Asia's Reckoning - China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. P...
A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economi...
The Channel: England, France and the Construction of a ...
The Channel: England, France and the Construction of a Marit...
Asian Ingredients: A Guide to the Foodstuffs of China, ...
Asian Ingredients: A Guide to the Foodstuffs of China, Japan...
Japan and the Wider World: From the Mid-nineteenth Cent...
Japan and the Wider World: From the Mid-nineteenth Century t...
How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, a...
How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Ko...
Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21s...
Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Cen...
Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21s...
Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Cen...
A Geek in Japan - Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime,...
For every fan of manga, anime, J-pop, or Zen, A Geek in Japa...
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Steam CD Key
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Steam CD Key
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Steam CD KeyPlatform:...
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial S...
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societ...
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific: ...
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific: As To...
Globalizing Oil: Firms and Oil Market Governance in Fra...
Globalizing Oil: Firms and Oil Market Governance in France, ...
A Comparative Hand List of the Birds of Japan and the B...
A Comparative Hand List of the Birds of Japan and the Britis...
Asia's Reckoning - China, Japan, And The Fate Of U.S. Power In Th
THE HARLOT AND THE SHEIKH/MISS BRADSHAW'S BOUGHT BETROTHAL/THE COWBOY'S CINDERELLA
The Harlot and the Sheikh Marguerite KayePrince Rafiq vowed to restore the pride of his kingdom by winning a prestigious horse race. To ensure success he hires an English expert. But Rafiq is shocked when his new employee is introduced
as Miss Stephanie Darvill!Stephanie is determined to leave her shameful past behind she will prove to Rafiq she deserves his trust! But this hard-hearted des...
Frankie Fish and the Great Wall of Chaos
From Australias favourite comedian and childrens author Peter Helliar comes the second book in his best-selling Frankie Fish series! A hilarious time-travel adventure about mega-mischief, misbehaving grandparents, and one very naughty dog
Pranksters Frankie Fish and Drew Bird have got hold of Grandads time machine, but its no laughing matter. Grandad and Nanna have disappeared to 17th ce...
Pretty Gentlemen - Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World
The term macaroni was once as familiar a label as punk or hipster is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly...
Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome
`Four Seasons in Rome charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerrs varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, and the first year of parenthood. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats the chroniclers of Rome ...
The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them. Its a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. Its post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. Its contemporary Bangkok, and a writers encount...
The Land and the People - China
China: the Land and People takes you on a whistlestop tour around this most incredible country. Explore its forests, rivers (including the mighty Yangtze), mountains and beaches, and meet some incredible wildlife along the way. Marvel at the vibrant street life, the amazing food and the diverse culture, and delve into the countrys rich history. Discover what its like to grow up in China sc...
Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese
On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of submission. Burlesque and the Art of the TeeseI advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute. Im a good dancer and a nice girl, but Im a great showgirl. I sell, in a word, magic. Burlesque is a ...
Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gate...
The acclaimed travel writers youthful journey as an 18-year-old across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the authors exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
Political Tribes - Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
A beautifully written, eminently readable and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy Never has our society felt more divided. In Political Tribes, Amy Chua diagnoses the cause of our current political discord: tribalism. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most the ones that people will kill and die for are et...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Scots
Mr and Mrs Dursley, o nummer fower, Privet Loan, were prood tae say that they were gey normal, thank ye awfie muckle. They were the lest fowk ye wid jalouse wid be taigled up wi onythin unco or ferlie, because they jist widnae hae onythin tae dae wi joukery packery like yon. 2017 will see an auspicious alignment of anniversaries. J. K. Rowlings world-beating debut novel Harry Potter and the Ph...
Whispering Death - Australian Airmen in the Pacific War
In Whispering Death, Mark Johnston, one of Australias leading experts on World War II, explains vividly how more than 130,000 Australian airmen fought Japan from the Pacific Wars first hours in 1941 to its last in 1945. They clashed over a vast area, from India to Noumea, Bass Strait to the Philippines. Merely flying over that regions boundless oceans and wild weather was dangerous enough fo...
The China Study - The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weig...
This exhaustive presentation of the findings from the China Study conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Referred to as the Grand Prix of epidemiology by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6500 adults in more than 2500 counties across China and Taiwan. While reveali...
Plain Tales From The Raj - Images of British India in the 20th Century
The Raj was, for 200 years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called benign autocracy the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country. Charles Allens classic oral history...
Humanity - A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Second Edition
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and into our own time-and asks whether humankind can weaken the grip war has on us. Praise for the first edition: It is hard to imagine a more important book. Gl...
The Violent Century
John le Carre meets Alan Moores The Watchmen in this stunning novel by one of science fictions most original voices. For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there must always be an account
and the pas...
The Infidel and the Professor - David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendshipsand how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as the Great Infidel for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is ...
Asia's Reckoning - China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970sand the potential crisis that awaits them Richard McGregors Asias Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China...
History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking; an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life; not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the millions printed; drawn; or otherwise constructed during the twentieth cent...
The Rest is Noise - Listening to the Twentieth Century
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2008A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. In `The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer ...
The Old Man and the Sea - A True Story of Crossing the Atlantic by Raft
Octogenarian Anthony Smiths journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible story of the survivors of a 1940 boat disaster, who spent 70 days adrift in the Atlantic, eventually reaching land emaciated and close to death. While this might sound like a voyage no-one would wish to emulate, to octogenarian Anthony Smith it sounded li...