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Secrets of a German PoW: The Revelations of Hauptmann Herbert Cleff.

Cleff was attached to the 21st Panzer division operating in the Western desert and was captured near El Dab'a in Libya on 6th November, 1942. He was interrogated both in the Western Desert and in the United Kingdom, following assessments that led his...

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Manners for Millionaires.

Following the course from penury to plenty, this book is intended to help readers ascend the staircase of Prosperity and answers the cry for instruction from the aspiring rich. Originally published in 1901, this humourous guide will be equally valuable...

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The Workers' War: British Industry and the First World War.

Burton examines how different industries coped with the demands of war by showing how the war produced fundamental changes in British society. With the men at war and unprecedented loss of life, it fell to the women of the country to keep the factories...

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41: A Portrait of My Father.

An unusual biography of a former President by a former President. Regardless of your political beliefs (I admittedly don't share many with either President Bush), this account will give you a heightened respect and admiration for President H. W Bush (41)...

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The Parlement of Foulys.

Composed in the tradition of French romances, this 699-line poem written in 1389-1390 in rhyme royal, has been called one of the best occasional verses in the English language. The idea that Valentine's Day is a day for lovers is thought to originate...

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Fronto: Selected Letters.

M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa and the foemost Latin orator of his day. This new selection is translated into clear English consisting of 54 letters with emphasis on those that illuminate Fronto's political career and...

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Peking: Heart of the Celestial Empire 1404-1949.

The walled capital, from which the emperors of China ruled the Middle Kingdom, was a teeming, splendid, and audaciously conceived city. It was designed to express the absolute power of the emperor over all. The city consisted of walls within walls, at...

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Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein introduced readers to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Dougan explores the concept of re-animation giving a brief overview of the study of anatomy throughout history and telling the story of one...

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'And do You Also Play the Violin?'.

Flesch is the son of the famous German violinist Carl Flesch (1873-1944) and grew up in the Berlin of the 1920s and 30s. He came into almost daily contact with some of the foremost musicians of the day Furtwangler, Kreisler, Schnabel, Heifetz, and many...

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Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret.

He tells the story of his aunt, Rosie Glaser, an emancipated Jewish woman who defied convention. She taught ballroom dancing and toured Europe. When the Nazis seized power in the Netherlands, her illegal dance studio was betrayed, and she was sent to a...

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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom.

A wonderful biography that leads readers through this labyrinth with a sure and steady hand'. These two women rocked the 16th century world. Theirs is a story of espionage, assassination, intrigue, romance, torture, possible incest, and mayhem. Well...

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What's Wrong with Terrorism?.

The Canberra author's theory is that terrorism is a deliberate tactic of frightening people for socio-political gain. It is not only the weapon of organisations like al-Qaeda, it also benefits democratic politicians who profit from the climate of...

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Russian Symbolist Theater: An Anthology of Plays and Critical Texts.

Bely, Blok, Sologub, Annensky, and their contemporaries may be best known for writing influential verse and narrative prose. However, they also authored Symbolist plays, thus collectively adding to a revolutionary new Russian performance style. This is...

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Jihad Academy: The Rise of Islamic State.

Framed by Henin's personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley,this debunks the myths surrounding Islamic extremism and provides a clear and revealing insight into the sect's strange and distorted world. Henin shows how Western...

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Flying the Southern Cross: Aviators Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith.

Using logbook entries, the airmen's memoirs, contemporary newspaper accounts, and official documents supplemented by a range of historic photographs, the author gives a gripping account of the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928 and its aftermath. ...

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These Rebel Waves.

If you enjoy complex and well thought out fantasy worlds, this offers a seriously intricate world with a rich history and as a bonus it's full of diversity - we have various cultures and religions as well as sexual orientations. The magic system is as...

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First World War Plays: Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky.

From Night Watches by Allan Monkhouse, published in 1916, to Abigail Docherty's Sea and Land and Sky (2010), this collection of seven plays shows how the war has been represented through the 'traditions, forms and economies of the theatre' over the last...

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The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia.

Covers the politics, the publishing, the media, and the art scene of what was probably NYC's most fertile and pre-eminent half decade in the years between 1945 and 1950, but it also offers an overview for the first half of the twentieth century. It also...

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Retirement Reinvention: Make Your Next Act Your Best Act.

Written by a top career counsellor, this is a must-read guide for baby-boomers who want to plan for the next act. Full of practical advice, she offers over 200 ideas on how to leave your old career behind and strike the right balance between work and...

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Is My Child Ready For School?: An easy to follow guide for parents.

Starting school is an exciting but scary time for children and their families. This guide provides information for parents based on current research on brain development and insights from many years of teaching. It examines many aspects of development...

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Business Statistics.

This pack contains 1 copy of Business Statistics (Global Edition) and 1 printed access card to MyStatLab with eText. It narrows the gap between theory and practice-relevant statistical methods to empower business students to make effective, data-informed...

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Periplus Pocket Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-Japanese.

A convenient pocket sized companion for visitors to Japan or for anyone in the early stages of learning Japanese. It contains all the 7,500 or so Japanese words most commonly used in colloquial everyday speech and every Japanese word and phrase is also...

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The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art.

The focus of Smee's engrossing book is 4 pairs of artists whose fraught friendships spurred their creative endeavours. Manets and Degass friendship frayed after Degas painted Manet and his wife. Matisse and Picasso fell out while jostling for the...

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Compact Oxford Russian Dictionary.

Offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Russian and English. It covers all the words you need for everday use and also includes Russian and English culture and grammar supplements. Russian/English and...

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