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From the international bestselling author of the Sunday Times sensation Surrounded by Idiots.Studies suggest two people who have never met before will tell three lies within the first five minutes. Astounding. But why?Why do we choose to lie even when we know it's wrong? To protect the people we love? To paint ourselves in a better light? To win short-lived praise? Or, are there simply far more obscure reasons behind why we lie?In Surrounded b...

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The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century. This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a post-ideological perspective - exploring its dimensions, main underpinnings, and possibilities - while also subjecting it to criticism and exposing its shortcomings and blind spots. In doing so, it presents a pluralistic view of social and political processes...

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and use it to bring their own traditions to light- the jazz, the blues, the field hollers, the spirituals- and creating something wholly new, wholly theirs, wholly ours. This book traces the growing ...

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. The Nigerian author and activist remains the only Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), and his dramas, poems, memoirs and essays have become seminal examples of postcolonial literature. The frequent references to Greece and Rome that appear across Soyinka's writings, most explicitly in his 1973 play The Bacchae of Euripid...

This unique volume brings together leading academics and researchers from different legal traditions to discuss the work and impact of Hans Kelsen, the most influential legal philosopher with global reach. Using his Pure Theory of Law and his theory of democracy as a lingua franca, the book allows for dialogues between jurisdictions and legal traditions and serves as a point of departure for further research on several themes such as state, in...

Loving Kane nearly destroyed Briar once, now that he's Alpha he could be the end of her. Briar Stone has rebuilt her life since her Were lover, Kane, abandoned her four years ago. She's got a job at a supernatural tavern, a loving magi boyfriend, Mason, and a side-gig reading auras. But none of it matters while her younger brother is a few doses away from killing himself with the psychotropic vampire venom he's hooked on. When a series of brut...

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BC Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on which the inscriptions occur. The first writing in It...

From Marianne Richmond, who has has touched the lives of more than six million readers over two decades, The World is Awaiting You is a new book relishing the cusp of a new beginning, when you are poised to bring all of your unique gifts to the world.Let¿s celebrate YOU and all the possibilities on the horizon!Today is your bright beginning, to think and feel and do.Make your own mark. Believe in your spark.The world is awaiting you!Today is y...

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Full of friendship, family and fun, Francine Pascal's iconic Sweet Valley twin sisters come to life in a brand-new graphic novel series that is perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson and Rollergirl.With the autumn show approaching at their Dance Studio, twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, find themselves vying for the spotlight . . .Jessica knows she's the better dancer - but their teacher only seems to have eyes for her sister! No matter ho...

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Adult ADHD has long been misunderstood, but is finally getting the attention it deserves as a very real and debilitating condition. More people than ever are having that penny-drop revelation that ADHD might explain what has made life so difficult for them, but NHS waiting times for referrals are running into years, and thousands are not getting the help they desperately need.It doesn't need to be this way. Dr James Kustow, one of the UK's lea...

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