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The wooden dhow, with its characteristic lateen sail, is an appropriate icon for the early trading world of the Indian Ocean. It was based on free trade unhindered by monopolies or superpower domination and pre-dated 'globalisation'. This book focuses on the early trading world of the Indian Ocean, up through the fifteenth century.

Deals with some of the popular misunderstandings about the incompatibility of communism and nationalism, and shows how communist parties throughout Europe consistently made appeals to popular nationalism.

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The British consume at least double the per capita quantity of baked beans eaten by any other nationality. 20% of men claim that they can do DIY jobs better than any professional. By early 2005 there were more mobile phones in the UK than people - at least 60 million. In 8 OUT OF 10 BRITS, Charlie Croker paints a quirkily numerical portrait of Britain. Full of surprising facts about who we are, fascinating information about what we do, and rev...

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.

The Strategy Bridge presents and explains the general theory of strategy and demonstrates the relevance of that theory to the real world of practice. The author explains what strategy is and how it relates to politics and warfare. The book is not 'about' the theory of strategy, rather it is that theory.

The European Convention on Human Rights is the world's most effective human rights regime. Its Court has however become bogged down by an enormous workload and settling a case has become an attractive alternative to ordinary proceedings. This book provides a full overview of the Court's friendly settlements and suggest ways they could be improved.

Henry Allison offers a new understanding of Hume's theory of knowledge, as contained in the first book of his Treatise. Allison provides a comprehensive and detailed critical analysis of Hume's views on the subject, and an extensive comparison with Kant on a range of issues including space and time, causation, existence, and the self.

Overall similarities exist across all kinds of liquids, from spontaneous fluctuations involving thousands of atoms down to those involving just a few. Employing a rigorous formalism, this book explains how to infer subtle differences in behaviour from scattering experiments and how to interpret the results.

Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, and reconsidering the intellectual quality of his thinking and poetry through an emphasis on the notion of 'play'. Beginning and ending with brief accounts of the poet's childhood and last years, the book's twelve chapters each take a passage of Coleridge's life and characterise the nature and function of an abidin...

A wickedly original and fabulously addictive choose-your-own-adventure novel for grown-ups

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From Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasen comes this New York Times bestseller in which an eccentric eco-avenger, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a wannabe Texas oilman, and an angry panther can't stop two kids on a mission to find their missing teacher!

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Utterly wickedTotally brilliantFour original stories to make you ache with laughter.

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The companion title to Six Dinner Sid - the classic, Smarties award-winning, best-selling picture book.