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Lincolnshire May 1943. Twenty Lancaster bombers stand poised to fly one of World War 2's most daring and dangerous missions, 617 Squadron's legendary bouncing-bomb attack on Germany's dams. Success could shorten the war, the crews are told, but will inevitably come at a...

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Parution : 2011-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Good Psychologist
The good psychologist teaches the principles of control and objectivity, strategies by which we evade pain, memory and lies. Meanwhile in the Center for Anxiety Disorders he dispenses wisdom, and coaxes truth from one patient in particular: a vulnerable, frightened...

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Parution : 2011-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Book of Fire
The great echoing phrases of the King James Bible that have boomed through the English-speaking mind for 400 years - an eye for an eye . . . eat, drink and be merry . . . . death, where is thy sting? . . . man shall not live by bread alone - are largely the work of a...

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Télécharger le livre :  How to Change the World
In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free...

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Télécharger le livre :  According To Queeney
'A stellar literary event . . . written with panache and an enviable economy . . . the biggest risk of her literary life' Margaret AtwoodAccording to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Raj
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This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Zimmer Men
Ten years after his classic Rain Men - 'cricket's answer to Fever Pitch,' said the Daily Telegraph - Marcus Berkmann returns to the strange and wondrous world of village cricket, where players sledge their team-mates, umpires struggle to count up to six, the bails...

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Parution : 2010-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Middle Class
A compelling and entertaining history of the British middle class'Wonderful' Financial Times'A magisterial, sweeping history' Herald'An enchanting compendium' TLS'Full of fascinating quotations and figures' Literary Review'A rollicking, affectionate romp' The...

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Parution : 2010-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Underground London
What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and...

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Parution : 2010-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Underground England
UNDERGROUND ENGLAND takes an extraordinary and original look at our island nation - from below. Stephen Smith quite literally delves into the unknown country underneath ploughed fields, clifftops and market towns.UNDERGROUND ENGLAND will explore rudimentary earth...

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Parution : 2010-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Hearts And Minds
'A novel written with passion and moral outrage' Sunday Times'Sympathetic, thought-provoking and often deeply moving' Daily Telegraph'You can't put this down' Independent Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Final Act Of Mr Shakespeare
In the spring of 1613 Mr William Shakespeare, a gentleman farmer in Warwickshire, returns to London. It is a ceremonial visit; he has no further theatrical ambitions. But the city is still reeling from the terrorist panic of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and fate soon...

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Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 5Th Ed
This book is both more and less than history, a work of imagination in its own right, a piece of movie literature that turns fact into romance.' Gavin Lambert was reviewing the first edition of David Thomson's monumental work in 1975. In the eight years since the third...

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Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Little Book
She was loved by three men. Two were history.Wheeler Burden is the last heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens; he lives in San Francisco and is a philosopher, rock idol, writer, lover of women, and recluse. So it's with some surprise that he wakes up many years...

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Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Bloody Foreigners
Immigration is one of the most important stories of modern British life, yet it has been happening since Caesar first landed in 53 BC. Ever since the first Roman, Saxon, Jute and Dane leaped off a boat we have been a mongrel nation. Our roots are a tangled web. From...

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Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Brontes
The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular...

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Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  1848: Year Of Revolution
In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming political liberties and national freedom. The conservative order which had...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Evolution of God
For centuries, faithful followers of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism have looked to their holy texts for spiritual guidance, social and political mandates, and answers to man's burning questions about the workings of the universe. But what if these believers have been...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  A History in Fragments
The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it.The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female emancipation - seem self-evidently important. But behind the grand...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Crusaders
The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West - the battles that were fought and the men who led the armies that fought...

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