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Black Earth is a pioneering, absorbing exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the Nazi extermination of the Jews.Condition: Used. Spine appears tight. Some slight curving to front cover from use. Slightly tacky remnants of old sales sticker on top right corner of front cover.

A book which has very little to do with motorcycle maintenance! This story, loosely based on real events in Pirsig's life, follows a motorcycle trip across the USA with his son, where he uses the free time on the road to tell a chaquatua about values and what they mean to humans.Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4115342643

Condition: The book shows signs of its age, with gentle creasing of the spine and yellowed pages. The inside cover is inscribed with the name 'Steven Williams' in pencil, and the first page has the stamp of The Earls High School in Halesowen.

Instead of a motorcycle, a sailing boat carried Phaedrus down the Hudson river as winter closes in. His travelling companion is Lila, a woman he has picked up in a riverside bar. This is the story of a clash of opposites - the philosophising, introspective Phaedrus, with the outgoing, sexually aggressive Lila - and it is their catastrophic-comic encounter that provokes a crisis in Phaedrus, forcing him to pose in human terms some of the most fundamental questions that face our times.

The original Borstal, Rochester Prison celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2024.
First built to house the convicts building a line of defensive forts in Medway, it went on to become the flagship reform prison to train young men in order to keep them away from a life of crime, a system which went on to be used in prisons across the country and around the world. Today, the staff still work tirelessly to turn around the lives of the men in their custody.
This book looks into the history of a prison which has seen different roles as a convict prison, a juvenile-adult institution, and even as an immigration detention centre.

White Scar is the story of 14-year-old twins, Ralph, and Alba Millway who find themselves battling with dark forces to secure a wand and the safety of the world. It is a coming-of-age novel as the twins forge their place in an uncertain world. In the year 2050 Aster, a young woman, is accused of murdering four innocent beings. She is magically preserved in a cave, along with the judge who sentenced her, her loyal cat and one of three wands used to imprison her. One hundred years later, Ralph and Alba unwittingly free Aster and their lives become much more complicated. Now they have an epic fight between good and evil, where not everything is as it seems. Set in Yorkshire in 2150, following a Global War ended by a meteor smashing into Earth, this book takes the atmospheric White Scar caves in Yorkshire and puts them at the heart of a magical adventure story perfect for middle-grade readers.Pre-order now for delivery after 28 October 2021. This first edition is signed by the author.