Auteur: Michael Wood

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Sandra Bermann is Professor and Department Chair of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of Sonnet over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire, and her translation of Allesandro Manzoni”s Del romanzo storico appeared as On the Historical Novel. Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of The Magician”s Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (Princeton) and other books on literature and film.




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Sandra Bermann & Michael Wood: Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation
In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring …
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Italo Calvino: Italo Calvino
The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth century This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the …
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Bernard Williams: Essays and Reviews
The first collection of popular reviews and essays from distinguished philosopher Bernard Williams Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also …
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Barbara Cassin & Emily Apter: Dictionary of Untranslatables
Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters. Th …
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Michael Wood: On Empson
From one of today’s most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary critics Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, …
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Gene H. Bell-Villada: Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian aut …
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Colby Coombs & Michael Wood: Alaska
* Guidebook details 80 climbing routes throughout Alaska * Includes photos, many with route overlays, topo route maps, climbing difficulty and time information, ratings, and more Alaska mountain guid …
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Sandro Jung & Michael Wood: Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters
Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development o …
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Victor Kiernan: Shakespeare
‘This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in a more realistic light .’Times Literary Supplement Although Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued …
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Michael Wood: Heiner Müller’s Democratic Theater
The East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While critical literature on Müller often discusses the pol …
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Michael Wood: Heiner Müller’s Democratic Theater
Analyzes not just Müller’s texts but also the theatrical events that emerged from them, showing that from the beginning of his career Müller tried to create democracy both within and outside the thea …
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Michael Wood & Johannes Birgfeld: Edinburgh German Yearbook 12
In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume ‘repopulates’ the German Enlightenment. German literature and thought flourished in the …
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Florence Baillet & Norbert Otto Eke: Ich bin meiner Zeit voraus
Die Krisen der vergangenen Jahre haben gezeigt, dass das Ende der Blockkonfrontation Anfang der 1990er Jahre keineswegs zu einem ‘Ende der Geschichte’ geführt hat. Denn eher als in eine Zeit der evol …
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Michael Wood: Stumme Wut
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Michael Wood: Gieriger Zorn
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Michael Wood: For Reasons Unknown
Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more…DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: …
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Michael Wood: Outside Looking In
‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths The second book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart Mac Bride, Mark …
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Michael Wood: Fallen
‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths A short story and prequel featuring DCI Matilda Darke, star of Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series. Perfect for fans of Stuart Mac …
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Michael Wood: Room Full of Killers
‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths The third book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Lee Child and K …
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Francois Voltaire: Candide, or Optimism
‘The prince of philosophical novels’ John Updike In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of t …
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Marko Milanovic & Michael Wood: Law and Politics of the Kosovo Advisory Opinion
This volume is an edited collection of essays on various aspects of the 2010 Kosovo Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice. The main theme of the book is the interplay between law and …
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Marko Milanovic & Michael Wood: Law and Politics of the Kosovo Advisory Opinion
This volume is an edited collection of essays on various aspects of the 2010 Kosovo Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice. The main theme of the book is the interplay between law and …
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Michael Wood: Film
Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories …
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Michael Wood: Yeats and Violence
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, ‘Nineteen Hundred an …
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Michael Wood: Yeats and Violence
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, ‘Nineteen Hundred an …
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Michael Wood: Film
Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories …
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Michael Wood: Making Sense of Statistics
Making Sense of Statistics provides a thorough, but accessible, introduction to statistics and probability, without the distractions of mathematics. The book does not require you to use any algebraic …
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Francois Voltaire: Candide
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Michael Wood: Great Turning Points of British History
Twenty of the most crucial moments in Britain’s history.BBC History Magazine asked a selection of leading historians to choose and describe the twenty most important turning points in British history …
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Victor Kiernan: Shakespeare
‘This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in a more realistic light .’Times Literary Supplement Although Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions)
‘I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born’A man goes mad because he is happy.A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party.A man is swallowed b …
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Michael Wood: South Indian Journey
Inspired by a temple astrologer (who had accurately predicted his marriage and the birth of his two daughters), the writer and broadcaster Michael Wood travelled on a magical journey through south-ea …
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Michael Wood: Story of England
A VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORYThe village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First W …
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Michael Wood: Domesday Quest
In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William t …
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Michael Wood: Children Of Silence
In this absorbing series of essays Michael Wood probes and plays with the dilemmas of twentieth century fiction – the myth of lost paradise, lost certainties, the suspension between contrary ideals, …
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Michael Wood: In Search Of The Trojan War
For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. B …
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Michael Wood: Story of India
In The Story of India, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10, 000-year history of the subcontinent. Home today to more than a fifth of the world’s population, India gave birth to …
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Michael Wood: Conquistadors
The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the land …
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Michael Wood: In Search of the Dark Ages
Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and my …
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Michael Wood: In Search Of The First Civilizations
Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, Chi …
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Michael Wood: In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great
Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the ancient …
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Michael Wood: In Search Of Shakespeare
Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world’s greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective st …
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Michael Wood: Victim of Innocence
The nightmare is just beginning…A short story and prequel featuring DCI Matilda Darke, star of Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons and Patricia Gibney. …
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Michael Wood: Murder House
‘Gory, brutal, devastating, utterly addictive and yet so finely written. This deserves to be huge – and I think it will be. His best yet’ Louise Beech They were the perfect family. It was the perfect …
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Kelda Green: Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces in which to do personal thi …
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. Widely acclaime …
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Machado de Assis: 26 Stories
This “watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories. Widely acclaimed as “the greatest writer ever pr …
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Michael Wood: Chapters from Memories
This collection is the result of many years of internal reflection and reaction. Endless hours of trying to understand the world and the experiences it brought to one person’s struggling perception o …
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Michael Wood: Story of China
A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about Tom Holland Masterful and engrossing…well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. …
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Michael Wood: Time Is Running Out
‘This is a total BOOM BOOM POW! of a book…Budge up Jed Mercurio when you are done working on Line of Duty I think it is time for you to meet Matilda’ LJ, Read and Rated Book Review Blog’Excellent p …
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Michael Wood: Are You A Christian?
Around 83% of Americans claim to be Christians. But only 64% of Americans say they believe in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Obviously, those polls alone indicate we have a problem in terms …
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Reg Kemp & Michael Wood: MV Norland, Secret Weapon of the Falklands War
In 1982, North Sea ferry MV Norland transported passengers and vehicles between Hull and Rotterdam. Requisitioned as a troop ship to take the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment to the Falklands, the ‘ …
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Various: Tales from a Master’s Notebook
A collection of stories from some of our best-loved writers, inspired by ideas found in Henry James’s notebooks.When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels …
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Michael Wood: Survivor’s Guilt
‘Tense, twisty, emotional and gripping. Will definitely be reading more from Matilda Darke and this gets a huge 5 stars from me!’ Angela Marsons’Matilda Darke is an excellent character’ BA Paris A TE …
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Michael Wood: Hangman’s Hold
Your life is in his hands.In the gripping new serial killer thriller from Michael Wood, Matilda Darke faces a vicious killer pursuing his own brand of lethal justice. Perfect for fans of Angela Marso …
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Michael Wood: Stolen Children
‘She is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths The addictive new crime thriller featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons.’DCI Matilda Darke is going places’ James Oswald Some case …
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Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new worl …
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Kelda Green: Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces in which to do personal thi …
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Gillian Rose: Love’s Work
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Steven Matthews: The Waste Land after One Hundred Years
An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years. T. S. Eliot fir …
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Michael Wood: Habits of Distraction
The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin’s phrase ‘reception in distraction’ can …
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Michael Wood: Habits of Distraction
The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin’s phrase ‘reception in distraction’ can …
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Michael Wood: Lost Children
Matilda Darke is back…APRIL 2020: LOCKDOWNDI Brady has been tracing victims of systemic abuse at a local children’s home after a high-profile accusation pitched it into the spotlight – a case that …
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Steven Matthews: The Waste Land after One Hundred Years
An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.T. S. Eliot firs …
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Michael Wood: Silent Victim
He took her voice She took it back Don’t miss the next nerve-shredding instalment in the DCI Matilda Darke Thriller series…A CENSURED DETECTIVE WITH NO LEADSDCI Matilda Darke and her team have been …
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Glynis Cooper: Century of Female Revolution
This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women’s rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change f …
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Glynis Cooper: Century of Female Revolution
This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women’s rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change f …
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Michael Wood: Seventh Victim
From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series comes a standalone thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page…’Dark, twisting and captivating. The ver …
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Joseph M Cheer & Philip Hayward: Islandscapes and Tourism
The links between islands and tourism, as sights of pleasure is embodied in the touristification of sun, sand and sea. Islandscapes are central to the tourist imaginaries that shape islands as touris …
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Dr Joseph M (Western Sydney University, Australia) Cheer & Professor Philip (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Hayward: Islandscapes and Tourism : An Anthology
The links between islands and tourism, as sights of pleasure is embodied in the touristification of sun, sand and sea. Islandscapes are central to the tourist imaginaries that shape islands as touris …
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Michael Wood: História da China
Uma viagem para o passado de uma superpotência global A China é a civilização mais antiga da Terra, mas sua história é pouco conhecida pelo resto do mundo. A narrativa brilhante de Michael Wood – que …
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Michael Wood: Marcel Proust
A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn’t happened? This is how Michael Wood found h …
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Michael Wood: Marcel Proust
A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn’t happened? This is how Michael Wood found h …
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Michael Wood: Making of a Murderer
‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths’Matilda Darke is an excellent character’ BA Paris A MISSING TEENAGERWhen Sharon Mackintosh allows her teenage daughter to pick up a friend la …
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Michael Wood: Below Ground
????? ‘One of the best books ever, in one of the best series ever! It is THAT good!’ Net Galley Reviewer????? ‘A master of horror and suspense’ Net Galley Reviewer’Matilda Darke is the perfect heroin …
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Michael Wood: In the Footsteps of Du Fu
A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, w …
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Pushpam Kumar & Michael Wood: Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems
Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems, that is, ecosystem services, may not be fully reco …
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Pushpam Kumar & Michael Wood: Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems
Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems, that is, ecosystem services, may not be fully reco …
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Michael Wood: Mind of a Murderer
The best person to understand a serial killer is one of his victims.Meet Dr Olivia Winter.’I was hooked from the first page… mind-blowing’ Angela Marsons’Chilling, unnerving [and] pacey’ John Marrs …
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Michael Wood: Making Sense of Statistics
Making Sense of Statistics provides a thorough, but accessible, introduction to statistics and probability, without the distractions of mathematics. The book does not require you to use any algebraic …
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Michael Wood: Belle de Jour
Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited behaviour, strangled lib …
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Michael Wood: Belle de Jour
Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited behaviour, strangled lib …
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Glynis Cooper: Century of Female Revolution
This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women’s rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change f …
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Michael Wood: Vengeance is Mine
‘An engrossing read that kept me guessing throughout’ Patricia Gibney’Breathtaking… Had me guessing until the very end… Utterly compelling’ Rachel Lynch’Razor-sharp thriller-writing… a gripping …
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Michael Wood: Last One Left Alive
DCI Matilda Darke is back. And it might be her most personal case yet. ‘Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths FIVE PERFECT MURDERSDCI Matilda Darke receives an anonymous email from som …
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Michael Wood: Done And Dusted
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Jean Giono: Fragments of a Paradise
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Omri Sender & Michael Wood: Identification of Customary International Law
Customary international law remains a central source of international law and the core of the international legal system. It continues to draw the attention of lawyers, especially at a time marked by …
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