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Philosophy & religion
Faraway Nearby
By Rebecca Solnit
Hardback
Published 06-Jun-2013
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An inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others.
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What Money Can't Buy
By Michael J Sandel
Paperback
Published 02-May-2013
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Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons or selling citizenship? In this title, the author asks: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale?
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Children of the Days
By Eduardo Galeano
Hardback
Published 30-Apr-2013
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Shows us how to remember and how to live. This book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really happened on that date, from all possible years and all corners of the world.
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Wilder Mann
By Charles Freger
Hardback
Published 02-Aug-2012
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The transformation of man to beast is a central aspect of traditional pagan rituals that are centuries old and which celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life and death. In this fascinating book, photographer Charles Freger visits 18 European countries to explore this aspect of European folk culture.
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Silence
By Diarmaid MacCulloch
Hardback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Unravels polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. The author considers the mixed attitudes of Judaism to silence, Jewish and Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus's brief ministry and witness.
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Leaving Alexandria
By Richard Holloway
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow.
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Serpent's Promise
By Steve Jones
Hardback
Published 02-May-2013
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Straw Dogs
By John Gray
Paperback
Published 01-Sep-2003
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'Straw Dogs' is a radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. John Gray explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
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Book of Silence
By Sara Maitland
Paperback
Published 03-Aug-2009
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After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, the author began to crave silence. She has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and the Isle of Skye. This book interweaves these experiences with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth.
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Case of the Pope
By Geoffrey Robertson
Paperback
Published 08-Sep-2010
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Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.
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