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Requiem for a Species
Author: Clive Hamilton
ISBN: 9781742372105
Format: Paperback Book
Around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. And it is about the 21st-century consequences of these failures, and what we can do now.
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Chronic City
Author: Jonathan Lethem
ISBN: 9780571235667
Format: Paperback Book
Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, living off his earnings as a child star. Chase owes his current social status to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: his teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station.
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Point Omega
Author: Don DeLillo
ISBN: 9780330513777
Format: Paperback Book
Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. They asked him to conceptualize their efforts. For two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. He was to map the reality these men were trying to create. 'Bulk and swagger', he called it.
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The Imperfectionists
Author: Tom Rachman
ISBN: 9781921656033
Format: Paperback Book
The Imperfectionists tells stories about the peculiar people who write and read an international newspaper. While the news of the day rushes past - war in Iraq, terrorism, the rollercoaster economy - the true front-page stories for all of them are the blunders and triumphs of their own lives. A moving novel about 11 unusual, endearing characters.
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The Merry Misogynist
Author: Colin Cotterill
ISBN: 9781849160155
Format: Paperback Book
Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. The horror of what this monster does to his victims leaves a bad taste in the mouths of Dr Siri and his morgue team and they vow revenge. But they're distracted by the disappearance of itinerant Crazy Rajid. Siri has been getting premonitions that he's in danger. A trail of elaborate clues and remarkable disclosures about the Indian's past lead them to Vientiane's most anc ...
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Mr Shivers
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
ISBN: 9781841497914
Format: Paperback Book
A compelling, original apocalyptic fantasy by a confident new voice in horror fiction.
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Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
Author: Dimitri Verhulst
ISBN: 9781846271564
Format: Paperback Book
Madame Verona and her husband built a home for themselves on a hill in a forest above a small village. There they lived in isolation, practicing their music, and chopping wood to see them through the cold winters. When Mr Verona died, the locals might have expected that the legendary beauty would return to the village.
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The Blasphemer
Author: Nigel Farndale
ISBN: 9780385617802
Format: Paperback Book
On holiday in the Galapagos Islands, two things happen to zoologist Daniel Kennedy. When the small aircraft carrying him and Nancy, the mother of his little girl, crashes into the sea he is confronted with a stark Darwinian choice: should he save himself, or the woman he loves?
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Hitler's Gift to American Music
Author: Dorothy Lamb Crawford
ISBN: 9780300127348
Format: Hardback Book
This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influence of sixteen performers, fourteen composers, and one opera stage director, who joined this immense migration beginning in the 1930s. Some in this group were famous when they fled Europe, others would gain recognition in the young musical culture o ...
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Drawing Italy
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ISBN: 9780980475876
Format: 1
David Holm is passionate about drawing, the built environment and Italy. These three passions are brought together in Drawing Italy to create this intelligent and beautiful guide book to the architecture of Italy. It shows us all the major sites of Florence, Rome ,Venice, Sienna as well as lesser known but memorable churches and buildings.
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The Bedside Book of Beasts
Author: Graeme Gibson
ISBN: 9780747596103
Format: Hardback Book
The companion volume to the best-selling The Bedside Book of Birds (20,000 copies in hardback) is as beautifully produced as its predecessor and will appeal to wildlife enthusiasts the world over.
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Storms of My Grandchildren
Author: James Hansen
ISBN: 9781408807453
Format: Paperback Book
Discusses about global warming: the planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. This title shows why Gore's solution won't work, why we must phase out all coal, and why 350 ppm of carbon is a goal we must achieve if our grandchildren are to avoid global meltdown.
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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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Running with the Horses
Author: Alison Lester
ISBN: 9780670868339
Format: Hardback Book
Ten-year-old Nina lives with her father above the palace stables at the Royal Academy of Dancing Horses. She loves watching the famous white stallions as they parade for the crowds, but her favourite horse is an ordinary mare called Zelda - an old cab horse Nina often pats on her way home from school. When Nina's world changes dramatically, she and her father have to flee the city. Their journey over the mountains with Zelda and the stallions seems impossible, with danger at every turn...
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Apples With Humans Skin
Author: Nathan Shepherdson
ISBN: 9780702237416
Format: Paperback Book
Following on from his award-winning first collection of poems, Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror (UQP, 2006), Nathan Shepherdson has produced a new collection of poems that firmly establish him as an accomplished Australian poet. Shepherdson works with minimalism, lyricism and surrealism, with images always to the fore. The writing is spare and meticulous and shows an intense and cohesive artistic vision. From a brilliant and evocative re-imagining of the life of Austrian poet Trakl to a m ...
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The Pregnant Widow
Author: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780224084369
Format: Paperback Book
Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. The sexual revolution may have been a velvet revolution (in at least two senses), ...
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