Born at the turn of the 20th century & raised in Vienna Eric Hobsbawm who was to become one of the most brilliant & original historians of our age was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social & artistic change. As the century progressed the forces of Communism & Dadaism Ibiza & cyberspace would do battle with the bourgeois high culture fin-de-siecle Vienna represented
- the opera the Burgtheater the museums of art & science City Hall. In Fractured Times Hobsbawm unpicks a century of cultural fragmentation & dissolution with characteristic verve & vigour. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that created the great cultural flowering of the belle epoque & held the seeds of its disintegration from paternalistic capitalism to globalisation & the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental Hobsbawm ranges freely across his subject: he records the passing of the golden age of the free intellectual & examines the lives of great forgotten men; he analyses the relation between art & totalitarianism & dissects cultural phenomena as diverse as surrealism womens emancipation & the American cowboy myth. Written with consummate imagination & skill Fractured Times is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers.
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Say the name Nikki Grahame & most people will remember the bubbly highly strung & hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant. Since leaving the Big Brother house she has forged a successful career for herself in presenting & writing. Yet Nikki isnt just another reality television contestant & her life story is not like any other you will ever read. From the age of eight until she was nineteen. Nikki battled anorexia nervosa but few cases have been quite as extreme as hers. Aged just eight & weighing just under three stone Nikki was diagnosed as anorexic. For the next eight years she was in & out of institutions
- eleven in total
- during which time she attempted suicide twice & had to be sedated up to four times a day so that she could be force-fed. At one point she was sedated for fourteen days while doctors sewed a tube into her stomach through which she was fed to get her weight out of the critical range. The lengths that she went to in order to avoid eating & find ways to exercise excessively shocked doctors who have worked in the field for years. As Nikki says Ive always wanted to be the best at everything I do so I had to be the best anorexic
- & I was. With searing honesty Nikki recounts her long & painful road to recovery how she has had to come to terms with the long-term ramification of her illness how she coped with being in the Big Brother house & how she uses her new-found fame to promote awareness of eating disorders & to help those who are suffering from similar problems. This compelling book tells the story of an incredible journey.


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How do you stop someone you cant see? For as long as she can remember sixteen-year-old psychic Trinity Monsour has seen things before they happen. But now in the wake of tragedy her visions have gone dark. She can still feel though & the danger she senses swirling around a new friend sends her into the New Orleans party scene where nothing is as it seems surprises wait at every turn & the last guy she wants to see is the one she needs the most: the mercurial Dylan Fourcade part stranger part friend part so much more. Its the so much more that confuses her. How can she be drawn to someone she barely knows? But whether she wants him there or not hes by her side shadowing her every step of the way until the darkness clears & a shocking truth emerges
- a truth that changes everything.
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Mortal affections & faery rivalries continue to collide in the town of Huntsdale as New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr takes urban fantasy to new heights. After the terrible events of Ink Exchange the Dark Court has a new ruler. But will Nialls kindness survive his new responsibility to the most violent of Faerie courts? Meanwhile Seth & Aislinn attempt to mend their relationship. But Aislinn is the Summer Queen & Keenan is her king -- & as summer approaches their chemistry sparks. Will Seths mortality lose him the one thing he loves above all others? As Niall seeks to control his new Court Aislinn attempts to resist the seduction of summer & Seth searches desperately for the gift of immortality a delicate balance is threatened & a terrible plot is revealed! ...

Fighting to stop a war that could destroy everyone alive... Kira Walker nearly died searching for the RM cure but the battle for survival is only just beginning. The genetically-engineered Partials are inextricably bound to a greater plan that could save both races & give Kira the answers she desperately seeks. Venturing deep into the wasteland Kiras only allies are an unhinged drifter & two Partials who betrayed her yet saved her life
- the only ones who know her secret. Back on Long Island whats left of humanity is gearing up for war. But their greatest enemy may be one they didnt even know existed. It is the eleventh hour of humanitys time on earth; this journey may be their last.
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The Fragrant Pharmacy" opens the way to a whole world of fresh possibilities. It is a new approach to nature through one of its most powerful forms
- those fragrant 'essential oils' drawn from flowers & grasses trees & roots leaves & fruit that remain the great untapped resources of our planet. " The Fragrant Pharmacy" shows how each essential oil can offer many diverse benefits. One of the most holistic of all systems of medicine the oils can alleviate symptoms prevent many illnesses & disorders & help in their healing process. But more than that they can provide all of us
- our families our homes even our pets
- with the protections & pleasures we need...without the chemical pollution of our bodies or our envirnment. This illuminating & imaginative book of aromatherapy is the household manual of the future. It is a treasury of information about precious life- & health-enhancing liquids that work in complex harmony with people & planet alike. Here is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of 'medicines out of the earth' those miracles of creation which revitalise & rejuvenate enhance our emotions & help our work & play. It charts out for all of us a fragrant way to family health & home delights."


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Dylan is the only boy living in the tiny Welsh town of Manod. His parents run the Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel garage
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