Published diaries, letters and journals Books
Double 9 Books Letters to His Children
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£10.79
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Framed as a Terroristmy 14-Year Struggle to Prove
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£8.79
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Tales from the Tail End: My Cancer Diary
Book SynopsisIt is a book of defiant spirit, courage, even sunshineânot only for those living with cancer and their caregivers and loved ones, but for anyone determined to live life on her or his own terms despite adversity.
£4.86
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. GANDHI: His Engagement with Islam and the Arab
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR
Book SynopsisThe Stranger in the Mirror is the memoir of theegendary producer-director, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Co-written by noted marketer-author, Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, this book chronicles the richly experiential, multi-facetedife of one of India''s most celebrated and feted directors who has made critically acclaimed filmsike Rang De Basanti, Delhi-6 and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Though it may seem natural for an autobiography to have a primary narrator, what makes this book truly unique is its many narrators. It is this multi-dimensional, multi-character narration that will enable readers to delve deep and truly understand what it means to be as unselfish as Mehra, a man who gleefully steps back andets the experts do their job. Peppered with anecdotes from Mehra''sifefrom the chai-biscuit college days to the popping of the proverbial champagneit implores readers to pay attention to understand who is narrating, because the plot may have just shifted aittle bit, justike his movies. At the end, what really stands out is how effortless the journey has actually been. And hereinies the greatest paradox because there is noack of perseverance in this journey. The miraculous manner in which things fall into place naturally,ike pieces of a pre-ordained puzzle with the universe acting as the sutradhar'', is the fulcrum around which the joy of this remarkable journey is built.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. LET’S KILL GANDHI: CHRONICLE OF HIS LAST DAYS,
Book SynopsisOn 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. False narratives blaming Gandhi for Partition and favoring Muslims persist. "Let's Kill Gandhi!" by Tushar Gandhi sets the record straight with facts from various sources, exposing the conspiracy behind Gandhi's assassination.
£32.99
Double 9 Booksllp De Profundis
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Amsterdam University Press Three Months in Mao's China: Between the Great
Book SynopsisIn the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China became a nuclear power, Zürcher experienced the reality of China under Mao Zedong. Only recently discovered, these documents portray, viewed through an expert's eye, a land in the midst of its own massive political, social, and economic change. Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian history as a whole.Trade Review"This book provides a fresh perspective from a contemporary sinologist on Mao’s China and vividly recounts the effect of three months’ close observation on the enthusiasm and fantasies of a Western leftist regarding the communist system." - Woyu Liu, Nanjing University, Europe-Asia Studies, 70:9 (2018) "Zürcher's Three Months in Mao's China is an important source for scholars interested in the society and culture of the Cold War, and in everyday life and the politics of traveling in Mao's China. It also sheds much light on the Cold War generation of leftist Chinese observers. Thanks to the editors, Zürcher's rich and valuable comments on modern China are retained in this edited work. As a primary source, I recommend it to scholars and teachers of both modern China and Cold War history." - Zixian Liu (University of Toronto), H-Socialisms (May, 2018).Table of ContentsIntroduction 9 From Moscow to Beijing 25 Letter 1: Beijing, 24 September 26 Six weeks in Beijing 35 Letter 2: Beijing, 3 October 35 Letter 3: Beijing, 10 October 49 Letter 4: Beijing, 18 October 58 Letter 5: Beijing, 23 October 65 Letter 6: Beijing, 25 October 71 Letter 7: Beijing, 29 October 74 Letter 8: Beijing, 1 November 78 To Xi’an and Luoyang 83 Letter 9: Luoyang, 9 November 93 From Beijing to Guangzhou 99 Letter 10: Beijing, 14 November 101 Letter 11: Nanjing, 22 November 105 Letter 12: Suzhou, 29 November 111 Letter 13: Shanghai, 6 December 119 Guangzhou and Hong Kong 127 Letter 14: Guangzhou, 13 December 127 Letter 15: Guangzhou, 19 December 132 Letter 16: Hong Kong, Saturday 26 December 139
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Amsterdam University Press The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's
Book SynopsisThe Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum’s Writings contains the proceedings of the third international Etty Hillesum Conference, held in Middelburg in September 2018. It brings together the work of 33 experts from all over the world to shed new light on life, works, inspiration and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), one of the victims of the Nazi regime. Hillesum’s diaries and letters illustrate her heroic struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of the Holocaust. This volume revives Hillesum research with a comprehensive rereading of her texts but also by introducing new sources about her life. With the current rise of interest in peace studies, Judaism, the Holocaust, inter-religious dialogue, gender studies and mysticism, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars in a range of disciplines.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Music as Metaphor in Etty Hillesum's Spirituality Nancy J.P. Anderson, A "staretz" in Camp Westerbork. The Connections Between Slavic Orthodoxy and the Spirituality of Etty Hillesum Fernando Arriero Peranton Etty Hillesum: Humanity as a task Emilio Baccarini Etty Hillesum & Albert Konrad Gemmeker. A Twofold Analysis of the Perpetration of the Westerbork Commander Lotte Bergen "Now is the Time to Put into Practice: Love Your Enemies". Several Notes on Hillesum's "Love for Enemies" in Levenskunst Ria van den Brandt The Cares of the Pagans. The Reading of Matthew 6:25-34 by Søren Kierkegaard and Etty Hillesum Pierre Bühler Dialogizing Life amidst a Culture of Death. Etty Hillesum, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor and Nazi Reductionism. John Cartner Patience and Hope in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Etty Hillesum Stephen Cherry The Girl Who Could Not Kneel. Etty Hillesum and the Turn Inward Marja Clement Etty Hillesum and Charlotte Salomon. Pregnancy as a Theme in Their Lives and Works Denise de Costa Wandering beyond words. Etty Hillesum and Clarice Lispector Patricia Couto "Verbalize, Vocalize, Visualize". Creative Death and Performative Writing in the Testimonies of Hillesum and Levi Maria Essunger A "No" That Is an Affirmation. Etty Hillesum and Simone Weil Against the Laws of Force Laura Fasani From enclosure to disclosure. Images of the Self in Etty Hillesum's Diary Sara Gomel A Story of Individuation in the Writings of Etty Hillesum. A Jungian Perspective Maribeth Kallemeyn Mad Midrash in the Diaries of Etty Hillesum Marc P. Lalonde The Mystery of Encounter. Poetry and Faith After Auschwitz in the Work of Paul Celan and Etty Hillesum Ulrich Lincoln Can Religion Help Heal a World Broken by Trauma? Etty Hillesum as Our Ancestor in the Qahal Goyim William McDonough The Contours of These Times. Etty Hillesum as Chronicler of Love Transcending Hate in Her Times, for Our Time, for All Time Barbara Morrill Etty Hillesum's Hand Analysis. The Prologue to Her Diaries Alexandra H.M. Nagel Suffering, Silence, and Wisdom in the Life of Etty Hillesum Rosana E. Navarro Sánchez Feeding the Soul. Etty Hillesum's Pedagogical and Spiritual Path Maria Gabriella Nocita Am I Really a Woman? A Question About Female Identity in Etty Hillesum. William Augusto Peña Esquivel A Powerless God. Etty Hillesum and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Luisa Ribeiro Ferreira New light on Etty Hillesum's Actions in Camp Westerbork Bettine Siertsema "My Beloved Desk, The Best Place on this Earth". Etty Hillesum Says Goodbye to her Familiar Surroundings Klaas A.D. Smelik Etty Hillesum's Humanism. Ethical, Philosophical and Theological Comments Jurjen Wiersma Etty Hillesum's Struggle to See Clearly. A Story of Two Worlds Patrick Woodhouse Present Traces of A Past Existence. Through the Lens of Photography Lucrezia Zanardi Etty Hillesum Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Citations
£161.50
Meta4Books vzw Correspondances #2 - Ronny Delrue
Book Synopsis"Through the format of the letter and the correspondence, Delrue implements his stance with regard to the role of contemporary drawing as a valid generator of artistic languages and as a humble, yet effectively poetic alternative to the virtual circulation of digital images between the communication systems that surround us." - Ory Dessau, art critic "The unique character and strength of Ronny Delrue's work are the result of his intense search for the essence of Being. [...] In a highly meticulous, almost obsessive way, he explores the sensitive fault line between control and loss of control. The process, the path, the quest is of fundamental importance to this exploration. The quest is not idiosyncratic, it is not inward, it allows room for dialogue with others, like a mirror image in which the encounter occurs, as in a crossover of minds." - Carine Fol, artistic director CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels "What is more beautiful than the circle left on a piece of paper by a coffee cup, even if an algorithm can produce a lifelike imitation? What is even lovelier is the artists' ideas, the exchange, the noise, the geographical and cultural differences, the slowness, the simplicity, the banality, the trace, the moment, the text, the language, the distance, the ideas, the powerlessness." - Philippe Van Cauteren, artistic director S.M.A.K., Ghent In recent years, Ronny Delrue (*1957) corresponded with six artists namely: Martin Assig (Germany), Salam Atta Sabri (Iraq), Roger Ballen (South Africa), Sanjeev Maharjan (Nepal), Mithu Sen (India) and Christine Remacle (Belgium). Through exchanges in the form of drawings, letter fragments and collages, among other things, this publication not only explores the encounters between artists with different geographical backgrounds and cultural attitudes; it also looks at Delrue's own oeuvre from a new angle. Ronny Delrue is a painter, but first and foremost an artist for whom drawing is a core activity. For him, drawing is a way of thinking, a state of being. For this project a conscious decision was made to send the letters by post, as opposed to the swift exchange of digitally scanned documents. Correspondances is an ode to slowness and a tribute to human acts, in which representation becomes the language of the encounter. Text in English, French and Dutch.
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Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Letters to Artists
Book SynopsisPhilippe Van Cauteren, director of the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent, has for many years written letters to artists all over the world. He directs his thoughts in a very personal manner to artists who inspire him. Van Cauteren's letters are written in a straightforward and accessible way; at times, they even verge on the poetic. They offer an insight into how a curator experiences and interprets art, and provide a clear and succinct introduction to the work of each artist to whom he writes. This richly illustrated book contains more than 100 letters. In an introductory manifesto - a final letter to Jan Hoet, his predecessor and the founder of S.M.A.K. - Van Cauteren also describes the 'ideal museum of the future'. This book is a reflection of the contemporary cultural arena, the roles of a museum and an artist within this arena and the way in which diverse parties can collaborate constructively. It features letters to, among others, Michaël Borremans, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jan Fabre, Adrian Ghenie, Jan Hoet, Mark Manders, Thomas Ruff, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ed Templeton, Rinus Van de Velde and Vincent van Gogh.
£22.40
Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka Thinker's Notebook: Posthumous Papers of a
Book SynopsisThe book features posthumous papers of English monk-scholar Nyanamoli, renowned for translating Pali Buddhist texts. It includes short notes and essays on deep subjects like ontology, metaphysics, and logic, with touches of humor, irony, and poetry. Notable essays include Pathways of Buddhist Thought.
£25.65
City University of Hong Kong Press A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China
Book SynopsisA Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China is a recollection of the historic visit of fourteen American students (and one Canadian) to China in 1971. The visit was one of the first approved for American scholars after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 and occurred prior to President Nixon’s famous trip (as well as that of a second group of scholars) in 1972. One of these students, Paul Pickowicz, kept a journal and photographically documented the trip. This book is a personal account of the events leading up to their visa approvals as well as those that occurred during the journey itself. The five senses are used to connect the reader to his experience and are placed in the context of a theatrical production. The images included have been selected from an archive at the University of California, San Diego, which digitized the author’s images as well as those of others in the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) taken during both the 1971 and 1972 delegations.Table of Contents Overture: Hong Kong Setting the Stage Opening Number Act I: Touch Act II: Sound Act III: Taste Act IV: Sight Act V: Smell Curtain Call: Hong Kong Again Encore A Look Backstage
£27.50
Central European University Press Catalogue of the Slavonic Cyrillic Manuscripts of
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a thorough introduction to the Cyrillic collection, and contains the detailed descriptions of the fifty-six Slavonic Cyrillic codices or fragments thereof held by the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, the vast majority of which are here described for the first time. The analysis of the codices has been done using the resources of modern technology. Written from the thirteenth to early nineteenth century, the codices were mostly produced within the confines of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The catalogue is extensively illustrated with pictures of the most characteristic and decorative pages and a few covers of the codices.This publication is a further step towards the complete documentation of the Cyrillic manuscript heritage of Central Europe.Table of ContentsList of Plates Orsolya Karsay: On the History of our Slavonic Cyrillic Manuscripts (Introduction) Conspectus of Shelfmarks Descriptions Plates Colour Plates Watermark Album Index to the Watermark Album List of Publications and Other Sources for Watermark Identification Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Placenames Index of Titles Index of Incipits Chronological Index Index of Manuscripts by Origin
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Gefen Publishing House Above Us Only Sky: The Diaries of Ilan and Asaf
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The American University in Cairo Press Letters from an Englishwoman in Egypt: 1842-44
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1844, these letters are the collected observations of Sophia Poole, who lived in Cairo from 1842 until 1849 with her brother, the well known Orientalist Edward Lane, and her two children. During her residence, Poole learned Arabic and adopted Egyptian clothing that enabled her not only to observe day-to-day life in the streets and markets but also to enter hammams and harems and interact on an intimate level with Egyptian women of different classes. Poole ultimately had access, in fact, to the highest levels of society, including the family of the viceroy Mohamed Ali Pasha, and recorded her experiences there with the same eye for detail and understanding of underlying customs as she brought to bear in the marketplace. She moves effortlessly from situation to situation-the pasha's daughter smoking her jewel-encrusted pipe, the homesick slave-girl, the occupation of ladies of leisure-one scene after another is unfolded in her writing that reveals not only a mind that observes and records but a human being who attempts to feel and understand a different culture.In contrast to her brother's dense works of research, Sophia Poole's was cast in the form of letters to a friend. These letters cover her arrival in Alexandria and trip up the Nile to Cairo, as well as her life in Cairo, with its visits to surrounding villages. The Englishwoman in Egypt is at once entertaining and informative. If Edward Lane kept alive for posterity a post-medieval Cairo that has since disappeared, then his sister in her work no doubt complemented that great achievement by presenting the same world from a feminine perspective that he as a man could not have access to.
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The American University in Cairo Press The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer
Book SynopsisIn 1968 Egyptian novelist and political exile Waguih Ghali committed suicide in the London flat of his editor, friend, and sometime lover, Diana Athill. Ghali left behind six notebooks of diaries that for decades were largely inaccessible to the public. The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian in the Swinging Sixties, in two volumes, is the first publication of its kind of the journals, casting fascinating light on a likable and highly enigmatic literary personality.Waguih Ghali (1930?-69), author of the acclaimed novel Beer in the Snooker Club, was a libertine, sponger, and manic depressive, but also an extraordinary writer, a pacifist, and a savvy political commentator. Covering the last four years of his life, Ghali's Diaries offer an exciting glimpse into London's swinging sixties. Volume 2 covers the period from 1966 to 1968. Moving from West Germany to London and Israel, and back in memory to Egypt and Paris, the entries boast of endless drinking, countless love affairs, and of mingling with the dazzling intellectuals of London, but the Diaries also critique the sinister political circles of Jerusalem and Cairo, describe Ghali's trepidation at being the first Egyptian allowed into Israel after the 1967 War, and confess in detail the pain and difficulties of writing and exile.Including an interview conducted by Deborah Starr with Ghali's cousin, former director of UNICEF-Geneva, Samir Basta.Trade Review"Certainly a must-read for anyone interested in Ghali's work and perhaps of wider interest."--Marcia Lynx Qualey, Arabic Literature (in English) "Waguih Ghali's widely acclaimed novel "Beer in the Snooker Club" has become a classic of Arabic literature. Ghali, like other once marginalized authors and artists, has become an intellectual reference in and outside the Arab world for current attempts to re-articulate the terms of the debate on culture, nation, and the world in times of painful transition from an old order to something unknown. The publication of his diaries is an important contribution to this endeavor, for it enables us to learn more about the author and his context. Ghali was a non-conformist socialist, a political dissenter, an avant-garde figure, haunted by alienation, depression, nostalgia, and by being a little too fond of the good life, and by contradictions that still mark our times."--Georges Khalil, Forum Transregionale Studien"The diaries give us a clearer picture of Ghali and the nature of his life in exile, and help to correct some misconceptions about him. They constitute an important document of confession in which we can trace and reflect on the difficulties of writing and the alienation of a writer who lost his home in his childhood and his country in his youth."--Iman Ali, al-Hayat"Meticulously edited by May Hawas. . . . The diaries cover, and shed much light on, the last four years of Ghali's life as well as, through reminiscences, aspects of his youth."--Paul K Lyons, The Diary Review"The author clearly imagines-or at least hopes-the diary will one day be published in book form. As he hopes it, he also worries that we, who will read his once-private thoughts, will laugh at him. 'This, to me, is one of the cruelest things I am experiencing.' He needn't have agonized over this. While a reader who admires "Beer in the Snooker Club" might be disappointed at the Diaries' very different tone, it would take a stone-hearted reader to laugh at the author's suffering."--Marcia Lynx Qualey, Qantara.de
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Landmark Books Pte.Ltd ,Singapore Life and Death in Changi: The War and Internment
Book SynopsisEnglishman Thomas Kitching died, aged 54, in Changi Prison in April 1944. Interned by the Japanese in 1942, Kitching, who was the Chief Surveyor of Singapore, faithfully kept a diary from December 1941. Only now made accessible, it provides meticulous details and insights into the lives and deaths of the internees and into the functioning of the prison. It is a tragic story of a family torn asunder by the war.Trade Review"The most detailed and important diary that has survived describing the life of civilian internees in Changi." John Bastin Emeritus Reader Modern History of South-East Asia, University of London "[Readers] will find a meticulous account of the day to day events, some frightening, appalling, inspiring, funny, fatal, all true and honest. It is a picture of the way things were. Here is the work of an observant, honest, brave, lovable human being. Tom Kitching had many friends. He will have many satisfied readers." Fredy Bloom, ex-Changi internee in newsletter of Association of British Civilian Internees Far East Region
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Landmark Books Pte.Ltd ,Singapore Singapore Letters of Benjamin Cook 1854 - 1855
Book SynopsisImagine a young man of the in the mid-19th century named Benjamin Cook, the nephew of Thomas Dunman, Superintendent of Police in Singapore. Cook went to Singapore aged 20 in 1854 and his series of 14 letters and accompanying drawings were addressed to his friend Harry Russell in London, telling of his experiences and persuading him to join him. The events and situations described in the letters are historically accurate, down to the dramatic events of the Chinese Riots and the Commission of Enquiry into the affairs of Rajah Sir James Brooke of Sarawak. John Bastin, the authority on early Singapore history, says: The letters are cleverly conceived and present an authentic view of life in Singapore in 1854-1855. They should be read for enjoyment and with no little admiration for the author's literary and historical skills.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished
Book SynopsisThis captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew all the major players in the emergent quantum world that was very much part of central Europe: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Switzerland. And Charlotte was a student at Göttingen that was right at the heart.Caught between two evils — Soviet Communism and German National Socialism — she would have probably perished if it were not for the brotherhood of physicists: Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Max Born, Robert Oppenheimer and many other noted scientists who tried to save friends and colleagues (either leftist sympathizers or Jews) who were in mortal danger of being entrapped in a simmering pre-WWII Europe.Using newly discovered documents from the Houtermans family archive: twenty three Pauli's letters to Charlotte Houtermans, her correspondence with other great physicists, Charlotte's diaries, interviews with her children, almost all documents presented in this book are published for the first time.
£58.90
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished
Book SynopsisThis captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew all the major players in the emergent quantum world that was very much part of central Europe: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Switzerland. And Charlotte was a student at Göttingen that was right at the heart.Caught between two evils — Soviet Communism and German National Socialism — she would have probably perished if it were not for the brotherhood of physicists: Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Max Born, Robert Oppenheimer and many other noted scientists who tried to save friends and colleagues (either leftist sympathizers or Jews) who were in mortal danger of being entrapped in a simmering pre-WWII Europe.Using newly discovered documents from the Houtermans family archive: twenty three Pauli's letters to Charlotte Houtermans, her correspondence with other great physicists, Charlotte's diaries, interviews with her children, almost all documents presented in this book are published for the first time.
£30.40
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Letter to My Partner: Words of Love and
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£11.69
Austin MacAuley Publishers Fze Honeysuckle
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Unmasked Books Letters I'll Never Send: An Anthology
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£12.15
Independently Published La Morte Di Cesare: Radiocronaca in napoletano,
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£7.39
Academic Studies Press Women and War
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£19.69
Academic Studies Press Women and War
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Academic Studies Press Women and War
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