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The Virgin Encyclopedia of The Blues

By: Colin Larkin

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of The Blues

By: Colin Larkin

The Virgin Encyclopaedia of the Blues is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the most classically simple, enduring and inspiring genre in the history of popular music. All entries have been created from the massive database of The Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, which has swiftly and firmly established itself as the undisputed champion of contemporary music reference books. Brand new research ensures that the 1000 entries are bang up-to-date and cover everyone - the musicians, bands, songwriters, producers and record labels - who has made a significant impact on the development of the blues. It brings together pioneers like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, the influence of Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon on the blues boom of the 1960s, and the most recent blues resurgence featuring Keb'Mo, Larry Garner and Jonny Lang. As well as the giants of the blues, this encyclopaedia has the range and depth to include performers who flew the blues flag during fallow periods, the 1980s band Roomful of Blues for example, or acts like Paul Butterfield, Chicken Shack, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who took the music to a wider, whiter, audience. Some blues musicians, including John Lee Hooker and Taj Mahal, seem to last forever. Others simply defined the genre, like Lead Belly, Bessie Smith and Howlin' Wolf. Whomever you remember or want to know more about, each entry gives the essential elements - dates, career facts, discography and album ratings - as well as a sense of context, striking a balance between the extremes of the self-opinionated and the bland.

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Random House

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1448132746

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The Colin Cheong Collection

By: Colin Cheong

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The Colin Cheong Collection

By: Colin Cheong

Prolific writer Colin Cheong brings together three classic novellas and 23 short stories in this first-ever collection. Written in the 1990s, each story reflects his prowess as a storyteller. He is known for his sensitive and skillful articulation of some universal human themes — the pain of rejected love, the frustration and anticipation of being ‘almost adult’, the rites of passage to adulthood, and man’s need for woman. This collection comprises: 1. Seventeen (novella, published 1996) 2. Poets, Priests and Prostitutes (novella, published 1990) 3. The Man in the Cupboard (novella, published 1999) – won the Merit Award, Singapore Literature Prize 1998 4. Life Cycle of Homo Sapiens, Male (short stories, published 1992) 5. Five new stories, previously only published in The Straits Times

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9814398772

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9789814398770

Pen and Ink Witchcraft

Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

By: Colin G. Calloway

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Pen and Ink Witchcraft

Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

By: Colin G. Calloway

Pen and Ink Witchcraft provides a comprehensive survey of Indian treaty relations in America and traces the stories and the individuals behind key treaties that represent distinct phases in the shifting history of treaty making and the transfer of Indian homelands into American real estate.

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OUP USA

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0199917302

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The Threshing Floor

Jeremiah's Warning to America

By: Colin Briscoe

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The Threshing Floor

Jeremiah's Warning to America

By: Colin Briscoe

Simon Freeman has just graduated from college and is driving across country in search of a lucrative sales job and the American Dream. Along the way, he is diverted off the path by a storm that leads him back to a small Midwestern town where he had spent the first ten years of his life. After reconnecting with his old friends, he quickly becomes accustomed to an all too familiar lifestyle. Not long after his arrival, a murder rocks the community, and Simon becomes convinced that he has been chosen to put an end to a curse and the cycle of tragedies that have plagued the town of Bethel for the past seventy-two years. With the help of a wily, old principal named Thelma Harold, he comes to believe that by renovating the local elementary school, he can influence a referendum vote that will restore the values and priorities of a corrupt, depraved community that has been overrun by a shrewd businessman named Jack Lawless and a small faction of wealthy landowners. During the renovation, however, Simon unwittingly enters into his own personal journey that takes him from salvation to sanctification. Along the way, a fledgling romance with a young teacher named Hope Wiseman forces Simon to confront the demons of his past and make a choice to either serve himself or Christ. In the end, Simon finds out that simply returning a building to its original condition has far greater societal implications to the eternal welfare for the cursed people of Bethel.

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WestBow Press

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1512762237

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Fate of the Dakota: A Novel and Resource on the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862

By: Colin Mustful

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Fate of the Dakota: A Novel and Resource on the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862

By: Colin Mustful

Alfred Riggs was a twenty-five year old son of a missionary who found himself helplessly intertwined in the real life actions, events, and people of a harrowing conflict in the history of Minnesota. Alfred grew up among the Dakota Indians of Minnesota and he developed a profound respect for their people and established a near kinship tie to their leader, Little Crow. When war broke out, Alfred was torn between the safety of his family and friends, and his deep understanding and respect for the grievances and traditions of his Indian neighbors. Throughout the story Alfred met and interacted with real life participants and witnesses of the war. But, rather than mitigate death and disaster, Alfred found himself in a number of dire situations from both sides of the war. In the end, Alfred was helpless to quell the senseless feud between the Dakota Indians and the white settlers. Ultimately, Alfred was fortunate to escape with his life and finally reconcile with his father.

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Lulu.com

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1329675258

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

By: Colin Larkin

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

By: Colin Larkin

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

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Omnibus Press

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0857125958

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John

An Introduction and Commentary

By: Colin G. Kruse

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John

An Introduction and Commentary

By: Colin G. Kruse

Among the Gospels, John's is unique in both structure and content. Ultimately, faith in Jesus is at the center—with signs highlighted to provoke faith and stories of those who responded to Jesus as examples of faith. In this replacement Tyndale commentary Colin Kruse ably reveals how the Fourth Gospel weaves its themes of belief and unbelief into its rich Christology.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830894985

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By the Skin of My Teeth

Flying RAF Spitfires and Mustangs in World War II and USAF Sabre Jets in the Korean War

By: Colin Downes

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By the Skin of My Teeth

Flying RAF Spitfires and Mustangs in World War II and USAF Sabre Jets in the Korean War

By: Colin Downes

A career pilot’s memoir of flying fighter jets through two wars and through the evolution of aviation technology. This is Colin Downes’s firsthand account of flying with the Royal Air Force in war and peace during a career in military and civil aviation covering a half century. The text is filled with his personal experiences, reminiscences and impressions and is written in four parts. Part One covers the years leading to Downes’s graduation and the winning of his RAF Wings. This is followed by action-packed stories of flying propeller-driven fighters, Spitfires and Mustangs, during and just after the Second World War. Downes then tells of his unique experiences of front-line fighter operations when he flew jets with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. The final chapter covers the remainder of his RAF Service flying until retirement. By the Skin of My Teeth offers a cockpit view of some of the most pivotal battles of the 20th century and covers decades of technological advancements in aircraft development.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783460377

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Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Reciepts

By: Colin MacKenzie

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Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Reciepts

By: Colin MacKenzie

Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts, published in 1865, aimed to provide the reader with all practical household recipes. As he notes,""In truth, the present volume has been compiled under the feeling, that if all other books of Science in the world were destroyed, this single volume would be found to embody the results of the useful experience, observations, and discoveries of mankind during the past ages of the world.

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Applewood Books

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1429011033

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MindSpring

By: Colin Honert

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MindSpring

By: Colin Honert

Bubbling up inside of us are ideas, ideas like sparks that ignite our imagination. However, if we didn't have the time or will to want them, we might not ever know they were there. Unlike other books, this one is not just an assortment of writings. It is a collection of ideas contained within a larger one. Simply put, MindSpring can be defined as a wealth of creativity stored within each of us that may never be discovered. So here I present to you my MindSpring - born from the unknown, developed in solitude, and having finally come to fruition. It may inspire you to find your own, while offering a way to awaken your imagination, taking you back to when your thoughts weren't overrun by daily routines and an ever-growing amount of responsibility. Even though many enjoy reading for the simple pleasure, others do so with the desire to be intrigued or even challenged. The intent here is to appease the likes of both. Either way, are you ready to have your thoughts provoked?

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457561093

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The Girl with the Golden Shoes

A Novella

By: Colin Channer

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The Girl with the Golden Shoes

A Novella

By: Colin Channer

By the author of Waiting in Vain: “A sparkling gift, the tale of a meager, shoeless, raggedy abandoned Cinderella whose hardships make her all the wiser” (The Washington Post). Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos—a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica—this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who’s forced to fend for herself when she’s banished from the isolated fishing village where she’s lived all her life. “The Caribbean tragi-comedy of class and colour finds a richly eloquent voice in this pin-sharp innocent abroad.” —The Independent “[Channer] writes with rare transparency, as though this story of a 14-year-old outcast welled up from the depths of the collective unconscious . . . a jewel of a book.” —Booklist “A picaresque set on the fictional Caribbean island of San Carlos in 1942, Channer’s rewarding and tense novella follows the journey of fishing village outcast Estrella Thompson, a precocious 14-year-old with a woman’s body who seeks shoes, employment and acceptance.” —Publishers Weekly “There’s something timeless about Estrella’s yearning for a better life . . . a fairy-tale novella of betrayal and hope.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Akashic Books

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1617752304

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Tales and Tidbits from the land of President Putin

By: Colin Daller

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Tales and Tidbits from the land of President Putin

By: Colin Daller

A clever compilation of playful Russian folk tales and renowned Russian recipes.

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eBookIt.com

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1456600176

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The Indian World of George Washington

The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

By: Colin Gordon Calloway

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The Indian World of George Washington

The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

By: Colin Gordon Calloway

The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.

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Oxford University Press

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0190652160

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Good Job, Brain!

Trivia, Quizzes and More Fun From the Popular Pub Quiz Podcast

By: Karen Chu,Colin Felton,Dana Nelson,Chris Kohler

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Good Job, Brain!

Trivia, Quizzes and More Fun From the Popular Pub Quiz Podcast

By: Karen Chu,Colin Felton,Dana Nelson,Chris Kohler

Mind-effing factoids—from anatomy awareness to CIA cats—and quirky commentary that give the traditional trivia book a fun reboot. Which came first, Brad Pitt or lasers? Who, what, or where is “shrapnel” named after? And can you really use cheese to tell the future? These questions and many more are answered in Good Job, Brain!, a collection of freaky facts, perplexing puzzles, and quirky quizzes based on the award-winning podcast of the same name. So step up, silly scholars seeking stupendous stimuli, for some . . . Crazy-but-true stories Hilarious quizzes Rebus puzzles Challenging crosswords Strategies and tips to win at pub quiz

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Simon and Schuster

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1612436250

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9781612436258

More Stuff Irish People Love

By: Colin Murphy,Donal O'Dea

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More Stuff Irish People Love

By: Colin Murphy,Donal O'Dea

Do you love the taste of Red Lemonade, change into your swimming togs under a towel on the beach or find yourself admiring 'the grand stretch in the evenings'? Then this book, jammed with hilarious reflections on what it is to be Irish, will have you nodding in agreement with every turn of the page. Contains approximately 100 things that Irish people like, such as; - Waving hello to complete strangers on country roads. - Using the 'cupla focal' to stress our Irishness when on holidays. - Going for a few pints after mass. - Claiming a relative who fought in the Easter Rising. - Explaining hurling to foreigners. - Nicknaming statues, for example 'The Floozie in the Jacuzzi'.

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The O'Brien Press Ltd

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184717972X

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Basic Maths For Dummies

By: Colin Beveridge

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Basic Maths For Dummies

By: Colin Beveridge

Basic maths for dummies offers the content people need to improve their basic maths skills. Filled with real world examples and written by a mathematician who specialises in tutoring adults and students, the book also provides practical advice on overcoming maths anxiety and a host of tips, tricks and memory aids.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119974526

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9781119974529

The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother

By: Lady Colin Campbell

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The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother

By: Lady Colin Campbell

Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so captivating that even her arch-enemy Wallis Simpson wrote about "her legendary charm." Portrayed as a selfless partner to the King in the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, The Queen Mother is most often remembered from her later years as the smiling granny with the pastel hats. When she died in 2002, just short of her 102nd birthday, she was praised for a long life well lived. But there was another side to her story. For the first time, Lady Colin Campbell shows us that the untold life of the Queen Mother is far more fascinating and moving than the official version that has been peddled ever since she became royal in 1923. With unparalleled sources - including members of the Royal Family, aristocrats, and friends and relatives of Elizabeth herself, this mesmerizing account takes us inside the real and sometimes astonishing world of the royal family.

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eBook Partnership

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1910050202

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After the Grape Harvest

Après les Vendanges

By: Colin S. Story

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After the Grape Harvest

Après les Vendanges

By: Colin S. Story

Colin first came to Aquitaine in the southwest of France in January 1994 to start the renovation of a friend’s property. This is the tale of his transition from leaving North Wales ten years later, and settling in the Dordogne department region of France. The story covers the highs-and-lows of his first twelve months as “a not very permanent resident.” He works the grape harvest with a French family near Monbazillac and at St. Emilion, learning to speak and understand the colloquial language of the area, which isn’t the French he learned at school and college, and he meets the French lady who is to become his wife. It is a story of survival and determination, told exactly as it happened.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1681815036

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The Gaelic-English Dictionary

By: Colin B.D. Mark

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The Gaelic-English Dictionary

By: Colin B.D. Mark

This book fulfils a keenly-felt need for a modern, comprehensive dictionary of Scottish Gaelic into English. The numerous examples of usage and idiom in this work have been modelled on examples culled from modern literature, and encompass many registers ranging from modern colloquial speech, to more elaborate literary constructions. The main contemporary terms and idiomatic phraseology, often not available in other dictionaries, provide excellent models for easier language learning. In addition to the main dictionary, the volume contains introductory material, providing guidance on using the dictionary, spelling and pronunciation. There are also twelve useful appendices which cover not only the various parts of speech, lenition and proper nouns, but also address the more difficult issues of expressing time, direction and numerals. The clarity of the design and layout of the volume will greatly ease the process of attaining mastery of the Gaelic language.

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Routledge

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1134430604

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9781134430604

The Victory with No Name

The Native American Defeat of the First American Army

By: Colin Gordon Calloway

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The Victory with No Name

The Native American Defeat of the First American Army

By: Colin Gordon Calloway

A balanced and readable account of the 1791 battle between St. Clair's US forces and an Indian coalition in the Ohio Valley, one of the most important and under-recognized events of its time"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199387990

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9780199387991

Earth's Climate Evolution

By: C. P. Summerhayes

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Earth's Climate Evolution

By: C. P. Summerhayes

To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth’s climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of sciences, not just the rock record uncovered by geologists. In Earth’s Climate Evolution, Colin Summerhayes analyzes reports and records of past climate change dating back to the late 18th century to uncover key patterns in the climate system. The book will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about future climate change. The book takes a unique approach to the subject providing a description of the greenhouse and icehouse worlds of the past 450 million years since land plants emerged, ignoring major earlier glaciations like that of Snowball Earth, which occurred around 600 million years ago in a world free of land plants. It describes the evolution of thinking in palaeoclimatology and introduces the main players in the field and how their ideas were received and, in many cases, subsequently modified. It records the arguments and discussions about the merits of different ideas along the way. It also includes several notes made from the author’s own personal involvement in palaeoclimatological and palaeoceanographic studies, and from his experience of working alongside several of the major players in these fields in recent years. This book will be an invaluable reference for both undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in related fields and will also be of interest to historians of science and/or geology, climatology and oceanography. It should also be of interest to the wider scientific and engineering community, high school science students, policy makers, and environmental NGOs. Reviews: "Outstanding in its presentation of the facts and a good read in the way that it intersperses the climate story with the author's own experiences. [This book] puts the climate story into a compelling geological history." -Dr. James Baker "The book is written in very clear and concise prose, [and takes] original, enlightening, and engaging approach to talking about 'ideas' from the perspective of the scientists who promoted them." -Professor Christopher R. Scotese "A thrilling ride through continental drift and its consequences." - Professor Gerald R. North "Written in a style and language which can be easily understood by laymen as well as scientists." - Professor Dr Jörn Thiede "What makes this book particularly distinctive is how well it builds in the narrative of change in ideas over time." - Holocene book reviews, May 2016 "This is a fascinating book and the author’s biographical approach gives it great human appeal." - E Adlard

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118897382

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9781118897386

The Stolen Child

By: Colin Cheong

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The Stolen Child

By: Colin Cheong

A search for a dream. Wing Cheong discovers that there are many roads to a single dream. He wants to fly — but his dream is suddenly shattered. As he searches for a meaning in life and other dreams to replace his first love, Wing experiences the trials and tribulations of change — in his family, friends and most of all, himself. A powerful and moving story about growing up, innocence and love, toughness and courage. A search across time and space — from the wonders of childhood to the strident urges of young manhood; from the landscape of the mind to the realm of the heart.

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9814408778

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9789814408776

The Havana Room

A Novel

By: Colin Harrison

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The Havana Room

A Novel

By: Colin Harrison

A fallen New York lawyer unlocks a world of intrigue and murder in a mysterious steakhouse in this crime noir thriller by the author of Afterburn. Bill Wyeth is a rising real estate attorney living the lofty heights of success. Then a tragic accident claims everything he has: his family, his fortune, his Park Avenue apartment, his career. But this is Manhattan, and Bill has so much further to fall. His downward spiral lands him at the table of Allison Sparks, the dangerously alluring manager of a Midtown steakhouse. She needs a personal favor of him—to engineer a midnight trade-off in a shady multi-million-dollar real estate deal. For a man with nothing left to lose, the setup is too intriguing to refuse, and like Allison, too forbidden to resist. But her favor draws him deep into a web of sex, deception, and murder—and to a secret place at the back of the restaurant, the Havana Room, where a man might find both evil and redemption . . . A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Colin Harrison’s The Havana Room is an intense and intoxicating thriller from a modern master of the New York noir.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374706379

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9780374706371

MacKenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

In all the Useful and Domestic Arts: constituting a complete and practical Library

By: Colin MacKenzie

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MacKenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

In all the Useful and Domestic Arts: constituting a complete and practical Library

By: Colin MacKenzie

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752522143

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9783752522143

Julia Margaret Cameron

The Complete Photographs

By: Julian Cox,Colin Ford

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Julia Margaret Cameron

The Complete Photographs

By: Julian Cox,Colin Ford

According to one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s great-nieces, “we never knew what Aunt Julia was going to do next, nor did anyone else.” This is an accurate summation of the life of the British photographer (1815–1879), who took up the camera at age forty-eight and made more than twelve hundred images during a fourteen-year career. Living at the height of the Victorian era, Cameron was anything but conventional, experimenting with the relatively new medium of photography, promoting her own art though exhibition and sale, and pursuing the eminent personalities of her age—Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, and others—as subjects for her lens. For the first time, all known images by Cameron, one of the most important nineteenth-century artists in any medium, are gathered together in a catalogue raisonné. In addition to a complete catalogue of Cameron’s photographs, there is information on her life and times, initial experiments, artistic aspirations, techniques, small-format images, albums, commercial strategies, sitters, and sources of inspiration. Also provided are a selected bibliography of publications on Cameron, a list of exhibitions of her work held both in her time as well as our own, and a summary of important collections where her pictures can be found.

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Getty Publications

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0892366818

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