Many of us first learned the naked truth about vanity from the classic story of The Emperor's New Clothes" & now comes a new look for the next generation to serve as a cautionary tale for fashionistas. Crafted from the heart of this time
- honored fairytale comes an empowering new memoir celebrating the life of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg a one-time Warhol muse Studio 54 pin up & real-life princess who challenged the centuries
- old traditions of beauty style & protocol to create a wardrobe for women by a working woman. Her revolutionary wrap dress liberated women to be their most active & natural selves setting entirely new realistic & exciting fashion standards for women everywhere. Fairy tale & haute couture mix magically in this re-imagined fairytale created by fashion writer & internationally bestselling author Camilla Morton & art directed exclusively by Diane von Furstenberg herself. As the adventures of this iconic designer & the story's young empress unfold discover all the colors shapes & sizes of inspiration to empower your own happily ever after. About the " Fashion Fairytale Memoir Series". Each book in this inspired series from fashion writer Camilla Morton inventively re-imagines one of our favorite once upon a time stories blending with it the real-life story of a famed fashion designer. Featuring lush illustrations drawn & collaged by the designers themselves these tales illuminate each iconic individual's creative magic while celebrating their unique lives & extraordinary careers. The result is an intriguing combination of whimsy & memoir."

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Containing discoveries heralded as greater than the wheel or fire Dianetics" has remained a bestseller for more than 50 years. & with over 20 million copies in print generating a movement that spans over 100 nations its indisputably the most widely read & influential book ever written about the human mind. Here is the anatomy & full description of the reactive mind the previously unknown source of nightmares unreasonable fears upsets & insecurities which enslave Man. This book shows you how to get rid of it & so achieve something Man has previously only dreamed of: the State of Clear. Among the discoveries herein are: The Goal of Man The Dynamic Principle of Existence
- the one word that motivates all living things The Four Dynamics
- the drives upon which all of life is compartmented The Descriptic Graph of Survival
- revealing ones true potential & how to achieve it The discovery of & complete anatomy of the reactive mind The painful experiences
- engrams
- contained in the reactive mind which command one to act irrationally against their own wishes & goals The impact of prenatal engrams
- what took place before you were born & how its influenced you ever since & The complete Dianetics procedure to discover & eradicate these harmful experiences so they never affect you again revealing the one person youve always wanted to know
- you."






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Michael Palins diaries begin when he was newly married & struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner.. . Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA & Canada. As their popularity grew so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways later to re-form for stage shows & the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL & LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week & the miners strike & all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive & funny diaries. ...

Charles Bronson is without a doubt the UK's no.1 ' Birdman'. This book

Includes:: his poems illustrations &

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This is a collected edition of bestselling author Nella Lasts diaries including substantial never-before published material from the war years. I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person...can possibly have value. So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on tens of thousands of people have read & enjoyed three volumes of her vivid & moving diaries written during the Second World War an its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project
- & the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood. The Diaries of Nella Last" brings together into a single volume the best of Nellas prolific outpourings including a great deal of new unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials & horrors of wartime Britain & the nations transition into peacetime & beyond Nellas touching & often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s & 1950s. Outwardly Nellas life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind & a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4 she will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists."
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POWER & RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbells unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo & ends on September 11 2001 a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books changing the course of both the Bush presidency & the Blair premiership. In this volume we see that New Labours honeymoon is well & truly over. In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top here we find graphic accounts of a variety of domestic crises: foot-&-mouth disease & protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt. Volume Three

Includes:: Peter Mandelsons second resignation the agonies of the Millennium Dome & the most unexpected slow-handclapping in memory when the Womens Institute turned against Tony Blair. Yet despite all the problems
- not least the most accident-prone manifesto launch in history complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter
- Labour won a second successive landslide election victory. That triumph is intimately recorded here alongside the high points of this period such as devolution to Northern Ireland & the fall of Milosevic.



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Power & the People" is the second of four volumes & covers the first two years of New Labour government beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. Volume Two details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to power & settle into running the country. It covers an astonishing array of events & personalities progress & setbacks crises & scandals as Labour make the transition from opposition to office." ...

Power & the People" covers the first two years of the New Labour government beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second volume of Campbells unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to power & settle into running the country. It covers an astonishing array of events & personalities progress & setbacks crises & scandals as Blair & his party make the transition from opposition to office." ...

An eminent ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him troubled by Australias complicity in the wars in the Middle East it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their states involvement in an immoral war on terror a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. He offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya is not interested in politics but the job will be a welcome distraction as will the writers evident attraction towards her. Her boyfriend Alan is an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh economic terms. Suspicious of his trophy girlfriends new pastime Alan begins to formulate a plan... ...

This diary charts the ups & downs of a CFD trader
- taking you on a thrilling trading journey & showing how with some hard work
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