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21 produkter
Lazarus Is Dead
Häftad, 2012
415 kr
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What would you do, given the second chance of a lifetime?Like most men in their thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He's busy. Life is good. But he can't cheat destiny. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus returns to life. This part we all know.But as Lazarus is about to find out, …
Reproductive Health Care for Women and Babies
Av Benjamin Ed. Sachs, Benjamin P. Sachs m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1955 kr
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A recent Harris Poll revealed some disturbing aspects of the current state of health care provision for women and children. The poll dealt with issues as diverse as clincial examinations and communication between women and their doctors. Such issues, long ignored or under-appreciated by medical …
Cartoonist
Häftad, 2001
101 kr
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By day Daniel Travers draws cartoon chickens and by night he is confused by Daphne. Her instinct for rebellion leads them to Yurayama theme-park to sabotage the character-acts. All that stands in their way is public opinion, Michael Miller, the melancholic park-supervisor, and a bang on the head.
Lazarus Is Dead
E-bok, 2011
100 kr
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What would you do, given the second chance of a lifetime?Like most men in their thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He's busy. Life is good. But he can't cheat destiny. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus returns to life. This part we all know.But as Lazarus is about to find out, …
Becoming Drusilla
One Life, Two Friends, Three Genders
E-bok, 2014
147 kr
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‘A brave and intelligent book’ Daily TelegraphAn unforgettable memoir about gender, journeys and enduring friendshipFor years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew. They would spend a few days walking, camping, cycling, canoeing - outdoor, manly fun - …
Muddied Oafs
The Soul of Rugby
E-bok, 2018
108 kr
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There is Rugby Union: the fast, compelling, TV-friendly combat sport in which sponsored gladiators are sold on their ability to crash into each other at top speed, and sometimes even to avoid each other and score. And then there's rugger. Rugger was once the serious version of rugby, more than a …
How to Beat the Australians
E-bok, 2018
79 kr
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'Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.' Andrew Flintoff speaks for a nation.The Ashes, 2006/07: Australia 5 England 0. The nightmare returns.For twenty years, Australia has produced competitors so gritty they order sandwiches with sand in, and not just at cricket. …
Damascus
E-bok, 2018
100 kr
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A love story, in which all the events, people and places are taken from the contents of the "The Times" of 1st November, 1993.'It's the last day of the holidays and Spencer Kelly (12) wants to hold Hazel Burns (12) by the hand. This is the meaning of life. He wants to sit beside her on a sand dune …
Dry Bones
E-bok, 2018
102 kr
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Jay Mason is experiencing a crisis of faith. Disillusioned with his calling as a Deacon in the Anglican Church of Geneva, and estranged from his pregnant girlfriend, he's about to fall into the murky world of celebrity grave-robbing. His church has been bought by the shadowy antiquities dealer …
Acts of the Assassins
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEA charismatic cult leader is dead. One by one his followers are being assassinated. Enter Gallio.Gallio does counter-insurgency. But the theft of a body he’s supposed to be guarding ruins his career. Years later, the file is reopened when a second body appears. …
Day That Went Missing
E-bok, 2017
147 kr
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*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018*My younger brother’s name is Nicholas Beard. He was nine years old, and I was with him in the water when he drowned.Life changes in an instant.On a family holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and Nicholas are in the sea, jumping the waves. Suddenly and …
X20
A Novel of [Not] Smoking
E-bok, 2018
100 kr
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'Beard is as good on the sensuality of smoking as on the philosophy. This is an unusually intelligent, funny and readable first book' Sunday TimesShe offered me the cigarette like an apple. It was love and desire. It was knowledge and everything.'Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to …
Sad Little Men
The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson
E-bok, 2021
125 kr
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'Read this book' Alastair Campbell'A really wonderful book' Nigella Lawson via TwitterIn 1975 Richard Beard was sent away to boarding school. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron.He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was not to let that show.A public school education has …
Sad Little Men
Inside the secretive world that shaped Boris Johnson
Häftad, 2022
165 kr
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'Read this book' Alastair Campbell'A really wonderful book' Nigella Lawson via TwitterIn 1975 Richard Beard was sent away to boarding school. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron.He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was not to let that show.A public school education has …
X20: A Novel of (Not) Smoking
E-bok, 1997
93 kr
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Gregory Simpson is thirty and trying to quit, keeping ten fingers glued to a keyboard in order to fight their incessant ache to hold a burning paper tube filled with dead leaves. In twenty entries in twenty days for twenty to a pack—one word for each cigarette inhaled over the course of ten …
Day That Went Missing
Häftad, 2018
198 kr
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*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018*My younger brother’s name is Nicholas Beard. He was nine years old, and I was with him in the water when he drowned.Life changes in an instant.On a family holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and Nicholas are in the sea, jumping the waves. Suddenly and …
Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Inbunden, 2022
424 kr
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Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Häftad, 2022
296 kr
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Hinterland
Summer 2019
Av Richard Beard, Stephen Massil m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
129 kr
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Hinterland is a quarterly, print and digital magazine dedicated to creative non-fiction.Hinterland offers an answer to the question ‘what is creative non-fiction?’ by showcasing the best new writing across the fields of memoir, essay, travel and food writing, reportage, psychoscape, biography, …
