistant to the parliamentary office in Tallinn and it is in this position that Ullo witnesses first the Soviet and then the German occupation of Estonia. Forced out of his honest profession Ullo becomes involved with the Resistance ...

Nasty People

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:37:23 PST

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Fourteen years since its first publication, the bestsellerNasty People has been revised and updated to cover the motivations of nasty people, how to avoid confrontation with a nasty boss, how to handle a nasty spouse, and much more, including: How to break the cycle of nastiness A new understanding of personality disorders and depression Narcissism, nasty behavior, and self-doubt Nasty people ...

Thomas More

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:34:14 PST

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Thomas More è stato uno dei protagonisti della storia inglese. Uomo di poteree martire, eminente avvocato che portava il cilicio ed era solito flagellarsi, non aveva niente a che vedere con le figure mitiche dei santi. Protagonista di spicco della cultura rinascimentale, autore di un'opera filosofica controcorrente, "Utopia", fu, comunque, un vero conservatore che pose la propria vita al servizio ...

Copper Mountain

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:29:16 PST

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:28:37 PST

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When a young Chinese woman, newly arrived in London, moves in with her English boyfriend, she decides it’s time to write a Chinese-English dictionary for lovers. Xiaolu’s first novel in English is an utterly original journey of self-discovery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Cement Garden

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:27:28 PST

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In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...

The Child in Time

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:27:10 PST

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The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and ...

The Comfort of Strangers

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:26:52 PST

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As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

The Buddha of Suburbia

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:26:30 PST

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The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain. Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of ...

Meditation a Foundation Course

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:26:14 PST

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A straightforward practical course of instruction in ten lessons. It takes you in easy stages from the basics to the point where you'll be able to practise on your own, knowing exactly what you are doing and why. The approach is relevant and contemporary. The exercises in each lesson provide a basis for regular practice and bring about a greater sense of wellbeing and freedom from anxiety. Learni ...

Stump

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:23:35 PST

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A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town - a one-armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, if not his body, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any he?s lived before: a normal one - shopping, gardening, signing on, visiting friends, all the usual diurnal activities. Over a hundred miles to the north, however, two men in shellsuits are leaving Liverpool, heading south in ...

The Jumblies

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:19:45 PST

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Perfume

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:18:14 PST

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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odor he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin ...

Quarantine

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:17:15 PST

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Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa, who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, afaint figure in the distance, fasting for forty days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles ...

Bronwen Astor

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 2:16:45 PST

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For the first time since the Profumo scandal of the 1960s, the Astors' own version of the events at Cliveden is told. Peter Stanford has been granted unprecedented access to Lady Astor, her private papers and her friends, as well as to many family members and key players in the drama. When Bronwen Pugh married into the celebrated Astor clan in 1960, she seemed to have the world at her feet. She w ...

No Truce with the Furies

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:08:46 PST

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Dufour Editions, an independent publisher and distributor for more than forty years, has an established reputation as a fine literary house. International poetry has always been outstanding in the list, which initially began with some of Thomas Kinsella's and John Montague's first books from the prestigious Dolmen Press.Since those early days, the complete poetry list has grown to include prize-w ...

Ken Hom's Vegetable and Pasta Book

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:08:35 PST

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Peacock Pie

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:08:25 PST

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This volume contains perhaps the very finest of Walter de la Mare's poems for children. 'Surely one of the great children's books of the century.' The Times

"1940-1941 Museum of the occupation of Latvia"

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:47:42 PST

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Un giorno a Pompei

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:40:59 PST

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Eva Cantarella e Luciana Jacobelli ricostruiscono la vita quotidiana dei pompeiani: cosa mangiavano, come si divertivano, le loro abitazioni, la religione, le superstizioni, le lotte politiche, gli aneddoti ricavati dalle fonti. Il volume è arrichito da un apparato iconografico che rende familiari i luoghi più rappresentativi della città antica, gli oggetti d'uso comune e le opere d'arte, per lo ...

Pompeii

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:39:05 PST

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The National archaeological museum of Naples

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:38:51 PST

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Herculaneum

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:38:33 PST

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Includes some great pictures, well done!

Digging the Dirt

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:37:31 PST

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When Jennifer Wallace travelled round Greece as a student, hiking through olive groves to hunt out the stones of old temples and lost cities, she became fascinated by archaeology. It was magical. It was absurd. Give an archaeologist a few rocks and, like a master storyteller, he could bring another world to life. Give him a vague hunch about the past, and he was prepared to spend hours raking thr ...

Geiriadur Termau Archaeoleg =

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 7:37:12 PST

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"Cyhoeddwyd ar ran Pwyllgor Termau Technegol, Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd, PrifysgolCymru."

An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

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In this fully revised edition, all of the key recent finds and developments in thefield of Anglo-Saxon studies are incorporated.

Llwch cenhedloedd

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Yn cynnwys mynegai = Includes index.

Modern Literary Theory

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The third edition of this classic reader, like its successful predecessors, makes available in a single accessible volume examples of the writings of many key figures in the field together with seminal essays that have explored and extended the implications of critical theory. The new edition retains those essays and documents that can now be considered as part of the canon of modern literary th ...

The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

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Using recent information on the migration period in lowland Britain produced by historians, archaeologists and place-name scholars, these essays seek to throw new light on the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and the development of the concept of kingship. A general explanation is also given of the processes of state-formation by which the many kingdoms of later 7th century England had evolved in ...

The Archaeological Process

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This provocative introduction examines the most important new school of archaeological thought and practice to have emerged over the last two decades and provides students with an assessment of the impact and importance of recent theoretical debates.

Collected Poems

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One of the best-known, best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Larkin had a relatively small number of poems published during his lifetime. This Collected Poems, which J. D. McClatchy called "a fascinating and indispensable text" in The New York Times Book Review, brings together not only all of Larkin's published verse—The North Ship (1945), the pamphlet of XX Poems (1953), The Less Dece ...

A Stevie Smith

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'World-wide Wales'

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The secret cabinet in the National archaeological museum of Naples

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Wales on the Web

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Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1150-1309

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Cold Earth

It's a Don's Life

An introduction to Anglo-Saxon England

Widower's House

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Mindful Way through Depression

Ojingogo

Small Boat, Big Sea

Shoot The Damn Dog

Metrostop Paris

China Cuckoo

The Great War for Civilisation

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Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog

Death at Intervals

Suckers

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Wuthering Heights

Fanny Hill

The picture of Dorian Gray

Elizabeth's Spymaster

Under the Glacier

Creepy Cute Crochet

Lighthousekeeping

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

The Rose Labyrinth

The Wagamama Cookbook

Wagamama

The Medici Conspiracy

A Factory of Cunning

The Lady in the Tower

Moomin

A Book of Silence

Stones of Aran Pilgrimage

News from Nowhere and Other Writings

Real Aberystwyth

Around the World in 80 Treasures

Portmahomack

Cities of Vesuvius

Spells for the Witch in You

The Book of Spells

Winnie the Witch

Just Grace

BFG, Matilda and Georges Marvellous Medicine

The Real Deal

"Dragons' Den"

Meditation

Ornamental Knots for Beaded Jewellery

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Simply Sparkling Christmas Beading

Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet

Crochet Bouquet

Crochet Jewellery

The Angry Aztecs ; And, The Incredible Incas

Hoff Gerdii Serch Cymru

Malory

A History of the English Language

The Craneskin Bag

Collected Poems, 1945-1990

Carrington

Unpunished Crimes

History of Danish Dreams

Tales of the Night

Treading Air

Nasty People

Thomas More

Copper Mountain

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

The Cement Garden

The Child in Time

The Comfort of Strangers

The Buddha of Suburbia

Meditation a Foundation Course

Stump

The Jumblies

Perfume

Quarantine

Bronwen Astor

No Truce with the Furies

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