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The Origins of the Second World War

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:24:38 PST

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A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling "The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocative ...

Democracy in Europe

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:23:38 PST

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Britain and much of Europe is hynptized by the struggle between integrationists and nation-starters, and is set to drift towards "unification" with little idea of its consitutional options. In ths text, Siedentop sets out the key issues for those who wish to construct a Europe that is prosperous, fair and free. rejecting knee-jerk hostility to the idea of a "united states of Europe", Siedentop ar ...

A+ Certification All-in-one Exam Guide

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:20:58 PST

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This No.1 "A+ Exam Guide" is completely revised and updated to cover all the new exam areas. More than 380,000 units of the previous editions are sold to date!

The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:18:36 PST

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From elite bodybuilding competitors to gymnasts, from golfers to fitness gurus, anyone who works out with weights must own this book -- a book that only Arnold Schwarzenegger could write, a book that has earned its reputation as "the bible of bodybuilding."Inside, Arnold covers the very latest advances in both weight training and bodybuilding competition, with new sections on diet and nutrition, ...

The Origins of the Cold War

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:17:58 PST

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Identity theft, Inc

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:16:11 PST

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Identity theft is the crime of this century. Just ask Frank Abagnale of Catch Me If You Can fame. He states so in the Q&A of the latest edition of that book ...

On War - abridged

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:15:07 PST

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The classic treatise that details war as the exercise of force for the attainment of a political object, unrestrained by any law save that of expediency

The English Legal System

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:14:10 PST

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"Key Facts" has been specifically written for students studying Law. It is the essential revision tool for a broad range of law courses from A Level to degree level. The series is written and edited by an expert team of authors whose experience means they know exactly what is required in a revision aid. They include examiners, barristers and lecturers who have brought their expertise and knowledg ...

As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:12:26 PST

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Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists, as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, "The Mark Thomas Product", ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly, this is his first book. "As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela" is a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Under a fa ...

Ugly Americans

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:11:45 PST

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The true story of the Ivy League hedge fund cowboys who gambled with the dangerously high stakes of the Asian stock market. John Malcolm, high school football hero and Princeton graduate made his millions back in the early '90s, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves ...

Spies for hire

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:10:53 PST

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Reveals the formidable organization of intelligence outsourcing that has developed between the U.S. government and private companies since 9/11, in a report ...

Politics

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:09:57 PST

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'A really excellent text...An outstanding success.' - Gerry Stoker, Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde 'An admirable text for any course designed to introduce students to political science...it is written throughout with enviable clarity. Important and difficult terms are explained particularly well and the author consistently presents different and rival interpretations and definit ...

Il libro nero del comunismo

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:08:56 PST

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85 milioni di vittime: questo è stato l'enorme costo del comunismo. Ma com'è potuto succedere che un ideale di emancipazione e di fraternità universale si traducesse, già all'indomani dell'ottobre 1917, in dottrina dell'onnipotenza statuale, in discriminazione generalizzata di interi gruppi sociali, in deportazioni di massa e atroci stermini? Il libro nero del comunismo rompe il muro del silenzio ...

The Globalization of World Politics

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:07:53 PST

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Fully revised and updated to cover the latest developments in world politics, the new edition of this highly successful textbook will once again provide the ideal introduction for all students of International Relations. Written specially for those coming to the subject for the first time, this text has been carefully edited by John Baylis and Steve Smith to ensure a coherent, accessible, and liv ...

A History of Modern Political Thought

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:06:43 PST

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Iain Hampsher-Monk's lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Federalist papers).The author's aim throughout is to incorporate the benefits of modern scholarship of the historical school, with it ...

Armed Police

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:05:46 PST

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On 7 July 2005, just before 9 am, explosive devices detonated on London Underground trains at Liverpool Street, Edgware Road and Kings Cross stations and on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. Fifty-six people were killed and over 700 injured. Suicide bombing had come to Britain. Two weeks later, the capital's commuters narrowly missed disaster when four more devices failed to explode. Secur ...

The End of History and the Last Man

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:04:23 PST

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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama began an explosive debate about the future of the world in the post-Cold War era with an article entitled "The End of History and the Last Man". This seminal book expands on his original work to address the fundamental and far-reaching themes of the new millennium. The result is nothing short of an historical and philosophical primer for the onslaught of the 21st century ...

Contemporary British Politics

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:02:49 PST

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The third edition of this textbook has been comprehensively updated and substantially revised to provide an introduction to British politics and government under New Labour. As well as according greater attention to the growing role of the European Union in British politics, this new edition contains systematic comparisons between constitutional arrangements in the United Kingdom and in other lea ...

Disgrace

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:02:05 PST

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A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm.

The Penguin Atlas of World History: From the French Revolution to the Present v.2

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:01:16 PST

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This atlas looks at world history from 1789 onwards.

Masters Of Chaos

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 0:00:31 PST

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Now in paperback: Linda Robinson's intimate, exclusive-and New York Times best-selling- account of the most secretive and elite soldiers in the U.S. Army today Army Special Forces soldiers have been at the forefront of America's counterterrorist campaigns in recent years. But little is known about the brave, seasoned individuals from America's heartland who belong to this secretive unit. Veteran ...

Lima 3

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:59:44 PST

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In Lima 3 Harry Ferguson leaves the Kilos behind for a new call sign and a tougher assignment with the Lima team, the 'Allstars' of HM Customs Investigation Division. His new work brings him up against brutal Liverpool gangster John Haase. and it soon becomes clear that Haase works closely with a Turkish heroin smuggler known as 'Volkan'. But Volkan doesn't only supply Haase, he also supplies an ...

Hunters and Shooters: an Oral History of the Us Navy Seals in Vietnam

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:58:42 PST

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A riveting, pulse-pounding history of SEALs special operations in the words of the heroes who lived it. The U.S. Navy SEALs have long been considered among the finest, most courageous and professional soldiers in American military history- an elite fighting force trained as parachutists, frogmen, demolition experts and guerrilla warriors, and ready for combat on the Sea, Air and Land. Born out o ...

Biohazard

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:06:11 PST

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"We thought we had lived through the terror of a nuclear war, but something far more ominous was brewing in the Soviet Union - a biological armageddon from which no one would escape. Dr. Alibek has emerged from the world's deadliest labs to tell a story that is as important as it is chilling. Sometimes the truth is far worse than fiction. No one can afford not to read this book" - Robin Cook, bes ...

The Squeeze

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:05:48 PST

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'The Squeeze' is an invaluable account of the modern oil industry and vital to understanding the awful truth about the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. With unprecedented access to their engineers and executives in London and Houston, Tom Bower tells the inside story of BP's history of alleged negligence. Over the last 20 years, oil prices have soared from $7 a barrel to $147 and down to $ ...

Marine Sniper

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:05:19 PST

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Marine Sniper is not only one of the most astonishing true stories to emerge from the Vietnam War, it has become a classic of military nonfiction, inspiring a sequel, Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues. There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock. A legend in the Marine ranks, Hathcock stalked the Vie ...

The Communist Manifesto

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:19:15 PST

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The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were aged 29 and 27 respectively when The Communist Manifesto was published on the eve of the 1848 revolutions. The authors had been close collaborators sinc ...

Twilight of the Idols

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:18:49 PST

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'Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...' Nietzsche intended Twilight of the Idols to serve as a short introduction to his philosophy, and as a re ...

Project Orion

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:14:50 PST

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The Wolf of Wall Street

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:12:22 PST

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By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him for at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, ...

Total War 2006

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:11:36 PST

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In this brilliant book, Simon Pearson plots our future; one full of uncomfortable possibilities governments fear to face. He takes us from today's world where cruise missile diplomacy underlines the dominance of the West to 2006 when an Islamic Alliance dares to challenge it. Russia experiences a second revolution, across Europe the hope of the new millennium is lost in economic and policy failu ...

The octopus

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:10:27 PST

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'The Octopus' is a detailed, exhaustive study of the burgeoning crime wave initiated and propogated by the mushrooming of international bureaucracy within the European Union. It looks at the faceless men behind everything from Amsterdam-based paedophile rings to fraud by committee in Brussels to the trafficking of drugs, money and nuclear armaments. The unification of Europe hasstirred up a cauld ...

Comparative Government

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:06:17 PST

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A comprehensive and systematic introduction to the institutions and patterns of behaviour of political systems worldwide. The book is concept rather than country based, looking in depth at the key elements necessary to an understanding of political science such as the state, types of political institutions and political change. It also looks at the part played by bureaucracies, the military and t ...

Rebellions and Revolutions

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:05:54 PST

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This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century and its rapid emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party revolution of 1949. It takes the story up to recent, tragic events in Tiananmen Square. Dr Gray addresses a seri ...

Renegades of the empire

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:05:37 PST

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The Politics

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:05:12 PST

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Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how t ...

Shogun

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:05:02 PST

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This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the ...

I nuovi padroni del mondo

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:04:43 PST

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Imagined Communities

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:04:23 PST

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What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined comm ...

Sex.Com

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:04:03 PST

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What's in a name? For the owner of SEX.COM, a cool $100 million a year. With five million page views every day, SEX.COM was the most valuable piece of virtual real-estate on the planet and the dubious jewel in the crown of the newborn internet. But the fact that it didn't physically exist didn't mean that it couldn't be stolen. With an ingenious scam - the full details of which have never been re ...

Zero Day Threat

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:03:32 PST

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A white-collar true-crime story, "Zero Day Threat" is a powerful investigative expose on bank and lending policies that actually facilitate ID theft and fraud. "USA Today" reporters Acohido and Swartz reveal the many ways that established corporations and technology giants (including Bank of America, Microsoft, and Google) have fixated on the Internet to maximise their profits, heedless of increa ...

Da Pearl Harbor alla guerra del Golfo

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:02:58 PST

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Il 27 maggio del 1905 ebbe inizio la prima delle grandi battaglie navali delNovecento, quella di Tsushima, nella quale la flotta russa e quella giapponesesi affrontarono per decidere le sorti del conflitto per la supremazia sullapolitica asiatica. I giapponesi avevano solo quattro corazzate, veterane dellabattaglia del Mar Giallo, e otto incrociatori; ma le errate scelte tattichedella marina zari ...

Arnold

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:02:34 PST

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Arnold is the long awaited book by Arnold Schwarzenegger, his bestselling autobiography and fitness plan. In its pages the superstar of PUMPING IRON tells you how he became the most successful bodybuilder of our time. With the aid of vivid photographs and a step by step programme, the man who became Mr Olympia and Mr Universe lets you into the secrets of his astonishing success - what to eat, wha ...

Enter the Dragon

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:02:08 PST

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Theo Paphitis is the outspoken and charismatic star of Dragons' Den who has turned round a string of household names, from Ryman to La Senza, in a high-profile business career that has brought him millions. Now, in his revealing and controverisal memoir, he not only takes the reader behind the scenes on Dragons' Den, he explains how he made his fortune. He also provides a masterclass in business ...

A Brief History of Time

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:01:48 PST

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A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and t ...

Machiavelli

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:01:04 PST

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In his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries. This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as ...

Power Factor Training

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:00:41 PST

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Bodybuilding experts Peter Sisco and John Little present a revolutionary new system for building maximum muscle in a minimum amount of time. Power Factor Training emphasizes very heavy overloading of the musculature and long rest periods between workouts, resulting in amazing gains in size and strength. This astounding guide details the proven physiological principles of the program, answers sp ...

Illustrated Manual of Sniper Skills

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:59:18 PST

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should learn to identify these units and target them accordingly. The flares are designed to convince an incoming missile ...

Empire

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:58:25 PST

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Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line ...

A History of Malaysia

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:58:07 PST

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This second edition of a standard text first published twenty years ago incorporates the most recent research in the history of Malaysia from early times to the present day, giving special attention to the economic and cultural influences that have shaped Malaysian society. While a number of recent books deal with the impact of colonial rule and Malaysia's spectacular economic transition, this wo ...

Political Theories of International Relations

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:57:40 PST

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David Boucher uses the ideas of western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. He examines current conceptions, offering an alternative thematic interpretation of how the most significant thinkers in the Western tradition perceived relations between communities, nations, states, and the discovery of the new world. His organizin ...

Thinking Strategically

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:56:57 PST

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A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basic good strategy making and the ...

Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:56:38 PST

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A Concise History of Germany

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:56:17 PST

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This book aims to provide a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of German history from the early middle ages to the present day. The multi-faceted, problematic history of the German lands has provoked a wide range of debates and differences of interpretation. Dr Fulbrook provides a crisp synthesis of a vast array of historical material, and explores the interrelationships between ...

The Wealth of Nations: Bks.1-3

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:55:58 PST

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Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his famous prophecy that "America will ...

Terminate with Extreme Prejudice

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:55:26 PST

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Inside the assassination game - what really goes on before the smokescreens go up? 'Assassination can seldom be employed with a clear conscience. Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it...No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded' - "CIA Assassination Manual", 1954. The cost of a bullet can be as little as 8 cents. Assassination has long been more common tha ...

Baudolino

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:54:41 PST

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In quella zona del basso Piemonte dove, anni dopo, sorgerà Alessandria,Baudolino, un piccolo contadino fantasioso e bugiardo, conquista FedericoBarbarossa e ne diventa figlio adottivo. Baudolino affabula e inventa ma,quasi per miracolo, tutto quello che immagina, produce Storia. Così, tra lealtre cose, costruisce la mitica lettera del Prete Gianni, che promettevaall'Occidente un reg ...

La nona emanazione

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:51:30 PST

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Vaticano S.p.A.

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:53:26 PST

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Spericolate operazioni finanziarie mascherate da opere di carità e fondazioni di beneficenza. La storia raccontata in questo libro parte da un archivio custodito in Svizzera e da oggi accessibile a tutti. Circa quattromila documenti riservati della Santa Sede. Lettere, relazioni, bilanci, verbali, bonifici. Tutto grazie all'archivio di monsignor Renato Dardozzi (1922-2003), tra le figure più impo ...

Le tigri di Telecom

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:21:09 PST

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Surviving the Extremes

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:35:42 PST

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A true-life scientific thriller no reader will forget, Surviving the Extremes takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human body, spirit, and brain. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, as well as surgeon, explorer, and masterful storyteller, Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years discovering what happens to the human body in extre ...

Amedeo

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:35:14 PST

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A love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen. This is the story of Amedeo Guillet - an Italian calvary officer who was sent out to Abyssinia as part of Mussolini's army to establish and command a troupe of 2000 Spahis - or Arabic calvary. He met and fell in love with Khadija - a beautiful Ethiopian Muslim who became his constant companion during the early years of World War II. And she ha ...

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:45:47 PST

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Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond. In his autobiography ...

On Writing

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:45:25 PST

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"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." Here is Stephen King's master class on his craft. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, offer a fresh and often funn ...

McMafia

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:44:08 PST

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* In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. * For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan and many more. * During his investigation of the dark side, he has spoken to countl ...

Prey CD

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:42:13 PST

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『Prey』オーディオCD版を試聴する ※音声を再生できない場合は、ヘルプページをご参照ください。 Amazon.co.jp ネバダ砂漠で、1つの実験が失敗した。研究所からは、一群のナノ粒子、――マイクロ･ロボット―― が流出した。ナノ粒子の一群は、自活し、自らを複製する術をもつ。知性もあり、学習能力も備わっている。つまり、事実上生きているといえる。そして、「捕食者」としての役割がプログラミングされていた。一群は急速に進化し、1時間ごとに凶暴化している。しかし、それを破壊する試みはことごとく失敗。そして、今や人間がその餌食になろうとしていた…。朝刊の見出しのように、新鮮で人を引きつける魅力にあふれた『Prey』は、科学技術がもたらす災難と悲劇を食い止めようとするほんの一握りの科学者達の奮闘を描く。そして、スリルに満ちたサスペンス形式の物語でありながら、最新の科学的真 ...

The Andromeda Strain

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:40:12 PST

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"Relentlessly suspenseful...A hair-raising experience." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS The United States government stands warned that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. When a probe satellite falls to the earth two years later, and lands in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona, the bodies that lie heaped and fl ...

State of Fear

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:39:43 PST

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환경옹호론자들을 위해 일하는 젊은 변호사의 이야기. 그의 고객이 자신이 애착을 가지고 있는 환경 자선단체의 비도덕적인 부분을 발견하면서 상황이 악화되어 간다. 주인공이 그 자선단체가 날씨를 통제하는 ELF라는 환경테러 단체의 선두에 있다는 사실을 알게 되는데...마이클 클라이튼의 최신작으로 지구 온난화 등의 환경문제를 소재로 하고 있다. [예스24 제공]

Congo

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:31:24 PST

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Al igual que Parque Jurásico, Congo contrapone la naturaleza exótica con las fronteras de la ciencia en una trama realmente apasionante.

Airframe

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:31:23 PST

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Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop rea ...

Elogio della pazzia

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:26:29 PST

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In God's Name

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:18:09 PST

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Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful and absurd', this classic of investigative reporting is now available in a new, revised edition. Yallop's ground-breaking investigation into Pope John Paul I's death just 33 days after his election is a tale of intrigue,murder and corruption. It reveals the dark heart of the Vatican via a trail of evidence that connects the papacy, the masons, Opus Dei and th ...

Gomorrah

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:17:08 PST

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Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as 'the System', the Camorra, an organized crime network with a global reach and large stakes in construction ...

Ultramarathon Man

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:14:52 PST

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There are those of us whose idea of the ultimate physical challenge is the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. And then there is Dean Karnazes. Karnazes has run 226.2 miles nonstop; he has completed the 135-mile Badwater Ultramara-thon across Death Valley National Park-considered the world's toughest footrace-in 130-degree weather; and he is the only person to complete a marathon to the South Pole in runn ...

La profezia di Celestino

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:36:58 PST

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L'essenza della "Profezia di Celestino" in un comodo volumetto da portaresempre con sé nel quale James Redfield, il guru dei nostri tempi, riesamina leIlluminazione e analizza il perché del successo dei suoi libri alle sogliedel nuovo millennio.

La decima illuminazione

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:36:40 PST

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Al pari della Profezia di Celestino il suo seguito è una parabola avventurosa, il tentativo di illustrare la trasformazione spirituale che si sta verificando in questo periodo. Se manteniamo la nostra consapevolezza potremo renderci conto di essere stati messi nella posizione più adatta per essere utili al mondo.

Devil and Miss Prym

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:36:09 PST

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Alkimist

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:35:59 PST

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Seta

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:34:45 PST

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Lavilledieu, Francia meridionale. Anno 1861. Hervé Joncour è un allevatore di bachi da seta, ma quando l'epidemia attacca prima gli allevamenti europei, poi quelli del vicino Oriente, si spinge fino in Giappone per procurarsene di contrabbando. E in quella terra ai confini del mondo incontra una fanciulla bellissima e misteriosa che segna la sua vita. Da quel momento, lasciando a casa la moglie H ...

Racconti romani

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:33:50 PST

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Hagakure

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:30:01 PST

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Hagakure è un classico della letteratura giapponese. L'importanza dell'opera èdovuta specialmente al fatto che tramanda l'antico codice samurai. Il 16maggio 1700, alla morte del suo signore, Tsunetomo Yamamoto, non potendoseguirlo con il 'seppuku' (il suicidio rituale, o 'harakiri') perchéproibito, si fece monaco buddista. L'Hagakure raccoglie i suoiinsegnamenti dettati all'a ...

The Catcher in the Rye

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:29:16 PST

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A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?

Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:28:57 PST

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A novel that explores the darkest depths and brightest hopes in the souls of men, Moby-Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called "the greatest of American novels."

Milton's Paradise Lost

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:28:10 PST

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The Art of the Novel

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:27:08 PST

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A work of literary criticism in which Kundera argues that the European novel is "born out of the laughter of God".

Identity

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:27:05 PST

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There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:27:01 PST

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More than 700,000 copies sold. Basis for the world-acclaimed film. "A meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small." People

Immortality

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:26:49 PST

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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera ...

Viaggio in un'Italia diversa

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:53:41 PST

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Viaggio in un'Italia diversa segna una nuova svolta nel percorso di Bruno Vespa scrittore. Dopo i best seller di saggistica politica e di storia moderna, e lo straordinario successo di L'amore e il potere, il giornalista compie un viaggio in presa diretta nella rivoluzione silenziosa che ha determinato - e seguito - lo sconvolgimento elettorale della primavera 2008, e fruga tra le paure degli ita ...

Diver

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 PST

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Gatekeeper

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:25:12 PST

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John F. Sullivan was a polygraph examiner with the CIA for thirty-one years, during which time he conducted more tests than anyone in the history of the CIA's program. The lie detectors act as the Agency's gatekeepers, preventing foreign agents, unsuitable applicants, and employees guilty of misconduct from penetrating or harming the Agency. Here Sullivan describes his methods, emphasizing the im ...

Enter the Past Tense

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:25:02 PST

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While at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile areas, including High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and weapons instruction. In the course of his first mission (to East and West Germany, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bulgar ...

Gangland

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:24:19 PST

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Here is a wide-ranging, penetrating investigation and history into the cases, thegangsters, and the lawyers whose actions are not always in the interest of ...

Catch Me If You Can

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:22:29 PST

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Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a colleg ...

The Art of the Steal

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:22:16 PST

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The world--famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me if You Can now reveals the mind--boggling tricks of the scam trade--with advice that has made him one of America's most sought--after fraud--prevention experts. "I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning the mechanics of forgery, check swindling, counterfeiting, and other similar crimes. Ever since I'd been release ...

Alqaeda.com

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:21:53 PST

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Che cosa sarebbe Al Qaeda senza Internet? A partire da questa semplice e inquietante domanda Guido Olimpio, che da anni si occupa di terrorismo internazionale per il "Corriere della Sera", segue le sue tracce nel labirinto della Rete, alla scoperta di quello che, oltre a essere il principale movimento ..paramilitare del fondamentalismo islamico, è anche un dirompente fenomeno sociale e di costume ...

Charlie Wilson's War

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:21:30 PST

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The Assassins

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:20:10 PST

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The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a Muslim religious sect - a branch of the Ismailis, and the followers of a leader known as the Old Man of the Mountain. Their beliefs and their methods made them a by-word for both fanaticism and terrorism in Syria and Persia in the 11th and 1 ...

Killing Zone

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:19:16 PST

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The son of a Glasgow gangster, Harry McCallion left school at 16 with no qualifications. He joined the Paras and served six tours in Ulster. Then came two years with the Recces, the South African Special Forces, during which Harry attempted to assassinate Robert Mugabe and Joshua N'Komo. Returning to England, Harry passed the rigorous selection procedure for the SAS. He served for six years in th ...

The Strange Death of David Kelly

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:18:55 PST

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