Books from Profile Books
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Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir
By Pauline BlackHe had shoulder-length blond hair, a blond roué's moustache set in a hawk-like face, and one blue eye, the other having been traumatically removed in an accident that I think involved a hand grenade. When he was stoned, ...
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A Serious Endeavour: Gender, Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886-2011
By Laura SchwartzIn this innovative study, Schwartz explores the relationship between personal and collective identity in one of the first higher educational establishments run by and for women, during a period in which women's role both in society and ...
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The Roman Forum
By David WatkinIn this radical reappraisal David Watkin teaches us to see the Forum with new eyes and helps us to rediscover its rich history. This is as stimulating to the armchair traveller as it is useful as a guide to the Forum itself.
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Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain’s Heritage Railways
By Andrew MartinHe had a Handbook of Stations so he knew what could be sent where: if a load weighed 5 tons and the destination station only had a 3-ton crane the load would have to be sent to the nearest station that did have a 5-ton crane.
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How to Watch a Movie
By David Thomson... 214, 215 Polonsky, Abraham, 143 Ponting, Herbert, 20 pornography, 126, 178 Powell, Eleanor, 58, 223 Powell, Michael, 8, 166 Powell, William, 201 Preminger, Otto, 8, 99–100, 171 Pretty Woman, 193–4, 199 projectors and projectionists, ...
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Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
By Ian StewartAn appropriate statistical measure was defined in its current form by the English mathematician and biostatistician Karl Pearson.25 Pearson introduced the correlation coefficient. Given two random variables, find their means.
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The Lion Wakes: A Modern History of HSBC
By Richard Roberts, David Kynaston'In terms of Midland's relationship with HSBC, and particularly my position,' McMahon reflected after a visit to Hong Kong in 1988, 'I was made very aware of the asymmetry which is naturally conferred by their having a shareholding in ...
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The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
By Ryan HolidayIf you're feeling frustrated, demoralized, or stuck in a rut, this book can help you turn your problems into your biggest advantages. And along the way it will inspire you with dozens of true stories of the greats from every age and era.
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A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond
By Emily MayhewSheers, Owen, The Two Worlds of Charlie F (London: Faber & Faber, 2010), p. 31. ... Evriades, D., Jefferey, S., Cubison, T., et al., 'Shaping the military wound: issues surrounding the reconstruction of injured servicemen at the RCDM', ...
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Sew Your Own: Man finds happiness and meaning of life - making clothes
By John-Paul FlintoffI might have concluded that it wasn't – but then I met Danny Wallace, whose own whim had turned into the most extraordinary success. Wallace established a movement that brought happiness to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
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The Great Mathematical Problems
By Ian Stewart... 133, 135 Tao, Terence 37, 38 see also Green-Tao theorem Tate conjecture 276 Tayfeh-Rezaie, Behruz 290 Taylor, Richard 3, 134, 135 te Riele, Herman 36, 37,
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The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
By Susan Hill... that she should rest as long as she wished and that I was at her disposal at any time the next day. She asked me to ring the bell for Stephens, who appeared at once to show me to my room. I took 1 105 2.
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Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War
By Julie Summers... Wendy Jones, Hilary Kilby, Joy Knowles, Shelagh Lovett-Turner, Joyce Lucas, Joyce Meader, Honor Meakin, Jon Mills, Joy Mills, ... My agent, Catherine Clarke, is a tower of strength and dispenses wise advice, as does Michele Topham.
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From Our Own Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme
By Tony GrantBennett-Jones. Relations between Pakistan's army and the country's civilian administration had been growing increasingly tense. When the government announced it was sacking army chief General Pervez Musharraf, the military's response ...
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Driving With Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones
By Robert Rowland SmithIf life is meaningless as Sartre suggests, what is the point of being born? What does Freud have to say about losing one's virginity or Nietzsche about having a mid-life...
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Movie Lists: 397 Ways to Pick a DVD
By Paul SimpsonJungle Fever Jackson, Samuel L. 25th Hour DirSpike Lee, 2002, 135m Star Edward Norton used his salary from Red Dragon to ... 12 Angry Men fonda, henry Inherit The Wind DirStanley Kramer, 1960,128m, b/w Spencer Tracy is at his most ...
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The Library Book
Using memoir, history, polemic and some short stories too, The Library Book celebrates 'that place where they lend you books for free' and the people who work there.
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Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music
By Adam OckelfordBased on three decades of innovative work with blind children and those on the autism spectrum, the book draws lessons from neurodiversity to show how we all develop musically, and to explore the experience of music from composer and ...
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
By Richard W. WranghamIn How to Do the Raw Food Diet with Joy for Awesome Health and Success, the author, Christopher Westra, wrote: “In my own experience, starting on living foods brought about a change in sexuality that was dramatic and completely ...
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Four Stories
By Alan BennettWhen, a few days later, Treacher delivered his report, it was not favourable, which saddened the Bishop (who had, though it's of no relevance, been a great hurdler in his day). Rather mischievously he asked Treacher if he had ...