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Peter Hopkirk The Great GameFor nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', ...
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison The Great ExplorersIt has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them―and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, .
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Jim Masselos The Great Empires of AsiaAsian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? ...
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Linda Yueh The Great EconomistsSince the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, ...
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Linda Yueh The Great EconomistsSince the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, ...
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Frank Herbert The Great Dune Trilogy: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of DuneOrion Publishing Co: Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. Arrakis is the source of spice, a mind enhancing drug which makes interstellar travel possible; it is the most valuable substance in the galaxy. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there, they fall into a trap set by the Duke's…
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Frank Herbert The Great Dune TrilogyThree of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus. Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz The Great Divide ENA singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and economic uncertainty, Joseph E. Stiglitz has for years offered trenchant analysis of our greatest economic problems. The Great Divide gathers his most provocative reflections to date on the subject of inequality, probing for answers to the greatest threat to American prosperity and explaining the role it has played in the country's ongoing malaise.…
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Joseph E. Stiglitz The Great Divide ENWhy has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter this growing problem. With his characteristic blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided…
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Peter Watson The Great Divide ENIn 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets, several miles thick, the levels of the world's oceans were much lower than they are today, and early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait, then a land bridge,…
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Kenneth Pomeranz The Great Divergence ENThe Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of…
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Paul Gilding The Great Disruption ENIt's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The 'Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world…
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Tara Zahra The Great Departure ENA panoramic history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the “land of the free” and yet more than a third returned home again. In a ground-breaking study, Tara Zahra…
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Niall Ferguson The Great Degeneration ENNiall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions - the intricate frameworks within which a society can…
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Marie-janine Calic, Elizabeth Janik The Great CauldronA sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, ...
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Sybil Kapoor The Great British Vegetable Cookbook ENAn exciting and beautiful new vegetable book by well-known food writer Sybil Kapoor. The 154 recipes are simple and modern and the book is divided into the four seasons so that readers are encouraged to cook vegetables when they are at their very best and come into season - especially useful if they grow their own. Discover an incredible range of vegetable dishes, both as vegetarian options and as an accompaniment…
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Dominic Sandbrook The Great British Dream Factory ENBritain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture. It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, J. K. Rowling, has sold more than 400 million books; thatDoctor Who is watched in almost every developed country in the world; that James Bond has been the central character in the longest…
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Annabelle Von Sperber The Great Big Art History Colouring BookFilled with imaginative drawings and sketches to color in and paint, this book features all twelve large plates and many more individual scenes from Annabelle von Sperber's Where's the Artist? book. Arranged chronologically, ...
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Rebecca Makkai The Great BelieversIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, ...
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Rebecca Makkai The Great BelieversIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, ...
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Peter V. Brett The Great Bazaar and Brayan's Gold ENTwo exciting short stories set in the engrossing world of The Demon Cycle from bestselling fantasy author Peter V. Brett.Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons - bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization,…
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Peter V. Brett The Great Bazaar and Brayan's Gold ENTwo exciting short stories set in the engrossing world of The Demon Cycle from bestselling fantasy author Peter V. Brett, available together in the UK exclusively on e-book.Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons – bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city…
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Roald Dahl The Great Automatic Grammatizator ENCan a machine really do the job of a writer? How would you take exact revenge on a cruel tabloid journalist? Why does no one emerge from the house of an eccentric landlady? Thitrteen unexpected tales with shocking and unsettling twists at every turn.
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