This title is the winner of the inaugural French Orange Prize in 2009 & the Prix Renaudot's livre de poche prize. During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a different name & died in 1942. Returning to France, he finds that the memory of the photograph refuses to leave him. He decides to embark on a search for its subject, which takes him to the Buchenwald archives, to the heart of the Nazi machine, but more disturbingly, draws him into the dark heart of his own family. Eventually, he is brought face-to-face with his own capacity for violence. A subtle, moving book, The Origins of Violence shows the limitless ways in which humans inflict harm on each other, & how individual people, not societies, are the perpetrators. ...

Sunday Times 1 Bestseller New York Times 1 Bestseller The global bestseller
- Origin is the latest Robert Langdon novel from the
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The spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology & religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that ”will change the face of science forever”. The evening`s host is his friend & former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions & audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence. But Langdon & several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart before Kirsch`s precious discovery can be revealed. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum`s director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch`s secret. In order to evade a tormented enemy who is one step ahead of them at every turn, Langdon & Vidal must navigate labyrinthine passageways of hidden history & ancient religion. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols & elusive modern art, Langdon & Vidal uncover the clues that will bring them face-to-face with a world-shaking truth that has remained buried
- until now.` Dan Brown is the master of the intellectual cliffhanger` Wall Street Journal` As engaging a hero as you could wish for` Mail on Sunday ` For anyone who wants more brain-food than thrillers normally provide` Sunday Times
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Look inside the Anti-Colouring Book & you`ll see that it`s nothing like an ordinary colouring book. You won`t find pages of boring pictures to colour in
- instead it`s crammed with inspirational ideas that`ll really get your imagination going. So what are you waiting for? Grab your paints, crayons, felt-tip pens, or whatever else you like to use, & get colouring creatively. If you can keep the book to yourself, that is!
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” Raw, authoritative, & unflinching.. . An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap ...

A beautiful special gift edition of this timeless classic by Jules Verne, enchantingly illustrated & told in its complete & unabridged form. Newly translated in a modern & unabridged edition, with a comprehensive glossary & afterword. Excellent production values including a padded cover, head & tail bands, a ribbon marker & stylish end-papers making this book an heirloom of the future. ...

A complete & unabridged, illustrated edition of L. Frank Baum`s classic tale of magic & adventure. Join Dorothy & her little dog Toto on the yellow brick road, as they set off to explore the magical Land of Oz. Can they find the Wizard, defeat the Wicked Witch of the West, & return to Kansas? ...

In Delhi a small baby lies alone & abandoned. The product of IVF & surrogacy, she had been so coveted
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In this famous book Philip Bell examines the European origins of the Second World War from three different angles: first, he sets out the various explanations which have been offered for the war, & discusses the historiographical debates to which they have given rise; he then analyses the major underlying forces
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- that were at work in Europe during the 1930s; & in his final section he traces the course of events from 1932, when Europe was visibly at peace, via the initial oubreak of hostilities in 1939, right through to June 1941, when the German attack on the Soviet Union marked the climax of the acceleration into general conflict. P.M.H.BELL is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. Longman recently published his two-volume study of Franco-British relations in the twentieth century, as France & Britain 1900-1940: Entente & Estrangement & France & Britain 1940-1994: The Long Separation.

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Stephen Oppenheimer`s extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology & historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7, 000 & 3, 000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade & immigration, especially from Scandinavia
- & may have brought with them the earliest forms of English language. As for the Celts
- the Irish, Scots & Welsh
- history has traditionally placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe. Oppenheimer`s genetic synthesis shows them to have arrived via the Atlantic coastal route from Ice Age refuges including the Basque country; with the modern languages we call Celtic arriving later. There is indeed a deep divide between the English & the rest of the British. But as this book reveals the division is many thousands of years older than previously thought.


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