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    The Clean Money Revolution
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    The Clean Money Revolution

    Ride the $40 trillion wave of "clean money" changing the face of investment, business, and the world for good.By 2050, $40 trillion will change hands in North America alone. From Boomers to Millennials, the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in...
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    Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship

    Over the fourteen centuries of its existence, Islamic scholarship has produced numerous individuals who have acquired broad knowledge and deep insight. This work summarizes the thought of ten key personalities whose influence encompasses the vast...
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    Muhammad: His Character and Conduct

    An accessible text looking at the character of the Prophet Presents the Prophet in many different ways, including as a father, husband, leader and negotiator Thematically organised so readers can refer to the different noble traits he had Unique in that...
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    Muhammad: Man and Prophet

    The Prophet Muhammad initiated one of the most significant religious and cultural developments in human history, bringing the religion of Islam to the world. Adil Salahi's compelling biography traces the life of the Prophet Muhammad from his birth and...
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    Being Benedict Cumberbatch
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    Being Benedict Cumberbatch

    A humorous, informative guide to the life and career of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the unlikely heartthrob it's okay to be obsessed with. Follow today's hottest actor on his journey from Cumberboy to Cumberbabe. He's made...
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    The Crime of Jean Genet
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    The Crime of Jean Genet

    Dominique Edd met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. 'His presence', she writes, 'gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated and precise [...] Genet's movements mimicked...
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    Of Walking in Ice

    In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed...
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    Jokowi and the New Indonesia
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    Jokowi and the New Indonesia

    In 2014, Joko Widodo - popularly known as Jokowi - was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year term in 2019. Raised amid poverty in a riverside slum and with a background in the furniture export...
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    A House in Bali
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    A House in Bali

    "It remains one of the most penetrating and illuminating books on the island's elusive, alluring culture." - National GeographicA House in Bali tells the fascinating story of renowned writer and composer Colin McPhee's obsession with Balinese gamelan...
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    Finding a Life of Harmony and Balance
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    Finding a Life of Harmony and Balance

    This authorized biography of contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949-), an 18th generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as the specialized body of knowledge, mystical...
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    Bruce Lee Artist of Life
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    Bruce Lee Artist of Life

    Named one of TIME magazine's 100 Greatest Men of the Century, Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973. Part of the seven-volume Bruce Lee Library, this installment of the famed martial artist's private notebooks...
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  • Bruce Lee Words of the Dragon
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    Bruce Lee Words of the Dragon

    Words of the Dragon is an anthology of newspaper and magazine interviews from 1958 to 1973 revealing Bruce Lee's own fascinating words and explanations about Bruce himself, his art and philosophy. Interesting and insightful, Words of the Dragon provides...
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    Ask A North Korean
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    Ask A North Korean

    The weekly column "Ask a North Korean" published by NK News invites readers from around the globe to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these provocative interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic, first-person...
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  • At Home in Japan
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    At Home in Japan

    What would it be like to move to Japan, leaving everyone you know behind, to become part of a traditional Japanese household? At Home in Japan tells an extraordinary true story of a foreign woman who goes through an amazing transformation, as she makes a...
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  • Bruce Lee Letters of the Dragon
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    Bruce Lee Letters of the Dragon

    So much has been written about Bruce Lee-the martial arts superstar whose combination of strength, agility and charisma are legendary. But seldom are we able to peel back the veneer of Lee's public image to view his true character...
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    If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!

    Cynthia Heimel has been described by the Chicago Tribune as "perhaps our funniest war correspondent on the war between the sexes"; her wisdom on dating includes such gems as: "My new rule is to never believe a person is interested until you feel his...
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    The Comedians

    Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Louis CK-comedy historian Kliph...
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    The Demons of Leonard Cohen
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    The Demons of Leonard Cohen

    'With my jingle in your brain, allow the Bridge to arch again'. How are we to understand Leonard Cohen's plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? Francis Mus considers the different guises or 'demons' that the Canadian...
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    Finding Nemon
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    Finding Nemon

    `I greatly admire the art of Mr Oscar Nemon, whose prowess in the ancient classical realm of sculpture has won such remarkable appreciation in our country.' - Winston ChurchillHis talent was classical sculpture, but his gifts lay in capturing the...
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    In the Shadow of the Dreamchild
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    In the Shadow of the Dreamchild

    This is the most significant biographical work on the author of Alice In Wonderland  to be published in recent years. Karoline Leach's study contends that Carroll was far from being emotionally  and sexually obsessed...
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  • The Strength to Say No
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    The Strength to Say No

    An inspiring true life story that will resonate amongst those who decry the oppression of women and girls in some areas of the Third World.  In a remote village in Bengal, 11-year-old Rekha and her large family live by rolling handmade...
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    Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Eccentricity of Tyrants
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    Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Eccentricity of Tyrants

    A penetrating and incisive study of the fanaticism and foibles of some of history's most illustrious names. From Assad to Nero, Gaddafi to Ivan the Terrible, this volume investigates the minds of some of the most powerful...
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    Anywhere out of the world
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    Anywhere out of the world

    By the time of his death in 1989 at the age of 48, Bruce Chatwin had become one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. Though his career spanned merely twelve years, his impact and influence was profoundly felt; Chatwin's first book In...
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    Julian Barnes
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    Julian Barnes

    Now available in paperback, Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but...
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    Refractions of Bob Dylan
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    Refractions of Bob Dylan

    Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan...
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    The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes
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    The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes

    This study examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes' art, from the critical realism of his early novels to his highly experimental novels of the late sixties, and to his novels from the eighties where national identities are playfully evoked and largely...
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    The age of Obama
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    The age of Obama

    Drawing on collaborative research from a distinguished team at Harvard and Manchester universities, The age of Obama asks how two very different societies are responding to the tide of diversity that is being felt around the rich world. Guardian...
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    Joss Whedon
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    Joss Whedon

    This book assesses Joss Whedon's contribution to US television and popular culture. Examining everything from his earliest work to his most recent tweets and activist videos, it explores his complex and contradictory roles as both cult outsider and...
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    Paul Auster
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    Paul Auster

    Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By...
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    J.G. Ballard
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    J.G. Ballard

    This book offers a comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, regarded by critics as one of the most significant fiction writers of recent times. Ballard's early science fiction writing earned him plaudits as one of the most innovative and...
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    Trevor Griffiths
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    Trevor Griffiths

    Trevor Griffiths has been a critical force in British television writing for over three decades. His successes have included the series Bill Brand (1976), his adaptations of Sons and Lovers and The Cherry Orchard (1981) and his television plays, The...
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    Alan Bennett
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    Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett is one of the UK's most well-known and successful writers. His oeuvre is one where populist art forms and intellectually complex arguments co-exist seamlessly, allowing the work to appeal to a wide audience. Bennett's familiar voice combines...
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    Troy Kennedy Martin
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    Troy Kennedy Martin

    This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. With a career spanning six decades...
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    Lynda La Plante
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    Lynda La Plante

    Lynda La Plante is Britain's most successful and well known screenwriter and the first woman to win the prestigious Dennis Potter writer's award. Attracting millions of viewers, the popular and critical success of La Plante's work is central to...
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    Angela Carter
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    Angela Carter

    This study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The angles and emphases that develop are partly from...
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    Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume II
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    Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume II

    "The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1880, Volume II" opens at a time when Bismarck had become the dominant figure in German and European politics and the new German Reich the most formidable power on the continent. Questions arose. What new goals would...
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    Enchanted by Daphne
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    Enchanted by Daphne

    The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution.Enchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant's personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes...
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    The Artist in the Counterculture
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    The Artist in the Counterculture

    How California's counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped-and was shaped by-West Coast artistsThe 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period's youth culture, largely incubated...
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    I Always Knew
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    I Always Knew

    The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved motherBarbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduating from Yale's School of Design and Architecture, she...
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    Radical by Nature
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    Radical by Nature

    A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveller, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast...
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    Translating Myself and Others
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    Translating Myself and Others

    Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional...
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    Keith Haring
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    Keith Haring

    Celebrated artist Keith Haring (19581990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists in the 1980s, Haring found an empty canvas in the advertising panels scattered...
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    The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
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    The Presidency of Donald J. Trump

    Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed...
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    Parfit
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    Parfit

    Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way...
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    Three Roads Back
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    Three Roads Back

    From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial...
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    Hannah Wilke
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    Hannah Wilke

    One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women's bodies and their representation throughout her career, until her untimely death in 1993. Wilke...
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    The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
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    The Church of Saint Thomas Paine

    The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion.In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in...
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