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Marshal Pétain
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Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century. A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become (...)
Old Men Forget
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Politician, poet and diplomat, Lord Norwich better known as Duff Cooper compiled his autobiography with the aid of his detailed and frank diaries. The many entries he quotes in these pages lend immediacy and humour to some of the most important events for twentieth-century Britain. During his (...)
Lucy Carmichael
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Lucy Carmichael Margaret Kennedy s tenth novel, first published in 1951 and a work by a mature novelist at the height of her powers opens on an unforgettably disastrous scene, as the novel s eponymous heroine, preparing to savour her wedding day, is instead jilted at the altar. Lucy Carmichael (...)
Lucifer Before Sunrise
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Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Beginning in the winter of 1940/1 and ending with the uneasy 'sunrise' of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving idealistically to hold a balance while lamenting the division and possible total ruin of Europe, as he copes with (...)
The Gale of the World
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The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor (...)
The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
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Like Charles II, the sick man of Europe was 'an unconscionable time dying.' Time and time again from the seventeenth century observers predicted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, yet it outlived all its rivals. As late as 1910 it straddled three continents. Unlike the Romanovs, Hohenzollerns or (...)
Diana Cooper
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Lady Diana Cooper was in her prime widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in England and the idol of her generation. She was witty, outrageous, generous and loyal. Famous as a member of the aristocratic and intellectual group 'The Cotorie', she later edited the magazine Femina before starting (...)
Writing at the Kitchen Table
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Elizabeth David was born into a upper-class family and pursued a rebellious and bohemian life as a student of art and then an actress in Paris, before running off with a married man to Greece and then settling in Cairo, where she worked for the British government. After the Second World War, she (...)
One Man and His Plot
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Writer of The Times Diary, Michael Leapman, became a tenant of an allotment next to Brixton Prison for 35p a year in 1974 when food and energy shortages inspired many people to attempt self-sufficiency. This book tells the story of the plot and the author's first year of cultivating it, written (...)
We Come Unseen
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We Come Unseen, first published in 2001, follows the careers of six Royal Navy submariners from their graduation from Dartmouth's Britannia Royal Naval College in 1963, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Between these dates, it seemed that nuclear war was (...)
A Solitary War
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Volume thirteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. In September 1939, war with Germany casts its long shadow over the town and countryside. Phillip Maddison, now farming in East Anglia, still stubbornly believes that Hitler's chief aim is the defence of Europe against Stalin; but he is engaged in (...)
The Power of the Dead
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Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas. (...)
The Art of Happiness
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'It is not our struggle to be happy that is mistaken; it is our false idea that we can find happiness anywhere but in ourselves... happiness does not depend on outward things. It is born of the mind, it is nourished by the mind, it is what rises, like breath in a frosty air, from the mind's (...)
Innocent Birds
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'A village is like a stage that retains the same scenery throughout all the acts of the play. The actors come and go, and walk to and fro, with gestures that their passions fair or foul use them to… A country village has a way now and again of clearing out all its inhabitants in one rush, as though (...)
Erskine Childers
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Immortalized as the author of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers led a life quite as enigmatic and adventurous as his classic novel.Childers was orphaned at an early age. Though he was brought up in County Wicklow, he received an English education that culminated in a clerkship to the House (...)
Scenes of Childhood
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In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders (...)
The Memsahibs
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Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought worthy of record, and writers have handed down (...)
Somebody
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Marlon Brando will never cease to fascinate us: for his triumphs as an actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris), as well as his disasters; for the power of the screen portrayals he gave, and for his turbulent, tumultuous personal life. Seamlessly intertwining the man and the (...)
Ink Stone
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The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable (...)
GUIA POETICA DE ALBANIA
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"Guía poética de Albania nos invita a realizar un viaje a Albania que lo es al tiempo hacia uno mismo, en que, partiendo del procesamiento poético de la experiencia vivida, nos aproxima a la esencia y el alma de Albania, su drama, sus mitos y su uni¬verso simbólico. Un viaje hacia dentro y hacia (...)
Revista Documentación Administrativa nº 286/287
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Número doble dedicado al estudio de los nuevos paradigmas y retos que se plantean en la Administración actual: dirección política, sistema de mérito, el directivo profesional, las tendencias actuales en los sistemas de control interno de las organizaciones, etc.
The Donor
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Will Marion has two perfect kidneys.His daughters aren't so lucky. Question is: which one should he save? Will's 47. His wife bailed out when the twins were in nappies and hasn't been seen since. He coped OK by himself at first, giving Georgie and Kay all the love he could, working in a boring (...)
El legado de los Ramones
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Los Ramones. Spiderman. Umbral. Los SMS. La Coca-Cola. Chiquilicuatre. Murakami. José Tomás. Amy Winehouse. Benicio del Toro. Céline. Salinger. Son algunos de los temas tocados en esta singular recopilación de artículos que lleva por título "El legado de los Ramones". En ellos descubriremos la cara (...)
Paisaje con reptiles
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Un conjunto de islas bajo el sol. Complejos turísticos voluptuosos y tranquilos. Una mancha de naturaleza desconocida que se va entendiendo y aproximando a la costa sin que puedan frenarla. Una violencia soterrada y una serie de insólitas transformaciones que van poco a poco apoderándose de los (...)
La Voz de Gaia
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"Desde la llegada de los kalaar, seres de otro mundo, los habitantes del continente de media luna han usado el nacba, la energía espiritual del planeta, para potenciar sus aptitudes mágicas. El pueblo de Primalia, defensor y administrador de la fuente de nacba, se da cuenta con horror que el (...)
Cuando la batalla arrecia
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Este libro se ha escrito para orientar a todos aquellos que están atravesando momentos de prueba. Los estudiosdel autor, sus experiencias y los ejemplos bíblicos en los que se fundamenta ayudarán al lector a renovar sus fuerzas en el poder del Señor y seguir luchando con ahínco la batalla de la fe.
El enigma Israel
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Este es un libro revelador e inspirador. En él encontrarás: La Historia de Israel, desde Abraham hasta la restauración de Israel y su establecimiento como Estado Moderno después de la Diáspora. El conflicto árabe-israelí y el concepto de Palestina. Cómo conjugar el misterio de Israel y la Iglesia. (...)
Llamados a ser diferentes
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"El libro "Llamados a ser diferentes" nos presenta una visión clara del impacto que tiene en una persona encontrarse con la presencia de Dios. Nos enseña que, cuando te encuentras con Dios, eres movido por una convicción que te lleva a comprometerte de una forma práctica con la misión que Él ha (...)
La esencia del cristianismo
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Este estudio se centra en una sola palabra. Esta palabra contiene lo fundamental de la fe cristiana. El apóstol Juan dijo que en esa palabra se resumían los mandamientos divinos. Esa palabra es amor. El autor nos adentra con delicada precisión en el amor a Dios y el amor al prójimo y sus (...)
LA PRIMERA NOCHE DE CEMENTERIO Y OTROS TEXTOS
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DIVERTIDOS Y SARCÁSTICOS TEXTOS EN LOS QUE SE SATIRIZAN COSTUMBRES, ACTUACIONES DE LA AUTORIDAD, SUS ININTELIGIBLES ESCRITOS Y OFICIOS, O LAS ANDANZAS DE AMIGOS Y COLEGAS.
Occupational Outlook Handbook 2011-2012
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The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource available for choosing the career that s right for youWhen making a decision about your career path, it is crucial that you consider any aspect of a job that will affect your future, your sense of fulfillment, and your bottom line.With current statistics (...)
5 Steps to a 5 AP US History, 2012-2013 Edition
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A Perfect Plan for the Perfect ScoreWe want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies (...)
5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2012-2013 Edition
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A Perfect Plan for the Perfect ScoreWe want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies (...)
5 Steps to a 5 AP English Literature, 2012-2013 Edition
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A Perfect Plan for the Perfect ScoreWe want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies (...)
5 Steps to a 5 AP English Language, 2012-2013 Edition
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A Perfect Plan for the Perfect ScoreWe want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies (...)
5 Steps to a 5 AP Microeconomics/Macroeconomics, 2012-2013 Edition
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A Perfect Plan for the Perfect ScoreWe want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies (...)
Blue Horizons : Dispatches from Distant Seas
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR LITERATURESail to the ends of the earth and back again without leaving your favorite reading chairWhen Beth Leonard and her partner, Evans Starzinger, returned from a three-year, 35,000 mile circumnavigation, they thought they were done with offshore (...)
The Complete Guide to Coaching Girls' Basketball : Building a Great Team the Carolina Way
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"Coach Hatchell's book is a must-read for every girls' basketball coach. She is fantastic in every phase of the game, and I love watching her teams play."—Roy Williams, head men's basketball coach, University of North Carolina, and Associated Press Coach of the Year, 2006What does it take to (...)
Powerboat Handling Illustrated : How to Make Your Boat Do Exactly What You Want It to Do
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From docking to surviving storm waves,everything you need to know before you hit the waterUsing hundreds of illustrations and photos, Powerboat Handling Illustrated shows you step-by-step how to do tasks such as docking, trimming, wave handling, and close-quarters maneuvering. These maneuvers are (...)
Wilderness Survival : Living Off the Land with the Clothes on Your Back and the Knife on Your Belt
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"Do you have what it takes?You’re alone in the wilderness with nothing but a knife and the clothes on your back. Will you survive? Do you have the skills to feed, clothe, and protect yourself? Mark Elbroch, a master tracker, and Mike Pewtherer, a woodland skills educator, put those questions (...)