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Our Street(2004) O'NEILL, GILDAA companion volume to O'Neill's previous work, 'My East End', this book focuses exclusively on the oral testimony of East Londoners as they tell their own funny, sad, hopeful and sometimes shocking stories of what it was like to live in our street.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Moment You Were Gone(2007) GERRARD, NICCIGaby and Connor seem to have a loving marriage - one that is built on knowing every last intricate detail about one another, or so Gaby has always believed. When their son Ethan sets off for university, discovering for the first time, the raw and uncontroVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Second World(2009) KHANNA, PARAGAt the end of the Cold War, we found ourselves living in a world with one superpower, the United States. This title argues that the moment of American supremacy is over, brought about by the increasing influence of what he terms the Second World: EasternVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Cleaving(2010) POWELL, JULIEThe author spent a year cooking her way through Julia Child's impossible "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Her experiences were recorded in the book and film "Julie and Julia". But what she did next took even adventurous Julie by surprise. This titleVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Dream Life of Sukhanov(2007) GRUSHIN, OLGAStepping out into the dusk of an warm evening, esteemed art critic Sukhanov feels on top of the world. But the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change. His future is haunted by doubt. Beset by visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices:Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Red Queen(2005) DRABBLE, MARGARET200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why dVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Manchester Compendium(2009) GLINERT, EDManchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage. This title relates the remarkable and diverse history of this England's second city, covering various areas of human activity and incorpVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Sound Bites(2007) KAPRANOS, ALEXAn account of what Alex Kapranos ate while touring the world with the rock band Franz Ferdinand. This book is as much about where he eats and the people he eats with as the unusual flavours he tastes on the road.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Writers on Organizations(2007) HICKSON, DAVID J.,PUGH, DEREK S.Summarises the work of experts to provide an overview of the theory and practice of organization management. This book covers the structure and national and international environments of organizations, management problems, managerial decision-making and iVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Opus Dei(2006) ALLEN, JOHN L.Opus Dei is one of the most talked about, but least known religious organizations. This work separates the myths from the facts and descibes: the actual use of whips and the cilice; the extent of Opus Dei's funds; the identities of its influential membersVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Selected Poems(2007) ROSEN, MICHAELA sequence of prose poems extracted from the autobiographical triptych, "Carrying the Elephant", "This is Not My Nose" and "In the Colonie". It covers a terrain that includes, collating vivid and fragmentary memories from the author's left-wing Jewish upbVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Family Secrets(2014) COHEN, DEBORAHOn a Liverpool railway platform a mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption... A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men... This book explores tVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Vietnam War Reader(2010) HUNT, MICHAELA collection of shocking lived experiences, directly from the mouths and the pens of those soldiers, politicians and citizens who lived through the days of the Vietnam War and its bloody aftermath.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Scenes from Provincial Life(2010) COOPER, WILLIAMIntroduces Joe Lunn, one of the first breed of ordinary male anti-hero protagonists, whose exploits and ordinariness, as he tries to avoid his mistress Myrtle's attempts to trap him into marriage, poke fun at what were, and often remain, the taboo subjectVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Whose Life is it Anyway?(2009) MORIARTY, SINEADIt's tricky for Niamh O'Flaherty, growing up in a North London home that's a shrine to all things Irish. But it's even trickier being an adult and realizing that her family expects her to settle down with a nice Irish lad, especially now that she's livingVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Roger's Version(2006) UPDIKE, JOHNRoger Lambert, a professor of Divinity at a New England university is convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith. But when his wife flings herself into an affair with a younger man, his faith in his own placid life isVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Gandhi Before India(2014) GUHA, RAMACHANDRAExplores the many facets of Gandhi's life and struggles. This book is drawn from many sources located in archives across four continents. It features personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi.Vezava: Mehka26,62 €
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Madoff(2009) ARVEDLUND, ERINBacked by governments and global banks, Bernard Madoff defrauded $65 billion from charities and individual investors. This book answers the crucial unsolved questions: why and when did Madoff turn his business into a massive fraud? How did he fool so manyVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Badness of King George(2010) SUMMERS, JUDITHJudith Summers' life is about to change dramatically. Her five-year relationship with her on-off boyfriend has finally ended. Her son, Joshua, is off to university, and for the first time since her husband died she's living alone. Well, not entirely aloneVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead(2011) SHIELDS, DAVIDWeaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers - from Lucretius to Woody Allen, the author renders both a hilarious family portrait and a resonant mVezava: Mehka22,42 €
