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Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
2024
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN'Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETTWe used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had were important to us. We’d cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for mi...
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Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
- Narrated by
- Patrick Grant
Unabridged
11 hours 55 min
2024
EN
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN'Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETTWe used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had were important to us. We’d cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for mi...
A Straightforward Guide to Planning for Retirement
Managing retirement finances revised edition 2023
2023
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A Straightforward Guide to Planning for Retirement- Managing Retirement Finances, Revised Edition, 2023 demonstrates clearly how those of retirement age and beyond can maximize their income and so Enjoy their retirement. Whilst it has always been important to plan for Retirement, it is now more crucial than ever, to ensure that people understand the opportunities available to them, particularly following problems caused by COVID 19 and also the current inflationary environment This book cl...
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
2016
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Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh’s reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh’s complete surviving correspondence presents a formidable challenge to those who wish to read and analyze the whole text as a literary work.Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoc...
2021
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A Straightforward Guide to Planning for Retirement - Managing Retirement Finances, Revised Edition demonstrates clearly how those of retirement age and beyond can maximise their income and so Enjoy their retirement. Whilst it has always been important to plan for Retirement, it is now more crucial than ever, to ensure that people understand the opportunities available to them, particularly following problems caused by COVID 19. This book demonstrates clearly the growth areas and also the a...
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
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- Cultural Dialectics
2014
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When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, and art historians have sometimes drawn on the letters in their analysis of the paintings. And yet,...
2022
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This Revised edition of A Straightforward Guide to Personal Pensions and The Pension Industry has been rewritten extensively and updates essential information and including relevant changes to law and practice to 2022. The book is a practical and informative guide for those who want to know more about their pension options, both state and private pensions, and also taxation. With the aid of this invaluable guide, the whole of the pensions maze should be rendered that much clearer.
"My Own Portrait in Writing"
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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- Cultural Dialectics
2015
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Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as literature. In this volume, Patrick Grant sets out to explore the question, “By what criteria do we judge Van Gogh's letters to be, specifically, literary?” Drawing, especially, on Mikhail Bakhtin’s c...
2009
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This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Start a Hobby in Collecting Bottle caps
2021
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A Straightforward Guide to Getting The Best Out of Your Retirement Revised Edition is a companion volume to Planning For Retirement and outlines all of the many possibilities and opportunities open to those people who have reached retirement age and beyond who need a clear picture of what they can obtain and access, including different levels of care, plus possible employment opportunities and also the role of different organisations. The situation relating to COVID 19 is also discussed.
The Alibi Witness
A Courtroom Thriller
2013
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Federal prosecutor Mickey Crane finds himself on the other side of the courtroom when he testifies as an alibi witness on behalf of his former girlfriend Darlene Turner. Turner is charged with the cold-case murder of magazine publisher Johnny Reed that occurred on July 4, 1976 in California. Crane testifies that he proposed to Turner in Michigan on that date. Despite Crane’s testimony, the evidence against Turner is overwhelming. The prosecution has an eye-witness, the murder weapon, and a...
2003
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A young high school teacher in Californias East Bay, Erik Walker always knew there was something more to life. Hes not much of an athlete and cant bring himself to express his true feelings for the girl he wants most. Until one day, it all starts to change. Dreams and visions invade his thoughts. Day after day the visitations into his psyche become stronger and more prolific. Erik has been chosen by the old gods of the North to awaken the folk spirit and unite the ancestral lines. As the d...











