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Pedro Corra do Lago has gathered one of the world's finest autograph collections. From a parchment signed by four popes to Stephen Hawking's thumbprint signature, this book spans nearly 900 years of handwriting from the likes of van Gogh, Michelangelo, Queen Victoria, Einstein, and many more legendary figures across art, literature, science,...

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In December 1884, Austin was terrorised by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.

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An inside account of the Middle East peace process. Dennis Ross recounts the peace process in detail from 1988 to the breakdown of talks in early 2001, that prompted the so-called second Intifada - and takes account of developments in an after word written for this edition.

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In the 20th century, 170 million human beings have died in wars. That makes 4630 casualties a day, 193 every hour, and 3 every minute. While 1035 billion dollars were spent on warfare in 2004, only 78.6 billion were spent on aid to developing countries. This book presents post-9/11 analysis of war.

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Simply the most comprehensive compilation of information on the legendary Australian outlaw, in encyclopaedic form.

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A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it back. This book addresses the question central to China today: Is the Peoples Republic of China, whose politics is a hybrid of Chinese imperial tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire

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An objective and unbiased tour of the New Right that helped to elect Donald Trump-a movement many consider a dangerous threat to our democracy.

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There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is our public policies today that have turned reservations into third-world countries in the middle of the richest and freest nation on earth.

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How the Nordic countries can teach us how to live better, healthier and more fulfilling lives

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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The Optimistic Leftist takes a look at the structural and economic shifts remaking advanced societies and shows that the left is in a far better position to advance its agenda than the right.

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This is a study of hunter/gatherer culture. Brody studies the culture, and most especially the language, of the hunter/gatherers - the Inuit have 28 words for snow - and uses it to form insights into the way normal society works.

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"A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today"--

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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Passionate essays by 25 San Francisco activists on elections, war, urban hell and transformational politics.

(Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)

How can you find books and magazines that nurture a child's love of reading Safe and long-lasting toys that inspire the imagination Audiotapes of superior musical quality Computer software that is

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The first of two volumes in John Erickson's monumental history of the Soviet German war.

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By 1945, General MacArthur's forces had advanced from Papua to the Philippines and to Borneo. MacArthur's success was based on 22 amphibious assaults. The ships of the United States and Australian navies delivered them to the battlefronts and supported them. This book reveals facts of the Royal Australian Navy's crucial role in World War II.

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A former head of CIA's Russia analysis shows how Washington and Moscow may be headed toward nuclear annihilation.

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A social history of prostitution in Kalgoorlie, where the local brothels and the police station have shared the same street for more than a century.

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Why do people commit hate crimes A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book.

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The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations.