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2023.
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In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary-a confession that has devastating consequences.
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2002
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English
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Essays on British philosophers engaged with philosophical topics and used methods that were both different from and continuous with those that were taken up by British philosophers of the next two centuries. Major focus on the influence of Francis Bacon, who launched the era's most influential British attack on the traditional theories and practices of philosophy itself offering an alternative vision of a profoundly different and more powerful form...
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[2023]
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English
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"Whether you want to visit a stunning national park, go wine-tasting in Oregon's Willamette Valley, or experience the culture of Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Pacific Northwest are here to help! Fodor's Pacific Northwest guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time"--
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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The 19th century in Britain was a period of innovative and creative theatrical activity that ranged from Romantic closet dramas in the early years of the century through melodramas dominated by spectacle and emotion to social dramas; it also included a restructuring of business practices that took the British theater into the next century. The development of drama was driven by the changing composition and tastes of the public.
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2010
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English
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The 20th century had the potential to touch a raw nerve & humorists had a matching potential to hit it with a slapstick to invoke laughter at the absurdity of an age that could swing between the existentialist black humor of totalitarianism & the Dadaist farce of a king on spinning bicycle wheels. Humor is about discerning a people through literary modes such as irony, parody, satire, farce, wit, absurdity, & comic stories that expose incongruities...
9) Kennedy 35
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When an old friend relays shocking information about a failed mission in Senegal years earlier, veteran agent Lachlan Kite must use all his resources to protect his former partner from a criminal network with links to international terror.
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Essays on British travel writers during a time when professionalism was increasingly the norm, including professional journalists, editors and correspondents accustomed to writing on contract and with deadlines. Includes discussion of scientific societies, which through their journals and meetings sought to encourage explorers to write for the general public as well. This was a period when many technical and economic innovations made travel easier,...
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Essays on British travel writers explores the political and social changes that occurred after World War II. Technology such as color television, home video, the Internet and CD-ROM's brought people pictures from around the world broadened their interest in travel. Includes discussion of the various types of travel literature, including political, scientific, historical, and adventurous as well as the role of women travel writers.
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Essays on writers of tour memoirs, which were the precursors of contemporary guidebooks, including accounts by women travelers. The distinction between traveler and tourist played a part in the development of the literature of travel. Discusses the impact of technology on the travel industry, including advancements in ocean travel and the railway. These nineteenth-century British travel writers provided ethnographic or scientific data of great use...
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1998
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English
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Essays on British travel writers during a period when travel and travel writing were transformed by education, technology and politics. Air transportation and the automobile impacted travel during this period as did the advent of color film and movie cameras. Travel guides, rather than entertaining and informative travel books for the armchair traveler, were written. This period produced globe-trotters and expatriates who wrote significant bodies...
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[2024]
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Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
16) Virgin Islands
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[2023]
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English
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Provides information on accomodations and resorts, restaurants, and attractions on each of the Virgin Islands and suggests itineraries, side trips, beaches, nature walks, and dive sites.
17) Splash down!
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2023
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"Two lovable mismatched rovers are back for another adventure, this time on an oceanic planet! Organized, careful Rover and impulsive, excitable Speck are ready to set off on their next dangerous, hazardous, mysterious mission: a trip to Unexplored Planet K2-18b. Adventure is underway as they splash down onto the watery surface of this world and get to know the locals. Before long, the two rovers find themselves on a new mission: to help two Spikey-Spikes...
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[2024]
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English
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"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
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