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Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2012-02-20
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Heinrich Wieland (1877 - 1957, Nobelpreis 1927) gilt heute als einer der Pioniere der Naturstoff-, der Medizinal- und der Biochemie. Nicht nur hat er wegweisende Grundlagenforschung betrieben, sondern auch - ein frühes Zeugnis akademisch-industrieller Kooperation --...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
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2012-02-16
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MARY QUANT IS FASHION.Not many names epitomise an era, but Mary Quant is one such name. Her life, her ideas and her style touched everyone. Most people connect Mary with one thing - the mini skirt - that ground-breaking design that is as potent now as it was when it...
Editeur :
Headline
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2012-02-16
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A witty, stylish and indispensable guide to being a modern man. It is tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a pay rise and how to suck up to your boss. Then there are the minor irritations: how do you beat...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to be there for each other. Both sisters left home at the earliest opportunity to escape...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End, her childhood was spent in squalor and terror. Her father's violent beatings, humiliations, and sexual abuse were part of daily life; her mother - also his sexual victim and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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Discover the fascinating autobiography of Dick Francis, one of the greatest jockeys and thriller writers of all timeDick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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Jenny Tomlin suffered horrendous neglect and physical and sexual abuse throughout her childhood at the hands of her father. This harrowing story is told in the number one bestseller Behind Closed Doors and the heartrending follow-up, Silent Sisters.Jenny has campaigned...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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THE UNMISSABLE CLASSIC:THE NEXT READ FOR FANS OF JOHN & PAUL: A LOVE STORY IN SONGS AND PAUL McCARTNEY'S WINGS'Fascinating'THE SUNDAY TIMES'Engaging . . . offers a fascinating glimpse into an altogether more innocent age' INDEPENDENT'Vivid and engaging . . ....
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-02-16
ePub
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On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between the bodies of two...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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NABEEL'S SONG is an epic true story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry and as a young man...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2012-02-16
ePub
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Even as a very young child, Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Being savaged by a rabid cheetah, charged at by rhinos and elephants and defecated upon by a long list of birds and other animals may sound like hell to some. But these, along with countless...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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In this anecdotal book, the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia, statistics, books and videos. A mass of new hilarious stories flow from Dickie as he flexes his memory: he describes the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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*With a foreword by former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond*The touching and ground-breaking story of the Queen's childhood as told by her nanny, revealing the royal family's life before The Crown.Now, more than ever, the Royal Family's private lives are no longer...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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At the cutting edge of sport, where winners go one way and losers the other, Ian Wooldridge made his living as a journalist. His shrewd eye went straight to the heart of sport's pressure situations, unerringly detecting courage in the competitors, and raising the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-16
ePub
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Bill Cullen, legendary head of Renault Ireland, went from selling apples on the streets of Dublin to owning a company with an annual turnover of over $400 million. He credits much of his success to the women in his life: his mother, Mary, and his grandmother, Molly...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-02-15
ePub
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Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anaïs Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences,Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again.' As the first wife Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet,...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2012-02-09
ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZEHow do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? Nick Coleman found out the morning he woke up to a world changed forever by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. The Train in the Night is an account of one...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-02-09
ePub
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The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy’s lover, he never kissed her on the...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-02-09
ePub
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Roger Ailes, former Republican political consultant, and current president of Fox News Channel, is a dominant media figure of our age. His made-for-TV imagery and mastery of “style over substance” has overtaken earlier methods of reporting the news, and...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2012-02-07
ePub
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