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A lyrical and moving Polish family saga set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Europe Lala has lived a dazzling life. Born in Poland just after the First World War and brought up to be a perfect example of her …
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The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
For a decade Americas share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the worlds manufacturing capacity, …
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Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree
A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: You dont know me, but Im your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database. And so begins …
From the award-winning author of Ishmaels Oranges comes a searing novel with a profound moral conflict at its heart. When a heart attack kills his father, young architect Nick abandons his comfortable London life to volunteer abroad for a year …
From the multi-award-winning author of Twice Born comes this dazzling, emotionally charged tale of two mothers fight to protect their childrens futures When the water is safer than the land... As Gaddafi clings to power in Libya, Farid and his …
If justice is an intrinsic value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition? Today, the idea of gender equality, inherent to contemporary conceptions of justice, presents a challenge to established, patriarchal interpretations of …
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To Break All the Rules
Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared. They had no time for what society said they could and couldnt do and would see the world bend before they did. …
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From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014 A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION OF 2014 ROXANE GAYS TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2014 AN AMAZON …
Dani is ravaged by anorexia and hasnt eaten for days. Fletcher is fighting to stay off the streets and to stay off drugs. Will their attraction to each other save or destroy them? Both patients at the Daisy Bank Rehab …
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How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was Gods messiah. Less than …
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Women Men Work Family
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately went viral, …
The EU referendum in the UK and Trumps victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces …
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Playdate Adventures
Guaranteed free of unicorns and princesses, its fun, empowering fiction for 5-8 year olds. David Nicholls, author of One Day Every young girl should read this series! Amanda Holden I loved learning about how the ocean is in trouble. Tess, …
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Ready-to-Read Level 2
Discover what its like to grow up in Australia in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world!Hello! My name is Ruby, and Im a kid just …
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The Truth Behind Ten Defining Events in British History And the Half-truths, Lies, Mistakes and What We Really Just Don't Know About Brexit
From the Magna Carta to the Falklands, the years that have made Britain, for better and for worseDid the longbow secure victory at Agincourt or are the English just better in mud? Did Queen Elizabeth I know the Armada had …
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(Mindwalker, Book 1)
IT IS THE FUTURE. THERE IS NO WAR, NO SOCIAL UNREST, NO PAINFUL MEMORIES... AND NO FREEDOM. At seventeen, Lain has already aced the Institutes elite training programme for Mindwalkers, therapists who use direct neural links to erase traumatic memories. …
What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when …
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Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast
From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europes doorstep. Chasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story …
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A Dance History Reader
Wesleyan University Press
This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. Editors Dils and Albright address the current dearth of comprehensive teaching material in the dance history field through the creation of a multifaceted, non-linear, …
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A Jericho Quinn Thriller
A special agent fights chaos and terror in midair in this thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author of Stone Cross... Special agent Jericho Quinn is a wanted man. Suspected of murder and marked for death by a network of …
Until recently, infrastructure was the backbone of organizations operating software they developed in-house. But now that cloud vendors run the computers, companies can finally bring the benefits of agile custom-centricity to their own developers. Adding product management to infrastructure organizations …
Irrepressible Colorado Amish quiltmaker Esther Kiem is delighted to help the four Yoder sisters stitch together their beloved great-grandmothers birthday quilt...especially when it means putting her matchmaking talents to use!Infused with her signature humor and heart, award-winning, USA Today bestselling …
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Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends
Discusses the players, theories, and trends that affect how the world communicates and gets their information This book is a definitive text on multinational communication and media conglomerates, exploring how global media influences both audiences and policy makers around the …
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Nation-State, School and Ethnic Difference in The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France
Berghahn Books
For several years now, the concepts of 'civil culture' and 'civil society' have been widely discussed in the social sciences. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this volume is one of few studies that offer solid and focused ethnographic research on …
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