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The author takes a critical view of the Disney corporate giant, tracing its destructive impact on the environment and culture of America and the world.

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"Arnold Rothstein (1882--1928) was described in the newspapers of the 1920s as "a sportsman," "a gambler," and "the man who fixed the 1919 World Series." But he was much more than that. A bootlegger and"

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Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller.

The Boy Grows Up is an account of how Richard used the success of Just A Boy to try and save his sister, and of his attempts to make sense of his past whilst learning more about the effects of traumatic childhoods and loss.

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A study of his life and his writings provides new insight into liberalism, anti-semitism, the role of the journalist, and other aspects of life in late 19th century North America and Britain.

As a public intellectual, Goldwin Smith spoke out on a variety of issues, frequently provoking intense debate.

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Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern;

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John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.

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But what happens when your dad is a manic-depressive who paints the front door in the middle of the night and sends good-wishes to Michael Crawford scrawled on a pair of underpants

Martin Townsend grew up with a father, Ron, who had suffered recurring mental illness since the early 1950s.

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* An extraordinary work of history that uncovers the story of the Americans lost in Stalinist Russia

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With few jobs around, bland food and cold weather, the best that the author could hope for was a job at the local Findus factory. Her family didn't have it easy. Her baby brother was a cot death and the tragedy caused her mother to turn to the Jehovah's Witness faith. This title tells her story.

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The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. It provides specific, practical, instructional details for telling our own stories and gives the necessary guidelines for assisting others in telling their life stories.

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The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. It provides specific, practical, instructional details for telling our own stories and gives the necessary guidelines for assisting others in telling their life stories.

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In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness. It is an unexpected theme for the former boss of Ireland's biggest and toughest prison, Mountjoy, but then John Lonergan is an unusual man.

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The good, the bad, the violent, the victimised and the clinically insane: from his first teaching practice nemesis, Alan Plant, who knows his dark secret, to the pupil who believes he is a reincarnation of the poet Andrew Marvell.

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Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. This title documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.

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Today, Louise, the oldest daughter of Richard and Meave, continues the family tradition with fieldwork in northern Kenya.

The Leakey family's achievements have had an enormous impact on our knowledge of human origins and evolution.

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This study is a scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray (18631963) that examines all the facets of womens work in the history of archaeology and academia in the first half of the 20th century. It is unlikely story of the first professional female Egyptologist in Britain who has so far been largely ignored by historians.

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An inspirational true story of a 4 year old girl who fell into the power of a man whose evil knew no bounds. She encountered terrifying mental and physical torture from her psychopathic stepfather for a period of 17 years until she managed to break free, her spirit still unbroken

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In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security-ever since. Suelo doesn't pay taxes, or accept food stamps or welfare. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands, forages wild foods and gourmet discards.

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Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. Creator of the famous Obedience Experiments carried out at Yale in the early 1960s, and originator of the 'six degrees of separation' theory, Milgram continues to be an intriguing figure in psychology and beyond. This is a biography of Milgram.

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A timely and important re-evaluation of a pioneer in anthropology and Aboriginal studies: meticulously researched, beautifully written and convincingly argued.

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An extraordinary and unique memoir from an international hostage negotiator.

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For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United States, shows how much Vico, properly read, can bring to an understanding of contemporar