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The author of the modern classic, "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" reverts to a Prague setting. Kundera's novels have consistently strong sales. Widely acclaimed in hardback. Paperback review coverage guaranteed.

50, 000 copies sold in hardback. An Arrow superlead title to be published alongside Wilson's biography of Iris Murdoch. Was selected by many critics as Book of the Year. "Rarely have author and subject been found in such deep and contented harmony...Wilson's "tour de force" Robert McCrum, Books of the Year, "Observer".

This is the sixth and latest addition to the European Union Studies Association's prestigious series, State of the European Union. The contributors of this volume take the dynamic interaction between law, politics and society as a starting point to think critically about key events in the European Union, while bringing to the forefront why these developments matter for ordinary citizens.

* Subtitled 'The Father of the New Germany', this is a masterly portrait of a great statesman, Konrad Adenauer - one of the truly great leaders of the twentieth century

As WW2 drew to a close, thousands of British and American prisoners of war, held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, faced prospect that they would never get home alive. In depths of winter, their guards harried them on marches out of their camps and away from armies advancing into heart of Hitler's defeated Germany. This title tells their story.

Wer immer schon einmal auf der Blockflöte die "Oma im Hühnerstall Motorrad fahren" lassen wollte, sollte sich dieses Heft anschaffen. Man kann dann auch "die Affen durch den Wald rasen" oder die "Jemsen springen" lassen. Eine Fülle weiterer witziger Lieder sorgt dafür, dass beim Blockflöte spielen auch die Lachmuskeln beansprucht werden. Bei vielen Liedern ist außerdem eine zweite Stimme enthalten, denn das gemeinsame Musizieren und Lachen mac...

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Challenging the linear view of history which confines or predetermines the outcome of politics, this book argues for an 'untimely' politics, rendering the past problematic and the future unpredictable.

The thoroughly revised and updated new 7th edition of this well-established textbook continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the history, structure, institutions, and policies of the American political system.

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Investigating the problem of poverty in China's regions, this text discusses the role of rural-urban migration in reducing poverty. It surveys the distribution and characteristics of poverty, examines anti-poverty initiatives by the Chinese government and includes the results of research conducted in Shanxi, a typical province in Central China.

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Lenin and Revolutionary Russia examines the background to and the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Lenin's regime. It explores all the key aspects such as the development of the Bolsheviks as a revolutionary party, the 1905 Revolution, the collapse of the Tsarists, the Russian Civil War and historical interpretations of Lenin's legacy to Russian history.

Language, Race and Ethnicity: A Reader an essential resource for all students of sociolinguistics, ethnic studies, linguistics, anthropology and intercultural studies. This accessible Reader collects in one volume the key readings on language, ethnicity and race.Roxy Harris and Ben Rampton introduce students to the current debates surrounding issues of language and diversity, colonialism and migration, identity and appropriation. Invaluable ed...

The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. ∗ This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. ∗ Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two major intellectual figures.

The SPIN Model Checker is used for both teaching software verificationtechniques, and for validating large scale applications. The growing number ofusers has created a need for a more comprehensive user guide and a standardreference manual that describes the most recent version of the tool. This bookfills that need. SPIN is used in over 40 countries. The offical SPIN web site, spinroot.comreceives between 2500 and 3000 hits per day.It has been...

Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy that has inspired and influenced moral and political thought since publication and is widely studied for this reason.