1969: Loren Mc Intyre makes contact with the elusive Mayoruna `cat people` of the Amazon`s Javari Valley. He follows them
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Possibly the most comprehensive single volume reference published about Ireland & the achievemnts of its people. Presents over 5000 articles by 950 contributors & over 700 illustrations, covering an enormous range of topics eg. history, arts, geography, society, science, engineering & sport. It's all in here. ...

Readers! This book is not a real encyclopedia! It is an epic work of fiction, detailing the many tales & adventures of one lonely storyteller, on a quest for Enlightenment & True Love. This book contains many stories, big & small, about & pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers & sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, & did we already mention true love? Critics are saying it is probably the best thing since sliced bread. Maybe even since bread knives. ...

Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup & rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively American place & a distinctive place within America. Yet these images present only one aspect of the richly varied region that is New England in the twenty-first century. Today traditional scenes of white-clapboard buildings surrounding an idyllic village green, hillside farms & red-brick mills rub shoulders with advanced research centres, nuclear power plants & urban neighbourhoods of immigrants from around the globe. In entries written by leading authorities in the field, The Encyclopedia of New England presents a comprehensive view of this important region, past & present. Both authoritative & entertaining, this single-volume reference will be an invaluable resource for the scholar & an irresistible page-turner for the browser. ...

This is an entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Serbia`s most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sister & father in a mirror bought from a gypsy; the death of a prostitute causes an unanticipated uprising; & the lives of every ordinary person since 1789 are brought to life in the almighty Encyclopaedia of the Dead. In this wide-ranging collection of stories about humanity, society & relationships, Kis plays with the distinction between fact & fiction, horro & comedy, drawing on key influences such as James Joyce & Franz Kafka. This was Kis` final work, published in Serbo-Croatian in 1983. ” Kis is one of the great European writers of the post-war period”. (Guardian). ” Compulsively readable”. (Daily Telegraph). ” Fantasy chases reality & reality chases fantasy. Pirandello & Borges are not far away. But these names are intended as approximate references. Kis is a new, original writer”. (Times Literary Supplement).” Intense & exotic, his mysteries hint at unspeakable secrets that remain forever beyond the story-teller`s grasp”. (Boyd Tonkin). Danilo Kis was born in the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1935. After an unsettled childhood during the Second World War, in which several of his family members were killed, Kis studied literature at the University of Belgrade where he lived for most of his adult life. He wrote novels, short stories & poetry & went on to receive the prestigious NIN Award for his novel Pescanik. He died in Paris in 1989. Mark Thompson is a British historian. His published work

Includes:: Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis.

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The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth & stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity. Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms & not the underlying causes of what went wrong. But those events, vivid though they remain in our memories, comprised only the latest in a long series of financial crises since our present system of commerce became the cornerstone of modern capitalism. Alchemy explains why, ultimately, this was & remains a crisis not of banking
- even if we need to reform the banking system
- nor of policy-making
- even if mistakes were made
- but of ideas. In this refreshing & vitally important book, former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King
- an actor in this drama
- proposes revolutionary new concepts to answer the central question: are money & banking a form of Alchemy or are they the Achilles heel of a modern capitalist economy?





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From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult & dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small Galician town at the turn of the century, through pre-war Vienna & Stalin`s Moscow to present-day Berlin, Jenny Erpenbeck homes in on the moments when life follows a particular branch & `fate` suddenly emerges from the sly interplay between history, character & pure chance. The End of Days is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny & allows us to see the present & the past anew. ...

`A brilliant novel... courageous, necessary & deeply touching` Guardian Edouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality & violence. It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author`s own. Written with an openness & compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we create our own freedom?`A mesmerising story about difference & adolescence` New York Times` Edouard Louis...is that relatively rare thing
- a novelist with something to say & a willingness to say it, without holding back` The Times` Louis` book has become the subject of political discussion in a way that novels rarely do` Garth Greenwell, New Yorker
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` Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism & brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame & even disgust from my family & others around me. The only option I had was to get away somehow. This book is an effort to understand all that.` Edouard Louis grew up in Hallencourt, a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality & violence. It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author`s own. Written with an openness & compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we create our own freedom? ...

20th anniversary edition of The End of History & the Last Man, a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political Order With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. & with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. The End of History & the Last Man was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges & problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened & then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes & war, The End of History & the Last Man remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument & debate among its readers. Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work

Includes:: America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, & the Neoconservative Legacy & After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong. He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife & children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

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