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Product Description: This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history...read more
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9781441110527 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 1, 2009, cover price $29.95
Paperback:
9781441119704 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 30, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.
Hardcover:
9781441169976 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2009, cover price $32.95
Product Description: Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern...read more
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9780826476203 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 1, 2009), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world.
Product Description: <p>From salmonella in eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird âflu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming, âscares' have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world...read more
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9780826486141 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, January 10, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: <p>From salmonella in eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird âflu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming, âscares' have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world.
Examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto. This book provides an answer to the riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using many examples, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes.The author then leads us through the changes in the nature of storytelling.
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9780826452092 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, February 3, 2001, cover price $39.95
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9780826480378 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 1, 2006, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto.
9780080257181, titled "Out to Play: The Middle Years of Childhood" | Aberdeen Univ Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $12.00 | also contains Out to Play: The Middle Years of Childhood
Product Description: A new edition of Continuum's best selling book revised and amended to address all the issues of the forthcoming Referendum and the publication of the new EU Constitution. The first edition of "The Great Deception" was one of Continuum's biggest selling books...read more
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9780826480149 | 2 rev upd edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 30, 2005), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A new edition of Continuum's best selling book revised and amended to address all the issues of the forthcoming Referendum and the publication of the new EU Constitution.
Product Description: This book tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times: the plan to unite Europe under a single 'supranational' government. From the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, this meticulously documented account takes the story right up to current moves to give Europe a political constitution, already planned 60 years ago to be the 'crowning dream' of the whole project...read more
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9780826476524 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 15, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This book tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times: the plan to unite Europe under a single 'supranational' government.
Hardcover:
9780826471055 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 1, 2004, cover price $39.95
Product Description: This is the story behind a sensational historical controversy - the allegation that, in forcibly handing over 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the Communists in the summer of 1945, the British army in Austria, guided by a "conspiracy" involving Harold Macmillan, was party to a major "war crime"...read more
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9780715627389 | Duckbacks, June 1, 2003, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: This is the story behind a sensational historical controversy - the allegation that, in forcibly handing over 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the Communists in the summer of 1945, the British army in Austria, guided by a "conspiracy" involving Harold Macmillan, was party to a major "war crime".
Product Description: Even before the foot and mouth epidemic British agriculture was already in its death throes. Struggling under the onslaught of successive crises - the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy and the bureaucratic demands of the EU; food scares from salmonella to BSE; the spread of intensive farming and the concentration of buying power in the hands of the retail giants - British farming has been brought to its knees...read more
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9780715631447 | Duckbacks, May 1, 2002, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Even before the foot and mouth epidemic British agriculture was already in its death throes.
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9780715626931 | Duckbacks, June 1, 1996, cover price $16.00
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9780712655057 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 1994, cover price $17.95
Hardcover:
9780812827576 | Stein & Day Pub, November 1, 1980, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines the major events and preoccupations of the seventies--from the women's movement, to terrorism, to the energy crisis--in terms of the history and future of human race
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