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String Theories
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Love Her Or Hate Her
The Essays of Virginia Woolf – Volume 5: 1929 to 1932
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By Edward W Said
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Jane Rye
The Wild Shores of Buggery
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Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait
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Wit and Wisdom
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By Kurt Vonnegut (With an Introduction by Mark Vonnegut)
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D J Taylor
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Jonathan Mirsky
The Word Merchant
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A World Behind Our Own
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A Writer’s Century
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C A R Hills
The Immoralist
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Jane Rye
A Picture in a Thousand Words
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Michael Burleigh
Bush’s Buddies
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By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Neoconservatism
By Irwin Stelzer (Ed)
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Christopher Ondaatje
Meeting the Unknown
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Peradventurers
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By Carlo Ginzburg (Translated by Anne C Tedeschi and John Tedeschi)
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