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  • THE CREATORS OF WINNIE THE POOH
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    THE CREATORS OF WINNIE THE POOH
    ANDREW NORMAN
    Explores the deeper motivations behind A.A. Milne's creation of Winnie-the-Pooh and its enduring legacy. In 1962, children’s writer Roger Lancelyn Green coined the phrase ‘The Golden Age of Children’s Books’. A. A. Milne’s two Winnie-the-Pooh books, published in 1926 and 1928, which were so beautifully illustrated by artist and book illustrator E. H. Shepard, fall into this cat...

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  • THE DINOSAURS AND THEIR MYSTERIOUS DEMISE
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    THE DINOSAURS AND THEIR MYSTERIOUS DEMISE
    ANDREW NORMAN
    Explores the captivating history of dinosaurs, their reign, extinction, and presents a new theory on how certain species survived their cataclysmic end. The dinosaurs are a source of endless fascination, and each new generation is inspired and enchanted by images of these wondrous and awe-inspiring creatures that dominated the Earth eons of time ago. The smallest was the size o...

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  • A COMMENTARY ON THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
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    A COMMENTARY ON THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
    NORMAN BENTWICH / ANDREW MARTIN
    First published in 1950, A Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations presents a collection of documentary material detailing various aspects of the UN Charter. It discusses themes like the evolution of the Charter; purposes and principles; Pacific settlements of disputes; the General Assembly; the Security Council; International Economic and Social Co-Operation; the Econo...

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  • THE REAL SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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    THE REAL SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    ANDREW NORMAN
    In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success as a qualified doctor, keen sportsman, writer of historical novels, champion of the oppressed and, most notably, the creator of that honorable, fearless, and eminently sensible master-detective Sherlock Holmes. Every new Holmes story was greeted with great anticipation and confidence in the knowledge that...

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  • UNDERSTANDING HUMANISM
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    UNDERSTANDING HUMANISM
    ANDREW COPSON / LUKE DONNELLAN / RICHARD NORMAN
    Understanding Humanism is an easy-to-read and informative overview of the beliefs, practices, and values of humanism as a non-religious worldview. This short and lively book explores humanism both as a broad historical tradition of thought and as a stance embodied in organised institutions. It sets out clearly and systematically the beliefs and values of humanism as well as the...

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  • EXCESSIVE MEDICAL SPENDING
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    EXCESSIVE MEDICAL SPENDING
    NORMAN J. TEMPLE / ANDREW THOMPSON / ANWAR KHAN
    This work contains a Foreword by Merrill Goozner, Author and Director, Integrity in Science, Center for Science and the Public Interest, Washington DC. This book exposes why healthcare costs have been rapidly increasing and includes a close examination of over-priced drugs. It contains a detailed explanation of how the drug industry takes billions of dollars from society each y...

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  • TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR AGRICULTURE
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    TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR AGRICULTURE
    NORMAN CLARK / ANDY FROST / IAN MAUDLIN / ANDREW WARD
    Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews part of this programme as a case study of a broader issue of technology development for Africa. Controversially, it critiques current international technology develop...

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  • WINSTON CHURCHILL
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    WINSTON CHURCHILL
    ANDREW NORMAN
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War Two. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel ...

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  • HITLER
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    HITLER
    ANDREW NORMAN
    Written by an authority on Adolf Hitler, this book charts new ground and shows how the writings of a deluded ex-monk, Lanz von Liebenfels and the pseudo-science of Liebenfels and other writers, convinced Hitler that Germanys destiny was to save the world from a Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy. It was this perverted sense of destiny that drove the Nazi Party and led to the outbreak ...

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  • BEATRIX POTTER
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    BEATRIX POTTER
    ANDREW NORMAN
    An insightful biography of the pioneering conservationist, illustrator, prolific author, and creator of Peter Rabbit and other legendary tales.   Beatrix Potter was born curious, with an imagination and a love of natural science and animals that would serve her well. When her self-published and self-illustrated first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was picked up by an enterpris...

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  • THE AMAZING STORY OF LISE MEITNER
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    THE AMAZING STORY OF LISE MEITNER
    ANDREW NORMAN
    The book describes how Lisa Meitner, of Jewish heritage, found herself working as a physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933; how she was hounded out of the country and forced to relocate to Sweden; how German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman continued with the project – on the effect of bombarding uranium (the heaviest know...

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  • THE REAL PETER SELLERS
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    THE REAL PETER SELLERS
    ANDREW NORMAN
    Throughout the world, people regard Peter Sellers purely as a comedic genius: surely, one of the greatest ever to have lived. But, the astute observer will notice that he always appeared to be acting, even when being interviewed. So, who was Peter Sellers? Sellers once said, ‘I could never be myself you see. There is no “Me”. I do not exist. There used to be me, but I had it su...

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  • TITANIC: FREAK ACCIDENT OR FARCE?
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    TITANIC: FREAK ACCIDENT OR FARCE?
    ANDREW NORMAN
    There has been speculation over the loss of the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic ever since the tragic event of her sinking, which occurred during the night of Sunday 14 to Monday 15 April 1912. Could it have been the fault of her captain, Edward J. Smith? Hitherto, no one has managed to explain the mindset of Titanic’s captain, Edward Smith, and thereby comprehend why, on a pitch...

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  • THE REAL T E LAWRENCE
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    THE REAL T E LAWRENCE
    ANDREW NORMAN
    Explores the enduring mysteries of Lawrence’s postwar obscurity and complex sexuality. T. E. Lawrence, soldier and writer, the co-leader with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia of the Arab Campaign during the First World War, became a legend in his own lifetime. And yet to this day there is much about him which remains a mystery: two aspects of his character being of particular intere...

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  • THOMAS HARDY AND THE DEATH OF EMMA
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    THOMAS HARDY AND THE DEATH OF EMMA
    ANDREW NORMAN
    A collection of poems reflecting Thomas Hardy's tumultuous marriage to Emma Gifford. In many of his poems, the great Dorset poet and novelist Thomas Hardy referred to a certain romantic courtship, a marriage which became progressively more problematical, and finally to a bereavement in which a man loses his wife. So, who was Hardy writing about? The clue is to be found in his e...

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  • THE REAL ARTHUR MILLER
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    THE REAL ARTHUR MILLER
    ANDREW NORMAN
    During his lifetime, US playwright Arthur Miller was affronted in numerous ways by what he experienced, either personally, or vicariously through the experiences of others. For example: By the way his immigrant family had come to financial grief in the Great Depression (1929 to the late 1930s), through no fault of their own. By the anti-Semitism that existed in the USA and else...

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  • THE REAL SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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    THE REAL SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    ANDREW NORMAN
    In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success as a qualified doctor, keen sportsman, writer of historical novels, champion of the oppressed and, most notably, the creator of that honorable, fearless, and eminently sensible master-detective Sherlock Holmes. Every new Holmes story was greeted with great anticipation and confidence in the knowledge that...

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