Starting with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this title offers a dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness that surveys the president's policies, speeches, & private utterances & concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. ...

Think you know our planet? Think again.

From the immensity of the Universe & the roundness of Earth to the form of every

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A mercy mission that is hilariously sidetracked by human weakness; a manipulative death-row inmate with one last plea; a small-town divorce attorney who suddenly hits pay dirt; a man who sets out to break a casino to revenge a broken heart; a kidnapped lawyer who is confronted with one of his previous cases at gun point; a conman who preys on the rich & elderly; a boy dying of AIDS who finds mercy across the tracks in downtown Clanton: the sum total of human life is brilliantly captured in Grisham's unique evocation of lives lived & lost in Mississippi. ...

In 1927, Henry Ford, then the richest man in the world, bought a 5, 000 square mile-tract of land in the Brazilian Amazon. There he was going to build a rubber plantation. Ford wanted to create an America in his own image. This title tells the tale of the pride & arrogance of the man who thought he alone could tame the Amazon. ...

Four women
- Paula, Jennifer, Brenda & Rachel
- all at a crossroads in their lives. When the four women stay in a luxurious

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In the 1950s seaside town of Merham, everyone knows their place. Lottie Swift, an evacuee living with the respectable Holden

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How is the federation's foreign policy formulated? What are the internal & external pressures which shape it? How can a small Gulf state survive in the modern world? This study outlines the origins of the UAE & describes the evolution of its policies towards its neighbours, the wider Arab world, & the big powers. ...

Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical & psychic space: the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice, ; & nineteenth-century Paris. ...

Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise... Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, & who ended his life in debt & despair... David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice, & whose death at the hands of police in 1969 served as a wake-up call for the entire nation. Each of these men's stories is told in a different, perfectly realized voice. Each illuminates the complexity & drama that lie behind the simple notions of haplessness that have been used to explain the tragedy of their lives. & each explores, in entirely new ways, the themes
- at once timeless & urgent
- that have been at the heart of all of Caryl Phillips' work: belonging, identity, & race. " Foreigners" is among his most powerful, empathic, & profoundly affecting books.

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Lie detection, offender profiling, insanity in the law, the minds of serial killers, & many other topics that fill news & fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of Forensic Psychology. David Canter shows how these often controversial t ...