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'Looking back at The Libertines is like catching flashes of sunlight between buildings as you race by on a train. An old film reel where the spools are weathered and worn, leaving empty frames on the screen'

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They said it couldn't be done. Sceptics warned that as a car approached 750 mph the shock waves generated when it hit the sound barrier would either force it off the ground like an aeroplane or tear it apart. Richard Noble, the modern embodiment of the swashbuckling British speed seeker of yesteryear, was used to that kind of blinkered thinking.

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This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, including a discussion of the many legal cases in which he was involved.

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

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Tells the story of ordinary Tibetans in the twentieth century. This title refutes China's claim that Tibet has been part of China since the seventh century AD, showing how the relationship between the two countries was symbolic and ceremonial, rather than one of political suppression.

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Sarah tries to make sense of the vast new country she's won. After a lifetime of winning nothing but the right to be designated driver, Sarah Darmody strikes it rich in a contest so bizarre most people think it's an urban legend - the Green Card lottery.

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Actor and writer, Jane Lapotaire, was one of the lucky ones who survived 'a brain attack' (cerebral haemorrhage), the third biggest killer after cancer and heart attacks. This is her story.

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An account of what it was like to practice and adjudicate law in modern America, detailing shifts within the legal profession, both private and public, in the United States since the 1960s.

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An account of what it was like to practice and adjudicate law in modern America, detailing shifts within the legal profession, both private and public, in the United States since the 1960s.

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When Jill was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies heels, then headed to downtown Chicago in search of their one-and-only true loves forever: the members of whichever rock band was touring through town.

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Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at Cawdor Castle, as featured in Macbeth. Her father Hugh, the 25th Thane of Cawdor, inherited good looks,wealth, an ancient title, three stately homes and 100,000 acres of land.

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In 1829 Eliza Shaw left England with her husband, six children, two servants, some livestock and tools. They settled on the upper Swan River. This book presents a story that is recorded through the eyes of a remarkable woman.

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As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first hand. His journal of what he saw became a book on his return to Australia. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Loch's book a novel: The Straits Impregnable.

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Autobiography depicting the life and times of Greg X in South Jamaica, Queens-NYC.

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The first biography of the elusive musician who influenced an entire generation of country songwriters as his tragic life became the stuff of legend

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Ultimately they would wed and venture together into some of the most inaccessible regions on Earth.
At this tender age, Florence Baker had already seen and experienced more than most women of the Victorian era.

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After travelling the world in his handmade boat, Scottish adventurer Ron Falconer meets Anne, and with their two children, they go to live on tiny Caroline Atoll in the Pacific. This is an account of their life lived simply in this paradise. Finally, modern day realities intervene, and they have to leave the island as developers arrive.

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General, minister of war, and prime minister, Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was the most powerful leader in Japan during World War II. This book examines his life against the backdrop of Japanese militarism to illuminate the man who chose war rather than succumb to US-induced economic strangulation.

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Tokutomi Soho was one of modern Japan's most prolific, most popular, and most influential journalists and social critics. Through a comprehensive and balanced biography of this important public figure, John Pierson examines the interaction of a man and his time. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-d