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Smile or Die
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9781847081353
Format: Paperback Book
Explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. This book argues that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. It reveals the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation.
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Eating with Emperors
Author: Jake Smith
ISBN: 9780522855289
Format: Hardback Book
Based on original menu-cards from the tables of royalty and presidents, this volume looks inside the kitchens of the world's leaders and looks at how cooking for heads-of-state has changed over the past 150 years.
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Michi's Memories: the Story of a Japanese War Bride
Author: Keiko Tamura
ISBN: 9781740760010
Format: Paperback Book
Centres on the life story of a Japanese woman who went through the Pacific War, the occupation of Japan and migration to Australia. In her own words, Michi tells how she tried to become an Australian wife and mother in spite of her different cultural background. Now in her eighties she reflects on her experiences of the last fifty years.
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Forever Foreign
Author: Keiko Tamura
ISBN: 9780642276513
Format: Paperback Book
Against a background of social and cultural change, Forever Foreign, provides an insight into the varying influence of Western residents in Japan before World war II, and pays tribute to individuals who either, through a sense of adventure or by the forces of circumstance, lived their lives in a foreign culture.
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The Cartoons That Shook the World
Author: Jytte Klausen
ISBN: 9780300124729
Format: Hardback Book
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Delivery: 15 Days
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