Transport & industry
Facts are Sacred
By Simon Rogers
Hardback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly? This title reveals how data has changed our world and what we can learn from it.
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Bees in the City
By Alison Benjamin & Brian McCallum
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Published 03-Aug-2007
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Beekeeping - once seen as an old-fashioned country pursuit - is increasingly attracting young metropolitan professionals, and new hives are springing up all over our cities. This title suggests creative ways you can help bees in your own back garden without keeping a hive. It provides practical information for the novice urban beekeeper.
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Women of the Revolution
By Kira Cochrane
Paperback
Published 29-Feb-2008
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Over the years, the feminist movement has won triumphs and endured trials, but it has never weakened its resolve, nor for a moment been dull. "The Guardian" has followed its progress throughout. This collection brings together the very best of the "Guardian's" feminist writing.
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Falling Upwards
By Richard Holmes
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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Radio 4's Book of the Week tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.
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Cancel the Apocalypse
By Andrew Simms
Paperback
Published 28-Feb-2013
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* A fascinating look at a world how we became over excited by air travel and put the environment at risk
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Life Between the Lines
By John Izbicki
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Published 05-Jul-2012
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John Izbicki has an exciting story to tell. Berlin-born, he lived through the horrors of Nazi persecution. As a refugee he changed his name, learned english, and became the education correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He held this responsible position for 18 years.
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People's Car
By Berhard Rieger
Hardback
Published 19-Apr-2013
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Bernhard Rieger reveals how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became a global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. The Beetle's success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of executives, engineers, advertisers, car collectors, suburbanites, hippies, and everyday drivers across nations and cultures.
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Extra Virginity
By Tom Mueller
Paperback
Published 01-Jan-2013
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Extra Virginity is a rich, fluid and evocative account of the history and alchemy of olive oil, and of how the finest artisanal oil-manufacturers - in the deep south of Italy, around the Mediterranean, in California, in the Antipodes and beyond - are endangered by the widespread fraud of one of mankind's oldest and most versatile products.
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Britain's Lost Breweries and Beers
By Chris Arnot
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Published 22-Nov-2012
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Fully illustrated with stunning photographs of dray horses, coopers and grand Victorian architecture, an elegy for the loss of so many of our classic homes of beer.
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Heat
By George Monbiot
Paperback
Published 07-Jun-2007
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Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the day, so does the amount of hot air and bluster spouted by politicians and businessmen on what we should do about it. Using investigative journalism, this work presents facts and inspiring ideas.
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