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    A boy's military father eventually abandons the family, leaving the author as a child to grow up supporting his family with a dizzying array of jobs while putting himself through school, in the process becoming perhaps one of the most important experts on rabbits in the world. Bennett also serves in the military and sees action during the Korean War. He manages to earn multiple degrees and work ... Read more

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    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.“You are what you eat.” Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals-and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well as our bodies.Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity not in T. ... Read more

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  • The Age of Entrepreneurship

    Business Proprietors, Self-employment and Corporations Since 1851

    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more than nine million entrepreneurs, it gives new understanding to the development of Britain as the world’s ‘first industrial nation’.Based on the first long-term whole-population analysis of British small business, it ... Read more

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  • Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

    The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital

    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City. ... Read more

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  • Mature Makeup Application Made Simple

    “Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.”—Eartha KittLet’s face it: the aging process can impact your self-esteem and compromise your ability to put your best face forward. As women age, they look for help in applying makeup to achieve a more natural and bright look. Mature Makeup Applications Made Simple is specially written for the women who want to transform their ... Read more

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  • Deconstructing Brad Pitt

    The reactions evoked by images of and stories about Brad Pitt are many and wide-ranging: while one person might swoon or exclaim, another rolls his eyes or groans. How a single figure provokes such strong, often opposing emotions is a puzzle, one elegantly explored and perhaps even solved by Deconstructing Brad Pitt.Co-editors Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett have shaped a book that is not ... Read more

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  • Global Change and Challenge

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    We are now experiencing a period of unprecedented change; what amounts to a global revolution in our economy, society and awareness of the human impact on the environment. Global Change and Challenge examines some of the crucial issues facing society in the 1990s and how geography can contribute to their understanding and management. Using the broad theme of how societies adapt to change, the ... Read more

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  • Allsorts

    A selection of unusual and quirky short stories. Meet a naked ghost, a castaway in a bottle and a killer with multiple personalities. Witness death in an auction bullring and cower from a haunted computer. See a fast food addict find enlightenment. Recoil as two predators indulge in power sex. Watch an old man slay his demons. ... Read more

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