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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781860745966
America's only self-declared emperor, the "old soldier" who wouldn't die, the greatest carpetbagger - these are just a few of the fanciful real-life characters profiled in this inexhaustible trivia book. The author covers a happily wide range of subjects...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9780825637469
In this little book fans will find a surprisingly large variety of random thoughts, about Harry's magic universe, about the woman who created him...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781849901093
Based on the popular Radio 4 series, Great Lives highlights 100 of the world's most fascinating and influential characters. Chosen by the show's guests...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781904668138
From the dawn of mankind's imagination, we have sought the favor of elemental powers and attempted to appease them with worship and sacrifice. The story of religion is one of learning to live with evolving social structures and determining how faith can provide a structure of beliefs through which we can deal with the world around us. In "Atlas of Religions"...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781860746178
A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be anything but average (the annual Turkey Drop in Arkansas's Ozark Mountains)...more details Format:Hardback Pages:232
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9780572032302
Offers accounts of ghosts, humans with paranormal powers and mass hallucination. This book explores phenomena that defy logical explanation, such us UFOs and alien abduction...more details Format:Hardback Pages:208
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9780785823889
This book tells the stories of the world's harshest prisons, and the people on either side of the locked door. These pages are packed with accounts of repressive prison regimes and the people who fight against them...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9780007443383
The stories that go with lifeboats and their crews are those of courage, sacrifice, community and our coastline. No matter if one is on holiday by the coast...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781577172963
Olive oil, palm oil, nut oil, balsamic vinegar, fruit vinegar, rice vinegar, wine vinegar -- there have never been so many types of oils and vinegars readily available.
Oils and vinegars are not only essential ingredients for Italian...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:96
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781860746543
Pensieve (n.) - A magical device into which one can empty the thoughts and memories of a too-full mind, so as to enjoy and examine them at one's leisure. For millions of Harry Potter fans around the world...more details Format:Hardback
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781861059123
Working in an office can be dull. The start time is always the same, you can set your clock by the tea trolley, lunch has a plastic taste to it and the last hour before knocking-off time is by far the longest of the day...more details Format:Paperback / softback
The 'drug culture' is now so pervasive that it is part of everyday news in the Western world. In this powerful and illuminating new series, we commission a team of journalists to analyse and comment on the major substances that are seen by society as addictive and ultimately bad for our health. Packed with technical information...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
In this historic study of sexual attitudes through the ages, from the scanty cavortings of Adam and Eve to the Ancient Greek and Roman orgies and the Kama Sutra of the East...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Karen Farrington
ISBN:9781861471642
Tells the gripping story of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. Almost every nation on earth was affected by the dreadful conflict that raged from 1939 to 1945....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:408
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Karen FARRINGTON
ISBN:9781904668022
The concept of 'empire' has existed since King Sargon of Akkad conquered Mesopotamia more than 4,000 years ago. Since his Akkadian dynasty many other empires have risen and fallen; Assyrian...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Karen FARRINGTON
ISBN:9781904668091
When Sir Edmund Hillary made his famous comment about climbing Mount Everest 'because it was there', he summed up the raison d'etre behind every explorer's drive to leave safe boundaries and tackle the unknown...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Karen FARRINGTON
ISBN:9781904668145
Nowhere in the world has a more tumultuous history than the Holy Land, that troubled bridge of land that links Asia, Africa and Europe. Today we are used to watching TV news reports covering the region's modern-day conflicts...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Farrington Karen
ISBN:9780007457069
Great British Train Journeys has been a hugely successful TV programme, which is now about to go into its third series on BBC2 in the spring of 2012. Much as Michael Palin built up a dedicated fan base for travel around the globe...more details Format:Hardback