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Critical Fashion Practice

From Westwood to Van Beirendonck

by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs of criticism and subversion, these were either in the form of subcultures or perversions, such as punk...
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The Making of India

The Untold Story of British Enterprise

by Kartar Lalvani
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The...
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by Dr. Tripti Sharan
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

India has a high maternal mortality rate, a staggering 174 per 100,000 live births (2015). 'Women are not dying because of diseases we cannot treat. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving.'-Mahmoud Fathalla, past president of the International...
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by John Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

The Unexpected Story of Nathaniel Rothschild is the only full length biography of Nathaniel, the first Lord Rothschild (1840-1915). The Rothschild family in all its branches is of compelling and continuing interest and fascination. A family that could make or break dynasties, that could bankrupt...
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by Will Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

Jarold, aka, Jazz, is a typical sixteen year old boy. He lives at home with his two remarkably un-divorced parents, his holier-than-thou sister, and his overbearing grandmother. It's a life straight out of a TV show. Or so it seem The truth is that Jazz's life is anything but picture perfect. He's...
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The Modern Con Man

How to Get Something for Nothing

by Todd Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008

Whether it's winning $50 on a bar bet, scoring seats closer to the fifty-yard line, or finagling a free meal, The Modern Con Man ensures that aspiring low-risk grifters will always come out on top. Filled with humorous facts and tables, a glossary of con terms, illustrations, the history of the con,...
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Ethical Ambition

Living A Life of Meaning and Worth

by Derrick Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

Named as a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2002, Ethical Ambition is now available in paperback. As one of America's most influential law professors, Derrick Bell has spent a lifetime helping students struggling to maintain a sense of integrity in the face of an overwhelming pressure to succeed...
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Red, White, and Drunk All Over

A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

by Natalie MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008

In this bodice-ripping wine book that got widespread and excellent reviews in hardcover, multiple James Beard and IACP award-winning writer Natalie MacLean's journey through the international world of wine is the perfect companion for neophytes and wine aficionados alike. Includes a new chapter with...
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by Pran Kurup
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

This book provides a unique perspective on Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) through the keen observations and first-hand insights of an active AAP volunteer and close personal friend of Kejriwal from his undergraduate days at IIT Kharagpur. They re-connected more than a decade after IIT...
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Harold Robbins

The Man Who Invented Sex

by Andrew Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011

During his fifty-year career Harold Robbins, the godfather of the airport novel, sold approximately 750 million copies of his books worldwide. His seventh novel, The Carpetbaggers, a steamy tale of sex, greed, and corruption loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes, is the fourth-most-read book...
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Burning Rainbow Farm

How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke

by Dean Kuipers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

Visit www.burningrainbowfarm.com On a mission to build a peaceful, pot-friendly Shangri-La, Tom Crosslin and his lover Rollie Rohm founded Rainbow Farm, a well-appointed campground and concert venue tucked away in rural Southwest Michigan. The farm quickly became the center of marijuana and environmental...
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Fever Season

The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City

by Jeanette Keith
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. The city of Memphis,...
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First World War

Still No End in Sight

by Professor Frank Furedi
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book argues that the battle of ideas which crystallised during the course of the Great War continue to the present....
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European Modernity

A Global Approach

by Bo Stråth, Prof. Peter Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017

It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history. Bo StrĂ¥th and Peter Wagner re-position Europe in the global context...
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