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This guide to the languages of the world details more than 400 languages in a clear A-Z style.

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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the most important woman in American political history, and in this definitive biography, ten years in the making, Blanche Wiesen-Cook re-creates her in all of her roles - as a visionary, activist and political wife.

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Talking Heads have achieved the status of rock legends. With hits including "Take Me to the River", and "Psycho Killer", and a Hollywood film of their live performances, the band, formed in New York, 1970, have always been musical pioneers. This work charts their early years, the worldwide success and eventual acrimonious break-up of the band.

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This is the story of Mo Anthoine, who found joy in adventures that tested the limits of human endurance. His passion for "feeding the rat" made him the unsung hero of dozens of horrifying epics in the mountains, including the Ogre expedition that nearly killed Doug Scott and Sir Chris Bonington.

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A collection of essays.

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Banished from the sheltered idyll of his Beirut childhood, Toby Shadrach struggles to adapt to the treacherous new realities of a British boarding school. He begins to see a similar pattern of ritual and wild crazes between the school and the sectarian violence of the Middle East.

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This is the tale of Prot's return to earth and his plan to take some beings back with him the next time he goes home. For Dr Brewer, as well as for the patients who are desperate to win his favour in the hope they might be chosen, it's a race against time, for this visit will be his last.

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This work responds to the interest in the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth. Barry Crawford shows how recent advances in research have inspired a new generation of scholars to believe they can be more successful than their predecessors in recovering the historical Jesus.

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Collected essays and journalism from one of our foremost writers: from cultural commentary to the war in Iraq

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This reissue is a defence of orthodoxy. Chesterton wrote of it; "In these pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have come to believe."

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Applying a sociological approach to the available biblical and literary sources, Saldarini accurately portrays these three most prominent groups of educated leaders in Jewish society and describes their relationship with other Jewish social movements from 200 BCE to 100 CE

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Red Adair is now a multimillionaire, but he has worked his way up from a poor childhood in Houston where he spent years on the railways and on bomb-disposal before becoming an expert on oil-well firefighting. This is an account of his heroic life fighting fires all over the world.

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A fascinating insight into the extraordinary relationship between elephants and humans

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Includes stories that focus on racial issues.

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Lyricist, composer, tortured genius and enigma. A biography both of the man and his work.

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In this engaging tale of gratitude in the face of adversity, a poor farmer buys a rundown, rock-filled farm and turns it into the richest land for miles around. A book for young children with a compelling story-line, it contains an easy-to-understand message with a clear, positive moral.

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A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario who created "Oh Calcutta". This work features his diaries that remind older readers of a man whose reputation as the greatest critic of the twentieth century is still unchallenged.

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"The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew" incorporates all Hebrew from the earliest times to c.200 CE. It includes all the data from Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus), the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts, and the Hebrew inscriptions down to 200 CE.

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Bernadette is 16. She is pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't know.

Much more importantly than all that, however, she will soon be auditioning for her high school's production of Genet's The Maids. As she stands on the cusp of adulthood, she must learn to untangle the real world outside from the thorns of her imagination.

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Through the stories of four sisters born between 1907 and 1914, this book examines a century of extraordinary change in Chinese culture and in women's lives.

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In 1869, After an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one Maori boy, aged 5, was captured and adopted by the Prime Minister. Educated to become a lawyer and an 'English gentleman', Ngataua Omahuru had played a crucial role in New Zealand's history. This book gives an historical account of the Maori boy raised as an English gentleman.

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