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Paul Du Noyer
[Hardcover 2010]
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The definitive history of the city's rich musical heritage draws upon extensive original research, including interviews with David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Joe Strummer, Dusty Springfield, and Amy Winehouse The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who, and the Rolling Stones... more
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Niccolo Machiavelli ,
George Bull
[Paperback 1970]
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A newly revised translation of the bible of realpolitik, with a new chronology, a translator's note, a list of Machiavelli's principal works, and a map of Italy. Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud... more
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Niall Ferguson
[Paperback 2008]
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Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of money, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest Wall Street upheavals. The author shows that finance is, in fact, the foundation of human progress. Description: A richly original look at the origins of money and how it makes the... more
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Steven Pinker
[Paperback 2007]
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Widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on language and the workings of the mind, Pulitzer Prize finalist Pinker has undertaken the most ambitious and controversial work of his career--a brilliant reexamination of the concept of human nature. "In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven... more
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Gyan Prakash
[Paperback 2011]
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A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and... more
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A L Basham
[Paperback 1998]
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Basham presents a survey of Indian culture, covering aspects such as religion, philosophy, social organisation, literature, art, architecture, music and science. This book deals with the influence of Indian civilisation on the world and details of the political history of the region to provide a chronological framework for the non-specialist.... more
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David Graeber
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About the Book : Must we always repay our debts?Wasnt money invented to replace ancient barter systems?Apparently not, according to Yale-bred anthropologist David Graeber.In a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom, Graeber radically challenges our understanding of debt. He illustrates how, for more than 5000 years long before the invention of... more
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Niccolo Machiavelli
[Paperback 1992]
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Drawing upon his own experiences of political office in the turbulent Florentine republic, Machiavelli wrote what would become his celebrated treatise on statecraft. Includes a chronology and map. Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write... more
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Charles Mac Kay ,
Andrew P Tobias
[Paperback 2004]
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A complete repackaging of the classic work about grand-scale madness, major schemes, and bamboozlement--and the universal human susceptibility to all three. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions, from witch burnings to the Great Crusades to the prophecies of Nostradamus. More than a century before... more
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Ariel Durant Will Durant
[Paperback 2010]
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A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, "The Lessons of History "is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the... more
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Ashis Nandy
[Hardcover 1984]
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This book looks at colonialism in its social, political, and psychological context, basing its thesis largely on a study of Gandhi and Kipling in India. Political, economic, and cultural domination under colonialism has repeatedly been studied during the last hundred years. Breaking with the tradition, Ashis Nandy explores the ways... more
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Thorstein Veblen ,
Robert Lekachman
[Paperback 1994]
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In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste that link invidious business tactics and barbaric social behavior. Veblen's analysis of the evolutionary process sees greed as the overriding... more
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John Berendt
[Paperback 2006, 1st Edition]
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The author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" returns after a decade to offer, in his inimitable style, an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants. (Foreign Travel) The author of the record-breaking bestseller "Midnight in the Garden... more
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Orlando Figes
[Paperback 2008]
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The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression. Adobe EPUB eBook Rights: Copying not allowed. Printing not allowed. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Drawing... more
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Gary Day
[Paperback 2001]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying not allowed. Printing not allowed. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. This exciting new account traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis today. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary... more
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Ziauddin Sardar
[Paperback 2009]
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Aloka Parasher Sen
[Paperback 2007]
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This collection of eleven essays, part of the Themes in Indian History Series, discusses different historiographical approaches to the study of subordinate and marginal groups in early India. Parasher-Sen attempts to understand the historical roots of social oppression and exclusion in the subcontinent, thus making an early historical phenomenon directly... more
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Jill Jonnes
[Paperback 2010]
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The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary worldas fair that introduced it Since it opened in May 1889, the Eiffel Tower has been an iconic image of modern timesaas much a beacon of technological progress as an enduring symbol of Paris and French culture. But as engineer Gustave... more
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Peter Watson
[Paperback 2011]
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Peter Watson's virtuoso sweep through modern German thought and culture, from 1750 to the present day, will challenge and confound both the stereotypes the world has of Germany and those that Germany has of itself. From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise... more
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Barbara Cartland ,
Francis Marshall
[Hardcover 2008]
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Full of charm and wit, Barbara Cartland's book of etiquette is as delightful now as when it first appeared in 1962. "'For the record, the word "parlour" is not used, nor is the relatively recent insidious "lounge," except about airports, hotels and liners.' 'Boys should be taught at a very... more
