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A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Vintage: 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000052040

ISBN: 0679735666

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses i ncludes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuis ine and the music played by the planet Earth. "Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in." --The New York Times.
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IN THE LIGHT OF THOUGHT OF MUAMMAR AL QATHAFI: STUDIES IN FREEDOM, DEMOCRAC Y, AND EXPLOITATION

By: Al-Tunji, Dr Abdul Salam

Price: ¥5,000.00

Publisher: World Center for the Studies: 1988

Seller ID: RWARE0000009846

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

TRACKING DOWN YOUR ANCESTORS: DISCOVER THE STORY BEHIND YOUR ANCESTORS AND BRING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY TO LIFE

By: Alder, Dr. Harry

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: How to Books: 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000021709

ISBN: 1857038282

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Dr Harry Alder, a prolific writer and long time researcher, shares invaluab le lessons and the gems of discovery you can expect as you track down your ancestors. Here he passes on his passion for the subject, his first-hand ex perience, lots of practical tips and key web sites to support your research . His many other books include Achieve Twice as Much in Half the Time, How To Live Longer, Remembering Names and Faces, Say it with Pictures. He is ba sed in Wallasey, Wirral.
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"CITYBOY"

By: Anderson, Geraint

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing: 2009

Seller ID: RWARE0000042811

ISBN: 0755346181

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

MODERN ROMANCE

By: Ansari, Aziz

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 2016

Seller ID: RWARE0000051612

ISBN: 0143109251

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The #1 New York Times Bestseller A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and peri ls of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one o f this generation's sharpest comedic voices At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet p eople, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of findin g someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now,...
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TALES FROM SHINING AND SINKING INDIA

By: Banerjee

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Amaryllis: 2013

Seller ID: RWARE0000047650

ISBN: 9789381506219

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Tales from Shining and Sinking India brings to the fore a realistic and detailed account of how broadcast media works in the country The challenges the technology and the editorial calls that go behind getting the true picture from ground zero Peppered with fascinating photographs this book is both a study of the broadcast media and the dichotomy called India.
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WHAT YOUNG INDIA WANTS

By: Bhagat, Chetan

Price: ¥450.00

Publisher: Rupa Publications: 2014

Seller ID: RWARE0000040295

ISBN: 812913554X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. What Young India Wants is the first and only work of nonfiction by the Chetan Bhagat. It is based on his vast experience as a successful writer and motivational speaker. He analyzes the complex issues and problems faced by India in the 21st century. Chetan Bhagat asks thoughtprovoking questions, demands answers and presents solutions for a prosperous India. Presented in simple prose and with great insight, What Young Indian Wants will be an engaging a...
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THE GOLD OF EXODUS

By: Blum, Howard

Price: ¥800.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000049877

ISBN: 0684809184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Relates the story of two American adventurers who almost died during their attempt to identify the Saudi Arabian mountain of Jabal al Lawz as the biblical Mt. Sinai.
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BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: LIFE, DEATH, AND HOPE IN A MUMBAI UNDERCITY

By: Boo, Katherine

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Random House: 2012

Seller ID: RWARE0000050311

ISBN: 1400067553

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonf iction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of familie s striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncom promising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is m ade human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shad...
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OIL: MONEY, POLITICS, AND POWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY

By: Bower, Tom

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: 2010

Seller ID: RWARE0000047109

ISBN: 0446547980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. With unparalleled insight into BP and its safety record leading up to the d isaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Tom Bower gives us a groundbreaking, in-dept h, and authoritative twenty-year history of the hunt and speculation for ou r most vital natural resource. OIL Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century Twenty years ago oil cost about $7 a barrel. In 2008 the price soared to $1 48 and then fell to below $40. In the midst of this extraordinary ...
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THE NEW NEW JOURNALISM: CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICA'S BEST NONFICTION WRITER S ON THEIR CRAFT

By: Boynton, Robert

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G.: 2005

Seller ID: RWARE0000047138

ISBN: 140003356X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched th e New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practi tioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, w ritings and careers. The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who imme rse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mou ntaineering expedition to Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year as a prison guard. Susan Orlean follows orchid fanciers to reveal an obsessive subculture few knew existed. Adrian Nicole LeBla...
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EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA

By: Bram, Christopher

Price: ¥800.00

Publisher: Twelve: 2012

Seller ID: RWARE0000045942

ISBN: 0446563137

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Fascinating...fun to read and will be the standard text of the defining er a of gay literati." - Philadelphia Inquirer In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established them selves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfan t terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation 's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee William...
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TITANIC: VOICES FROM THE DISASTER

By: Bramhall, Mark (Narrator)

Price: ¥1,300.00

Publisher: Listening Library: 2013

Seller ID: RWARE0000044315

ISBN: 038536153X

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Very Good

Scheduled to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the tragic sinking of t he Titanic, a topic that continues to haunt and thrill listeners to this da y, this audiobook by critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves t ogether the voices and stories of real Titanic survivors and witnesses to t he disaster - from the stewardess Violet Jessop to Captain Arthur Rostron o f the Carpatia, who came to the rescue of the sinking ship. Packed with hea rt-stopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, and quotes from primary sources, this gripping story, which follows the T...
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FIRE IN THE CRUCIBLE

By: Briggs, John

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Tarcher: 1990

Seller ID: RWARE0000012408

ISBN: 0874775477

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

John Briggs invites the reader of this book to partake in a journey through the creative process in a uniquely affable manner. He clearly illustrates his vision by kindling a fire of scholarly discovery within the reader thro ugh the collaboration of many historical archetypes of genius including Vir ginia Woolf, Einstein, Mozart and Picasso.
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ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND: THE TROUBLE WITH THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

By: Brimson, Dougie

Price: ¥450.00

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing: 1996

Seller ID: RWARE0000013024

ISBN: 0747255083

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Football violence, known everywhere as "the English disease," is as widespr ead as it has ever been, argue the authors of this book. They give insight into trips abroad and explore issues and myths surrounding football violenc e, and discuss the most feared group of supporters in the world-the England fans.
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QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING

By: Cain, Susan

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 2013

Seller ID: RWARE0000052057

ISBN: 0141029196

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Quiet by Susan Cain will change how you think about introverts forever. A S unday Times and New York Times Bestseller. Our lives are driven by a fact t hat most of us can't name and don't understand. It defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose, and whether we blush when we're em barrassed. That fact is whether we're an introvert or an extrovert. The int rovert/extrovert divide is the most fundamental dimension of personality. A nd at least a third of us are on the introverted side. Some of the world's most talented people are introverts. Without them we wouldn't have the...
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BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP

By: Carreyrou, John

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Picador: 2019

Seller ID: RWARE0000052163

ISBN: 1509868089

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A ward 'Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men. ' New York Times Book Review The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of The ranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journa list who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its c...
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GREEN ZONE (FILM TIE IN)

By: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing: 2010

Seller ID: RWARE0000026636

ISBN: 1408806347

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following th e fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal docum ents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared a ttempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country, de tailing not only the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army and the ludicrous a ttempt to train the new police force, but absurdities such as the aide who based Baghdad's new traffic laws on those of the state of Maryland, do...
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IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE IRAQ'S GREEN ZONE

By: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Knopf: 2006

Seller ID: RWARE0000041749

ISBN: 1400044871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off encl ave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran take s us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the dis tractions of a Little ...
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THESE BONES WILL RISE AGAIN

By: Chigumadzi, Panashe

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd: 2018

Seller ID: RWARE0000052233

ISBN: 143142773X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the liberation struggle, and wrest their country back from over thirty years of Robert Mugabe's rule. In an essay that combines bold reportage, memoir and critical analysis, Zimbabwean-born novelist and journalist Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on the 'coup that was not a coup', the telling of hist...
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Category: General Non-Fiction