The Origin of Species
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The publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in...
Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
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Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season,...
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
Ian Frazier and Jamaica Kincaid
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In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower...
Tin Man
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD The beautiful and heartbreaking new novel from Sarah...
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Beckett's Political Imagination
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Beckett's Political Imagination charts unexplored territory: it investigates how Beckett's bilingual...
The Samaritans: A Profile
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Most people associate the term "Samaritan" exclusively with the New Testament stories about the Good...
Hancock's Half Hour, the Very Best Episodes: v. 3
Full Cast, Alan Simpson, Sid James and Ray Galton
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Galton and Simpson have chosen another selection of favourite episodes from the classic radio...
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany...
Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century
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Merz to Emigre and Beyond is an historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines...
I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary: The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms, Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto
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In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms...