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The Business by Iain Banks
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The Business by Iain BanksThe Business by Iain Banks

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses.

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Tags: Business, Jewels, wants, State, order, Banks, Crown, several, acquire
Russia (Eyewitness)
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Russia (Eyewitness)Here is a stunning introduction to the fascinating and diverse land of Russia. Color photographs of costumes, crafts, jewels and palaces offer an eyewitness view of Russia and the lives of its inhabitants through the ages. See a Mongol warrior's suit of armor, the diamond-encrusted crown jewels, and the spectacular architecture of Russia's most famous cities. Learn about the sinister secret police, about the opulent and extravagant life-styles of the tsars, why the peasant, Pugachev, was locked up in a cage, and about the Bolsheviks.

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Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale And The Rose [Audio and Text]
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Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale And The Rose [Audio and Text]A nightingale overhears a student, complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one tells her that it can produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sacrifice her life to do so. Seeing the student in tears, the nightingale carries out the ritual, and impales herself on the rose-tree's thorn so that her heart's blood can stain the rose.

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Tags: nightingale, jewels, rosetrees, student, another, professor, daughter, heart, blood, thorn
Studs, Tools, & The Family Jewels - Metaphors Men Live By
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Studs, Tools, & The Family Jewels - Metaphors Men Live ByStuds, Tools, & The Family Jewels - Metaphors Men Live By

Reveals the insidious effects of the language men use to speak about manhood.


 
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Trouble Is My Business
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Trouble Is My BusinessTrouble Is My Business

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.
 
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