The central conceptual idea of the contemporary theory of general relativity -- or geometrodynamics -- is the identification of matter with the structure of space-time. No entities foreign to space-ti
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A comprehensive reference to the style of the 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement, with its hallmark simple designs, modern function, beautiful materials and honest craftsmanship. This guide is aime
The new edition of the best-selling six-level Reading Explorer series will bring the world to the classroom like never before through new and updated topics, video, and visuals from National Geographi
The new edition of the best-selling six-level Reading Explorer series will bring the world to the classroom like never before through new and updated topics, video, and visuals from National Geographi
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Into the Valley of Death is the first in A.L. Berridge's Crimean War series. 1854 - The Allied armies prepare to besiege the Russian stronghold in the Crimea Harry Ryder is a maverick hero. Resentful
Guides you through a 28-day weight-loss programme. This title shows us how to withdraw painlessly from bad foods and looks at why we craved them in the first place.
Since inheriting a pile in Killiney, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby legend, lover of the ladeez and award-winning author - can add a new string to his not inconsiderable (you know what I mean) b
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Shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'. Drawing on secret documents and interviews with intelligence of
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Brings together 33 writers, past and present, on just what it is about Jane Austen that continues to delight, amuse, console and provoke us. Whether discussing Austen's gift for comedy, why men and wo
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Tells the story of the world's people. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it
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Intends to attack what the author saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time of Beat movement, and takes on issues of sex, drugs and race, simultaneou
A brand new series of five of Woolf's major works, in beautifully designed hardback editions. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and d
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Howard Belsey, a long suffering professor at Wellington College, is married to American Kiki, who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Howard feels the first two acts of his life are ov
This tender, deeply funny novel is about an eccentric elderly Ukranian widower in England and the struggles of his two feuding daughters to thwart the voluptuous young gold digger from the old country
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Do we live in a simple or a complex universe? This work explores the ability of complicated rules to generate simple behaviour in nature through 'the collapse of chaos.
Offers practical advice about planning a trip to the region, and describes points of interest in Myanmar (Burma), Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietn
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