A biography of Augustine's life, as interpreted by the acclaimed church historian, the late Professor Henry Chadwick. Augustine's intellectual development is recounted with clarity & warmth, providing a characteristically rigorous yet sympathetic narrative of this central figure in the history of Christian thought. ...

According to a completely made up report, the average adult spends up to half an hour each day on the toilet. This time is often spent contemplating your diet, your toenails or the state of your underwear. This book deals with this smallest room of the ho ...

According to a completely made up report, the average adult spends up to half an hour each day on the toilet. This time is usually spent contemplating your diet, your toenails or the state of your underwear. This book

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When shy young heir Patrick is orphaned at the age of ten, the only family he has is his wealthy & eccentric aunt, a New York socialite named Mame. Prone to dramatic costumes, flights of fancy & expensive whims, Mame will raise Patrick the only way she knows how
- with humour, mishaps, unforgettable friends & lots of love.
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Enjoy hours of fun piecing together all sorts of Crazy Shapes in this stunning Aurora Over Iceland!

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At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz.

In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science

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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew & a medical doctor, Dr Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates u ...

Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. ‘ My child, I have to go with her!’ I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. ‘ Maul halten, shut up!’ His eyes gleam. Filled with fear I cower down. In 1943, as the Nazi power swept across central Europe, Rosa, her husband Emanuel & their daughter, Judy, were forced into hiding. But after a year & a half of living a terrifying, day-by-day existence, they were betrayed. As they arrived in Auschwitz, Rosa was torn from her husband & her only daughter. Could she dare to hope she would see either of them again? Somehow, Rosa fought the horror & humiliation of the camp, on occasion coming dangerously close to death. In nursing the people trapped beside her, she helped others survive, but tragically she also watched them die – including a mother she had met before, with a similar story & a daughter the very same age. Her name was Edith Frank. Written immediately in the months after the war, Auschwitz... ...

Details: We're all feeling poor. Our wages mightn't have risen for a long time, but taxes, food, heating, clothes,
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David Kynaston's " Austerity Britain 1945-51", the first book in his series " Tales of a New Jerusalem", was a major " Sunday Times" bestseller in 2007. Here is the first volume from this landmark book covering 1945-48. Beginning his groundbreaking series about post-war Britain, Kynaston presents our nation through the eyes of those who lived there. Meet Judy Haines, a Chingford housewife, struggling daily with food rationing; Henry St. John, a self-serving civil servant in Bristol; &, the young Glenda Jackson, taking her 11-plus. Using mass observation, diaries, letters, newspapers & magazines from the time, A World to Build is an unsurpassed social history: intensely evocative to those who were there & eye-opening for their children & grandchildren. ...