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An infant, symbolizing the individual spirit, is born into a society in which individualism is suppressed through brute force. The infant's name is Mutilation, born on Orb-Earth, to collectivized humans calling themselves Outsiders who live in the Great Metropolis. Outsiders tolerate no opposition. Everyone must look, think, and, sound alike without dissent, and, up until Mutilation's appearance, there is none. But, with the child's birth, eve...

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This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB

This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB

Surveys fifty years of change in the world of design, evaluating the skills that have been lost, how new techniques affect everyday work, and how training methods prepare students for employment. This volume reveals how design is both an art and a skill - one with a rich past and momentous relevance for the future.

An unabridged edition, with sixty-four poems to include, but not limited to: Prelude: The Troops - Dreamers - The Redeemer - Trench Duty - Wirers - Break of Day - A Working Party - Stand-To: Good Friday Morning - "In The Pink" - The Hero - Before The Battle - The Road - Two Hundred Years After - The Dream - At Carnoy - Battalion Relief - The Dug-Out - The Rear-Guard - I Stood With the Dead - Suicide in Trenches - Attack - Counter-Attack - The ...

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Memoirs of Steinfink, composed in the darkness of hell. Everything stripped, all pretense. Doomed to death by calendar. Simplifies things the way violence simplifies things when uncontrolled. Me, Steinfink revealed in this dungeon of collective intolerance. Who and what am I? Questions upon brittle lips. Don't want questions. Instead, bow down before me, the prince of men, the Lord of the Universe. Name's George Steinfink, at least, how I'm ad...

The novel follows Bernard (Bernie) Courtman, an obese glutton who is also a shyster, fool, sociopath, and philosopher. A remarkable egotist, Bernie's the ultimate salesman who peddles the world's inconsequential on street corners everywhere. When not doing that, he's manipulating our bankruptcy laws and credit regulations to fill his coffers and finance his other schemes. Utilizing assumed names, using forged signatures, stolen credit card and...

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Sarah and Abraham (Abe) Klein lived ordinary lives for most of their existence. There were the ups and downs, money troubles, sickness, and disappointments, but nothing uncommon. It changed in their golden years. They'd become wards of the court, so to speak, or, better said, pawns in the struggle between their daughter, Abigail and son-in-law, Zaki. In the process, they'd lose their freedom and their lives. Supported financially by their daug...

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Personal narratives of a British officer on the Western front during World War I.

British army officer on the Western Front during WW1 recalls his youth as a rural gentry lad interested only in horses, cricket matches and fox-hunting. A delightful tale of Victorian England which received the Huntington Prize in 1928.

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Following the critical success of his magisterial ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOCIALISM, Donald Sassoon and a distinguished group of European scholars examines the extent to which the end of the Cold War has contributed to the redefinition of left-wing strategy and goals and the extent of the convergence between "right" and "left".