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An illustrated guide to chocolate that every self-respecting chocoholic should read. Do you remember when a Snickers was a Marathon? And when you could burst in to a sweet shop and ask for 'an Oliver Twist, two Tiffins and a Big Wig, please!' and keep a straight face? Those were the good days: when a Dairy Milk bar was 22p and you'd never seen anything as big as a Wagon Wheel. Revisit some of your forgotten favourites and current addictions, as Steve...
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Este libro es un refranero cargado de dichos y denuncias, procurando que sean constructivas, pues para destruir con pocos bastan.
Espero que algunos de los mil setecientos refranes (en los que se incluyen frases, dichos y chistes) les resulten curiosos, amenos y entretenidos; están escritos en un lenguaje sencillo y directo.
Deseo que disfruten tanto leyéndolos como yo he disfrutado escribiéndolos.
103) Non Stop Inertia
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A theoretical investigation into the culture of precarious work, digital consumption and personal flexibility, calling for a counter-discourse of resistance.
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A lively examination of the spirit and practices that have made the indie movement into a powerful cultural phenomenon.
You know the look: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, perfectly mussed bed-head hair; You know the music, Modest Mouse, the Shins, Pavement. You know the ethos: DIY with a big helping of irony. But, what does it really mean to be "indie"?
As popular television shows adopt indie soundtracks and the signature style bleeds into mainstream...
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Afraid of flying? Forty percent of Americans are. Yet you'd have to fly every day for the next 26,000 years to assure yourself of dying in a crash. A leisurely canoe ride is more than 100 times deadlier.
Think city streets are unsafe? You're more likely to come to harm in your own home, where every year you stand a 1 in 650 chance of being injured by your bed, mattress, or pillows-and each year 800 Americans die in accidents involving soft furnishings.
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We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore! is an incredible, timely, social commentary on our society. It is very entertaining, as well as being informative and extremely insightful. It is a fun, easy read, as it uses an engrossing "flow of consciousness" format. Is an amazing look at where the world has been and where it may be going. A must read for all those who care about this planet!
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As the country grows increasingly diverse and complicated, Americans seek, and occasionally find, a common thread to unite them. And, as Jim Lilliefors reveals in his new book, that common thread is what the baseball cap is made of indeed, what has transformed it into America's National Hat. As fads go, it's no longer even a fad, but a part of the national identity that, for better or worse, is a symbol of America. It feeds an illusion that Americans...
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A tasty trip down memory lane, perfect for crisp fanatics. A colourful, witty and irreverent encyclopedia of all the crisps of your youth. The authors have been given access to the archives, factories and warehouses of some of the leading crisp manufacturers in the country and have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research... . and lots and lots of crisps. A 'Brief History of Crisps' originally featured in 'The Great...
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Norman Rockwell's America was not all white. As early as 1936, Rockwell was portraying people of color with empathy and a dignity often denied them at the time. And he created these portraits from live models. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Other People in Norman Rockwell's America unfolds, for the first time, the stories of the Asian, African, and Native Americans who modeled for Norman Rockwell. These people of color, though often hidden in plain sight,...
110) Star Wars
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In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success with duck characters, wasn't after Howard; in buying Lucasfilms, it also bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise. Soon after the purchase, Disney announced a new Star Wars film was in the works and would be released in 2015, nearly four decades after...
111) The Undercurrents of Adolescence: Tracking Modern Adolescence & Delinquency Through Classic Cinema
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Imagine a great movie about adolescence like Rebel Without a Cause or The Breakfast Club with a written commentary rather than an audio one. For years I have used movies about teens to learn and grow from. As a movie fan, and as I got more and more entrenched in the world of teenagers, I found myself looking at teen movies in a couple different ways.With each new teen film, I would just turn off my brain and enjoy the movie. But then I found myself...
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Get the Summary of Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Get the Picture" chronicles Bianca Bosker's immersive journey into the art world, beginning with her determination to understand and appreciate art by infiltrating a premier New York City art gallery. Despite being an outsider, Bosker secures a position at Jack Barrett's 315 Gallery, where she learns the ropes of the art industry...
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Mormons of the Lie, (expose-type non-fiction) unlocks a mammoth evil gone viral. A physician's wife dies tragically. Overcoming personal tragedy and betrayal unmask a bigger picture of social political and historical reality. Mormonism surfaces as a microcosm in the breakdown of society's wickedness. A psycho-spiritual look forges a deeper understanding of the gamut of emotions-transforming grief and explosive fury to peace of mind and genuine forgiveness,...
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We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in a ritual of human sacrifice? Perhaps because that is exactly what they are.
From Greek mythology to the stories of the Christian martyrs and Dr. Faustus,...
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Get the Summary of Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Identity Trap" by Yascha Mounk examines the cultural and political impact of identity politics in post-World War II Europe and its evolution into a dominant ideology. Mounk explores the skepticism towards universal truths and societal progress that emerged among intellectuals influenced by Marxism and postmodernism, leading...
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Has anyone ever told you a big lie? Were you devastated when you found out the truth? What if it became apparent that you and I, and billions of other people, are living lies that date back 2,500 years and are affecting our children? Some ten years ago, the Human Genome Project released its results: 'DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans.' In other words, no person, regardless of skin...
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China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once--a sort of female, Chinese Jonathan Spence." From her constant contact (and, in many cases, friendships) with a dynamic group of young novelists, filmmakers, and artists in China, Zha examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the careful...
118) Spinderella Soap
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Spinderella Soap is where surreal artworks and the fantastical adventures of a freshly divorced woman named Spinderella is expressed through poetry illustrated with 29 full color artworks. Artist & writer, Minaz Jantz has performed 'live' the Spinderella Soap series before the cast & crew of the erotic TV series called the L Word. The fictional adult story of Spinderella Soap is unique entertainment filled with musical, whimsical and mystical inspirations....
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What you don't know about goths could fill a book!
An artistic culture that revels in the Victorian romantic movement, The goth Bible brings to light the traditions and history of all that is goth. The goth culture has been one of the most controversial and maligned in media history. Presented as homicidal, suicidal and socio-pathic, in the national consciousness goths are coupled with everyone from Marilyn Mason to the murderers of Columbine. But,...
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