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  The Action Guide to Britain
  

  by Rupert Isaacson

  ISBN 1860461948 (1-86046-194-8)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  All the Dogs of My Life
  

  by Elizabeth von Arnim

  ISBN 1860491103 (1-86049-110-3)
  Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited

  
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  American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
  

  by Robert Hughes

  ISBN 1860465331 (1-86046-533-1)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  Australian-born art critic Robert Hughes, author of the highly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New has made his home in the United States for the last 20 years. His latest undertaking, which he calls "a love letter to America," is his most massive: a 350-year history of art in America. Published in association with an eight-part PBS series of the same name, this is no scholarly text. With the same voracious wit and opinionated brilliance that have characterized his criticism for Time magazine, this tour-de-force spans three centuries of events, movements, and personalities that have shaped American society and its art. The reproductions are outstanding; 323 out of 365 are in rich, vivid color. Infinitely entertaining and perceptive, this superb book makes readers feel as if they have discovered a truer, hidden America. It seems certain to become one of the most important works in the art-historical canon. [via]

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  • American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America: ISBN 1860465331 (1-86046-533-1)
    Softcover, Harvill Pr
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  Ancient Persia: From 550 Bc to 650 Ad
  

  by Josef Wiesehofer, Azizeh Azodi

  ISBN 1860646751 (1-86064-675-1)
  Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd

  
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  The Arabian Nights : A Companion
  

  by Robert Irwin

  ISBN 1860649831 (1-86064-983-1)
  Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan Limited

  
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  Back
  

  by Henry Green

  ISBN 186046369X (1-86046-369-X)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of Green's most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to have focused on the individual human tragedy of the war. [via]

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  Banishing the Beast : Feminism, Sex and Morality
  

  by Lucy Bland

  ISBN 1860646816 (1-86064-681-6)
  Softcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
  

  by Peter Englund

  ISBN 1860648479 (1-86064-847-9)
  Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd

  
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  Benchmarks : Life, Laughter and the Law
  

  by Oliver Popplewell, Stephen Fry

  ISBN 186064886X (1-86064-886-X)
  Hardcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  Best Wines
  

  by Mary Dowey

  ISBN 1860591434 (1-86059-143-4)
  Hardcover, Town House

  
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  The Book of Numbers
  

  by William Roland Hartston

  ISBN 1860661122 (1-86066-112-2)
  Hardcover, Richard Cohen Books

  
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  The British at War : Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945
  

  by James Chapman

  ISBN 1860646271 (1-86064-627-1)
  Softcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  This text presents a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the representation on the cinema screen of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of the cinema as a vehicle of propaganda, set within its institutional, political, and cultural contexts, revealing the complex relationship between the Ministry of Information and the different sectors of the film industry. It identifies the themes and ideologies presented to audiences through analysis of key wartime films, including Forty-Ninth Parallel, In Which We Serve, and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
  

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  Celtic Dawn
  

  by Ulick O'Connor

  ISBN 1860590640 (1-86059-064-0)
  Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub

  
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  Chanel
  

  by Edmonde Charles-Roux

  ISBN 1860460569 (1-86046-056-9)
  Hardcover, Random House

  
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  Cinema and Soviet Society : From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin
  

  by Peter Kenez

  ISBN 1860645682 (1-86064-568-2)
  Softcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  Circles of Stone : The Prehistoric Rings of Britain and Ireland
  

  by Max Milligan, Aubrey Burl

  ISBN 1860466613 (1-86046-661-3)
  Hardcover, Random House

  
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  Categorised by the publisher as archaeology/history/photography, Circles of Stone does indeed straddle all these subjects. The volume is in itself a work of art, a stimulating introduction to a fascinating aspect of prehistory and a useful work of reference for anyone with an interest in ancient monuments. Fabulous photographs of 70 stone circles from all over the British Isles are accompanied by a factually rich text. The author, an established authority on prehistoric megaliths, gives an interesting impression of how the stones have been variously used and perceived through their long histories. Whilst allowing legend a voice, this text is not the place to find detailed speculation on prehistoric rites or ancient astronomy; its scope is more pragmatic and it includes details of the form and location of each monument and other interesting sites. Chronologically arranged, the selection begins with the circles of the Late Neolithic and ends in the Middle Bronze Age, showing a great variety of form over 2000 years. There is variety too in the photographic views, from panoramas to zoomed-in textural detail. The photographs themselves are dramatic. Taken in many different light conditions, they often capture the stones at their most evocative moments, showing how the illumination of the Sun and Moon and the form of the surrounding landscape is a vital part of their aura--just as was the case in prehistory. --Karen Tiley [via]

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  A Country Doctor's Notebook
  

  by Mikhail Bulgakov, Michael Glenay

  ISBN 1860461654 (1-86046-165-4)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance. [via]

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  Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran
  

  by Vanessa Martin

  ISBN 1860649009 (1-86064-900-9)
  Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd

  
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  Dark Room at Longwood: A Voyage to st Helena
  

  by Jean-Paul Kauffmann

  ISBN 1860466028 (1-86046-602-8)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  An account of the author's visit to the house on the island of St Helena where Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled for the last six years of his life, this text tells of the author's feelings and contemplation of his motives for visiting the island at all. [via]

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  Desert Dawn
  

  by Waris Dirie

  ISBN 1860499627 (1-86049-962-7)
  Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited

  
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  Dietrich: A Biography
  

  by Ean Wood

  ISBN 1860744095 (1-86074-409-5)
  Hardcover, Sanctuary Publishing, Limited

  
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  Emigrants
  

  by W. G. Sebald

  ISBN 1860463495 (1-86046-349-5)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  Ethiopia, the Unknown Land : A Cultural and Historical Guide
  

  by Stuart Munro-Hay, Pamala Taor

  ISBN 1860647448 (1-86064-744-8)
  Hardcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  Fighting for Peace, Bosnia 1994
  

  by Michael Rose

  ISBN 1860465129 (1-86046-512-9)
  Hardcover, Harvill Press

  
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  Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
  

  by Richard Taylor

  ISBN 1860641679 (1-86064-167-9)
  Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd

  
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  Georges Perec: A Life in Words
  

  by David Bellos

  ISBN 1860466362 (1-86046-636-2)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  The first complete biography of the author of "Life A User's Manual". [via]

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  Germaine Greer : Untamed Shrew
  

  by Christine Wallace

  ISBN 1860661750 (1-86066-175-0)
  Softcover, Cohen Books, Limited, Richard

  
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  The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
  

  by Jose Saramago

  ISBN 186046095X (1-86046-095-X)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
  

  ISBN 186046632X (1-86046-632-X)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  [This is the MP3CD audiobook format of VOLUME 2 in vinyl case.]
  
  **Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
  
  In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
  
  This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
  
  Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]

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  Hezbollah : The Changing Face of Terrorism
  

  by Judith Palmer Harik

  ISBN 1860648932 (1-86064-893-2)
  Hardcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  Historical Britain: A Comprehensive Account of the Development of Rural and Urban Life and Landscape from Prehistory to the Present Day
  

  by Eric Stuart Wood, Rex Nicholls

  ISBN 1860462146 (1-86046-214-6)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  The History of the Siege of Lisbon
  

  by Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero

  ISBN 1860461328 (1-86046-132-8)
  Softcover, Harvill

  
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  The Hollywood History of the World: Film Stills from the Kobal Collection
  

  by George MacDonald Fraser

  ISBN 1860462014 (1-86046-201-4)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  Ingenious Ireland: A County-By-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels
  

  by Mary Mulvihill

  ISBN 1860591450 (1-86059-145-0)
  Hardcover, TownHouse & CountryHouse

  
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  Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship
  

  by Peter Sluglett, Marion Farouk-Sluglett

  ISBN 1860646220 (1-86064-622-0)
  Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd

  
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  Islam and Modernity : Muslim Intellectuals Respond
  

  by John Cooper, Mohamad Mahmoud, Ronald Nettler

  ISBN 1860645313 (1-86064-531-3)
  Softcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
  

  by Gilles Kepel

  ISBN 1860646859 (1-86064-685-9)
  Hardcover, I.B. Tauris

  
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  Journey to Portugal
  

  by Jose Saramago

  ISBN 1860467040 (1-86046-704-0)
  Hardcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  The Joy of Eating: The Virago Book of Food
  

  by Jill Foulston

  ISBN 1860499066 (1-86049-906-6)
  Hardcover, Little Brown Uk

  
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  Lermontov: Tragedy in the Caucasus
  

  by Laurence Kelly

  ISBN 1860648878 (1-86064-887-8)
  Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

  
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  Louis XIV
  

  by Vincent Cronin

  ISBN 1860460925 (1-86046-092-5)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  Love Letters of a Portugese Nun
  

  by Gabriel De Lavergne, Vicomte de Guilleragues

  ISBN 1860460348 (1-86046-034-8)
  Softcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

  
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  Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent
  

  by Jad Adams

  ISBN 1860647146 (1-86064-714-6)
  Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

  
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  The Man With the Movie Camera
  

  by Graham Roberts

  ISBN 1860643949 (1-86064-394-9)
  Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd

  
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  Dziya Vertov's wonderful 1928 documentary of a day in the life of a Soviet city is a landmark film in world cinema. Viewed as a sensation when it was first shown, "The Man with the Movie Camera" has endured as an important reference point for students and as an influence on filmmakers. This KINOfile investigates the production, context, and critical reception of the film, the people who made it, and analyzes the film's place in Russian and world cinema.
  

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  Mind over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd
  

  by Storm Thorgerson, Peter Curzon

  ISBN 1860742068 (1-86074-206-8)
  Hardcover, Pub Group West

  
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  Mind Over Matter comprises ninety percent of Pink Floyd's artwork. First about design and phtography, it includes never-before-seen roughs, rejects and variations. [via]

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  The Modern Middle East: A Reader
  

  by Albert H. Hourani, Mary C. Wilson, Philip S. Khoury

  ISBN 1860649637 (1-86064-963-7)
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  The Monuments of Syria : A Historical Guide
  

  by Ross Burns

  ISBN 1860642446 (1-86064-244-6)
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  My Forbidden Face: Growing up under the Taliban a Young Woman's Story
  

  by Latifa, Chekeba Hachemi

  ISBN 1860499619 (1-86049-961-9)
  Softcover, Virago

  
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  Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day becoming a journalist: she was interested in fashion, movies, and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedomswalking down the street, looking out a windowwere no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. Earlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group.

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  Nice Girls and Rude Girls : Women Workers in World War I
  

  by Deborah Thom

  ISBN 1860644775 (1-86064-477-5)
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  Drawing on official records, contemporary writing and oral history, Deborah Thom examines the myth and reality of women's "experience of war." She shows that before 1914 they were often supporting dependants who had acquired considerable industrial experience and that women's trade activity was growing. The war showed that women were capable of a variety of tasks and they made great sacrifices and contributions massively to the war effort. The effect of war-work has underlined women's positions by their gender; they had changed but not improved their working lives.
  

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  Nothing If Not Critical
  

  by Robert Hughes

  ISBN 1860466524 (1-86046-652-4)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  A selection of essays on art and artists, this text presents the authors arguments for the real values of art and outlines the way ahead for artist in the 1990s. He tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from Old Masters to his contemporaries, exploring their achievements (or lack of it). [via]

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  Out of Egypt
  

  by Andre Aciman

  ISBN 1860463487 (1-86046-348-7)
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  This memoir evokes the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, and chronicles the exploits of the author's Jewish family, from its arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its exodus three generations later. Aciman is the boy who longs for the wider world, but does not want to be led out of Egypt. [via]

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  Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans
  

  by Suraiya Faroqhi

  ISBN 1860640338 (1-86064-033-8)
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  Realm of St. Stephen : A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526
  

  by Pal Engel, Tamas Palosfalvi, Andrew Ayton

  ISBN 1860640613 (1-86064-061-3)
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  This is a comprehensive textbook on the historiography of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. It traces the medieval kingdom of Hungary - which covered the vast territory of the Carpathian basin - from the conquest by the Magyar tribes in 895 until defeat by the ottomans at the battle of Mohacs in 1526.
  
  The book is divided into two broad periods: the "national" Magyar kings of the Arpadian dynasty who had ruled from 895 were replaced in 1301 by rulers from a number of European dynasties, culminating in the radical changes to political and social structures of the 13th century.
  

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  Rebels with a Cause : The Failure of the Left in Iran
  

  by Maziar Behrooz

  ISBN 1860643817 (1-86064-381-7)
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  Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joker?
  

  by Alan Clayson

  ISBN 1860741894 (1-86074-189-4)
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  Roads to Santiago
  

  by Cees Nooteboom

  ISBN 186046419X (1-86046-419-X)
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  A worthy travel book does not encourage a reader to follow in the author's footsteps in search of the "good spots" so much as it creates a sense of adventure and the desire to understand a place. In Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain, Dutch author Cees Nooteboom seeks out the soul and spirit of Spain in a way that suggests a journey of self-discovery as much as an actual expedition. Although the stated goal is to reach Santiago de Compostela--a church in northwest Spain that was once the object of pilgrimages during the Middle Ages--Nooteboom doesn't follow a single or direct route to the village. The more serendipitous the journey, the better. Nooteboom followed many "detours," taking nearly every back road he found and making sure to avoid anything resembling a major thoroughfare or urban center. The result of his circuitous travels is this collection of moving essays on Spain's history, geography, architecture, and people. [via]

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  Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime 1919-1924
  

  by Richard Pipes

  ISBN 186046338X (1-86046-338-X)
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  Continuing and concluding "The Russian Revolution", and completing the trilogy begun with "Russia under the Old Regime", this book however, stand on its own. It deals with the attempts of the Bolsheviks to defend and expand their authority from the Great Russian base which they had conquered in the winter of 1917-18 to the borderlands of the defunct Russian Empire and beyond, to the rest of the world. By the autumn of 1920 it became apparent that these efforts would not succeed, and that the new regime had to concentrate on building a communist state at home. The closing part of the book deal with the crises this unexpected development caused Russia's new rulers. In addition, the author discusses Communist cultural and religious policies. By treating these and other topics usually ignored by historians, the author seeks to fulfill the promise given in the introduction to "The Russian Revolution" to look beyond the struggle for power which is commonly seen as the quintessence of the Revolution, to its makers' designs and to their uses of that power. The book concludes with the death of Lenin in January 1924, by which time all the institutions and nearly all the practices of the future Stalinism were in place. [via]

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  Russian Revolution 1899-1919
  

  by Richard Pipes

  ISBN 1860463363 (1-86046-336-3)
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  Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi-Ite Islam
  

  by Juan Cole

  ISBN 1860647367 (1-86064-736-7)
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  Secret Tibet
  

  by Fosco Maraini, Guido Waldman, Eric Mosbacher

  ISBN 186046873X (1-86046-873-X)
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  Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia
  

  by Louise Brown

  ISBN 1860499031 (1-86049-903-1)
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  The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners. Sex Slaves turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a vital part in the growth of the industry, the primary customers of Asias indentured sex workers and of its child prostitutes are overwhelmingly Asian men. Here are the voices of some of the worlds most silent and abused women—women who have been forced into prostitution by the men they trust. This is their story, including the journey from home to captivity, the horrors of "seasoning" for prostitution, and the hidden life within the brothel.
  

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  The Shallow Graves of Rwanda
  

  by Shaharyar M. Khan, Mary Robinson

  ISBN 1860646166 (1-86064-616-6)
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  The Simple Guide to Customs and Etiquette in Italy
  

  by Hugh Shankland

  ISBN 1860340806 (1-86034-080-6)
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  The Simple Guide to Customs and Etiquette in the Czech Republic
  

  by David Short

  ISBN 186034075X (1-86034-075-X)
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  Simple Guide to Italy: Customs & Etiquette
  

  by Hugh Shankland

  ISBN 1860340865 (1-86034-086-5)
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  Sources: Letters from the Irish People on Sustenance for the Soul
  

  by Marie Heaney

  ISBN 1860591043 (1-86059-104-3)
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  The Stealing of the Irish Crown Jewels: An Unsolved Crime
  

  by Myles Dungan

  ISBN 1860591825 (1-86059-182-5)
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  Thinking the Unthinkable : The Immigration Myth Exposed
  

  by Nigel Harris

  ISBN 1860646719 (1-86064-671-9)
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  This Is Alcohol
  

  by Nick Brownlee

  ISBN 1860744222 (1-86074-422-2)
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  This Is Nicotine
  

  by Karen Farrington

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  Travellers in Egypt
  

  by Paul Starkey, Janet Starkey

  ISBN 1860646743 (1-86064-674-3)
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  The Ultimate Staffordshire Bull Terrier
  

  by Clare Lee, Joyce Shorrock

  ISBN 1860542816 (1-86054-281-6)
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  Understanding the Present : An Alternative History of Science
  

  by Bryan Appleyard

  ISBN 1860648916 (1-86064-891-6)
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  Understanding the Qur'an : Themes and Styles
  

  by Muhammad Abdel Haleem

  ISBN 1860646506 (1-86064-650-6)
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  The Unicorn
  

  by Lise Gotfredsen

  ISBN 1860462677 (1-86046-267-7)
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  Universal History of Numbers
  

  by Georges Ifrah

  ISBN 1860467385 (1-86046-738-5)
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  The title doesn't lie. Mathematician Georges Ifrah's masterpiece, The Universal History of Numbers, is a wonderfully comprehensive overview of numbers and counting spanning all the inhabited continents as far back in time as records will allow us to look. Beyond the ancient Babylonians, Sumerians, and Indians, Ifrah takes us farther south into Africa to examine an early decimal counting system and into ancient Mexico to reconstruct what we can of the Mayan calendar and numerical system. The 27 chapters are chiefly organized by culture, though there are some cross-cultural overviews of topics like letters and numbers.

  The author's aim was grand: "to provide in simple and accessible terms the full and complete answer to all and any questions ... about the history of numbers and counting, from prehistory to the age of computers." This led him to wander the world for 10 years, studying and learning; this scholastic pilgrim has returned with amazing stories to tell. Toward the end of the book, Ifrah makes the book truly universal by refuting alien-intervention theories of cultural origins--surely our benefactors would have given us an efficient decimal counting system, zero and all, before helping us build pyramids and such. Such charming ideas, combined with such rigorously researched facts, make The Universal History of Numbers a uniquely important and fascinating volume. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
  

  by Georges Ifrah, David Bellos

  ISBN 186046324X (1-86046-324-X)
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  The title doesn't lie. Mathematician Georges Ifrah's masterpiece, The Universal History of Numbers, is a wonderfully comprehensive overview of numbers and counting spanning all the inhabited continents as far back in time as records will allow us to look. Beyond the ancient Babylonians, Sumerians, and Indians, Ifrah takes us farther south into Africa to examine an early decimal counting system and into ancient Mexico to reconstruct what we can of the Mayan calendar and numerical system. The 27 chapters are chiefly organized by culture, though there are some cross-cultural overviews of topics like letters and numbers.

  The author's aim was grand: "to provide in simple and accessible terms the full and complete answer to all and any questions ... about the history of numbers and counting, from prehistory to the age of computers." This led him to wander the world for 10 years, studying and learning; this scholastic pilgrim has returned with amazing stories to tell. Toward the end of the book, Ifrah makes the book truly universal by refuting alien-intervention theories of cultural origins--surely our benefactors would have given us an efficient decimal counting system, zero and all, before helping us build pyramids and such. Such charming ideas, combined with such rigorously researched facts, make The Universal History of Numbers a uniquely important and fascinating volume. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  Violet : The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
  

  by Jessica Douglas-Home

  ISBN 1860463606 (1-86046-360-6)
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  Exotic, talented, and an inspirer of devoted passion from both sexes, Violet Gordon Woodhouse was one of this century's most gifted musicians, and her salon was a rural match for London's Bloomsbury gatherings. Woodhouse was already showing a precocious musical talent by the time she was seven; in 1888, at the age of sixteen, she was studying with Oscar Beringer, one of the most notable piano scholars of the day. It was in the harpsichord and the early-music revival, however, that she would find her natural metier. Woodhouse's extraordinary ear for tone and phrasing and her instinctive interpretation of music made her salon a cult, a magnet for many of the most important artists of her age.

  Her musical genius was equaled by her evident physical allure. She had a horror of convention and lived in a menage a cinq with her husband and three "superhusbands". She also attracted passionate devotion from women, including Adelina Ganz, Ethel Smyth, and Radclyffe Hall. Woodhouse's is an utterly compelling story studded with unexpected subplots, the oddest of which is a double murder that forms the bizarre centerpiece of an extraordinary life. [via]

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  Virago Book of Wanderlust & Dreams
  

  by Lisa St Aubin De Teran

  ISBN 1860495346 (1-86049-534-6)
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  The Virago Book of Women and the Great War, 1914-18
  

  by Joyce Marlow

  ISBN 1860495079 (1-86049-507-9)
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  Virago Book of Women Gardeners
  

  by Deborah Kellaway

  ISBN 1860491537 (1-86049-153-7)
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  Virginia Woolf's London : A Guide to Bloomsbury and Beyond
  

  by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

  ISBN 1860646441 (1-86064-644-1)
  Softcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

  
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  The Voice That Thunders: Essays and Lectures
  

  by Alan Garner

  ISBN 1860464688 (1-86046-468-8)
  Hardcover, Trafalgar Square

  
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  In this collection of essays and lectures. Alan Garner shows how his thinking and writing have developed over the years and demonstrates the wide range or his concerns and scholarship, encompassing such diverse topics as language, literature, education, mental health, anthropology, archaeology, myth, the spiritual quest, philosophy, music, and film.

  Running throughout is Garner's relentless emphasis on excellence, innovation, and humor, priorities derived from his childhood in a rural, working-class family of craftsmen. He has combined their standards with his own education as a classicist and his involvement with the academic world. The whole volume is a poetic autobiography, from the story of when he heard himself declared dead at the age of six to his description of the inevitability of Strandloper, his most recent novel. In the final essay, from which the book takes its title, he describes how Strandloper came to be written and shows the ways in which his many skills were demanded in bringing that work about. [via]

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  Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes
  

  by Joyce Marlow

  ISBN 186049840X (1-86049-840-X)
  Hardcover, Virago

  
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  Who's Afraid of Freemasons?
  

  by Alexander Piatigorsky

  ISBN 1860460291 (1-86046-029-1)
  Hardcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews; Ed by George Plimpton
  

  ISBN 1860465862 (1-86046-586-2)
  Softcover, Harvill Pr

  
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  Young, Gifted, and Black: The Story of Trojan Records
  

  by Michael de Koningh, Laurence Cane-Honeysett

  ISBN 1860744648 (1-86074-464-8)
  Softcover, Sanctuary Publishing, Limited

  
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  The story of trojan records with cd. [via]

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