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1982, Janineby Alasdair GrayISBN 1841953466 (1-84195-346-6)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650by John MorrisISBN 1842124773 (1-84212-477-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650'Book summary:A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain, the establishment of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from the collapse of the Pax Romana. In exploring political, social, economic, religious and cultural history from the fourth to the seventh century, his theme is one of continuity. That continuity is embodied in Arthur himself: 'in name he was the last Roman Emperor, but he ruled as the first medieval king.' [via]
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Agnes Grey: Library Editionby Anne BronteISBN 1846371295 (1-84637-129-5)
Softcover, Echo Library
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The Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, 2004/05by Charles HeymanISBN 1844150054 (1-84415-005-4)
Softcover, Pen & Sword Books Limited
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An Asperger Marriageby Gisela Walker-Slater, Gisela Slater-Walker, Tony AttwoodISBN 1843100177 (1-84310-017-7)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Asperger Marriage'Book summary:Four years ago, Chris Slater-Walker was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. For him this was an explanation of why he has always regarded himself as 'socially handicapped,' but for his wife Gisela it meant coming to terms with a marriage in which there would never be any intuitive understanding, despite Chris's good intentions. This book is an open and honest account of a long and still unfinished process of learning to live with a disability that some regard as incompatible with marriage. It is a story whose wider implications will be of compelling interest to anyone who has encountered autism spectrum conditions. [via]
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Aspoetry: Illustrated Poems from an Aspie Lifeby Wendy Lawson, Alice Blaes CalderISBN 1843104180 (1-84310-418-0)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aspoetry: Illustrated Poems from an Aspie Life'Book summary:Wendy Lawson's well-known poetry reflects the many aspects of a life lived with Asperger's Syndrome. In this illustrated collection of poems and short prose pieces, including some from her childhood and teenage years, Wendy engages with her past and present, writing frankly about childhood, self-discovery, adulthood and friendship. Her poetry also conveys the day-to-day challenges presented by divorce, bereavement, emigration, disclosing homosexuality and Asperger's Syndrome. Both reflective and life affirming, these poems offer evocative glimpses of the Asperger experience, and will enrich readers' understanding of autism spectrum disorders. [via]
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Atlantic Campaign: The Great Struggle at Sea 1939-1945by Dan Van Der Vat, Christine Van Der VatISBN 1841581240 (1-84158-124-0)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Barchester Towersby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1845882199 (1-84588-219-9)
Softcover, Nonsuch Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barchester Towers'Book summary:This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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Buddha Daby Anne DonovanISBN 1841953385 (1-84195-338-5)
Softcover, Canongate
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Build Your Own Life: A Self-Help Guide for Individuals With Asperger's Syndromeby Wendy LawsonISBN 1843101149 (1-84310-114-9)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1842050664 (1-84205-066-4)
Hardcover, Cpg Inc
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The Conscience of the Richby C. P. SnowISBN 1842324268 (1-84232-426-8)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Doctor Who Short Trips: Life Scienceby John BinnsISBN 1844350452 (1-84435-045-2)
Hardcover, Reynolds & Hearn
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Doctor Who Short Trips: Zodiacby Jacqueline RaynerISBN 1844350061 (1-84435-006-1)
Hardcover, Reynolds & Hearn
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Enemy Withinby Seumas MilneISBN 1844675084 (1-84467-508-4)
Softcover, Verso Books
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The English Churchby Tim Tatton-Brown, John CrookISBN 1843309653 (1-84330-965-3)
Hardcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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Everyday Heaven: Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autismby Donna WilliamsISBN 1843102110 (1-84310-211-0)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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The Exact Mind: An Artist With Asperger Syndromeby Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally WheelwrightISBN 1843100320 (1-84310-032-0)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Exposure Anxiety - The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyondby Donna WilliamsISBN 1843100517 (1-84310-051-7)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exposure Anxiety - The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyond'Book summary:Exposure anxiety is increasingly understood as a crippling condition affecting a high proportion of people on the autism spectrum. To many it is an invisible cage, leaving the person suffering from it aware, but buried alive in their own involuntary responses and isolation. Exposure Anxiety: The Invisible Cage describes the condition and its underlying physiological causes, and presents a range of approaches and strategies that can be used to combat it. Based on personal experience, the book shows how people with autism can be shown how to emerge from the stranglehold of exposure anxiety and develop their individuality. It progressively shapes the individual torn between experiencing it as the sanctuary and the prison. Exposure Anxiety makes it hard to stand noticing you are noticing. It can make love a form of torture, repel you from the sound of your own voice, make you meaning deaf to your own words and those of others and compel you to avoid, divert from or retaliate against the very things that which most have the power to reach you. Exposure Anxiety progressively co-opts the identity of the person as separate to the condition or it leaves them aware but buried alive in their own involuntary responses and isolation. Exposure Anxiety is the involuntary social-emotional self-protection response that needs no enemy. It turns the world upside-down, makes no yes and yes no and co-opts and defies conventional, non-autistic teaching techniques. Exposure Anxiety has many faces. By defeating it at its own game, Donna demonstrates how the person can progressively be inspired to fight for themselves and attempt to emerge, from the undercurrent, as the tide. [via]
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Farewellsby Ian FarringtonISBN 1844351513 (1-84435-151-3)
Hardcover, Reynolds & Hearn
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The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up With Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed)by WILL HADCROFTISBN 1843102641 (1-84310-264-1)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures With Asperger Syndromeby Jeannette Purkis, Donna WilliamsISBN 1843104164 (1-84310-416-4)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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For The Term Of His Natural Lifeby Marcus ClarkeISBN 184588082X (1-84588-082-X)
Softcover, Nonsuch Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For The Term Of His Natural Life'Book summary:[via]Perhaps Australia's most significant and most famous 19th-century colonial novel, For the Term of His Natural Life is a narrative of great suffering-of whips, chains, and man's inhumanity. There is no attempt to soften the truth of the degradation and cruelty in convict Australia. Yet the novel is peopled with vivid charactersRufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Australian literature.More editions of For The Term Of His Natural Life:
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Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescenceby Luke Jackson, Tony AttwoodISBN 1843100983 (1-84310-098-3)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence'Book summary:Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has learned to laugh at such names but there are other aspects of life which are more difficult. Adolescence and the teenage years are a minefield of emotions, transitions and decisions and when a child has Asperger Syndrome, the result is often explosive.
Luke has three sisters and one brother in various stages of their adolescent and teenage years but he is acutely aware of just how different he is and how little information is available for adolescents like himself.
Drawing from his own experiences and gaining information from his teenage brother and sisters, he wrote this enlightening, honest and witty book in an attempt to address difficult topics such as bullying, friendships, when and how to tell others about AS, school problems, dating, relationships and morality.
Luke writes briefly about his younger autistic and AD/HD brothers, providing amusing insights into the antics of his younger years and advice for parents, carers and teachers of younger AS children. However, his main reason for writing was because "so many books are written about us, but none are written directly to adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. I thought I would write one in the hope that we could all learn together." [via]More editions of Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence:
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The French Revolutionby CarlyleISBN 1847020313 (1-84702-031-3)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Good Behaviourby Molly KeaneISBN 1844083241 (1-84408-324-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Behaviour'Book summary:[via]Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, the large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy, and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behavior. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. This elegant and allusive novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys.More editions of Good Behaviour:
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Gordon Ramsay: The Biographyby Neil SimpsonISBN 1844542181 (1-84454-218-1)
Hardcover, John Blake
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gordon Ramsay: The Biography'Book summary:He has cooked for prime ministers, ousted Hollywood actresses from his restaurants, set records for cursing on television, and changed the way Britain eats. As famous for his volatile persona as he is for his cooking, Gordon Ramsay remains Londons most talked-about chef, an international sensation whose eponymous restaurant boasts three Michelin stars. And with his hit television show, Hells Kitchen, Ramsay is now a household name in the US. At 18, Ramsay was a professional soccer player; at 30, he was a multi-millionaire. So how did he end up in the kitchen? In this, the first biography of the star chef, Neil Simpson offers a fresh perspective on one of the most driven and successful men in Britain.[via]More editions of Gordon Ramsay: The Biography:
Haunted Londonby Chris Coe, Richard JonesISBN 1843306158 (1-84330-615-8)
Hardcover, New Holland
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Hieroglyphicsby Anne DonovanISBN 1841951099 (1-84195-109-9)
Hardcover, Canongate
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I, Corianderby Sally GardnerISBN 1842552902 (1-84255-290-2)
Hardcover, Orion Children's
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Coriander'Book summary:The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen. This is a book filled with enchantments -- a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox - that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander's life in the real world. With its brilliantly realized setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters. Coriander is a heroine to love. Her story will establish Sally Gardner as a children's writer of boundless imagination and originality. [via]
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The Innocence of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 184232991X (1-84232-991-X)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. WellsISBN 1846377757 (1-84637-775-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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James Bond 007: Colonel Sunby Kingsley AmisISBN 1845761758 (1-84576-175-8)
Softcover, Titan Books
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1842329456 (1-84232-945-6)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Lady Susanby Jane AustenISBN 1843911302 (1-84391-130-2)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Susan'Book summary:Inspired by Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and written in a similar epistolary form, Lady Susan is one of Jane Austens earliest finished works. In it, she reveals all the caustic wit and brilliant social satire of her later novellas. The victim of a vicious scandal, the impoverished Lady Susan is obliged to take up residence with her brother-in-law and his family. Refusing to resign herself to the role of placid houseguest, she conspires to baffle her hosts, seducing her sister-in-laws brother in the process by means of her impeccable gentility and some well-judged flirtation. Yet before her victory is complete, she must first contend with the untimely appearance of a former lover. The author of Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Jane Austen is one of the best-loved novelists of all time.[via]More editions of Lady Susan:
Lanarkby Alasdair Gray, Janice GallowayISBN 1841951838 (1-84195-183-8)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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Lanark : A Life in Four Booksby Alasdair Gray, Janice GallowayISBN 184195120X (1-84195-120-X)
Hardcover, Canongate Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lanark : A Life in Four Books'Book summary:Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark (first published in 1981) immediately established him as one of the most important Scottish voices of his generation and this astounding work as one of the key British novels of the last century. Magnificent in its reach and unequalled in the adulation of its critical response, Lanark is a massive book.
Perversely we start our reading with Book 3--the hero of this and the last book in the quartet, the eponymous Lanark, lives in a bizarre and fantastical future in a grey, dreary city called Unthank. He doesn't remember how he got there nor who he really is. He hangs around a local cafe with some other young people whose values and mores he can't quite figure. All around people are disappearing. Then he contracts dragonhide... and disappears too. He wakes in an institute and is told the sad but instructional tale of Duncan Thaw (the boy he used to be, the boy, in a sense, Alasdair Gray used to be).
Duncan, unknowingly speaking of the epic of which he is the centre, who we meet as a child and watch grow into an artist , says "I want to write a modern Divine Comedy with illustrations in the style of William Blake." And it is Duncan's story that is the heart of Lanark--and what a poignant, heart-breaking tale it is. From a boy who can never accept or offer or understand love, who cannot connect, to an artist who cannot accept that he cannot have the final word--both in his own life and in his art--Duncan's tale is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story.
Lanark is a work of huge imagination and wonderful range; it is about all of our selves, how we make them and make them up; it is about place and what that means for identity and it is about love--how we can learn to love our selves, or fail to, how we need to love, both ourselves and others, to create communities in which we can create art that will promote a continuing project of place in which we can love each other better. Lanark is peerless. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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The Last Human Cannonball: And Other Small Journeys In Search Of Great Menby Byron RogersISBN 1845131878 (1-84513-187-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Little White Carby Danuta de RhodesISBN 1841957216 (1-84195-721-6)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little White Car'Book summary:Veronique, an insouciant young Parisian, has an argument with her boyfriend, a self-consciously cerebral experimental musician, after he premieres the latest opus from his favorite band, the Sofia Experimental Bread Octet, in his shabby living room. Pissed off, exhausted by his claims of genius, and slightly tipsy, Veronique snatches the keys to her white Fiat Uno and her best friend, Estelle, and takes off into the night. What ensues includes, but by no means is limited to, sex, death, hostile road driving, soft rock, homing pigeons, and international incidents of the most sinister class. And the next day, when they awaken from this bender of an evening, they find that the whole of France is looking for Veronique's little white car. Featuring a pair of heroines as ripe and camera-ready as contemporary America could hope for, The Little White Car is a buddy novel that would make Quentin Tarantino weep with gratitude. It will also be a must-read for foreign car mechanics everywhere. [via]
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London Street AtlasISBN 1843483289 (1-84348-328-9)
Softcover, Geographers' A-Z Map Company, Limited
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London Walking : A Handbook for Survivalby Simon PopeISBN 1841660566 (1-84166-056-6)
Softcover, Ellipsis London, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Walking : A Handbook for Survival'Book summary:'Generally, roads are where things that are bigger than you travel faster than you. Therefore road junctions have the potential to bring together extremes: hard and soft; fast and slow; the quick-witted and the stupid. I'm taking it for granted that you know where you fit in to this scheme.'
Whatever the intention of architect or planner, whether plotting schemes of monumental constraint or modular flexibility, whether dissolving the city walls into air or bits, inhabitants of the city have to learn to live with the consequences.
London Walking is an expression of this human process, as both document and utility. It is a handbook for survival. It explores the city from groundlevel, relates it to lived experience, and is both a practical guide and a spur for dreams and new possibilities. Once on foot, at street level, and with appropriate strategies and techniques, it is possible to experience the city at its haptic, hectic best.
The book hinges on local knowledge and street-smarts which span such subjects as crossing the road, playing street-games and 'how to build your own portable stile'. Even techniques learned in rural or suburban environments become invaluable when applied in urban situations. How far can you walk in a day, following the sun? Can you cross town using only Australian aboriginal navigation methods?
London Walking explores the many liminal zones of the city, where the city contests its own existence: at the borders with its suburbs, in districts defined by residents rather than by property developers. It engages with the continual slippage of rich into poor, natural resource into capital, leisure into work and all the things in between that make Londonmetropolitan rather than merely urban. [via]
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Making Sense of the Unfeasible: My Life Journey With Asperger Syndromeby Marc FleisherISBN 1843101653 (1-84310-165-3)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Marlborough's Shadow: The Life of the First Earl Cadoganby J. N. P. WatsonISBN 1844150089 (1-84415-008-9)
Hardcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marlborough's Shadow: The Life of the First Earl Cadogan'Book summary:It is said that Marlborough could never have achieved his great military success without the support and ingenuity of his Chief of Staff, Quartermaster General and Chief of Intelligence, General William Cadogan, who became the 1st Earl Cadogan, and who, in 1722, succeeded Marlborough as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. This is the story of this most able young general, who possessed the charm, wisdom, powers of persuasion and ruthless determination. [via]
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Milton's Paradise Lostby John Milton, Gustave DoreISBN 1841932515 (1-84193-251-5)
Hardcover, Arcturus Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Milton's Paradise Lost'Book summary:Milton follows many classical examples by personifying characters such as Death, Chaos, Mammon, and Sin. These characters interact with the more traditional Christian characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, various angels, and God. He takes as his basis the basic biblical text of the creation and fall of humanity (thus, 'Paradise Lost'), which has taken such hold in the English-speaking world that many images have attained in the popular mind an almost biblical truth to them (in much the same way that popular images of Hell owe much to Dante's Inferno). The text of Genesis was very much in vogue in the mid-1600s (much as it is today) and Paradise Lost attained an almost instant acclaim.[via]More editions of Milton's Paradise Lost:
Mitchell Beazley Discovering Wine Country: Burgundyby Patrick MatthewsISBN 1845330366 (1-84533-036-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Mountbatten: The Official Biographyby Philip ZieglerISBN 1842122967 (1-84212-296-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountbatten: The Official Biography'Book summary:The official life of the soldier and statesman killed by the IRA in 1979 paints a rounded, sympathetic, and yet undeceived portrait of Mountbatten's character. From his christening (attended by Queen Victoria) to his days as Supreme Commander in Southeast Asia during World War II, to India where he oversaw the move to independence to the Suez crisis, we meet a figure who was profoundly human. "Lucid, stylish, perfectly organized and immaculately presented, it has all Mountbatten's best qualities."--John Keegan, Sunday Times.[via]More editions of Mountbatten: The Official Biography:
Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terrorby Craig MurrayISBN 1845961943 (1-84596-194-3)
Hardcover, Mainstream Pub
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Night And Dayby Virginia WoolfISBN 1846374707 (1-84637-470-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night And Day'Book summary:London, in the first days of spring, has buds that open and flowers that suddenly shake their petals--white, purple, or crimson--in competition with the display in the garden beds, although these city flowers are merely so many doors flung wide in Bond Street and the neighborhood, inviting you to look at a picture, or hear a symphony, or merely crowd and crush yourself among all sorts of vocal, excitable, brightly colored human beings. [via]
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Orange and Stuart: 1641-1672by Pieter Geyl, Arnold PomeransISBN 1842122266 (1-84212-226-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orange and Stuart: 1641-1672'Book summary:Regarded by many (including Simon Schama) as Pieter Geyl's finest work, this enthralling study describes the struggle between the House of Orange and the Regents of Holland in the mid-seventeenth century. In light of the links with the English House of Stuart, he views the dynastic marriage of William II and Mary as the root of future conflicts. An absorbing tale of intrigue and ambition.[via]More editions of Orange and Stuart: 1641-1672:
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The People's Act of Loveby James MeekISBN 1841956627 (1-84195-662-7)
Softcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The People's Act of Love'Book summary:Set in a time of great social upheaval, warfare, and terrorism, and against a stark, lawless Siberia at the end of the Russian Revolution, The Peoples Act of Love portrays the fragile coexistence of a beautiful, independent mother raising her son alone, a megalomaniac Czech captain and his restless regiment, and a mystical separatist Christian sect. When a mysterious, charismatic stranger trudges into their snowy village with a frighteningly outlandish story to tell, its balance is shaken to the core.[via]More editions of The People's Act of Love:
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Peter Pan And Wendyby J. M. Barrie, Michael ForemanISBN 1843650398 (1-84365-039-8)
Softcover, Chrysalis Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan and Wendy'Book summary:[via]A stunning edition of J.M. Barrie's classic tale, illustrated by two-time Kate Greenaway Medalist, Michael Foreman. Ever since Peter Pan first flew through Wendy's window, taking her and her two brothers off to Neverland, J.M. Barrie's enchanting fantasy has thrilled and delighted children. Here are all the elements that appeal to the imaginations of young readershigh adventure, children who can fly, pirates who need defeating, and fairies with magical powers. From Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys to the ominously ticking crocodile and the devilish Captain Hook, unforgettable characters burst from every page. In this edition, Michael Foreman's gorgeous illustrations breathe new life into this timeless tale. -
Plumer: The Soldier's General A Biography of Field-Marshall Viscount Plumer of Messinesby Geoffrey PowellISBN 1844150399 (1-84415-039-9)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plumer: The Soldier's General A Biography of Field-Marshall Viscount Plumer of Messines'Book summary:First World War Generals tend to have dubious reputations and in group photographs of the High Command on the Western Front, one figure stands out as an archetypal Colonel Blimp - smart to a fault, white hair, white moustache, pot-belly. This was Sir Herbert Plumer.
But his appearance belies the fact that he was one of the best-performing and best-regarded officers on the Allied side. He was famously thoughtful of his men and sparing of their lives. Though he never got on with Haig (Plumer had, as an examiner, given Haig low marks at Staff College) and although Haig considered removing him, Plumer proved indispensable during the great German offensive of March 1918. Plumer's crowning glories were the attack on Messines Ridge in 1917 and his successful implementation of the Obite and holdO strategy that contributed so much to final victory.Lord Plumer of Messines, as he became, destroyed all his papers, but the distinguished Historian Geoffrey Powell has meticulously researched this biography, and has written a lucid account of this undeservedly neglected hero which throws fresh light on generalship on the Western Front. [via]More editions of Plumer: The Soldier's General A Biography of Field-Marshall Viscount Plumer of Messines:
Pop Idol: The Official Inside Storyby Sian SolanasISBN 1842225367 (1-84222-536-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Queen Luciaby E. F. BensonISBN 1846376939 (1-84637-693-9)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Radiohead: The Complete Guide To Their Musicby Mark PaytressISBN 1844495078 (1-84449-507-8)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Radiohead: Welcome to the Machine Ok Computer and the Death of the Classic Albumby Tim FootmanISBN 1842403885 (1-84240-388-5)
Softcover, Chrome Dreams
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The Raw Shark Textsby Steven HallISBN 1841959111 (1-84195-911-1)
Hardcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Raw Shark Texts'Book summary:Amazon Best of the Month, March 2007: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing the lurking terrors uncovered in every letter of the written word. Steven Hall swims in the same surreal waters as pop-culture pioneers David Lynch and Michel Gondry, and The Raw Shark Texts deserves to be shelved somewhere between Trainspotting and Life of Pi. It pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air.
But don't just take our word for it. We asked Audrey Niffenegger, one of the most creative contemporary writers working today, to share with readers her take on Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. Check out her exclusive Amazon guest review below. --Brad Thomas Parsons
Guest Reviewer: Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. A visual artist, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife, her first novel, was an international bestseller and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2003. It won several awards and is being made into a major motion picture. Her visual novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress, were recently published by Harry N. Abrams. Miss Niffenegger is currently hard at work on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, a ghost story set in London's Highgate Cemetery.Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.
Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.
There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it. --Audrey Niffenegger
