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The Secret World of Stargazing

Find solace in the stars

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The Secret World of Stargazing is the ultimate guide to set you on your epic journey around the cosmos - it's a simple guide to the skies and makes stargazing fun, easy and enjoyable for all - absolutely no equipment is required!Adrian West, AKA the internet sensation Virtual Astro, will take you through the seasons, showing you exactly what you can spot in the sky throughout the year, whether you ... Read more

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The Secret World of Stargazing is the ultimate guide to set you on your epic journey around the cosmos - it's a simple guide to the skies and makes stargazing fun, easy and enjoyable for all - absolutely no equipment is required!Adrian West, AKA the internet sensation Virtual Astro, will take you through the seasons, showing you exactly what you can spot in the sky throughout the year, whether you
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The Secret World of Stargazing

Find solace in the stars

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'A book that will make the night sky your lifelong passion. An invitation to immerse yourself in the nature around you and the Universe beyond.****' - Professor Brian CoxVenture into the great outdoors, switch off from your busy life and identify the wonders of the night sky.The Secret World of Stargazing is the ultimate guide to set you on your epic journey around the cosmos - it's a simple guide ... Read more

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'A book that will make the night sky your lifelong passion. An invitation to immerse yourself in the nature around you and the Universe beyond.****' - Professor Brian CoxVenture into the great outdoors, switch off from your busy life and identify the wonders of the night sky.The Secret World of Stargazing is the ultimate guide to set you on your epic journey around the cosmos - it's a simple guide
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Shoot For The Stars

The 5 Dimensions of Independent Filmmaking

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This creative and highly informative guide is the ideal production bible for all directors, producers, and filmmakers aspiring to create world-changing art. It takes readers from the initial concept all the way through the long journey to the completion of a feature film. Projects start with an idea, which evolves into purpose, planning, collaboration, tactical execution, and total commitment. At ... Read more

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This creative and highly informative guide is the ideal production bible for all directors, producers, and filmmakers aspiring to create world-changing art. It takes readers from the initial concept all the way through the long journey to the completion of a feature film. Projects start with an idea, which evolves into purpose, planning, collaboration, tactical execution, and total commitment. At
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Rave

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'Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.' In Rave, cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a headlong dive into nineties techno culture. From the cathartic release on the dance floor to the intense conversations in corners of nightclubs and the after-parties in the light of dawn, this exhilarating, fragmentary novel captures the feeling of debauchery from within. Dazzling and intimate, Rave is ... Read more

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'Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.' In Rave, cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a headlong dive into nineties techno culture. From the cathartic release on the dance floor to the intense conversations in corners of nightclubs and the after-parties in the light of dawn, this exhilarating, fragmentary novel captures the feeling of debauchery from within. Dazzling and intimate, Rave is
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My Father’s Diet

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Tired of being ashamed of your body? Ask your doctor if this journey to the dark heart of American masculinity is right for you!In a broken-down Middle American town, the disintegration of a struggling family―its ambitions and emotions worn thin―is laid bare through the cold eyes of its only son. While studying at the local community college to finish his degree, he works at what his divorced ... Read more

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Tired of being ashamed of your body? Ask your doctor if this journey to the dark heart of American masculinity is right for you!In a broken-down Middle American town, the disintegration of a struggling family―its ambitions and emotions worn thin―is laid bare through the cold eyes of its only son. While studying at the local community college to finish his degree, he works at what his divorced
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When We Cease to Understand the World

by Benjamin Labatut ...

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**One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.**When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links ... Read more

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**One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.**When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links
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My Father's Diet

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The void at the heart of an economically insecure family is laid bare when an analytical son helps his oblivious father stave off despair by competing in a bodybuilding competition. Grimly hilarious; My Father's Diet is an elegy for our outmoded conceptions of manhood; as well as a reckoning with a culture incapable of introspection. ... Read more

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The void at the heart of an economically insecure family is laid bare when an analytical son helps his oblivious father stave off despair by competing in a bodybuilding competition. Grimly hilarious; My Father's Diet is an elegy for our outmoded conceptions of manhood; as well as a reckoning with a culture incapable of introspection.
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Assassinations Anthology

by Adrian Gilbert, Nigel West, Dan Mills, Peter G. Tsouras, Andy Saunders ...

A fascinating look at what might have happened had historical assassination attempts succeeded.If Hitler had died at any stage in the Second World War, would Germany have immediately sued for peace, or would the generals have taken over and fought a far more practical war than the obdurate Führer? Equally intriguing is the possible failed assassination attempt on General de Gaulle on British soil. ... Read more

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A fascinating look at what might have happened had historical assassination attempts succeeded.If Hitler had died at any stage in the Second World War, would Germany have immediately sued for peace, or would the generals have taken over and fought a far more practical war than the obdurate Führer? Equally intriguing is the possible failed assassination attempt on General de Gaulle on British soil.
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The Aesthetics of Degradation

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Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and outrage.But what are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse?In ... Read more

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Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and outrage.But what are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse?In
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Like Flies from Afar

A Novel

by K. Ferrari ...

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"This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff." —James Sallis, author of DriveThe first novel to appear in English by the "subway janitor by night, novelist by day," who began his writing career while an undocumented immigrant in the ... Read more

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"This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff." —James Sallis, author of DriveThe first novel to appear in English by the "subway janitor by night, novelist by day," who began his writing career while an undocumented immigrant in the
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The Garden of Seven Twilights

by Miquel de Palol ...

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Series series Catalan Literature
As if Borges wrote The DecameronDuring an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with other guests, awaiting the outcome of the conflict. For the following seven days the residents of the mansion spend their spare time reading and taking walks , and, above all, telling stories to each other ... Read more

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As if Borges wrote The DecameronDuring an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with other guests, awaiting the outcome of the conflict. For the following seven days the residents of the mansion spend their spare time reading and taking walks , and, above all, telling stories to each other
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Explosion in a Cathedral

by Alejo Carpentier ...

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**“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksOne of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in ... Read more

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**“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksOne of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in
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