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Sheds a new and important light on the mountain
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Curiosity is the desire to know or learn, inquisitiveness about trifles or other people's affairs, a curious matter or investigation, a vanity, a curious detail or feature. This book introduces readers to a London full of curiosities.

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Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils are Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets Curious about Chuck's debut in an MTV music video What goes on at the Scum Center In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions.

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This work explores the growth and development of London, as a world city, capital of Britain and large metropolitan area, through its major functions, institutions, people and internal spatial structures.

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Barry Stone's fascinating insight into Australia's most noteworthy hotels takes us inside the buildings which have hosted and witnessed the development of our Great Southern Land.

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Hella Nation charts Wright's deeply personal journey, from his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his raw portrait of a Hollywood ber-agent turned war documentarian and hero of America's far right.

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Mohammed Dar and his family found themselves living inside a new and foreign world of violence.

Justine Hardy has stayed with the Dar family for many years, reporting on the conflict.

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Covering subjects as diverse as Hindu extremism, bonded child labour, Sufi mysticism, the crisis in agriculture, the persistence of political corruption and the problem of Kashmir, the athor presents a picture of India that is at once poignant, funny, startling, and deeply humane.

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* Ireland - anatomised by the world's most travelled writer, and maybe its funniest.

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Authors come together to explore the regions of the Asian borderlands where the traditions of Islam and China interact. Their collaboration has resulted in this lavishly illustrated book which gives us a glimpse of the rich diversity of life on the Islamic frontiers of China.

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A useful guide to English-language reference materials on Japan and the Japanese, this selective annotated bibliography is designed for use by information seekers at all levels. Part I covers general reference works, while Part II covers materials on specific subject areas.

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From Ethan Hawke, Sid Vicious, and Madonna to Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Sarah Bernhardt, renowned New York City blogger Ed Hamilton chronicles the past and present artistic, eccentric, and insane inhabitants of the most famous bohemian building in the world, the Chelsea Hotel

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Living and working in Paris and Lyon with her husband Michael, the author navigates local customs, language and baffling social niceties, uncovering a country that is charming, sometimes maddening and more than a little contradictory.

Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes.

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A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times.

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Explores some of the places on the campus made famous by television and movies, such as 1993's "Rudy". This book also delves into the hidden or unknown areas of campus.

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With a novelist's eye for detail and colour, Gita Mehta writes of the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world's population. It has the world's largest film industry, and the world's oldest religions. Now as never before, the world wants to know what contemporary India is all about.

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A brilliant and ground-breaking exploration of the crucial role of nature in shaping and inspiring our most enduring artists and writers including Monet, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

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Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them.

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Alphabetically organized and thoroughly cross-referenced entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth in North and South America.

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What makes us uniquely Australian An essential, comprehensive guide for every Aussie packed with fascinating and humorous facts, figures and quotations about our politics, our icons, literature and language, sport, flora and fauna, key dates and events.