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« Reply #1400 on: December 13, 2019, 09:44:13 PM »
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

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« Reply #1401 on: December 14, 2019, 02:08:32 PM »
Poker Face: Mastering Body Language to Bluff, Read Tells and Win - Judi James
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« Reply #1402 on: December 14, 2019, 04:24:11 PM »
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers - David Edmonds and John Eidinow

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« Reply #1403 on: December 14, 2019, 05:32:55 PM »
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak
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« Reply #1404 on: December 14, 2019, 07:27:40 PM »
10 Days That Shook the World - John Reed
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1405 on: December 14, 2019, 08:04:37 PM »
10 Days That Shook the World - John Reed
Around The World In 80 Days - Jules Verne

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« Reply #1406 on: December 14, 2019, 09:34:08 PM »
Five Eeeks in a Balloon - also Jules Verne. Read it recently: eye-wateringly racist by modern standards.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1407 on: December 14, 2019, 09:58:04 PM »
The Moon's a Balloon - David Niven

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« Reply #1408 on: December 14, 2019, 10:01:17 PM »
The First Men in the Moon - H.G.Wells
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1409 on: December 14, 2019, 10:03:37 PM »
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall

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« Reply #1410 on: December 14, 2019, 10:14:12 PM »
The Well At the World's End - William Morris
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1411 on: December 14, 2019, 10:26:55 PM »
On The Beach - Nevil Shute

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« Reply #1412 on: December 14, 2019, 11:39:04 PM »
The Shore - Sara Taylor
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« Reply #1413 on: December 15, 2019, 08:33:20 AM »
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

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« Reply #1414 on: December 15, 2019, 09:01:36 AM »
The Sun - Rupert Murdoch
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« Reply #1415 on: December 15, 2019, 01:05:34 PM »
Empire of the Sun - J.G.Ballard
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« Reply #1416 on: December 15, 2019, 03:17:36 PM »
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1417 on: December 15, 2019, 05:23:51 PM »
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« Reply #1418 on: December 15, 2019, 05:24:40 PM »
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

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« Reply #1419 on: December 15, 2019, 05:31:25 PM »
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - David Nobbs

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« Reply #1420 on: December 15, 2019, 05:48:40 PM »
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1421 on: December 15, 2019, 05:54:57 PM »
The Rise of Yeast - Nicholas P Money

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« Reply #1422 on: December 15, 2019, 06:55:26 PM »
Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich

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« Reply #1423 on: December 15, 2019, 06:57:18 PM »
Kneading to Die - Liz Mugavero
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« Reply #1424 on: December 15, 2019, 07:06:09 PM »
Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming