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  Middlemarch

  George Eliot

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  Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.America.

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  A Little Holiday - From their...

  Oswald Sickert

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Oswald Sickert.

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  Obscurantism in power When...

  Brice Perrier

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  Over the last ten years or so, it has become commonplace to hear talk of an obscurantist threat linked to a rise in irrationality, manifested mainly by a mistrust of vaccination and conventional medicine. But obscurantism can also be found where we pride ourselves on fighting it. In this case, it is no longer the work of marginal or anti-establishment groups, but of a dominant way of thinking that presents itself as that of science and rationality. 
  The aim of this book is to lift the veil on this obscurantism in power. Through numerous examples, from impeded research into unexplained phenomena such as near-death experiences, to the vast field of medicine where the pharmaceutical industry has cornered the market on proving the usefulness of a treatment, Brice Perrier reveals how reason is transformed into dogmatism and hinders the advancement of knowledge. 
  The aim of the book is not to say what is true or false, nor to settle scientific controversies, but to understand why these debates, which have always been legitimate and even necessary in science, may simply no longer be allowed.

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  Out in LA - The Red Hot Chili...

  Hamish Duncan

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  The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party. 
   
   
    
  Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. 
   
   
   
  Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scrappy band quickly rose to scene-wide fame, playing all over Los Angeles, and gaining fans and media attention wherever they performed. Before the year was out, they had played approximately thirty shows, put together an early, beloved repertoire, recorded a blistering demo that secured them a recording contract with EMI/Enigma, and lost two of their founding members to a rival band. 
   
   
   
  Out in L.A. is an attempt at finding out exactly what happened during that first year and exploring what it is that makes the Red Hot Chili Peppers so compelling and fresh, even as they continue on their musical journey today.

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  Destination; Remarkable -...

  Mary Grothe

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  This isn’t an ordinary business book, or an ordinary autobiography. It’s not merely a rollercoaster, either, but an entire theme park full of them: a traumatic childhood, two tragic accidents, multiple descents into darkness and slow climbs back into the light, reckoning with the disease of alcoholism, years working to exhaustion in the trenches, leaving one family to find another, a breakdown and redemption–and that’s just the first half of the story. Here, every stage of life becomes its own rollercoaster: love, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood, all while becoming a first-time founder, CEO, and Christian. Grothe’s dramatic life story merges with a twisting, turning chronicle on the highest highs and lowest lows of business–and of faith–and how all of the above are inextricably intertwined.

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  Spanish Reader Beginner Short...

  Evelyn Irving

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  10 Easy and fun short stories in Spanish 
  This Spanish reader contains 10 short, fun stories about 11-year-old Valeria and her invisible elf, which will help you learn Spanish or refresh your knowledge of the language. 
  Spanish reader level 1: Learn effortlessly! 
  These Spanish short stories for beginners are suitable for children and adults who want to work with an engaging, modern and easy language book. If you are about to travel to Spain, or you are learning Spanish at school, you will enjoy these reader without a doubt! It won’t even feel like learning, but you will soon have a basic command of the language and be able to communicate in day to day situations. 
  These short stories in Spanish are very easy to understand, but they contain the most important vocabulary and grammar for a beginner to intermediate Spanish student. 
  The book tells the story of Valeria, a foreign school girl who is spending a year in the USA with her family and her invisible elf friend, Luciano. Valeria writes a diary during her stay abroad, where she describes her adventures living in a new country with her mischievous but good-hearted elf friend. 
  A Spanish phrasebook, a children’s book in Spanish, and much more: 
  At the end of this book you will be able to:Communicate confidently in basic daily life situations,Understand basic spoken Spanish,Use basic Spanish grammar,Grow your Spanish vocabulary. 
  The book is divided in ten shorter stories or chapters, which are structured as follows:A short story in Spanish,Important Spanish-English vocabulary,Comprehension questions, English translation of the text (parallel text Spanish – English).

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