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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it couldn't let go. And unless the monkey released the banana, it was stuck. We are, of course, the stuck monkey, paralysed by our modern lifestyles and consumer habits: our constant stream of online shopping deliveries, our compulsive dependence on digital...
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English
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Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Some 50,000 aircrew died in World War I. Marked for Death explored the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning nineteen-year-olds...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions-including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur known as Fernet Branca. But Gerald's idyll is about to be shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former Soviet republic, as a series of misunderstandings...
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine Island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole. For it is in places like this rather than Manila of the international news reports that the underlying political and cultural reality of the Philippines may be seen.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony and revealed a powerful new expressiveness, both personal and societal. Even the whiff of actual political revolution was woven into the work-it was originally inscribed to Napoleon Bonaparte, a dangerous hero for a composer dependent on...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In a European city, the curator of a greenhouse who spent World War II struggling to preserve his exotic plants, sees peace threaten his world. The owners want to sell, he himself is being wooed to work in Asia and a gypsy he saved from a mob to engage in homosexual activities turns glass-breaker. By the author of Ghosts of Manila.