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Explains how big business took control of what we eat - and why so few of us even noticed. This book uncovers some startling facts and stomach-churning figures of agribusiness. It is suitable for those who care about their health and our planet.

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Although we all want to help the environment, our knowledge of what are 'green' choices is often so limited that we can do more harm than good. This book shows you: Why a T-shirt that claims it is '100% organic cotton' may be in fact no such thing; and, Why it's good to buy tulips from Kenya and wine from France.

Demonstrating the author's growth as a writer, and influenced by his exposure to international events, this title presents an account of Filipino resistance to colonial rule.

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After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital bed she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly it doesn't look very edifying...

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Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm of art. This book deals with her life and work.

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In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure her 'microweathers': swings from searing joy to brooding malevolence. And here is the story of how this family of four came to be.

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As long as Cassie and Mircea are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own. The spell that binds them can only be broken with an incantation found in the Codex Merlini. The Codex's location has been lost so Cassie will have to seek it out in the past. But she soon realizes the Codex has been lost for a reason.

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In his pioneering treatise on education, the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents concepts that had influence on the development of pedagogy in the eighteenth century. Here, Rousseau asserts his main thesis that human beings are by nature good; it is only the distorting influences of civilization that have corrupted them.

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Exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale.

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Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - the author observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others. This title offers an account of the animals he encountered on his travels.

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Tells the story of how the FBI is America's real secret service. It is the story of America's war against spies, subversives and saboteurs - and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle.

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Reverses received wisdom, showing that the aeroplane is a central and revealing aspect of an unfamiliar English nation: a warfare state dedicated to technology, industry, empire and military power. This title tells the story of aeronautical England, from its politics to its industry and culture.

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Presented chronologically, this title offers a portrait of England and the English - and the unique place of both in world history. Through the words of those who saw it and made it, it covers: the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, the Peasants' Revolt, Henry VIII's break with Rome, the Great Fire of London, Nelson at Trafalgar, and the world wars.

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A collection of plays that features Crucifixion and Resurrection.

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Presents the harrowing story of Carolyn Jessop who suffered for the sake of her children. She tried to protect them as the cult's new leader, Warren Jeffs, started marrying girls off younger and younger. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffs' home, she had to take her children and flee.

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Plutarch wrote a large number of essays on ethical, scientific, philosophical, ephemeral, historical and literary topics. Even when dealing with technical subjects, the essays reflect the author's particular style - with anecdotes and quotations included.

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Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.

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Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. This book surveys the answers commonly proposed for such questions - gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Features a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. This book tells a story of love and joy, pain and passion, memory and forgetting - and one incredible journey.

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I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison, Eva Braun, 1945. Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin. So who was Eva Braun

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Pathologist Quirke works in the city morgue, watching over Dublin's dead. The latest to join their ghostly ranks is a suicide. But something doesn't add up. The victim has a suspicious head wound, and the only witness has vanished, every trace of her wiped away.

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What happens when nobody's running the world The US is in financial crisis and can't hold onto the reins of the G-20. Welcome to the G-Zero world, in which no single country has the power to shape a truly global agenda. The author reveals how world powers are rapidly turning into gated communities, locked in competition.

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Who lives and who dies Only time will tell... Forensic investigator Darby McCormick queues to enter Boston Police Headquarters on a freezing winter morning. Lured back to her hometown to help solve a cold case, Darby won't get far inside the station - and this will be no ordinary homecoming...