Are books still different

Are Books Still 'Different'?

This Element inquires into the notion of 'difference' in relation to books, offering a unique interdisciplinary exploration of literature as culture a

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Different

A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW H

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All My Friends Are Still Dead

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Different for Boys - Patrick Mess

<p> A poignant and moving LGBTQ+ story that explores sexuality and masculinity with a touch of humour, by twice Carnegie Medal-winner and bestselling author Patrick Ness. </p> <p>Ant Stevenson has many questions, like when did he stop being a virgin? Are there degrees of virginity? And is it different for boys? Especially for boys who like boys? Ant trie...

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Where the Sea Stands Still

Since the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s, Yang Lian has forged complex poetry whose themes are the search for a Yeatsian mature wi

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Please Sit Still ELT Edition

This series of delightful storybooks is a flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make the Storybooks simple to use: the Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teach...

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Whoever You Are

Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same. They may not speak the same language. Their lives may be quite different. But inside, they are all alike. Stirring words

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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of

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Are You a Grumpy Old Git? Quiz Book

To discover whether you (or your loved ones) possess the grumpy gene, this quiz book has been devised to gauge your reaction to hundreds of different

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Paul a Antoinette

Paul and Antoinette, his sister, are very, very different, but somehow they still remain the best of friends.

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Basic Freud

Freud's theories demonstrates why they are still indispensable to understanding ourselves and the way we behave.

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The Naked Neanderthal - Ludovic Slimak

<p>In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery'With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . . This fun and provocative book is a reminder that we still have a lot to learn about biological intelligence' Steve BrusatteWhat if we have compl...

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Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different 2 - Ben Brooks

<p>***THE FOLLOW UP TO THE AWARD-WINNING AND BESTSELLING STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT***</p> <p>Tom Daley, Oliver Sacks, the Jamaican Bobsled team, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Carlos Acosta... all dared to be different.</p> <p>This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely successful Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, the bestsel...

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Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different 2 - Ben Brooks

Anotace: This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely successful Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, the bestselling book that changed countless boys' lives around the world and gave them the confidence to be themselves.<br> What have the footballer Kylian Mbappé, the philosopher Socrates and the singer Shawn Mendes all got in common? All three of...

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Exes and O´s - Amy Lea

<p>Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times, by ten different men. Nevertheless, she is still determined to find her perfect match. The only problem? Tara is a romance novel obsessive, and her standards are sky high. Modern dating apps have killed the meet-cute, so Tara decides to revisit her exes - all ten of them - in the hope of finding her very own trope-wo...

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History and Description, With Reminiscences, of the Fox Terrier (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic - Terriers)

A History and Description, With Reminiscences, of the Fox Terrier A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic - TerriersBy Rawdon Lee This superb book of the Fox Terrier was first published in London 1889 and even today remains a classic book of the breed. First editions are very rare, expensive, and much sought after. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have now republished it, using the original t...

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Philosophy of Loneliness

A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness, the philosophy of emotions, why some people are lonelier than others, and the p

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Touch of the Madness

Companies and organisations tend to be comfortable with the tried and true. But customers are attracted to what's new, different, and better. True i

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Mirror Image

As Bergen PI Varg Veum investigates two different cases, it becomes clear that they are uncannily similar to harrowing events that took place thirty-s

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Rowan the Red Squirrel

Rowan the little red squirrel, and his sister Hazel, are very different. Hazel is brave and Rowan is worried. This fun new rhyming story from the crea

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The Wonder of Us - Kim Culbertson

Riya and Abby are: Best friends. Complete opposites. Living on different continents. About to embark on an epic adventure around Europe.

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When Harry Met Sandra

It all started with a date in the Two Puddings pub in East London in 1963 and 60 years on, Harry and Sandra Redknapp are still in love. The popular ce

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Be Your Best Self

We all have different dreams, but whatever it is that you want to do, the skills you'll need to achieve them are the same. Written by a junior member

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Earthlings - Sayaka Murata

<p>Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no ma...

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Sam Wilson - Zodiac

A series of uniquely brutal murders targets victims from totally different walks of life. In a Society divided according to Zodiac signs, those differences are cast at birth and binding for life. All eyes are on Detective Jerome Burton and astrological profiler Lindi Childs - divided in their beliefs over whether the answer is written in the stars but united in their conv...

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Foundation´s Edge, 1. vydání - Isaac Asimov

<p>At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled c...

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Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Anotace: With introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining...

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Brave New World, 1. vydání - Aldous Huxley

<p>With introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining ...

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Various Pets Alive and Dead

Marcus and Doro were part of a left wing commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, radical politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotas, crochet, allotments. Their children have grown up rather different from them: primary schoolteacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms, son Serge is pretending to his parents t...

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The Dictator of Time: (De)Contextualizing the Phenomenon of Laterna Magica - Lucie Česálková

<p>Laterna Magika, which combines multi-genre theatre performances and films projected onto several screens on stage, emerged as as part of the programme promoting Czechoslovakian culture for Expo 58. Owing to its experimental nature, its combination of different art forms, the interconnection of art and new technologies, its significant role in the international pr...

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A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin

Anotace: THE BOOK BEHIND THE THIRD SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin s magnificent cycle of novels that includes "A Game of Thrones" and "A Clash of Kings." As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, in...

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Zombie Tarot

You've never seen tarot cards quite like these. Imagine the celebrated Rider Deck infused with the horrors of "Night of the Living Dead", and the result is "The Zombie Tarot" - a crazy, campy interpretation of a classic divination system. In this zombified parallel universe, wands become limbs, pentacles are biohazard symbols, and the Major Arcana is full of shambling cor...

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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes : Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon - Leslie S. Klinger

<p>In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in ...

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Discovering Lost Automobiles and their Stories

There are well over 200 different cars plus collections featured.

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Mr. Mercedes

In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crow...

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Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country (1786499789)

Kniha - autor John Kampfner, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The Times'A rich guide to modern Germany... For the British readers this book is directed at, the implied contrast...

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Find Me - Tahereh Mafi

<p>Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this book collects the final two companion novellas, Shadow Me and Reveal Me, leading up to the explosive final in the series.</p> <p>Shadow MeJuliette is still reeling from Warner's betrayal, and Kenji is trying to balance his friendship with her with his responsibiliti...

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A Feast for Crows - George Raymond Richard Martin

<p>Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launche...

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Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently

Allen Carr will help you break addiction for ever in this fully updated edition of The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently. This book will help you: achieve the right frame of mind to quit; avoid weight gain; quit without dependence on rules or gimmicks; enjoy the freedom and choices that non-smokers have in life; and quit without willpower. "It's time to begin your new...

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The Wonder of Us - Kim Culbertson

Anotace: Riya and Abby are: Best friends. Complete opposites. Living on different continents. About to embark on an epic adventure around Europe. <br> Since Riya moved away with her family to Berlin, she and Abby have struggled to be there for one another, and they haven't spoken in weeks. But Riya is pretty sure she knows the perfect way to make things better...

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Night Monkey, Day Monkey - Julia Donaldsonová

<p>Julia Donaldson's beloved rhyming picture book story about two monkeys who are as different as night and day - now with shiny cover foil! Night Monkey and Day Monkey don't think they have much in common. But when they each spend time in the other's opposite world, they learn to be the best of friends . . . From master storyteller, Julia Donaldson, and illustrat...

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She and I - Hannah King

<p>Best friends share everything. But murder is different. Isn't it?Keeley and Jude are closer than blood. They share everything: clothes, secrets, drinks - and blame. So when they wake up after a New Year's party to find Keeley's boyfriend stabbed to death beside them, they agree to share one more thing: the story they'll tell the police.But who is their story real...

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Never Ever Getting Back Together - Sophie Gonzales

<p>When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls?one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance?get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gon...

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Every Day - David Levithan

<p>From the genius of David Levithan, co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, comes a love story like no other you've read before.</p> <p>Each morning, A wakes up in a different body. There’s never any warning about who it will be, but A is used to that. Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere...

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Garry Marvin - Wolf

Feared, reviled and revered, the wolf has always evoked powerful emotions in humans. It has been admired as a powerful hunter; feared for the threat it is imagined to pose to humans; reviled for its depredations on domestic livestock and revered as a potent symbol of the wild. Wolf explores the ways in which indigenous hunting societies respected the wolf as a fellow hunt...

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Isabel Wilkerson - Caste

'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson re...

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Foundation and Empire, 1. vydání - Isaac Asimov

<p>The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its founding father,...

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Family Lore - Elizabeth Acevedo

<p>Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake - a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she's led - her sisters are surprised. Has Flor forseen her own death? Or someone else's? Does she have other motives? But Flor isn't the only person with secrets. Matilde has...

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Loathe to Love You - Ali Hazelwood

<p>Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to l...

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Unite Me - Tahereh Mafi

<p>Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this book collects the first two companion novellas, Fracture Me and Destroy Me, for a thrilling insight into the minds of Juliette's two great loves - Adam and Warner.</p> <p>Destroy Me The mind-blowing events between Shatter Me and Unravel Me are told here from Warner'...

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Epic Animal Journeys: Migration and navigation by air, land and sea - Ed J. Brown

All the branches of the animal kingdom – birds, fish, crustaceans, reptiles, mammals, insects, and even slime moulds undertake great journeys across water land or air. This is a glorious celebration of the mysteries and marvels of migration. Migration is one of the great mysteries of the natural world. With no compass or GPS devices, birds fly thousands of miles from Euro...

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Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Anotace: The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment, " "A Country Doctor, " and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by Anne Rice. Review "Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their po...

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Money and Government

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty make money and government essential features...

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Respiratory Muscle Training

Respiratory Muscle Training: theory and practice is the world's first book which provides an "everything-you-need-to-know" guide to respiratory muscle training (RMT). Authored by an internationally-acclaimed leading expert, it is an evidence-based resource, built upon current scientific knowledge, as well as clinical experience at the cutting-edge of respiratory training ...

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Check &amp; Mate: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

Are you ready for something a little different from Ali Hazelwood? Get excited for Check &amp; Mate, the new hit from the globally bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis <p> </p> <p>In this clever and swoonworthy new novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess pla...

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Library Book

A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries—from the bestselling author hailed as a “national treasure” by The Washington Post. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angele...

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Accidental Husband

Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than

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Animals

Over 30 different animals are illustrated in striking graphic style by Ingela P Arrhenius in this stunning gift book.

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Essential Difference

Why are female brains better at empathasing? How are male brains designed to analyse systems? And what really makes men and women different? The autho

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Winnicott

DW Winnicott's books, including "The Piggle", "Home Is Where We Start From" and "The Child", "Family and the Outside World" are still read, valued and

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