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In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, ‘What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field,...
Editeur :
Hachette India
Parution :
2014-01-05
ePub
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Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?Petrova or Posy?Scarlett or Melanie?Lace or Valley of the Dolls?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre orCathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild,...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-01-02
ePub
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The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. In this gripping and incisive account of the Pankhursts, Martin Pugh reveals the full story behind this unique family: Emmeline, the domineering mother;...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-12-31
ePub
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Geoffrey Household's, author of ROGUE MALE, unconventional amusing and exciting autobiography.Ever since the publication of ROGUE MALE,Geoffrey Household has been known in the English-reading world for his audacious and unorthodox tales of adventure. Now, in his...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-12-31
ePub
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Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In 1934 her first book, Valley of the Assassins, was hailed as a classic and T. E. Lawrence pronounced...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-12-19
ePub
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Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences – there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential. The affinity between capitalism and protestantism, the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-17
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Watch Li Na winning at the Australian Open. Now read her life story. Li Na claimed an unprecedented victory at the 2011 French Open at age twenty-nine, and became the first player from an Asian country to win a Grand Slam singles title. Outspoken and likeable, the...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2013-12-17
ePub
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The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel.Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation from a private...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-12-12
ePub
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Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P....
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2013-12-10
ePub
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The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century.The Tory War Minister, John Profumo, had been sleeping with the teenage Christine Keeler, while at the same time she had been sleeping with a Russian spy.The ensuing investigation revealed a secret...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2013-12-06
ePub
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For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He devoured books, talked books, luxuriated in books and lavished books on his friends- they played, too, a vital part in his seductions of young men....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-30
ePub
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In this vivacious memoir, Thomas Keneally conjures up his youthful self at a pivotal period in his life - as a red-haired teenager who idolised Gerald Manley Hopkins, had visions of being a sporting hero, and dreamed of winning the heart of the alluring Bernadette...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2013-11-28
ePub
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On 20 October 2007 Mike Catt MBE made history by becoming the oldest player to appear in a World Cup Final. It was also to be his last game for England in an international career stretching back 14 years in which he was awarded 75 caps.The occasion England against South...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-11-28
ePub
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'Richie is one of the most inspiring people I've ever met, and his story is testament to the healing power of the ocean.' Kelly SlaterGoes surfing, beats cancer. One man's inspirational story.Richie Lovett might be the world’s unluckiest surfer . . . or its luckiest....
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2013-11-26
ePub
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The inspirational memoir by international classical music star Paul Potts, winner of Britain’s GotTalent—soon to be a major motion picture fromThe Weinstein CompanyOne Chance is the remarkable true story of Paul Potts, cell phone salesman by day, amateur...
Editeur :
Hachette Books
Parution :
2013-11-26
ePub
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Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother thought they would be safer in Holland than Holland Park, but although...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-11-22
ePub
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All three of Jenny Tomlin's bestselling memoirs in one eBook collection: her number one bestselling childhood memoir of abuse, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS; the sequel to her bestselling memoir, written with her sister, SILENT SISTERS; and NEVER ALONE telling her own - and other...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-11-21
ePub
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‘Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories’ Observer What was so dangerous about Queen Victoria’s artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louise?When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-21
ePub
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An intimate look at the legendary British designer behind Apple's most iconic products - including the Apple WatchWith the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, JONY IVE has become the most important person at Apple. Some would argue he always was.Steve Jobs discovered Ive in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-18
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Walden + Civil Disobedience + Slavery in Massachusetts” contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Walden is a book written by Henry David Thoreau. The work is part...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-11-15
epub sans DRM
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