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A rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell. It re-creates for the modern reader the meanings that the poem had for Dante's contemporaries.

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Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public.

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Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment.

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A wealthy factory owner - once a rural peasant - refuses to help the victims of an earthquake until his daughter starts a relief effort of her own; a powerful Uyghur gangster clashes with his homosexual grandson; and a man struggles to undertake a physically impossible task - constructing a giant crystal sarcophagus for the dead leader.

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Littlefield, Massachusetts: home to psychologists, college professors and their over-achieving children, and recently lauded as one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America. If happiness had a home it would be here. Then the first dog is poisoned. At first, there is shock and disbelief: who would commit such a cruel act - and why

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Stepping out into the dusk of an warm evening, esteemed art critic Sukhanov feels on top of the world. But the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change. His future is haunted by doubt. Beset by visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices: in swapping a life as a brilliant underground artist for comfort did he betray his dreams

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A man plagued by nightmarish visions seeks help in Miskatonic University's library of forbidden books, where, in the dreaded Necronomicon, he finds clues in legends of elder magic in "The Dreams in the Witch House," the title story in an anthology containing more than twenty chilling tales of terror

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Offers you 'Intelligent Nutrition' that combines foods with minimal calories but with maximal nutritional value to blast the pounds away and make you look and feel amazing. In this title, the author helps you to work with your body, leaving you vibrant, energised and radiant from the inside out.

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A man is found dead near his home with a pitchfork through his neck. When DCI Guillermo Downes is called to the scene he realizes the victim is well known to him. A decade earlier, Downes made a promise to the families of two missing girls that he would find their daughters.

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When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. But, in a community where land is everything, sibling rivalry quickly turns to brutal hatred, as Buteau declares himself unsatisfied with his lot.

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An alcoholic until the age of 34, he then became a highly trained counsellor on addiction and runs the Prom recovery centre in Kent, where he treats alcoholics, drug addicts and people with eating disorders. Thus he would say he's been in the business of alcoholism for 43 years - only the first 43 he was all for it.

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Explores the shifting stories of those who come to India in search of that elusive something - and of how they react when the country and people they encounter are altogether foreign to their expectations.

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Explores how modern food manufacturers have hijacked the brains of millions by turning our meals into perfectly engineered portions of fat, salt and sugar, turning us into addicts in the process. With a focus on the problems in the UK and Europe, this title lays out a plan and tools for reclaiming control over our cravings.

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Martial was born in Bibilis, Spain, probably around 38-41 AD. His poems are definitely modelled off of Catullus' epigrams and elegiac verses, although they are different in meaning and theme. These poems are hilarious and audacious, cruel, lewd, charming, spiteful, and creative; and they bring to life the social and political milieu of Rome.

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A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705".

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The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. This book tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany

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This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.

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The Fat Ladies Club met at antenatal classes and became firm friends. This book shares their experiences of first-time pregnancy.

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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a method of thinking based on proof and experiment. This is account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society.

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South Africa - a land torn apart by greed... Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals.

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Contains stories that include "The Melancholy Hussar", "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions", "The First Countess of Wessex", "Barbara of the House of Grebe", "For Conscience' Sake", "The Son's Veto", "On the Western Circuit", "An Imaginative Woman", "A Changed Man", and "Enter a Dragoon".