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Michael Moran
The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0199219214
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Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
The British Slave Trade and Public Memory (none)

2005 y.
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Description: How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully incorporating a range of material, Wallace discusses and analyzes how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain from 1990 to 2000 grappled with the subject of slavery. Topics discussed include a walking tour in the former slave-trading port of Bristol, novels by Caryl Phillips and Barry Unsworth, a television adaptation of Jane Austen`s Mansfield Park , and a revival of Aphra Behn`s Oroonoko for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In each case, Wallace reveals how these works and performances illuminate and obscure the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 023113715X
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Claudia Colli
The British Virgin Islands: An Introduction and Guide (Macmillan Caribbean Guides)

2006 y.
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Description: This book offers vivid insights into the islands` people, culture, history and geography. From the British Virgin Islands` national parks, to its beaches, activities and wildlife, this lively and informative guide is all a visitor needs to know and understand the British Virgin Islands. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1405028629
Book size: —; Page extent: 151.

 

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Philip Gillett
The British Working Class in Postwar Film

2003 y.
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Description: Book Description This book uses a sociological model to examine how working class people are portrayed in British feature films from the decade after World War II. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0719062586
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The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspectives/Les Mandats Francais Et Anglais Dans Une Perspective (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThis collection represents the first large scale attempt to discuss the Middle Eastern mandates as a totality. It compares the application and effects of this very specific form of late colonialism from a variety of different disciplinaryperspectives, including anthropology, architecture, archival conservation, economics, history, law and sociology. It contains analyses at both micro and macro levels, including specific instances of revolt or collaboration, studies of particular individuals, of professional groups and their contributions to `nation-building,` comparisons between the various political and cultural policies of the mandatory powers, and the formation and practice of `le savoir colonial` by contemporary ethnographers, officials, physicians and teachers. The volume will be of interest to historians of imperialism and of the twentieth century Middle East. [detailed...]

ISBN: 9004133135
Book size: —; Page extent: 748.

 

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Sheryllynne Haggerty
The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods (The Atlantic World, 6) (The Atlantic World)

2006 y.
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Description: This book uses the case studies of Liverpool and Philadelphia to investigate the nature of the British-Atlantic trading community between 1760 and 1810. By using a wide definition of the term `trader`, this work stresses the role of lesser traders, including women, in the distribution of goods around the Atlantic. Through comparing and contrasting these trading communities, it highlights the different structures of the economies of these cities during this period of conflict and change. However, by using the concepts of networks of people, credit and goods, this book also demonstrates how a common business mentalitA© inextricably bound these trading communities together, even as Philadelphia struggled to free itself from the legacy of its colonial past. [detailed...]

ISBN: 9004150188
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Catherine Palmer
The Briton (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #1)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1602851468
Book size: —; Page extent: 332.

 

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Barney Stinson with Matt Kuhn
The Bro Code

2008 y.
Publisher: Fireside
Description: Everyone`s life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code. Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-4391-1000-3, 1-4391-1000-X
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers On The Promise Of A Truly Interactive World

2005 y.
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Description: A range of emerging digital technologies and wireless devices will enable interactive communication and collaboration, yielding unanticipated results. At the heart of this new interactivity is cheap and abundant bandwidth-,a broadband explosion that hos the key to the next level of economic value creation. Where do the opportunities lie? What challenges will companies face? How far can broadband really take us?This timely collection of essays explores these high-stakes questions and provides usefulnsights for executives navigating this complex arena. Leading thinkers from Clayton Christensen to Reed Hundt to Takeshi Natsuno discuss topics including the potential of emerging technologies, new business models that will result from broadband deploymt, security concerns, regulatory obstacles, and more.High-quality collaboration at a distance will soon be a reality-,and the business implications will be dramatic. The Broadband Explosion will help executives and policy makers… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1591396700
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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Charles Ferguson
The Broadband Problem: Anatomy of a Market Failure and a Policy Dilemma

— y.
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Description: As the Internet revolution continues to unfold and transform telecommunications, pressure is building for faster, less expensive, and more widely accessible broadband service. Such a development would facilitate improved and less expensive traditional applications such as voice telephony and web browsing. It would also enable new and useful applications such as Internet-based television, videoconferencing, and software distribution. Broadband has great potential to improve efficiency and productivity, even to improve national security in some cases. Broadband service and affordability, however, have consistently lagged well behind demand and progress in information technology, with damaging results. The Internet revolution remains incomplete and threatens to stagnate if the situation continues. In The Broadband Problem , economist and technology entrepreneur Charles H. Ferguson explains the causes and ramifications of this damaging bottleneck, and he offers suggestions on… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0815706456
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 3: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

2006 y.
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Description: In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations throughout, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials, offering additional perspectives both on individual texts and on larger social and cultural developments. Innovative, authoritative, and comprehensive,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1551116111
Book size: —; Page extent: 860.

 

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The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre : From Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre world to the present day. Each chapter focuses on a specific period and begins with an insightful introduction sketching the historical and theatrical landscape of that period. Contextualization for each play is provided through a thorough account of the literary and dramatic background of the play along with clear and comprehensive annotation. In addition, the editors have provided a glossary of terms used in the anthology to better equip students with a vocabulary for discussing the world of the stage. [detailed...]

ISBN: 155111139X
Book size: —; Page extent: 864.

 

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The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition (Broadview Anthologies of English Literature)

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period`s `laughing comedy.` Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1551115816
Book size: —; Page extent: 900.

 

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The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on a wide range of popular Victorian subjects in many different styles and forms (including comic, gothic, fantasy, adventure, and colonial works, science fiction, children`s tales, New Woman writing, Irish yarns, stories originally published in popular periodicals, and travel stories). Both well-known and lesser-known authors are included, and both men and women are well represented. This anthology includes twenty-six annotated stories, a general introduction that discusses the history of the genre?s development in relation to key socio-political issues of the Victorian era, and suggestions for secondary readings. It also includes an intriguing selection of Victorian writings on the genre by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Frederick Wedmore, and Laura… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1551113562
Book size: —; Page extent: 495.

 

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J. L. Langley
The Broken H

2007 y.
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC
Description: A rocky past that sent Shane fleeing his home and seeking refuge on The Broken H has kept him from the one thing that has always been dear to him.Grayson. Sheriff Grayson Hunter hasn`t felt like he belonged for a long time. Once he loved The Broken H, his ancestral home, and Shane Cortez with all that he was. Now he tries to stay as far away from the ranch and the man as possible until an accident brings them together. Gray didn`t count on Shane`s decision to let go of the past… and get a hold of Gray. Publisher`s Note: This book is a male-male love story and contains homoerotic sex acts that may be offensive to some readers. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1596320486
Book size: —; Page extent: 220.

 

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Uma Krishnaswami
The Broken Tusk: Stories of the Hindu God Ganesha

2006 y.
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Description: This collection of Hindu folktales for middle readers features stories about the god, Ganesha, who is easily recognized because of his elephant head. Krishnaswami introduces the stories by recalling her own introduction to Ganesha and goes on to offer a mythological context for the tales. Included among the tales are Ganesha`s Head, The Broken Tusk, and `Why Ganesha Never Married. Most of the stories come from Hindu legend, one comes from Mongolia, where Ganesha made his way into the Buddhist tradition. The pen-and-ink illustrations have child appeal, and readers will be aided by the pronunciation guide and glossary. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0874838061
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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John Grisham
The Broker

2005 y.
Publisher: Dell
Description: Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as `the broker,` Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could `open any door in Washington.` That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world`s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0440241588
Book size: —; Page extent: 422.

 

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John Grisham
The Broker

2007 y.
Publisher: Arrow Books
Description: In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems that Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world`s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive - there`s no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him? Формат: 11 см… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-09-945716-9
Book size: —; Page extent: 480.

 

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Terry Pratchett
The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers (The Bromeliad Trilogy)

2004 y.
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Description: They`re four inches tall in a human-sized world. Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is commonly known among these nomes that Arnold Bros. created the Store for them to live in, and he declared: `Everything Under One Roof.` Therefore there can be no such thing as Outside. It just makes sense. That is, until the day a group of nomes arrives on a truck, claiming to be from Outside, talking about Day and Night and Snow and other crazy legends. And they soon uncover devastating news: The Store is about to be demolished. It`s up to Masklin, one of the Outside nomes, to devise a daring escape plan that will forever change the nomes` vision of the world. . . . [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060094966
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Nicholas Faith
The Bronfmans: The Rise And Fall of the House of Seagram

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Bronfmans portrays the extraordinary saga of the Bronfman family, and above all, their patriarch Sam, the greatest figure in the history of liquor, the man who made drinking whiskey respectable and who built the first global empire of alcohol. From Sams death, the book then recounts with lavish detail the soap opera-ish struggle of his brothers and heirs for control. The mantle is finally passed to his son Edgar, who masterminds a major coup when he translates a small investment in oil into a twenty-five percent stake in the mighty DuPont company. But in the 1990s Edgar allowed his son Edgar Jr. to play media tycoon. The stake in DuPont was sold, and the money reinvested in Universal-which was practically given away in a merger with French media giant Vivendi. When the bubble burst, the family lost Seagrams and untold fortune. With revealing interviews from family members and confidants, The Bronfmans is an amazing story of bootlegging billionaires, and business folly. [detailed...]

ISBN: 031233219X
Book size: —; Page extent: 338.

 

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Nicholas Faith
The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0312332203
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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Richard Kane
The Bronx Street Kid: Into Twelve Step Recovery

2009 y.
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ISBN: 1449002692
Book size: —; Page extent: 108.

 

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Jonathan Mahler
The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0312427026
Book size: —; Page extent: 376.

 

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Alexander M. Schenker
The Bronze Horseman: Falconet`s Monument to Peter the Great

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThis book is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia-the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or The Bronze Horseman, as it has come to be known since it appeared in Alexander Pushkin`s poem bearing that title. The author deals with the cultural setting that prepared the ground for the monument and provides life stories of those who were involved in its creation: the sculptors Etienne-Maurice Falconet and Marie-Anne Collot, the engineer Marin Carburi, the diplomat Dmitry Golitsyn, and Catherine`s `commissar` for culture, Ivan Betskoi. He also touches upon the extraordinary resonance of the monument in Russian culture, which, since the unveiling in 1782, has become the icon of St. Petersburg and has alimented the so-called `St. Petersburg theme` in Russian letters, familiar from the works of such writers as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Bely. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0300097123
Book size: —; Page extent: 416.

 

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Paullina Simons
The Bronze Horseman

2004 y.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Description: Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. Then the routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler`s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana`s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler`s vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-00-651322-3
Book size: —; Page extent: 656.

 

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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Bronze Pen

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1416942017
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Jim Arnosky
The Brook Book

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0525477160
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Paul Auster
The Brooklyn Follies

2005 y.
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Description: Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore - a far cry from the brilliant academic career he`d begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom`s boss is the charismatic Harry Brightman, whom fate has also brought to the `ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York.` Through Tom and Harry, Nathan`s world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances - not to mention a stray relative or two - and leads him to a reckoning with his past. Among the many twists in the delicious plot are a scam involving a forgery of the first page of The Scarlet Letter, a disturbing revelation that takes place in a sperm bank, and an impossible, utopian dream of a rural refuge. Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes `to set down in the simplest,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0805077146
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Alan M. Gratz
The Brooklyn Nine

2009 y.
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Description: 1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the All-American Girls Baseball League. 1981: Michael Flint fi nds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little League season at Prospect Park. And there are fi ve more Schneiders to meet. In nine innings, this novel tells the stories of nine successive Schneider kids and their connection to Brooklyn and baseball. As in all family histories and all baseball games, there is glory and heartache, triumph and sacrifi ce. And it ain?t over till it?s over. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0803732244
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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David Foster Wallace
The Broom of the System

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is thebewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore?s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho- babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of hisgeneration brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0142002429
Book size: —; Page extent: 480.

 

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Julia Navarro
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0719562473
Book size: —; Page extent: 512.

 

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