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Introduced in 1998, the smart car has revolutionised our cities. Over one million smarts have left the factory and the car itself has been a global success. Introduced in the UK in 2000, there are now over 50,000 smarts in the UK. This book looks at the impact of the smart car in the UK, and of its history and genesis beforehand.

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First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject.Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual misdemeanours, drinking bouts and waywardness that other, more reverential, biographies choose to overlook.Catherine Carswell's real achievement is to bring alive the personality of a great man: passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and triumphant . . . the very archetype of the supreme creative artist.

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