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A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy.

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A groundbreaking book exploring homelessness in Britain today, filled with heartbreaking stories of struggle, survival and the life on our streets too many of us choose not to see.

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Written by an upper class travel writer who was born in 1921, this stranger-than-fiction memoir about love, sex, war, tragedy and adventure traverses the whole of 20th century planet earth and features countless celebrities, politicians and royalty.

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In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation. The essays combine literary and philosophical commentary with clinical vignettes.

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In the early hours of 5 September 1972 the perimeter fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich was scaled by terrorists. Their target was the temporary home of the Israeli Olympic team and within 24 hours seventeen men were dead. Why did so many die Any why have the German officials covered up details of the massacre

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An account of the author's memories of the Hiroshima bomb and its aftermath. Snider explores her struggle to find meaning in the absurd reality of war and the dawn of the atomic age. Coping with depression, guilt over her mother's death, and her fear of cancer are detailed.

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The first comprehensive look at Japan's otaku collectors, including peeks inside their rooms and visits to their favorite stores.

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An engaging and richly illustrated history of the oyster's role in worldwide gastronomy and culture, with 50 recipes

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This book discusses Pakeha (European) vassals or demi-slaves.

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

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Marrack Goulding joined the UN as the Under-Secretary-General in charge of peacekeeping operations in 1986, at a time of intense optimism. This account of seven years of peacekeeping gives the reader an insider's view of what went wrong and also of what the UN achieved during this critical period.

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Who are the People of New Zealand in the 21st Century This diverse bunch of characters is easily recognisable and hilariously familiar.

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A monograph on Stefano Pane Monfeli. It documents in a work of self-analysis, the symbiosis between the art and the life of Pane, with autobiographical stories, images of his work: drawings, paintings, and photographic memories in a story of journeys and the inner struggle of the artist, where one opposes urban society and nature.

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One of the great untold stories of twentieth century military history

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"Fascinating...[Predator] is a soup-to-nuts-or ground-to-air-history of the world's most potent unmanned aerial vehicle" - The Wall Street Journal.

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Don't fake it till you make it, fake it until you become it - the essential guide to body language

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"Little Ease" - a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down. "The Duke of Exeter's Daughter" and "Skeffington's Gyves" - two of the many excruciating versions of the rack. This text offers an account of instruments of torture through the ages.

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We see the signs around us every day, the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate high streets and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. This book makes the connection between these isolated, incremental, local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded.

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This publication presents a vivid portait of con- temporary Aboriginal peoples in Australia's Victoria state. OVer 90 images by award winning Koori photographer Ricky Maynard show Aboriginal people in their daily life.

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

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Focusing on economics and culture, this book argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power, but, it is not capable of coming to grips with the problems threatening human and non-human life on this planet.

This is a record, move-by-move and day-by-day, of the Allied counter-attack from the D-Day beaches through to the taking of Berlin, with photographs specially selected from the Imperial War Museum and other archive sources.