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Facial Justice
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Facial JusticeFacial Justice

Facial Justice is a dystopian novel by L. P. Hartley, published in 1960. The novel depicts a post-apocalyptic society that has sought to banish privilege and envy, to the extent that people will even have their faces surgically altered in order to appear neither too beautiful nor too ugly. The novel was included in Anthony Burgess's Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939: A Personal Choice.
Burgess described the novel as "A brilliant projection of tendencies apparent in the post-war British welfare state ...
 
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The Adventures of Paddy Beaver
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The Adventures of Paddy BeaverThe Adventures of Paddy Beaver

Thornton W Burgess was born in 1874 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was known as a conservationist and writer of children's books. Burgess loved the beauty of nature so much that during a fifty-year span he wrote 170 books and 15000 stories centered on nature and animals. Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat are two of his most memorable characters. The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver was written in 1917. Paddy the Beaver and his animal friends have adventures in the Green Meadow.
 
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Dr Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (Guide to Owning A...), 3 Edition
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Dr Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (Guide to Owning A...), 3 EditionDr Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (Guide to Owning A...), 3 Edition

This 3rd edition, a truly beautiful and immensely colorful book, satisfies the long-existing need for a comprehensive identification guide to marine fishes. This book shows in full color not only the popular aquarium fishes but also the oddballs and weirdos, the large seaquarium-type fishes, both warmwater and coldwater fishes, as well as both foreign and domestic fishes. In short, this book has it all and has it in a format that will provide maximum utility to its reader. 
 
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Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence in the Burgess Shale of 530-million-year-old-fossils, unique in age, preservation and diversity.
 
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Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess
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Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess
Among the more sensational espionage cases of the Cold War were those of Moscow’s three British spies—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess. In this riveting book, S. J. Hamrick draws on documentary  evidence concealed for almost half a century in reconstructing the complex series of 1947–1951 events that led British intelligence to identify all three as Soviet agents
 
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