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The lives, loves and deaths of splendidly unreasonable inventors
The lives loves and deaths of splendidly unreasonable inventors is a brilliant analysis of 30 inventors who changed the world. Coller observes that personality type dictates the potential for success in bringing inventions to fruition. Few people ...
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business – sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable.And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.This was the thought ...
Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)
A memoir of the author's time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris. It documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X', ...
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Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration
On 2 June 1953, 27-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen, the eyes of the world upon her as she dedicated herself to her country. It is fascinating to look back over the sixty years since then and see how this remarkable woman, decade ...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives.
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Autobiography of Malcolm X
They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This autobiography, tells of a young, disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addition, robbery and prison was only reversed by his belief ...
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OCR a Historical Themes: Russia and Its Rulers 1855-1964 (Hodder Arnold Publication)
Part of the best-selling Access to History series, this endorsed title supports students studying the OCR A Historical Themes Unit.
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola ...
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