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Richard Martin pulls no punches in describing his breakdown and crushing social anxiety, and how he fought hard to get to grips with the mental illness taking over his life.

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This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood's playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption. -- .

A concise yet thorough critical biography, which throws new light on the work of German novelist, short-story writer, essayist, social critic and philanthropist Thomas Mann.

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A humane, thoughtful and yet clear-eyed history of people with learning disabilities since 1700.

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A dark, literary, crime novel set near Boston. Written with the controlled violence of a Tarantino film, it is the story of Franck, a private detective of sorts from NY, a cokehead and a dandy, who, in a race against time and the local sheriff, investigates two brutal murders committed by what could be the same psychopath.

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An ambitious, valuable history of a major European power

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In Three Germanies: West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic, Michael Gehler explores the political roller coaster Germany has been riding since the Yalta Conference, which split post-war Germany into four zones controlled by the Soviets, Americans, French and British.

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Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

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Originally intended to be a serious travel guide, the humorous elements soon took over andThree Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)has been considered a classic masterpiece of British humor since its first publication in 1889.

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Joe Roberts stayed for five months with the Trivedi family in Bangalore,while travelling all over southern India. Wherever he went he met extraordinary people, but these encounters take second place to his ripening friendship with the Trivedi family, and his exact chronicling of their neighbours.

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This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains. -- .

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Janet Stone's photograph albums feature informal portraits from the mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and personalities of the day.

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Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Podaffectionately examines Bond with tongue firmly in cheek and elbow dug in ribs. Join John Rain as he goes film-by-film through the Bond saga as he points out all the good, the bad, and the double-taking pigeons contained within Bonds half-century of world domination.

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Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage.

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Describes day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feed and care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with limited resources.

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The Welsh Valleys, 1865. Oppressed and impoverished smallholder Dafydd Rhys and his family emigrate with friends to Patagonia, at the tip of South America, where they are promised the freedom to speak their own language without punishment.

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Uncovers the natural history of the tiger, showing how the decline of its natural habitat and relentless pressure from poachers and farmers have turned a naturally retiring, solitary creature into an aggressive, man-eating predator. This book is of interest to the wide audience who admires this wonderfully vital, yet highly endangered species.

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When H.G. Wells showed his friends his fantastic time machine - which he really invented - he never suspected that his college friend, Leslie John Stevenson, was in truth Jack the Ripper. But when Scotland Yard closes in on Stevenson, he steals the machine and flees to the future - 1979 San Francisco.