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Part of the author's autobiography, this first title recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.

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Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.

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The author has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But he brings with him secrets - of a family tragedy that he failed to prevent and a childhood overshadowed by war.

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Looks at how the internet is transforming our culture, providing outlets for human potential. From lolcats to tools for tracking voter fraud and ethnic violence, this book shows how we're using our cognitive surplus for the better, and what it means for the future.

One of the founders of cognitive therapy writes a clear, comprehensive guide to the basis of emotional disturbance and highlights such important concepts as learning the meaning of hidden messages, listening to automatic thoughts, the role of sadness, anger and anxiety, understanding and overcoming phobias and depression, and applying the cognitive system of therapy to specific problems.

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Columbus undertook three voyages between 1494 and 1504, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. This book shows how the subsequent voyages illustrate the costs - political, moral, and economic.

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Meade is nineteen and living in Paris with her twin brother, Ben Ho, far from their privileged upbringing in Nashville, Tennessee. Hers is a restless quest of balancing addictions: to her brother, her pills and her purging. But when Ben Ho falls for a girl at art school, Meade's precarious equilibrium is shaken.

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Offers guidance on specific aspects of written English. This book is an A-Z checklist of the mistakes that crop up in various aspects of written English. It gives guidance on usage difficulties, and includes several controversies, pitfalls and oddities of English. It is suitable for those who do any kind of writing.

Draws principles of fundamental human rights.

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Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Bchner's letters and philosophical writings.

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A collection of poems.

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An anthology of 18th-century writings that gives an insight into the dreadful misdeeds of - and the horrible punishments meted out to - an array of rogues and criminals, from murderers and swindlers to prostitutes and pirates. It takes us from the backstreets and brothels to Newgate prison and the gallows at Tyburn.

The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the body on the slab in front of him would change his life, and ultimately change the world. Dr Bennet Omalu found that psychosis suffered by "Iron Mike" was no accident. His autopsy unearthed evidence of a trauma-related disease, the direct result of years of blows to the head in games.

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Miss S is smart, sassy, sexually frustrated and broke. With the rent money due, she spots an ad for a student job with a difference - in the massage parlour at the bottom of her road. This is the true and intimate diary of Miss S' extraordinary first year in a brothel and reveals exactly what a Gemini half hour really involves.

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Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.

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What goes on in our heads when we have a thought This book presents an empirically-supported theory of consciousness. It applies the resources and insights of modern neuroscience to experiments that detect the changes in brain activity.

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In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away.

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Portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy who is forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. This book describes the fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India.

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Pons is an ageing musician, and believes that fame has fallen to nothing. Living with his friend, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. This novel concerns French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.

Claire Canton is at a crossroads in her marriage. Her husband Chris has recently taken some knocks from life, pushing him to retreat to a dark place where no one can reach him, not even Claire. She feels alone and with nowhere to turn... Then Claire is pulled over by police officer Daniel Rush, a man with a tragic past.

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Includes "Cranford" which depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village - their petty snobberies and appetite for gossip, and their loyal support for each other in times of need; and, "Cousin Phillis", which depicts a fleeting love affair in a rural community at a time when old values are being supplanted by the new.