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Investigates Somerled of Argyll's emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldom's challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his death at Renfrew in 1164.

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This is a collection of children's tales for disturbed children. This is Roman Dirge at his most macabre best, short stories with creepy stings in their tales. This collection has been recoloured by Roman Dirge approved artist, Adam Bolton who also recoloured Roman's Cat With The Really Big Head.

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A forensic and compelling account of one of the most notorious terrorist attacks of the last century. This is the story of that assassination attempt by the IRA on Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, during the Conservative Party Conference of 1984 held in Brighton. Foreword by Sir Norman Tebbit.

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A body has been found, sealed into the dead space behind a false wall in a flat in Muswell Hill. Beheaded and surrounded by blood-stained pages of typewritten text, it is the third such murder committed by a killer known as The Hack. And it may be linked to his daughter's disappearance.

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In this second edition, Richard Swift analyses the alternatives that have presented themselves through history. In critiquing what has gone before and exploring current forms of opposition he develops an inspirational manifesto for the future.

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Soup: A Global History is a concise, tasty history of the oldest dish in the world. Soup features many images of and recipes for classic and unusual soups, taken from seven hundred years of global culinary history.

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The south of Scotland has a long and turbulent geological past. Perhaps most notably, it marks the place where, 432 million years ago, an ocean, once as wide as the north Atlantic, was compressed by a convergence of ancient lands and then ceased to be.

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This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guediguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. -- .

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They are tough. They are the fastest, coolest gunslingers of the sixties and they don't talk much. They are the heroes of the Italian Spaghetti West and they changed the Western forever. Clint Eastwood's poncho-clad, cigar-smoking Man With No Name is the enduring symbol of the genre and his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone...

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This original novel from the world of Spartacus: Blood and Sand tells a brand- new story of blood, sex and politics set in the uncompromising, visceral world of the arena.

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Provocative dramatic monologues allow Biblical women to tell their own stories as the author puts herself in the shoes of the Virgin Mary, Miriam, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth, the Syrophoenician or Canaanite woman, Lydia, Ruth, Gomer, Michal, Tamar, and Peter's wife.

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A leading political writer and activist speaks out on the crisis in the Middle East, the war on terror, and the resurgent militarism of the American empire.

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Fourth grade is ground zero in the fierce debates about education reform in America. In this fascinating and groundbreaking book, Schaenen adds the voices of actual fourth-grade kids to the conversation.

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This is the first complete history of the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police from its formation in 1883 to its demise in 2006, when it was subsumed into the Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police Service.

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A dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carrfrom one of the world's preeminent authors

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As the world has rapidly changed, how do we best prepare young people for the future How do we adapt to the fact that children may now spend more time looking at a screen than engaging in actual conversation

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Focusing on the five premier spices black pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and the chilli pepper and including the stories of many others, the author's account tracks spices' influence as they travelled around the world.

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From the arrival of Italian ice-cream vendors and German pork butchers, to the rise of curry as the national dish, Spicing Up Britain reveals the fascinating multicultural history of British food over the last 150 years, showing how a combination of immigration, increased wealth and globalization have transformed the eating habits of the British.

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Against the vividly described background of 1980s rural Kent, this moving portrait of a father-son relationship shifts effortlessly between evoking the terrors and joys of adolescence and the complicated pleasure and pain of being an adult.

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Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women's consumption and production are manifest in novelists' and novels' accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food. -- .