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Life and Death in Exile

Advantages: Well written, moving and thought provoking
Disadvantages: No index or photographic plates, quite expensive

House of Exile is a work of creative non-fiction. It is a biography of a group of European intellectuals and those close to them, and of the devastating psychological impact for them of the rise of Nazism, the outbreak of war and enforced exile. Although ...

elkiedee 29.12.2011 · Read full review
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Review of House of Exile: War, Love and Literature from Berlin to Los Angeles - Evelyn Juers

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25 years of Bon Jovi

Advantages: Beautiful photographs, great price
Disadvantages: None

As a massive Bon Jovi fan, I was looking forward to the release of their new album a few months back. Along with the album release there was also a deluxe edition available which featured the documentary DVD entitled 'When We Were Beautiful' : a look back ...

JEFFJEN 29.01.2010 · Read full review
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Descent into madness

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...Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the world's authorities on manic depressive illness and also one of its many sufferers. An Unquiet Mind is the true memoir of Jamison's extended descent into 'madness'. Born into a middle-class American family, Jami ...

Trev15 23.09.2001 · Read full review
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a not so fine madness

Advantages: informative, insightful, brief
Disadvantages: quite repetitive, not best title of the genre

"When it's two o'clock in the morning, and you're manic, even the UCLA Medical Centre has a certain appeal…" - so begins Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison's international best-seller, 'An Unquiet Mind'. Categorised as 'autobiography/clinical psychology', this is J ...

Eudora 08.02.2001 · Read full review
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The man they couldn't stop

Advantages: Compelling story, well told.
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...The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as "the ghost runner". Bill Jones first heard of the "ghost runner" in 1984, nine years after Joh ...

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Review of The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop - Bill Jones

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