<p><b>The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and Francis Fukuyama declared the ¿end of history¿.</b> Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in which the president of the United States discussed fellatio on network television and the world¿s most photographed woman died in a car crash in Paris. Radical pop band The KLF burned a million quid on a Scottish island, while the most-watched programme on TV was <i>Baywatch</i>. Anti-globalisation protestors in France attacked McDonald¿s restaurants and American survivalists stockpiled guns and tinned food in preparation for Y2K.<br><br>For those who lived through it, the 1990s glow in the memory with a mixture of proximity and distance, familiarity and strangeness. It is the decade about which we know so much yet understand too little. Taking a kaleidoscopic view of the politics, social history, arts and popular culture
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The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have...
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<p><span>Dr James Espey OBE is ready to be your mentor. His second book </span><em>365 Quotes to Accelerate Your Career and Find Balance in Your Life </em><span>contains the wisdom gleaned from his half-century career...
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A grandmother and granddaughter save the world one word at a time in this lyrical, affecting tale about the importance of words and nature, and the power of observation to bring the world to life, like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring for nature words.
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