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The Sweetness Of Honey And The Sting Of Bees A Book Of Love From The Ancient Mediterranean

Michelle Louvric · 1997

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1997 Hardback 97 Bestselling author Michelle Lovric explores the alchemy of human passion in this brilliant anthology of poems and letters by vanished lovers from the ancient Mediterranean. In these new translations by Lovric and young scholar Mardas, 2...

Defend The Realm - The Authorized History Of MI5

Christopher M. Andrew · 2009

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,474)

Alfred A. Knopf 2009 Hardback 1032 An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service i...

Rilla Of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, No. 8)

L. M. Montgomery · 1992

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Random House Children's Books 1992 Paperback 304 Anne's children are almost all grown up, except for spirited and fun-loving Rilla. With her sparkling hazel eyes and infectious smile, Rilla is impossible to ignore. At almost fifteen, all she can think about is going to her fir...

Queen Victoria In Her Letters And Journals

Christopher Hibbert · 2000

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,676)

Sutton Publishing 2000 Paperback 384 This revealing selection from the Queen's papers provides essential clues to her character, tracing her development from shy princess to the formidable and uncompromising grande dame of Europe. How did she feel on hearing that she had becom...

How To Be A Man

Jonh Birmingham and Dirk Flinthart · 2000

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

Duffy & Snellgrove 2000 Paperback 325 In this book, Birmingham and Flinthart answer questions many men are just too embarrassed to ask, including: How do you swallow a sword? How do you dress well without looking like a complete goose? And how do you talk intelligently about S...

The Rings Of Saturn

Winfried Georg Sebald · 1998

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New Directions 1998 Paperback 296 The Rings of Saturn--with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir ...

What's Wrong With Ethnography? Methodological Explorations

Martyn Hammersley · 1993

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Psychology Press 1993 Paperback 230 This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions. "What's Wrong With Ethnography provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness ...

On The Teaching And Writing Of History Responses To A Series Of Questions

Bernard Bailyn · 1994

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University Press of New England 1994 Paperback 97 "Accurate historical knowledge is essential for social sanity." Bailyn, a professor at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writes of the impossibility of teaching history without bias, and that history itself is constantl...

The Conquered

Naomi Mitchison · 2009

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Kennedy & Boyd 2009 Paperback 338 Naomi Mitchison's first novel, published just five years after the end of the First World War, in 1918. Mitchison chose to write about wars, but about historic ones, Julius Caesar's bloody and gradual conquest of Gaul. Instead of Caesar's sere...

The Gathering Of The Lost - The Wall of the Night Book Two

Helen Lowe · 2012

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Orbit 2012 Paperback 574 Tarathan of Ar and Jehane Mor ride into the great city of Ij in time for its grand Festival of Masks. But soon after their arrival they witness a terrible slaughter as their fellow heralds are targeted and assassinated. They must flee for their lives a...

Daughter Of Blood - The Wall Of Night Book Three

Helen Lowe · 2016

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Orbit 2016 Paperback 752 A failing wall, a broken shield... and an enemy that will exploit every weakness Malian and Kalan are coming home, but already it may be too late. The Wall of Night, dangerously weakened by civil war among the Derai families that garrison it, is on the...

Gallows Thief

Bernard Cornwell · 2002

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HarperCollins 2002 Paperback 405 1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petitio...

Antioxidants A Health Revolution : All You Need To Know About Antioxidants

M. C. Bradstock and Carolyn Lister · 2003

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research 2003 Paperback 96 From inside back cover: "Dr. Carolyn Lister has produced this book in response to a plea from dieticians for a user-friendly, up-to-date guide to a complex nutritional issue. Dr. Lister is a scientist with Crop &...

Vitamin C: The Future Is Now

Jeffrey S. Bland · 1995

$7.50 (€6.80 | £5.68 | ¥1,197)

Keats Pub 1995 Stapled 48 In this shortened guide on Vitamin C, the author explains the role of that master-vitamin in a variety of healing mechanisms on various diseases. Minor foxing. Good

Journey With My Shadow: A Collection Of Poetry

Samson Sahele · 2012

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Self-published 2012 Paperback 82 "A collecton of poetry that exposes the reality of Africa: the human rights violations, the killings and abuses, and the harassment by dictators... These poems are also about living in exile; about living with both loss and hope in a new countr...

Caterpillar

June Carlton and Catherine Mair · 1990

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Self-published 1990 Paperback A poetry collection by Catherine Mair with illustrations by June Carlton. Caterpillar is a word-picture account of a trip through a country area of New South Wales, Australia and from Hong Kong to Beijing to Lhasa in Tibet. It is an attempt to cap...

Walking Home

Michele Amas · 2020

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,953)

Victoria University of Wellington Press 2020 Paperback 79 Walking Home gathers together some of the last poems written by Michele Amas. These are poems of tenacity and courage, and of locating oneself in time and in love. 'Teach me how to live I cried' goes a line in the poem ...

The Pelican Guide To English Literature 7 : The Modern Age

Boris Ford · 1957

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Pelican 1957 Paperback 579 Most of this seventh and final volume of The Pelican Guide to English Literature is devoted to essays dealing in detail with such individual writers as Conrad, E. M. Forster, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and D. H. Lawrence. Ther...

The Jewel Of St Petersburg

Kate Furnivall · 2010

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Sphere 2010 Paperback 464 Russia, 1910. Young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersburg's aristocracy with her classic Russian beauty and her talent as a pianist. But she scandalises society when she begins a romance with Jens Friis, a Danish engineer. He brings to her life a pas...

Golden Pavements - Blue Door 3

Pamela Brown · 2019

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Steerforth Press 2019 Paperback 288 The third book in the Blue Door series, which starts with The Swish of the Curtain , the classic story which inspired actors from Maggie Smith to Eileen Atkins. 'How do you think you'll like the Academy?' 'Like it!' cried Lyn. 'I love it alr...