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Explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society, and the author's theory of Creative Evolution. This title intends to expose the eternal struggle between the sexes.

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Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800.

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Shanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives are altered inexorably. Each of these men must try to resolve their personal conflicts amid political turmoil, conspiracy and betrayal.

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Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and jumbled case histories of a picaresque cast of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, the author constructs a portrait of New York City as a futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy.

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Mapp and Lucia are the centrepiece of E.F. Benson's series of Lucia novels, bringing together the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society, Miss Mapp and Miss Lucas.

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Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. This title gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics.

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Sally is big and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard ...As a hot, feverish summer of weekends, secret phone calls and lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they've been letting on.

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Takes you into the world of Martin Lukes, Director of Marketing, A&B Global (UK). This book covers a year in the life of an A-playing brand ambassador suspended halfway up the corporate ladder.

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Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon.

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Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. This title explores the notion of 'mass-psychology'.

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A guide to French cooking, with over 1,000 clear, authentic and delicious recipes for everything from Boeuf Bourguignon to the perfect omelette.

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Helps cooks master the full repertoire of classic French dishes. This title includes recipes that range across soups from the garden and bisques from the sea, famour fish stews from Provence and Normandy, to suckling pig and charcuterie, baguettes and croissants, and through a huge variety of desserts to petit-fours.

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During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was shaped by four titanic figures: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, and their respective military commanders - General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C Marshall. This title tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler.

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Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. This title reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent and provides an insight into his life and work.

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Roy Edwards's vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli's autobiographical polemic. In his introduction, R. P. Meijer discusses the author's tempestuous life and career, the controversy the novel aroused and its unusual narrative structure.

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Write fortune cookies to each other. Decide on your perfect theme song. Brainstorm ideas for your matching tattoos. In this book, you can fill out each page with a different friend, or complete the whole book with a special someone.

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