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Mafia State
By Luke Harding
Paperback
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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WikiLeaks
By David Leigh & Luke Harding
Paperback
Published 01-Feb-2011
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It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity.
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Clampdown
By Rhian Jones
Paperback
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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1913: The Last Year
By Charles Emmerson
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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A title that presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai and from Los Angeles to Jerusalem.
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Vader's Little Princess
By Jeffrey Brown
Hardback
Published 01-May-2013
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The hilarious sequel to the international bestseller Darth Vader and Son, following the parenting adventures of Darth Vader as he raises his teenage daughter, Princess Leia.
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Drugs 2.0
By Mike Power
Paperback
Published 02-May-2013
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An eye-opening investigation of the new and constantly-mutating drug culture - driven by social networking and rogue chemistry, and enabled by antiquated laws
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New Digital Age
By Eric Schmidt
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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The must-read book for anyone concerned about the present and the future
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Mod
By Richard Weight
Hardback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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Tells the story of Britain's biggest and most influential youth cult. This title charts the origins of Mod in the Soho jazz scene of the 1950s, set to the cool sounds of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. It explores Mod's heyday in Swinging London in the mid-60s.
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Spirit Level
By Richard Wilkinson
Paperback
Published 04-Nov-2010
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Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? The answer: inequality. This book provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is.
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Give Me Everything You Have
By James Lasdun
Hardback
Published 14-Feb-2013
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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate. It chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled 'verbal terrorist', who began trying, in her words, to 'ruin him'.
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