Politics
Mafia State
By Luke Harding
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Published 22-Feb-2008
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In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the "Guardian". Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. This title presents the portrait of Russia, two decades after the end of communism.
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Send Up the Clowns
By Simon Hoggart
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Published 28-Sep-2007
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A collection of parliamentary sketches that takes us from the departure of Tony Blair to the arrival of the grumpiest prime minister in recent history, through the expenses scandal - with its duck houses, moat cleaning and porn films - to the last election and the arrival of a new premiere, David Cameron, the man who hates the condom on his head.
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Burning Question
By Mike Berners-Lee
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Published 15-Apr-2013
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If previous efforts have failed, what would it take to flatten off the curve? And what happens if we fail to do so? This book reveals climate change as an intriguing intellectual, social and political puzzle that will enthral readers of popular science, economics and psychology alike.
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Sweet Tooth
By Ian McEwan
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Published 09-May-2013
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Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom?
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Feral
By George Monbiot
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Published 30-May-2013
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Tells the story of author's efforts to re-engage with nature and discover a new way of living. This title shows how, by restoring and rewilding our damaged ecosystems on land and at sea, we can bring wonder back into our lives.
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Cooked
By Michael Pollan
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Published 23-Apr-2013
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Recreates the transformative fundamentals of how we cook, building from the most basic principles: cooking with fire, cooking with water, cooking with air and cooking with earth.
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Iron Curtain
By Anne Applebaum
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Published 06-Jun-2013
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Bolivar
By Marie Arana
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Published 13-Jun-2013
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To Move The World
By Jeffrey Sachs
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Published 06-Jun-2013
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Tells the story of JFK, the Cold War, and the power of oratory to change the course of history. This title recalls the days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his astonishing political skills towards that end.
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Clampdown
By Rhian Jones
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Published 29-Mar-2013
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Political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding 'chavs', has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. This book charts the progress of this cultural clampdown.
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