A unique combination of travelogue current affairs & history showing how Russia's

Dimensions have shaped its identity

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A confessional uplifting memoir from the beloved You Tube personality Twenty-three year old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens & young adults through his playful sweet & inspirational You Tube presence (not to mention his sparkling eyes & perfect hair) Yet Joey wasn't always comfortable in his skin & in this candid memoir he thoughtfully looks back on his journey from pain to pride self-doubt to self-acceptance To his fans Joey is that best friend who always captures the brighter side of life but also isn't afraid to get real In the pages of his first book he opens up about his years of struggling with family hardships & troubles at school with cruel bullying & the sting of rejection He tells of first loves & losses embarrassing moments & surprising discoveries loneliness laughter & life-changing forks in the road showing us the incalculable value of finally finding & following your true passion in this world Funny warm-hearted & inspiring Joey Graceffa's story is a welcome reminder that it's not where you begin that matters but where you end up ...

ANNE BRONTE the youngest & most enigmatic of the Bronte sisters remains a best-selling author nearly two centuries after her death The brilliance of her two novels
- Agnes Grey & The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- & her poetry belies the quiet yet courageous girl who often lived in the shadows of her more celebrated sisters Yet her writing was the most revolutionary of all the Brontes pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable This revealing new biography opens Anne's most private life to a new audience & shows the true nature of her relationships with her siblings in particular with her sister Charlotte

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He was one of the hardest most controversial footballers of his generation the GBP20million man who became the first professional player to go to jail for an offence committed on the field of play 336 pages 1 x 8pp bw Pattullo Alan ...

In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom business school & bedside table & continues to influence the thinking of leaders & managers across the globe today Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a range of sectors
- consumer goods technology services
- the book identifies eight common 'attributes of excellence' that made these organisations successful Though many of the profiled companies have since lost their edge (or disappeared completely) these eight management principles each highlighted in a chapter in the book have shown themselves to be timeless These simple business truths so eloquently encapsulated by Peters & Waterman are proof that the fundamentals of management
- a focus on people customers & value entrepreneurship & excellence
- ring as true today as they ever did In Search of Excellence is a seminal business book worthy of a place on the bookshelves of anyone who wants to understand how effective management works in practice



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This is a journey in search of the traces of eight legendary lost books The clues are fragile the hope of finding these pages scarce Yet maybe somewhere they still exist They exist as a rumour or a fading memory They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace lost to fire censorship theft war or deliberate destruction yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books Taking us from Florence to Regency London the Russian Steppe to British Columbia Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy & tragedy glimmers of hope & bitter twists of fate There are among others the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality As gripping as a detective novel as moving as an elegy this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible of the things that slip away from us but which sometimes live again in the stories we tell ...

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF & KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn the opening volume of Proust's great novel the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships All Proust's great themes
- time & memory love & loss art & the artistic vocation
- are here in kernel form

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Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected & hilarious adventures 700 pages Proust Marcel ...

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF & KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy he satirises this shallow world & his own youthful infatuation with it His observations & his experiences with his lover Albertine also educate him in the volatile nature of desire as he walks the path towards adulthood ...

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF & KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn Sodom & Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society & muses upon the subjects of homosexuality & sexual jealousy ...