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What Fun We Had: Travels Through the Baltic, Poland, France and Italy

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The Existential Railway Station Book was never really an alternative title, but it could have been. The story begins with a fever in Berlin.The sort that makes hotel ceilings pulse gently and convinces you that destiny has a sense of humour — particularly when you're in town to see Bruce Springsteen, who once wrote and recorded a song called The Fever.In Quicker Than Walking I travel the way I ... Read more

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The Existential Railway Station Book was never really an alternative title, but it could have been. The story begins with a fever in Berlin.The sort that makes hotel ceilings pulse gently and convinces you that destiny has a sense of humour — particularly when you're in town to see Bruce Springsteen, who once wrote and recorded a song called The Fever.In Quicker Than Walking I travel the way I
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Quicker Than Walking: More Fun in Thailand, China and Hong Kong

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My previous two books, Go Away and Mostly Fun have described the pleasures and pitfalls of travelling solo, travel with a partner, and group travel. In my latest effort Quicker Than Walking, I've added a fourth option – travels with imaginary friends. But these aren't just any old invented souls, dragged from the dark recesses of my mind. I was accompanied, in my head, by some of the greats of ... Read more

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My previous two books, Go Away and Mostly Fun have described the pleasures and pitfalls of travelling solo, travel with a partner, and group travel. In my latest effort Quicker Than Walking, I've added a fourth option – travels with imaginary friends. But these aren't just any old invented souls, dragged from the dark recesses of my mind. I was accompanied, in my head, by some of the greats of
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How Fascism Works

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writerA Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writerA Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their
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Mostly Fun - Soft Nut Bike Tours of Laos and Thailand

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My fellow adventurers floated towards me on their kayaks in the slow-moving water. I was momentarily tinged with regret for not having joined them. But it was a fleeting moment and I soon realised that, with a life full of regrets, this one would not add much to the total.This book describes my thoughts and impressions of two bike trips in Asia. It wasn't all about cycling. We took trains, boats ... Read more

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My fellow adventurers floated towards me on their kayaks in the slow-moving water. I was momentarily tinged with regret for not having joined them. But it was a fleeting moment and I soon realised that, with a life full of regrets, this one would not add much to the total.This book describes my thoughts and impressions of two bike trips in Asia. It wasn't all about cycling. We took trains, boats
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My Brother's Bicycle

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A journey of contemplation and misadventure as I attempt, mostly unsuccessfully, to re-live a bicycle trip I first embarked on as a fresh-faced 20 year-old.More than 40 years ago I headed south with a guy I had met at Liverpool Street station in London.Enfield to Athens on a tandem.They said it couldn't be done.For the re-run I was better prepared, or so I thought.But, as it turned out it didn't ... Read more

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A journey of contemplation and misadventure as I attempt, mostly unsuccessfully, to re-live a bicycle trip I first embarked on as a fresh-faced 20 year-old.More than 40 years ago I headed south with a guy I had met at Liverpool Street station in London.Enfield to Athens on a tandem.They said it couldn't be done.For the re-run I was better prepared, or so I thought.But, as it turned out it didn't
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Instruction for Using a Slide Rule

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Instruction for Using a Slide Rule is a comprehensive manual designed to introduce readers to the practical and efficient use of the slide rule, a classic mathematical instrument essential for engineers, scientists, students, and professionals before the advent of electronic calculators. This book, available through Project Gutenberg, provides clear, step-by-step instructions on the fundamental ... Read more

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Instruction for Using a Slide Rule is a comprehensive manual designed to introduce readers to the practical and efficient use of the slide rule, a classic mathematical instrument essential for engineers, scientists, students, and professionals before the advent of electronic calculators. This book, available through Project Gutenberg, provides clear, step-by-step instructions on the fundamental
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Stranger in the Shogun's City

A Japanese Woman and Her World

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyA “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan—and portrays the city that would become Tokyo on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.The ... Read more

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyA “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan—and portrays the city that would become Tokyo on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.The
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Go Away: Travels With, and Without, my Wife

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In early September 2023, I left the sanctity of my Brisbane home and sallied forth on a four-month adventure across Asia and Europe. I travelled, for the most part, alone, joined in a couple of locations by my wife. One fine afternoon, as we discussed the travelogue I would write about the trip, I was inspired by what to use as a title. Go Away, with its subtle as a sledgehammer double meaning, ... Read more

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In early September 2023, I left the sanctity of my Brisbane home and sallied forth on a four-month adventure across Asia and Europe. I travelled, for the most part, alone, joined in a couple of locations by my wife. One fine afternoon, as we discussed the travelogue I would write about the trip, I was inspired by what to use as a title. Go Away, with its subtle as a sledgehammer double meaning,
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The Ministry for the Future

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAn unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all.“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times bestselling author of The Fortress of SolitudeThe Ministry for t... ... Read more

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Obedience to Authority

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One of the most important books in social psychology of the last fifty years, “The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences.” (Washington Post Book World)The landmark examination of humanity's susceptibility to authoritarianism, Stanley Milgram's classic speaks to the present with disturbing urgency. "Milgram's experiments on ... Read more

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One of the most important books in social psychology of the last fifty years, “The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences.” (Washington Post Book World)The landmark examination of humanity's susceptibility to authoritarianism, Stanley Milgram's classic speaks to the present with disturbing urgency. "Milgram's experiments on
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The Rebel Mama's Handbook for (Cool) Moms

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If you’re a mom (or mom-to-be) who wants to raise decenthuman beings, maintain your pre-baby identity and not loseyour sh*t along the way, congrats: you’vejust found the parenting book of yourdreams.The Rebel Mama's Handbook for (Cool) Moms is a girlfriend’s guide to early motherhood. It’s the Coles Notes for all those boringbaby books you never get through. It’s theinstruction manual you wish ... Read more

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Erasing History

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From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.In the United States, democracy is under attack by an ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.In the United States, democracy is under attack by an
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