This is story of Loyal Blood a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 & propels Blood across the American West for forty years. Denied love & unable to settle he lives a hundred different lives: mining gold growing beans hunting fossils trapping prospecting for uranium & ranching. His only contact with his past is through a series of postcards he sends home
- not realising that in his absence disaster has befallen his family & their deep-rooted connection with the land has been severed with devastating consequences...' Postcards' was Annie Proulx's first novel which received huge acclaim & marked the launch of an outstanding literary career. Her works include short story collections ' Bad Dirt' ' Close Range' (featuring ' Brokeback Mountain') & novels such as ' The Shipping News' & ' Accordion Crimes'.
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Postcards From a Rock & Roll Tour" is drummer Gordon Marshalls witty & wry take on life on the road touring with legendary rock band The Moody Blues. Part memoir part travelogue its a candid unexpected & often hilarious account of just what its like to travel around the world playing to sell-out audiences living out of a suitcase & spending days & days on a tour bus. If you thought being in a rock band was all sex drugs & rock & roll then think again." ...

This is a collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station looking for a good book for the journey to London. His disappointment at the poor range of paperbacks on offer led him to found Penguin Books. The quality paperback had arrived. Declaring that 'good design is no more expensive than bad' Lane was adamant that his Penguin paperbacks should cost no more than a packet of cigarettes but that they should always look distinctive. Ever since then from their original
- now world-famous
- look featuring three bold horizontal stripes through many different stylish inventive & iconic cover designs Penguin's paperback jackets have been a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture. & whether they're for classics crime reference or prize-winning novels they still follow Allen Lane's original design mantra. Sometimes you definitely should judge a book by its cover.

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This is a unique collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Puffin book cover. From picture books to paperbacks teen fiction to Puffin Classics" this is a selection from seventy years of outstanding British design & illustration in one sturdy little box." ...

When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale shes feeling like something on the bottom of someones shoe & not even someone interesting. Suzanne is in the harrowing & hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation trying to understand what happened to her life & how she managed to land in a drug hospital. Just as Fishers first film role-the precocious teenager in Shampoo-echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. More of a fiction montage than a novel in the conventional sense this stunning literary debut chronicles Suzannes vivid excruciatingly funny experiences
- from the clinic to her coming to terms with life in the outside world. Conversations with her psychiatrist What worries me is what if this guy is really the one for me & I havent had enough therapy to be comfortable with having found him?; a high-concept eighties-style affair The only way to become intimate for me is repeated exposure. My route to intimacy is routine. I establish a pattern with somebody & then I notice when theyre not there? Sparked by Suzannes & Carrie Fishers deliciously wry sense of the absurd Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom & drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers
- & delights
- of all our addictions from money & success to sex & insecurity.


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It is a collection of 100 postcards each featuring a striking Vogue" cover. From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography this is a stunning selection of " Vogues" most dazzling images. Since its launch in 1892 " Vogue" has brought sophistication to its readers around the world. Early illustrations from artists including George Wolfe Plank Olive Tilton Pierre Brissaud & Eduardo Garcia Benito saw ethereal figures of fantasy develop into red-lipped flappers & as colour photographs began to appear the women transformed again: from Surrealist images by Horst P. Horst to women in the life of the moment captured by Irving Penn. From the fifties onwards " Vogue" women became more accessible still as models & stars like Elizabeth Taylor Goldie Hawn Cindy Crawford & Cher with their own distinct personalities appeared through the lenses of Richard Avedon & Snowdon. " Vogue" covers now are the epitome of style & beauty with such illustrious photographers as Mario Testino Annie Leibovitz Steven Klein & Patrick Demarchelier photographing stars like Lady Gaga Kirsten Dunst & Kate Moss celebrating female icons across modern culture." ...

An essential business tool this atlas clearly shows the postcode boundaries (down to district level) for the whole country on detailed colour mapping. In central London postcodes are shown to sector level. Scale of main maps: 1:263 000 (4.15 miles to 1 inch). MAIN FEATURES This invaluable atlas shows postcode areas & districts for the whole of the UK & has been updated with all the latest boundary changes.

Includes:: * Postcode areas (e.g. SW) & postcode districts (e.g. SW8) for the whole of the UK. * Postcode sectors (e.g. SW8 4) for Central London. * Busy conurbation areas at an enlarged scale of 1.6 miles to 1 inch. * Information on the structure & uses of postcodes. * Full colour map & a gazetteer listing of the administrative areas incorporating administrative changes that occurred in April 2009. * Full index to place names. * Index to postcode abbreviations. * Comprehensive background map detail which means the atlas can also be used for route planning & navigation. AREA OF COVERAGE Covers the whole of Britain & Northern Irel&. WHO THE PRODUCT IS OF INTEREST TO This atlas is aimed at the business user who will find it an invaluable tool for many applications including market analysis distribution planning & sales territory organisation.

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For twenty years the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science & technology studies postcolonial studies & feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science & Technology Studies Reader Harding puts those fields in critical conversation assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic & recent essays international scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of science & technology philosophies & practices. The contributors re-evaluate conventional accounts of the Wests scientific & technological projects in the past & present re-think the strengths & limitations of non-Western societies knowledge traditions & assess the legacies of colonialism & imperialism. The collection concludes with forward-looking essays which explore strategies for cultivating new visions of a multicultural democratic world of sciences & for turning those visions into realities. Feminist science & technology concerns run throughout the reader & are the focus of several essays. Harding provides helpful background for each essay in her introductions to the readers four sections. Contributors: Helen Appleton Karen Backstrand Lucille H. Brockway Stephen B. Brush Judith Carney Committee on Women Population & the Environment Arturo Escobar Maria E. Fernandez Ward H. Goodenough Susantha Goonatilake Sandra Harding Steven J. Harris Betsy Hartmann Cori Hayden Catherine L. M. Hill John M. Hobson Peter Muhlhausler Catherine A. Odora Hoppers Consuelo Quiroz Jenny Reardon Ella Reitsma Ziauddin Sardar Daniel Sarewitz Londa Schiebinger Catherine V. Scott Colin Scott Mary Terrall D. Michael Warren ...

A poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all... Tommy & Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However when she writes down the letters they spell out a very disturbing message: M a r y
- J o r d a n
- d i d
- n o t
- d i e
- n a t u r a l l y... And sixty years after their first murder Mary Jordan's enemies are still ready to kill...




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The final Tommy & Tuppence novel in which a poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all! Tommy & Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However when she writes down the letters they spell out a very disturbing message: M a r y -- J o r d a n -- d i d -- n o t -- d i e -- n a t u r a l l y! ...