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Book details:1998, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London. Hardcover (VG-) with dustjacket (VG-). 256 pages. ISBN 10: 0747536724. ISBN 13: 9780747536727. First edition, second impression. Signed by author on title page. Age-related toning to text block edges, minor shelf-wear; no markings or inking internally from previous owner.
Book Overview:This is the story of the rapidly-growing modern social unit, the stepfamily. It explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with present relationships, past relationships and other people's children.

Book details:2018, Crown, USA. Hardcover (VG) with unclipped dustjacket (VG). First edition, first impression. 428 pages. ISBN 13: 9781524763138. A clean copy with no marks or inking from previous owner; minor shelf-wear to cover corners.
Book Overview:An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer--and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended all her carefully made plans.… Leer más

Book details:2010, Findhorn Press, Scotland. Paperback (VG). First edition, 1st impression. 218 Pages. Dimensions: 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm. Printed & bound in the USA. ISBN 10: 184409195. ISBN 13: 9781844091959. A clean copy with no marks or inking from previous owner; minor shelf-wear to cover corners.
Credits: Written by Carolyn North & Natasha Hoffman; edited by Nicky Leach; foreword & afterword by Hamilton Hill; illustrated by Natasha Hoffman; cover design by Sara Glaser; cover photograph by Corson Hirshfeld; interior design & maps by Damian Keenan.
Book Overview:Perceptive and inspirational, this meditation recounts the experiences of two women, one American and one English, who visited the standing stones of Carnac on the Brittany coast. Written without consultation from one another, this chronicle shares the aura and ambiguity the women found in the megaliths while arguing that the teachings they gathered from the ancient stones can provide much-needed guidance in today's troubled world.… Leer más

Book details:2020, Doubleday, London. Hardcover (NF) with unclipped dustjacket (NF). First edition, second impression. Signed by the author to title page (without dedication). 256 pages. Dimensions: 14.4 x 2.6 x 22.2 cm. ISBN 10: 0857525905. ISBN13: 9780857525901.Black cloth-bound boards with author's name and title block-stamped in metallic pink.
Overview:Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be.
My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair.
BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020: Observer, Telegraph, Good Housekeeping'This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.' -… Leer más

Book details:2017, Avatar Press, USA. Hardcover (F). First edition/limited edition. 176 pages. Printed & bound in the Canada. ISBN 13: 9781592912926. A Fine copy, like new.
The Second Arc Of Providence Is Unveiled In This Special Hardcover-only Edition.
Robert Black Came Looking For A Story But What He Found Is A World Of Misery And Woe. He's Becoming A Broken Man, Only Beginning To Accept The Horrors Of The Lovecraftian World Are Real And Hiding In Plain Sight.
Alan Moore's Quintessential Horror Series Has Set The Standard For A Terrifying Reinvention Of The Works Of H.P. Lovecraft. It Is Being Universally Hailed As One Of Moore's Most Realized Works In Which The Master Scribe Has Controlled Every Iota Of The Story, Art, And Presentation. The Result Has Been A Masterpiece Like No Other And A True Must-have Addition To His Essential Works In The Field.
We Present A Collected Providence Act 2 Hard Cover Edition That Contains Providence Issues #5-8, And All The Back Matter, In This One-time Printing Of… Leer más

Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. First edition softcover book in Very Good condition. 240 pages. ISBN 9780333642894. Dimensions: ‎ 13.97 x 1.38 x 21.59 cm.
Clean copy with no internal markings and minimal shelf-wear to cover.
Description:
This book explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a detailed description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning. It draws on a wealth of examples from radio (disk jockey and newsreading speech, radio plays, advertising jingles, news signature tunes), film soundtracks (The Piano, The X-files, Disney animation films), music ranging from medieval plain chant to drum 'n' bass and everyday soundscapes.
Table of Contents:
IntroductionPerspectiveTimeInteracting SoundsMelodyVoice Quality and TimbreModalityAfterwordIndex and Bibliography.
Theo Van Leeuwen is Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Emeritus Professor at the University… Leer más