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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition

The Voyage of the Nimrod

by Beau Riffenburgh
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were...
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The Knot Bible

The Complete Guide to Knots and Their Uses

by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

The complete and definitive bible of knots for seafarers. Featuring all the knots, hitches, bends, splices, whipping and decorative knotwork that you would find on a boat, this comprehensive bible of knots will help those who go to sea master every knot they will need. Over 200 knots...
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by Edith Sitwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

First published in 1932, this is the story of eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justification for improving their health and enjoying themselves at the same time. They took the waters assiduously,...
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How Not to Get Rich

Or Why Being Bad Off Isn't So Bad

by Robert Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008

Some people are just naturally good at not getting rich. They didn't buy Microsoft when a friend mentioned that he was helping start up a new software company. They sold their apartment in Manhattan for a song in the seventies, instinctively believing the real estate market would never, ever come...
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by Nik Mahon
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

Art Direction examines the key techniques, approaches and 'secrets' involved in the development of creative advertising concepts. Mahon provides tips on how to use surprise, simplicity, provocation and visual drama to communicate the advertising message. The book examines the process of visualizing...
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Off The Rails

10,000 km by Bicycle across Russia, Siberia and Mongolia to China

by Chris Hatherly, Tim Cope
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

This is the true story of two twenty-year old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and Mongolia, to Beijing. It is as much a story of perseverance, passion, and belief as it is about the people and remarkable landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia....
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The Downfall of Money

Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class

by Frederick Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

An economic horror story: The complete meltdown of a major modern country's financial system, and its disastrous effects on every aspect of society. A hundred years ago, many theorists believed-just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century-that the world had reached a state...
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30 Days in Sydney

A Wildly Distorted Account

by Peter Carey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010

After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores....
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How to Resist

Turn Protest to Power

by Matthew Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017

'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno 'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe...
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by Mr Russell Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

The true story of the Getty family as featured in the TV series Trust and the movie All the Money in the World Boardroom battles, sex, money, drugs, power, crime, tragedy, and family intrigue; at the centre stands the figure of John Paul Getty, the grandfather, an eccentric oil billionaire...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being fundamental to our...
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by Anthony Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

First published in 1981, The Money Lenders reveals the power, the workings and the personalities of the money men who have made the world go round: The Superbankers – including Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller, Citibank's Walter Wriston, Lloyds' Sir Jeremy Morse and Robert McNamara. The...
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Redeemable

A Memoir of Darkness and Hope

by Erwin James
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

Born in Somerset in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home and subject to the whims of various caregivers after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His...
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by David Kynaston
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany's aggression in World War II, and was ravaged in many ways at the war's end. Celebrated historian David Kynaston has written an utterly original, and compellingly readable, account of the following six years, during which the country rebuilt...
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