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  The Long Day Wanes

  A Malayan Trilogy

  by Anthony Burgess

  A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and... (more)
• Atlas of discovery: with an introduction by Sir Francis Chichester;GAIL ROBERTS

  

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  Atlas of discovery: with an introduction by Sir Francis Chichester;

  by GAIL ROBERTS

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  Tropic of Ruislip

  by Leslie Thomas

  TROPIC OF RUISLIP is a sage for life on a modern executive housing estate, seething with the fears, snobbereis, frustrations and lusts of well-heeled young couples trundling uneasily towards middle age.
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  Bitching

  by Marion Meade

  One of the classic books from the Second Wave of Feminism, Bitching is based on the kinds of conversations that women have with each other about their life experiences, from birth to old age, particularly about their relationships with the male sex. Includes interviews with teenagers, housewives, mothers, divorcees, working women, all speaking candidly in no-holds barred informal sessions. The concept of the... (more)
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  Every night's a bullfight;

  by John Gardner

  <"Every Night's A Festival"> does nothing to dispel the idea that theatrical people spend much of their time in bed with one another.... The author gives explicit descriptions of the sexual act, both normal and otherwise. Evidently, this is the formula for a successful novel, a little plot and plenty of sex, with a variation of black-and-white sex thrown in to make everything more attractive....One... (more)
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  The Anxious Object

  Art Today and Its Audience

  by Harold Rosenberg

  A look at art today (1960s).
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  1974 Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future

  extensive index illustrated in color and b&w
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  Penguin Companion To Literature 3 United States And Latin America Literature

  by M.; Mottram, E.; Franco, J. (Editors) Bradbury

• The Penguin Companion to LiteratureUnknown

  

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  The Penguin Companion to Literature

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  The Penguin companion to literature;: Britain and The Commonwealth,

• Will ShakespeareSir John Mortimer

  

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  Will Shakespeare

  by John Mortimer

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  Daily life in People's China,

  by Jean S. Savage, Arthur William Galston

• The Penguin Companion to Literature 2: EuropeanANTHONY (ED) THORLBY

  

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  The Penguin Companion to Literature 2: European

  by ANTHONY (ED) THORLBY

  The 2nd volume of "The Penguin Companion to Literature" deals with all the literatures of Europe except Britain & the ancient classical world.
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  Great Ideas Today 1974

  Contains the following sections: A Symposium on Tradition; Review of the Arts & Sciences; Contemprary Status of a Great Idea (Justice); The Review of A Great Book; Additions to the Great Books Library
• Percival and the tragedy of SingaporeJohn George Smyth

  

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  Percival and the tragedy of Singapore

  by John George Smyth

• Lion in the sky;: The story of Seletar and the Royal Air Force in SingaporeN Shorrick

  

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  Lion in the sky;: The story of Seletar and the Royal Air Force in Singapore

  by N Shorrick

• The hand and the horoscopeFred Gettings

  

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  The hand and the horoscope

  by Fred Gettings

  Lots of illustrations of the hand. How everything goes together.
• ProperjohnTerence Kelly

  

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  Properjohn

  by Terence Kelly

• A History of Modern IrelandEdward Norman

  

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  A History of Modern Ireland

  by Edward Norman

• The Romantic Story of ScentJohn Trueman

  

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  The Romantic Story of Scent

  by John Trueman