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When the Money Runs Out
By Stephen D. King
Hardback
Published 14-May-2013
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The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. In this volume, the author follows up with a plain-spoken assessment of where the West stands today.
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Body Economic
By Sanjay Basu
Hardback
Published 21-May-2013
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Why, it asks, did Sweden experience a fall in suicides during its banking crisis? What triggered a mosquito-borne epidemic in California in 2007? What caused 10 million Russian men to 'disappear' in the 1990s? Why is Greece experiencing rocketing HIV rates? This title deals with these questions.
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Outsider: My Autobiography
By Jimmy Connors
Hardback
Published 23-May-2013
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The author took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of game. A shaggy-haired working-class kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he was prepared to battle for every point, to shout and scream until he was heard, and he didn't care whom he upset in doing so. He was brash, he was a brat. He was a crowd-pleaser, a revolutionary.
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Transatlantic
By Colum McCann
Hardback
Published 23-May-2013
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An extraordinary new novel from bestselling and award-winning writer Colum McCann
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Meeting the English
By Kate Clanchy
Hardback
Published 09-May-2013
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It's the searing hot summer of 1989 and revolution is in the air -- though not just for the Prys family ...
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Woman Upstairs
By Claire Messud
Hardback
Published 30-May-2013
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* The new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children, a top ten NYT bestseller in hardback and paperback in the US - Now to be published by Virago
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Art of Being a Woman
By Patricia Volk
Hardback
Published 02-May-2013
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A memoir, that juxtaposes the lives of two women - the iconoclastic fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother - to tell the story of how the author fashioned herself into a woman.
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Feeding Frenzy
By Paul McMahon
Paperback
Published 14-Mar-2013
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Can the world feed itself? This book traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent food shortages and price spikes what the media has labelled a 'world food crisis'. It outlines actions that can be taken to lower the risks of conflict and to produce faire outcomes.
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Greedy Man in a Hungry World
By Jay Rayner
Paperback
Published 23-May-2013
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The UK's most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few of the sacred cows of the food world.
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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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