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Correction

Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

By: Ben Austen

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Correction

Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

By: Ben Austen

NYT EDITOR'S CHOICE • WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 • FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system–through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy “Correction ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside of prison I have ever read." ―Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted “Correction provides a revelatory lens for examining mass incarceration." –The Washington Post A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: Chicago Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune, The Next Big Idea Club The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world’s incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés—paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time—there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don’t actually know why we punish. Ben Austen’s powerful exploration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of parole. Told through the portraits of two men imprisoned for murder, and the parole board that holds their freedom in the balance, Austen’s unflinching storytelling forces us to reckon with some of the most profound questions underlying the country’s values around crime and punishment. What must someone who commits a terrible act do to get a second chance? What does incarceration seek to accomplish? An illuminating work of narrative nonfiction, Correction challenges us to consider for ourselves why and who we punish–and how we might find a way out of an era of mass imprisonment.

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Flatiron Books

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1250758815

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The Making of Victorian Values

Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837

By: Ben Wilson

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The Making of Victorian Values

Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837

By: Ben Wilson

A history of pre-Victorian England cites the contributions of Romantic authors, profiles the role of imperialism, and traces Britain's influence as an economic and political power, likening elements of the period to those of today's world.

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Penguin

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1594201161

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Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic

By: Ben Davies,Christina Lupton,Johanne Gormsen Schmidt

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Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic

By: Ben Davies,Christina Lupton,Johanne Gormsen Schmidt

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyse single texts that were popular (Albert Camus's The Plague, Ali Smith's Summer, Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre) and others that describe clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing, this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf. Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the consumption of novels depends on and shapes people's experience of non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine the phenomenology of reading more generally. This timely work also negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure, between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this complex historical moment.

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Oxford University Press

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0192672177

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9780192672179

The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition)

By: Christopher Hibbert,Ben Weinreb,John Keay,Julia Keay

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The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition)

By: Christopher Hibbert,Ben Weinreb,John Keay,Julia Keay

‘There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history’ Illustrated London News The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organised alphabetically, cross-referenced and supported by two large indexes – one for the 10,000 people mentioned in the text and one general – and is illustrated with over 500 drawings, prints and photographs. Everything of relevance to the history, culture, commerce and government of the capital is documented in this phenomenal book. From the very first settlements through to the skyline of today, The London Encyclopaedia comprehends all that is London. ‘Written in very accessible prose with a range of memorable quotations and affectionate jokes...a monumental achievement written with real love’ Financial Times

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Pan Macmillan

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0230738788

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9780230738782

Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve

What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

By: Ben Blatt

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Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve

What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

By: Ben Blatt

Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichaes? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?"--Amazon.com.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501105388

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9781501105388

Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance

Little Histories and Neutral Territories

By: Ben P Robertson

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Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance

Little Histories and Neutral Territories

By: Ben P Robertson

Explores the connections between British and American Romanticism, focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). This study argues that Inchbald and Hawthorne are representative of a larger British/American cultural confluence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Routledge

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1317316207

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Elizabeth Inchbald's Reputation

A Publishing and Reception History

By: Ben P Robertson

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Elizabeth Inchbald's Reputation

A Publishing and Reception History

By: Ben P Robertson

Through an examination of her complete works and public response to them, Robertson gauges the extent of Inchbald's reputation as the dignified Mrs Inchbald, as well as providing a clear sense of what it meant to be a female Romantic writer.

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1317316509

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Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died

Controversial Views from the #1 Fan Site

By: Emerson Spartz,Ben Schoen

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Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died

Controversial Views from the #1 Fan Site

By: Emerson Spartz,Ben Schoen

New York Times–Bestselling Authors: Diehard fans share opinions and debate questions about the beloved series from the funny to the philosophical. •Should we pity Voldemort or hate him? •Is Severus Snape really a hero? •Should J.K. Rowling have left Dumbledore’s sexual orientation a secret? •Did Harry actually die in Deathly Hallows? •Were the Slytherins too demonized, the Hufflepuffs too lame, and the Gryffindors too glorified? •Should J.K.R. write more Harry Potter novels or go out on top? After all the books and movies, Harry Potter fans still fiercely debate the many controversial issues left unresolved. Now, in this entertaining collection, the experts argue passionately about bests and worsts, what-ifs, what really happened, and what should have happened . . .

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Simon and Schuster

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1569757445

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9781569757444

Podium

What Shapes a Sporting Champion?

By: Ben Oakley

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Podium

What Shapes a Sporting Champion?

By: Ben Oakley

First book of its kind to surfeit the appetite of readers interested in popular science and the myths of talent in a specifically sporting situation.

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A&C Black

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1472902165

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9781472902160

Dear Bill Bryson

Footnotes from a Small Island

By: Ben Aitken

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Dear Bill Bryson

Footnotes from a Small Island

By: Ben Aitken

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED THE GRAN TOUR AND THE MARMALADE DIARIES An irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic. 'It would be wrong to view this book as just a highly accomplished homage to a personal hero. Aitken's politics, as much as his humour, are firmly in the spotlight, and Dear Bill Bryson achieves more than its title (possibly even its author) intended.' Manchester Review In 2013, travel writer Ben Aitken decided to follow in the footsteps of his hero - literally - and started a journey around the UK, tracing the trip taken by Bill Bryson in his classic tribute to the British Isles, Notes from a Small Island. Staying at the same hotels, ordering the same food, and even spending the same amount of time in the bath, Aitken's homage - updated and with a new preface for 2022 - is filled with wit, insight and humour.

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Icon Books

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1785789090

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The Kid

The Immortal Life of Ted Williams

By: Ben Bradlee Jr.

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The Kid

The Immortal Life of Ted Williams

By: Ben Bradlee Jr.

From acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for. Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea. He hit home runs farther than any player before him -- and traveled a long way himself, as Ben Bradlee, Jr.'s grand biography reveals. Born in 1918 in San Diego, Ted would spend most of his life disguising his Mexican heritage. During his 22 years with the Boston Red Sox, Williams electrified crowds across America -- and shocked them, too: His notorious clashes with the press and fans threatened his reputation. Yet while he was a God in the batter's box, he was profoundly human once he stepped away from the plate. His ferocity came to define his troubled domestic life. While baseball might have been straightforward for Ted Williams, life was not. The Kid is biography of the highest literary order, a thrilling and honest account of a legend in all his glory and human complexity. In his final at-bat, Williams hit a home run. Bradlee's marvelous book clears the fences, too.

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Little, Brown

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0316084484

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9780316084482

Web Development with Django

A definitive guide to building modern Python web applications using Django 4

By: Ben Shaw,Saurabh Badhwar,Chris Guest,Bharath Chandra K S

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Web Development with Django

A definitive guide to building modern Python web applications using Django 4

By: Ben Shaw,Saurabh Badhwar,Chris Guest,Bharath Chandra K S

Create your own websites easily, securely, and quickly with Django by tackling practical activities based on realistic case studies Key Features Understand Django functionality and the Model-View-Template (MVT) paradigm Create and iteratively build a book review website, adding features as you build your knowledge Explore advanced concepts such as REST API implementation and third-party module integration Book DescriptionDo you want to develop reliable and secure applications that stand out from the crowd without spending hours on boilerplate code? You’ve made the right choice trusting the Django framework, and this book will tell you why. Often referred to as a “batteries included” web development framework, Django comes with all the core features needed to build a standalone application. Web Development with Django will take you through all the essential concepts and help you explore its power to build real-world applications using Python. Throughout the book, you’ll get the grips with the major features of Django by building a website called Bookr – a repository for book reviews. This end-to-end case study is split into a series of bitesize projects presented as exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. As you advance, you'll acquire various practical skills, including how to serve static files to add CSS, JavaScript, and images to your application, how to implement forms to accept user input, and how to manage sessions to ensure a reliable user experience. You’ll cover everyday tasks that are part of the development cycle of a real-world web application. By the end of this Django book, you'll have the skills and confidence to creatively develop and deploy your own projects.What you will learn Create a new application and add models to describe your data Use views and templates to control behavior and appearance Implement access control through authentication and permissions Develop practical web forms to add features such as file uploads Build a RESTful API and JavaScript code that communicates with it Connect to a database such as PostgreSQL Who this book is for This book is for programmers looking to enhance their web development skills using the Django framework. To fully understand the concepts explained in this book, basic knowledge of Python programming as well as familiarity with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS is assumed.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1803235128

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9781803235127

Uncommon Contexts

Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914

By: Ben Marsden

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Uncommon Contexts

Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914

By: Ben Marsden

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science.

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Routledge

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1317320344

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9781317320340

Malibu

By: Ben Marcus,Marc Wanamaker

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Malibu

By: Ben Marcus,Marc Wanamaker

Malibu offers the best in Southern California living. This small town is situated close to Los Angeles and Hollywood, but far enough away from the traffic and stress of big-city life. All the clichés of Southern California come true in Malibu: the swimming pools, movie stars, paparazzi, and fancy cars. It's the land of champagne wishes and caviar dreams. But Malibu is also a beautiful, quiet, and surprisingly rural beachfront community. In a desirable location going back to the time of the Chumash Indians, the peace and environment of Malibu have been protected by city fathers with a vision. This is the California Riviera, a thin slice of la dolce vita located between the Santa Monica Mountains and the deep blue sea.

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Arcadia Publishing

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073857614X

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9780738576145

A Legacy of Death

By: Ben Westerham

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A Legacy of Death

By: Ben Westerham

For one young woman, a sizeable and unexpected legacy comes with the ultimate price-tag; her life. A rural idyll in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside is shaken to its foundations when the body of a beautiful woman is found at the bottom of a field-side ditch. Still smarting from the loss of his one-true love, Inspector Leslie Dykeman, accompanied by his irascible side-kick, Sergeant Stanley Shapes, is sent to investigate. What they uncover is a web of secrets, lies, jealousy and greed. But which of these, he asks himself, lies behind such a shocking murder? A Legacy of Death is the fourth book in a classic murder mystery series set in the Oxfordshire town of Banbury in the early 1960s by British author Ben Westerham. If you like classic murder mysteries with a touch of romance and a streak of humour, then you’ll love these. Buy it now and see if you’re up to the challenge of identifying the killer before Dykeman and Shapes can unmask them.

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Close9 Publishing

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1911085328

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9781911085324

Chiefs' Country

Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

By: Ben Burt,Michael Kwa'ioloa

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Chiefs' Country

Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

By: Ben Burt,Michael Kwa'ioloa

In this autobiographical account of life in Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town, managing marriage exchanges, and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland in Malaita island. He also participates in a long tradition of political activism by community leaders or chiefs, whose role was severely tested by the violent conflict between Malaitans and the indigenous Guadalcanal people at the turn of the century. Kwa'ioloa provides a local perspective on the causes and course of this unhappy episode in his country's history.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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1921902256

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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico

By: Ben Fallaw

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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico

By: Ben Fallaw

The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics, impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into sporadic violence, ultimately frustrating the secular vision shared by Plutarco Elías Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas. Ben Fallaw argues that previous scholarship has not appreciated the pervasive influence of Catholics and Catholicism on postrevolutionary state formation. By delving into the history of four understudied Mexican states, he is able to show that religion swayed regional politics not just in states such as Guanajuato, in Mexico's central-west "Rosary Belt," but even in those considered much less observant, including Campeche, Guerrero, and Hidalgo. Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico reshapes our understanding of agrarian reform, federal schooling, revolutionary anticlericalism, elections, the Segunda (a second Cristero War in the 1930s), and indigenism, the Revolution's valorization of the Mesoamerican past as the font of national identity.

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Duke University Press

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0822353377

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9780822353379

Unravelled Dreams

Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840

By: Ben Marsh

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Unravelled Dreams

Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840

By: Ben Marsh

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108418287

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Shakespeare's Syndicate

The First Folio, Its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade

By: Ben Higgins,Departmental Lecturer in English Literature Ben Higgins

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Shakespeare's Syndicate

The First Folio, Its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade

By: Ben Higgins,Departmental Lecturer in English Literature Ben Higgins

In 1623 a team of stationers published what has become the most famous volume in English literary history: William Shakespeare's First Folio. Who were these publishers and how might their stories be bound up with those found within the book they created? Ben Higgins offers a radical new account of the First Folio by focusing on these four publishing businesses that made the volume. By moving between close scrutiny of the Folio publishers and a wider view of their significance within the early modern book trade, Higgins uses Shakespeare's stationers to explore the 'literariness' of the Folio; to ask how stationers have shaped textual authority; to argue for the interpretive potential of the 'minor' Shakespearean bookseller; and to examine the topography of Shakespearean publication. Drawing on a host of fresh primary evidence from a wide range of sources, including court records, manuscript letters, bookseller's bills, and the literature itself, Shakespeare's Syndicate illuminates our understanding of how this landmark volume was made and what it has meant to scholars since. Moreover, it models exciting new ways of working with stationers and of reading the event of early modern publication itself. This innovative study demonstrates that despite four hundred years of history, the volume at the centre of Shakespeare's canon continues to generate new stories.

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Oxford University Press

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0192848844

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9780192848840

Three Days in May

By: Ben Brown

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Three Days in May

By: Ben Brown

Ben Brown's political thriller takes us behind the doors of Number Ten in May 1940 during three pivotal days in British History when, extraordinarily, giving in to Hitler was seriously considered.Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is confronted with an intense game of political chess as he tries to persuade peace treaty supporters, including Neville Chamberlain, that Britain must not concede. Divided on whether to negotiate terms through Mussolini or escalate the battle against fascism alone, one man has to make a monumental decision, which will shape the future of the free world.Three Days in May was presented by Bill Kenwright and first performed at Theatre Royal, Windsor, in August 2011.

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Faber & Faber

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0571283004

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Dare to Be Different

Inspirational Words from People Who Changed the World

By: Ben Brooks

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Dare to Be Different

Inspirational Words from People Who Changed the World

By: Ben Brooks

A fully illustrated book collecting important, impactful, and inspiring words from amazing people who have made a difference by a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator team. The things we say, write, and sing can inspire, comfort, uplift, and excite other people. But words do not only provoke emotions, they lead to action too. This book, like most others, is a collection of words. What makes these words different is how they changed the world and changed peoples' lives. Some of them were heard by millions of people around the planet, while others were written in personal letters from one person to another. Learn more about 75 people throughout history who have used their words to make a difference in the world, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nujeen Mustafa, Lin Yutang, Lydia Maria Child, Malala, Socrates, Sampa the Great, and more. Fully illustrated with art by Quinton Winter, this new middle grade book is sure to uplift and inspire young readers to use words to change the world.

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Running Press Kids

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0762479159

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9780762479153

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