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 | The Best of Punk Magazine(Hardback)Collects the raucous, star-studded, anarchic best of the "Punk" magazine, reproduced in facsimile form - including one completely unseen "lost issue" - with behind-the-scenes stories from founding editor John Holmstrom.
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 | Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968(Paperback)A classic account of life under Nazism and Stalinism that will appeal to fans of Alone in Berlin and Stasiland
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 | He Korero: Words Between Us: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper(Paperback)This book traces Maori engagement with handwriting from 1769 to 1826. Through beautifully reproduced written documents, it describes the first encounters Maori had with paper and writing and the first relationships between Maori and Europeans in the earliest school.
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 | 100 Unforgettable Dresses(Hardback )It's amazing that one feathered dress helped shape the most memorable number of the screen's greatest dance team, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It's a rush to discover that a fabric developed for automobile upholstery became the source for Halston's most famous creation. And although many people may not remember what film she won her Best Actress Oscar for. ....
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 | Collins Scrabble Dictionary 3rd Edition(Paperback)This book includes all playable words of two to nine letters in length, in one easy-to-follow straight alphabetical list. The short definitions, given for every word listed, have been updated for this new edition, and allow players to check meanings of words without having to consult a secondary dictionary. Collins Scrabble dictionaries are endorsed by Mattel and are an essential....
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 | Kardashian Konfidential(Paperback)Headliners of four hit reality television shows and staple cover girls of your favourite weekly celebrity magazines, Kourtney, Kim, & Khloé Kardashian live large and glamorous lives. But to see how they really live and relate as sisters, fans clamoured to read Kardashian Confidential making it an instant bestseller.
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 | Amexica: War Along the Borderline(Paperback)In the last three years more than 23,000 people have been murdered in Amexica - the area of land that forms the border between the US and Mexico. This is both the busiest and most deadly frontier in the world, studded with guard-posts, infra-red searchlights and heavily armed patrols.
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 | Grammar Rules: Writing with Military Precision(Hardback)Suitable for Brits and Americans, this grammar-reference book offers well-crafted 'grammar lite' explanations as well as hundreds of tips and workarounds.
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 | 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: 50 Moments That Changed Music(Hardback )From the moment that Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm conceived 'Rocket 88' to the suicide of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain and Lennon's Anniversary concert, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky chronicles 50 moments in history that shaped rock and roll as we know it.
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 | The Freudian Slip(Paperback)Sydney 1962. Women wear princess-line dresses, edge-to-edge duster coats, gloves, perfectly matched handbags and shoes and seamed stockings. They are defined by the vital statistics of their bust, waist and hip measurements and if they are over thirty they re over the hill. Kings Cross is bohemian, Paddington is pre-gentrified and the crowd at Beppi s and the Ozone charge....
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 | Big Fat Gypsy Weddings: The Dresses, the Drama, the Secrets Unveiled(Paperback)BIG FAT GYPSY WEDDINGS delivered ratings almost as enormous as the frothy, bejewelled frocks its subjects wear. This book offers a window into the secret and surprising world of Gypsies and Travellers in Britain today.
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 | Sub: Real Life on Board with the Hidden Heroes of the Royal Navy's Silent Service(Paperback)At any given time, any number of the Royal Navy's 15 nuclear submarines lurk undetected in the world's oceans. Totally self-sufficient for months at a time, they lie in readiness to be deployed to listen, intercept, or attack wherever they may be needed.
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 | Superconnect: How the Best Connections in Business and Life Are the Ones You Least Expect(Paperback)Networks rule the world. Take any organization: a corner shop, a new venture, a gang of drug traffickers, the United Nations, Google, the place you work. They are all networks, with their own rules and values and ways of communicating.
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 | Dos & Dont's: 400 New Jokes From the Funniest Magazine Column to Ever Exist in the History of the Universe(Hardback )In this new book of photographs - complete with sniping commentary - that document the dizzy heights and murky depths of street fashion, VICE magazine's staple humour series is collected in its entire, unabashed glory. The DOs are put on a pedestal that soars way past God and the DON'Ts are so cruel they sound litigiously close to death threats.....
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 | A History of the World in 100 Objects(Hardback )This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by....
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 | The Search for the Perfect Pub(Hardback)Around Britain, clocking up hundreds of beer miles in search of the perfect pub. A passionate defence of English drinking culture; an elegy for the local on your street corner.
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 | Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest(Paperback)If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the....
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 | Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest(Hardback )If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map....
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 | The Territorials(Paperback)Citizen soldiering has been part of our history since the first years of colonial settlement. From the early militias set up in the 1830s, primarily for internal security, right up to the current day, these everyday men and women have been trained and ready to serve in such arena as the Boer War, the Great War and World War II.....
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 | Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso(Hardback )'I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope.' Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled conscience during the white-hot period of colonisation, maintaining his dissident voice throughout....
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