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Looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body.

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There is no training course in the world that will set you up for dead bodies. This book features a story that offers a revealing look at the macho world of the guards and what it's really like on the inside.

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Argues that we've been thinking about disease all wrong. Through research and dramatic patient stories, this book reveals how chronic physical and emotional pain are linked.

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Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of its accustomed comforts.

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Offers an introduction to the underlying principles of non-Western music and to encourage the reader to explore rich and fascinating sounds and rhythms from around the world. This book covers the traditional music of five continents, namely Sub-Saharan Africa, the Islamic world, the Indian subcontinent, China and the Far East.

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It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected. Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising.

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Describes the author's three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Combining humour with erudition, this title provides an account of this journey.

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Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem relates how Troilus persuades Crisyede to become his lover, only to be forced apart by the events of war. This edition contains an introduction that places the poem in the context of its times, with notes and appendices.

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Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem of Chaucer relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede.

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Anglo-American James Goodson's war began on Sept 3rd 1939, when the SS Athenia was torpedoed and sank off the Hebrides. Surviving the sinking and distinguishing himself rescuing survivors, Goodson signed on with the RAF. In this memoir, he presents full descriptions of aerial dogfights as well as the stories of others of the heroic 'few'.

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Lick Holden is a young jazz musician, who sets New Orleans on fire with his cornet at the beginning of the last century. But Lick's passion is to find his lost step-sister and that's a journey that leads him to a place he can call 'home'. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century there is Sylvia, an English prostitute, and Jim, a young drifter.

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Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. In this book, he gives an account of his captivity.

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Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric hospital, he is not a patient but rather a visiting professional with a secret, highly personal quest. A Holocaust survivor who has painstakingly rebuilt his life, he has watched, horrified and helpless, as it all started coming apart.

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Takes us into the world of the elite of the elite: the greatest marathoners on earth.

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The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart.

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A guide to the financial statements of companies. Referring throughout to the financial statements of actual companies, it shows not only how to read a balance sheet but also what investors should look out for. It deals with taxation, audit, profitability and return on investment, liquidity and cash flows, sources of funds and capital structure.

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On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches. It is a year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, and Evelyn, desperate to feel useful, begins reading to some of the prisoners.

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The author's prostitute mother abused and neglected her; leaving her with clients, starving her and beating her to a pulp. But the worst thing was that the people who were supposed to protect her turned a blind eye. This book tells the shocking real-life story of suffering and survival from a child abuse victim.

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The author thinks constantly about the most pressing issue in business: how can businesses can use digital to thrive He has studied what the businesses succeeding have in common. This title teaches us to recognise that it's not just customers who interact with the digital version of our organisations.

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Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie's mysteriously vanished brother-and find themselves desperately trying to stop a shocking plot of a secret Templar cabal that has been growing for five hundred years.