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Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics, this title explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots.

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As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. This book shows that if you want to understand the modern world, you cannot afford to ignore God - whether you believe in Him or not.

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Tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. Expelled from school and cut off from the town, mistrusted by his parents and avoided by city incomers, Marsdyke is a loner until he meets rebellious new neighbour Josephine.

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Features stories that explore the roots of love, murder and racial conflict. This book unlocks the concepts of history and prejudice and probes beneath the skin to the soul.

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As a golfer for almost forty years, John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle to the camaraderie of good golf and its own attendant perils.

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Elizabeth Hampton has not spoken to her mother in weeks when she gets the phone call. Her mother has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. But who would want to kill a kind old woman who stayed at home to care for her son Ronnie's special needs And why did her mother recently change her Will

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There is a growing trend of anti-politics, manifest in falling turnouts and party membership, and an assumption that politicians represent the worst venality rather than the highest ideals. This book explains why we have arrived at this point, what can be done to change the world, and how the power of governments can be used for good.

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Argues that our businesses have a duty to society and explores how those of us who work in a profit-making workplace can combine our spiritual and ethical selves with our everyday work. This title examines money markets across the globe and through the ages in a study of history, politics, religion and economics.

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Tells the story of the author's experiences as a young officer in the First World War. This title describes life in the trenches and how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked.

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Louisa, a smartly dressed young woman in the midst of a divorce, meets a charismatic man in a pub, and within an hour has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with Richard Gordon. Gordon, a psychiatrist, keeps Louisa in his thrall with his almost omniscient ability to see through her.

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Composed and published while the author (1628-1688) was in prison for his religious principles, this work presents a spiritual autobiography. It was written in an age when religious radicalism was regarded as socially subversive, and provides an account of his inner life: his long struggle with and eventual triumph over doubt and despair.

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'They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon'. When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

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After a month spent recovering from a vicious fight with a sorcerer, Grave Witch Alex Craft is ready to get back to solving murders by raising the dead. With her love life in turmoil thanks to the disappearance of FBI agent Falin Andrews and Death's shocking 'L word' confession, Alex is eager for the distractions of work.

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When the dead need to talk, Alex Craft is always ready to listen... As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead - an ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is compounding. But her magic isn't the only thing causing havoc in her life.

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Just because Grave Witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, doesn't mean she has to like what they have to say... As a private investigator and consultant for the police, Alex has seen a lot of dark magic. Alex is investigating a high-profile murder when she's attacked by the ghost she is raising - which should be impossible.

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Tells a haunting story that explores loss and memory. Spanning continents and decades, and weaving an intricate web of its characters' lives, this book is about love, loss and survival against the odds.

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Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of reportage: journalism, dispatches and eyewitness accounts. This is an anthology of Irish reportage.

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Original, provocative and entertaining, Great Southern Land provides the most comprehensive one-volume history of this endlessly fascinating nation.

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A collection of Greek fiction that includes "Callirhoe", "Daphnis and Chloe", "Letters of Chion".

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Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance. Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta.

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Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other This book reveals the untested - and unwanted - urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust.

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Written by a Greek traveller in the second century for a principally Roman audience, "Pausanias' Guide to Greece" is a comprehensive guidebook concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues. It describes the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. This, second of two volumes, explores Southern Greece.

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Reveals how to work smarter instead of harder. This book describes making the system work for you, so you can take control of your work load, increase your productivity, and help your company succeed - in spite of itself.