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  • Running the Smoke
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    Running the Smoke

    This updated edition features a new introduction, and an exclusive interview with long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe.It is the world's most iconic road race.It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain,...
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    Exquisite Dreams
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    Exquisite Dreams

    Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures,...
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    Decadent Women
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    Decadent Women

    The never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine. During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent...
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    Bede and the Theory of Everything
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    Bede and the Theory of Everything

    An accessible biography of the venerable Bede, regarded as the father of English history.This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673735), the foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and the 'father of English history.'...
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    Richard Owen
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    Richard Owen

    Brilliant, hard-working, immensely productive and influential, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great promoter of science, and played a large role in shaping London's Natural History Museum. An often difficult and arrogant individual, he was...
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    H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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    H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

    H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) was one of the first writers of free verse in English, best known for her sparse Imagist poems. For over forty years she wrote poetry that resurrected forgotten ancient goddesses, and autobiographical prose that explored...
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    Anarchy or Chaos
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    Anarchy or Chaos

    In this fascinating biography of the Indian revolutionary M. P. T. Acharya (18871954), Ole Birk Laursen uncovers the remarkable transnational networks, movements and activities of India's most important anticolonial anarchist in the twentieth century...
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    Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
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    Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland

    Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to...
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    Don't Let Them Bury My Story
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    Don't Let Them Bury My Story

    "Every day, I have lived through the massacre. While our country may forget this history, I cannot." Viola Ford FletcherViola Ford Fletcher's memoirDon't Let Them Bury My Storyvividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the...
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    Homer's Odyssey
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    Homer's Odyssey

    Homer Hudelson spent 30 years in the San Francisco Police Department and experienced some extraordinary events firsthand, such as the Dan White Riots, the SF State Civil Rights Demonstrations, and the search for the Zodiac killer. In addition to his role...
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    Real Life on the Streets
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    Real Life on the Streets

    This book consists of a series of anecdotal experiences of a police officer in a small, but growing, police department in the suburban Denver area. Although set in the 1960's and 70's, it is easily translatable to today's law enforcement experience. It's...
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    Combat Missions
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    Combat Missions

    In his memoir, "Combat Missions: Flying the B-24 Liberator Bomber Out of Manduria, Italy, 450th Bomb Group, 720th Squadron, WWII.," Burl Harmon, 78 years later at the age of 97, describes the impact of WWII on him, a 19-year-old from Boone, Iowa. After...
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    George Soros
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    George Soros

    A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time.The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success,...
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    Self-Portrait
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    Self-Portrait

    A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archiveJack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work...
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    By the Time You Read This
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    By the Time You Read This

    By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter's life. The text read,...
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    Ride Free
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    Ride Free

    Willie G. Davidson likes to say that he was born with gasoline in his veins and a crayon in each hand. A designer at heart, Davidson combined his passions for art and motorcycles to extend a multi-generational unbroken thread from Harley-Davidson...
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    Floppy
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    Floppy

    One of the first books to explore the emotional landscape of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient's perspective; a playful story of falling down, getting back up again, and realising you should have gone to the hospital sooner.When...
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    Hunger of Memory
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    Hunger of Memory

    The 40th anniversary edition of an American classic: a "minority student" pays the cost of social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation-from his past, his parents, his culture. Exquisitely written, poignant and powerful, unsettling...
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    Not the Camilla We Knew
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    Not the Camilla We Knew

    The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United StatesBehind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child, an average American whose life took a radical turn for...
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    Columba
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    Columba

    St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. A native of Donegal and a nobleman of royal ancestry, his outstanding religious career spanned both sides of the Irish Sea. On the Scottish island of Iona he...
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    The Man Who Organized Nature
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    The Man Who Organized Nature

    A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work.Carl Linnaeus (17071778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants...
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    Stand Up and Fight
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    Stand Up and Fight

    'A modern classic...Absolutely riveting and frequently moving.' - The Telegraph'Among the best books ever written on Irish sport.' - Sunday Tribune'Brilliant...Stand Up and Fight is the definitive account. It...
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    Mountain Guru
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    Mountain Guru

    Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to New Zealand, Patagonia, Yosemite and...
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    Nietzsche For Beginners
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    Nietzsche For Beginners

    Not only does Nietzsche For Beginners delve into the scandalous life and considerable works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also give a clear picture of the puzzling time in which he lived. We meet the luminaries of the day - Richard Wagner, Bismarck, Freud,...
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    Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae

    The all encompassing bio of Bob Marley written by Kim Gottlieb Walker, who photographed Bob for High Times. During 1975 and 1976, renowned underground photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb, and her husband, Island publicity head Jeff Walker, documented what is...
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    From Hamas to America
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    From Hamas to America

    From Hamas to America is a gripping memoir that follows the son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan, as he breaks away from his culture's practice of terrorism to becoming a double-agent for Israel to finally fleeing to America and becoming a US citizen, and...
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    take less. do more.
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    take less. do more.

    In this personal journey, ultra-light backpacker and sought-after speaker Glen Van Peski shares the life lessons he has learned through years of lightening his pack and helping others.Adventures provide the richness and texture to a life well lived. So...
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    Yadi
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    Yadi

    Celebrate Yadier Molina's incredible career with this vibrant retrospective.A 10-time All-Star with nine Gold Gloves and two World Series rings, Yadier Molina has established his position as one of the greatest Major League Baseball players of his...
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    My Train to Freedom
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    My Train to Freedom

    The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning...
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    Traumatic Brain Injury Handbook
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    Traumatic Brain Injury Handbook

    New Consciousness is the ultimate brain injury recovery handbook. Inside, acclaimed writer Joe Healy comprehensively discusses what leads to brain injuries and how to heal from them and manage them during the process. Recovery techniques are lifestyle...
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    Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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    Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer

    When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he settled. He never did. In 1955, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to...
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    Clyde the Glide
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    Clyde the Glide

    Through his fifteen-year career as an NBA player, Clyde Drexler played with elegance and flair, leadership and poise, integrity and an ability to come through in the clutch. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals twice and helped the Houston...
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    When Reason Goes on Holiday

    Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right?Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the...
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    Political Woman

    This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine...
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    In Love with Art

    "Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not one. As well-versed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his...
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    The Beat Generation in San Francisco

    A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where Kerouac and -Cassady toiled; the pads where Jack &...
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    The Seeker King
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    The Seeker King

    A woman in the audience once handed Elvis a crown saying, "You're the King." "No, honey," Elvis replied. "There is only one king -- Jesus Christ. I'm just a singer." Gary Tillery presents a coherent view of Elvis's thoughts through such anecdotes and...
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    The Devil Inside
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    The Devil Inside

    "At a time when criticsare expected to be publicists, and anything famous is 'classic' or 'iconic,'Carlos Acevedo has managed to hold the line. The Devil Inside is asharp, hard-nosed aesthetic and cultural investigation into what everybody wasthrowing up...
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    Meghan and Harry: The Real Story
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    Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

    Meghan and Harry The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims presents the reader with a strikingly forthright analysis of what happens when a vulnerable male, raised in the traditions of the Old World and protected by a lifetime of privilege, falls head over...
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    A Person Is a Prayer
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    A Person Is a Prayer

    An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades.Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they...
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    Einstein in Oxford
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    Einstein in Oxford

    Albert Einstein visited Oxford in 1931, to receive an honorary degree and to lecture on relativity and the Universe. While lecturing, he naturally chalked equations and diagrams on several blackboards. One of these is today the most popular object in...
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    John Bsst
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    John Bsst

    A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Busst.Known to his enemies as 'The Bingil Bay Bastard', John Busst, a Bendigo-born Melbourne bohemian artist, moved to tropical Bedarra Island in North Queensland and underwent an...
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    Peripathetic
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    Peripathetic

    There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we'd arrive at it if we kick around long enough.Peripathetic is about shit...
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
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    Geoffrey Chaucer

    A new critical biography of medieval England's most famous poet.For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales'lively and often risqu style have made his name more synonymous with...
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    Andreas Vesalius
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    Andreas Vesalius

    A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius - the father of modern anatomy - as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture. In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published one of the most famous books in the history of medicine, On the...
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    Tangled Paths
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    Tangled Paths

    Tangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg, one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting...
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    How to Knit a Human
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    How to Knit a Human

    **Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-MailPeople'sChoiceQueenslandBook of the YearAward**I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did it. I went mad. Why can't I have the...
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