In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past [...]
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Released: May 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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Allan Karlsson hat Geburtstag. Er wird 100 Jahre alt. Eigentlich ein Grund zu feiern. Doch während sich der Bürgermeister und die lokale Presse auf das große Spektakel vorbereiten, hat der Hundertjährige ganz andere Pläne: er verschwindet einfach und schon bald steht ganz [...]
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Released: July 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry's actions [...]
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Released: 19.05.2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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Recounts the author's life as a member of the punk rock group, the Ramones, including his childhood in Queens, New York, the band's successes and failures, the group's induction into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame, and his tragic battle with cancer.
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Released: April 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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The compelling new thriller from the bestselling author of CITYBOY and JUST BUSINESS. When City high-flyer Bridget, recently fired from her bank, is found dead outside her high rise apartment, her colleagues assume she's committed suicide. Cityboy Steve Jones is outraged [...]
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Released: 12.06.2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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Chasing murderers in the middle of a civil war might seem absurd, and also dangerous. But that is Investigator Petric's job as one of the few homicide detectives left in Sarajevo. Anarchy masquerades as authority, and Petric must struggle against the chaos even to remain [...]
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Released: June 2012 / Delivery time: 5-7 days
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Before there were coins or paper money, there was debt: Where it came from and how it affects us today.
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Released: June 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. [...]
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Released: June 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 42.90
Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who doublecrossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. But walking down the street one day, he and his fiancee are attacked by two men and, [...]
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Released: 24.05.2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir
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Released: May 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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'It is essential ... an improvisational delight, black, violent and quivering with intent' Irish Times
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Released: June 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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Contains sixteen visual essays from the author's visual blog for the "New York Times."
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Released: April 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. This book examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. It starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes [...]
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Released: May 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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During the 1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity and salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now [...]
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Released: 15.04.2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
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Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, [...]
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Released: 05.04.2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 23.50
