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The Conference of the Birds
by Jeffrey Lewis
'Refreshingly eccentric' - Times Literary Supplement. It is the late ‘70s in Manhattan and God is dead. A group of people come together to explore the void left behind. New York mongrels of the spiritual, as brash and defiant as their chaotic, bankrupt city, embark on what seems like a journey described in the 12th century Persian poem that gives this powerful novel its title.
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2011-01-19
9781906598792
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UK & Commonwealth except Canada
Fiction, New Titles
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Consequences of Peace: The Versailles Settlement - Aftermath and Legacy
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Alan Sharp
** Launched at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday 10th November 2010 ** This final volume in the Paris Peace Conference series will evaluate the immediate and later effects of the last great peace gathering which sought to settle the world’s affairs at a stroke. Ninety years on, the settlement still casts a long shadow.
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2010-11-11
9781905791743
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World
History, Politics, Makers of the Modern World
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South East Asia
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Andrew Dalby
Although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries reached an early climax – significant though inconclusive – in the years 1919-1920. The planned Peace Conference, Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and the victory of Communism in Russia, all contributed to this activity, and in spite of national differences it needs to be seen as a whole.
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2010-11-01
9781905791859
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World
History, Makers of the Modern World
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Heddle Nash
Singing Against the Tide
by Eleanor Allen
Acclaimed by critics and adored by the public, Heddle Nash was one of the Britain's most beloved opera singers. In this fascinating biography, published by Jubilee House Press, Eleanor Allen uncovers the private life of one of the greatest artists of the inter-war years.
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2010-11-01
9780956599605
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World
Biography, History
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Piip, Meierovics & Voldemaras: The Baltic States
by Charlotte Alston
Conflict on the borders of the Russian ‘Empire’, whatever the complexion of the government controlling it, has been a constant feature of the past 90 years, most recently with Russia’s brief war with Georgia in August 2008...
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2010-10-28
9781905791712
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World
History, Makers of the Modern World
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