Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life....

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Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize comes a warm and witty look at the life of one special teddy bear. Travel with him as he comes from his factory to his first home, from the charity shop to a new home. But what can he do best when there are other bears who make themselves very useful indeed?...

Bella is going to have a very busy day at nursery - but what about baby brother Bob? He gets to stay at home with Mummy, and Bella can\"t help but imagine all the wonderful things he\"ll get to do....

WINNER OF THE ROALD DAHL FUNNY PRIZE 2012 \\\"Today I woke up and Bob was crawling around MY ROOM, licking MY JEWELLERY, so I shouted GET OUT OF MY ROOM! and that was the start of MY BIG SHOUTING DAY...\\\" Bella is having one of those days - her biscuit is broken, she has a hurting foot and ballet is TOOOO itchy for words. All she can do is shout!...

In James Patterson\"s first highly illustrated \"diary fiction\" story for teens, the mega-bestselling author\"s most endearing and original teen heroine ever proves that everyone can use a helping hand once in a while....

Women are rarely taught to reveal female experiences in art, use women\"\"s materials, or apply feminist theory. There is little significant research on how women learn or create learning communities. Arts-informed research provides more discerning tools for a complex study....

A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she\"s built in New York - including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can\"t let him pay for the real killer\"s crimes. Nina\"s secret life began eighteen years ago....

A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she\"s built in New York - including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can\"t let him pay for the real killer\"s crimes. Nina\"s secret life began eighteen years ago....

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire....

How well can you ever really know someone? As Ben Casper watches his best friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is about to change. Diana had no reason to kill herself, she had to have been pushed. Diana worked for the CIA, so the investigation into her death is kept tightly under wraps....

This year Valentine\"s Day isn\"t for romance. It\"s for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine\"s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder.Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much?...

A breathtakingly beautiful supermodel disappears from a swimsuit photo shoot at the most glamorous hotel in Hawaii. Only hours after she goes missing, Kim McDaniels\" parents receive a terrifying phone call. Fearing the worst, they board the first flight to Maui and begin the hunt for their daughter....

Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he\"s ever been part of. The President\"s son and daughter have been abducted from their school - an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation....