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2010
Swamp Full of Dollars
By Michael Peel
Paperback
Published 30-Mar-2011
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Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming. Through a host of characters, from the prostitutes of Nigeria's Port Harcourt to the Area Boys of Lagos, from the militants in their swamp forest hideouts to the oil company executives in London, this title tells the story of this extraordinary country.
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Freedom For Sale
By John Kampfner
Paperback
Published 27-May-2010
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From the acclaimed author of BLAIR'S WARS comes a devastating new insight into how the power and democratic values of the West are under threat.
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It's Our Turn to Eat
By Michela Wrong
Paperback
Published 07-Jan-2010
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A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.
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Keeper
By Andrea Gillies
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Published 20-May-2010
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Andrea Gillies' brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimer's works are interwoven with her mother-in-law's unravelling grasp on reality.
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Last Chance
By David Gardner
Hardback
Published 30-Mar-2009
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Looks at why conflict, despotism and sectarianism continue to flourish in the Arab world whilst as they decline everywhere else.
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Rebel Land
By Christopher de Bellaigue
Paperback
Published 19-Apr-2010
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What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? This book features the author's journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out.
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Ship of Fools
By Fintan O'Toole
Paperback
Published 01-Jul-2010
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For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. This title tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickening fall.
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Magnetic North
By Sara Wheeler
Paperback
Published 06-May-2010
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Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, the author discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.
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Spirit Level
By Richard Wilkinson
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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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When the Lights Went Out
By Andy Beckett
Paperback
Published 28-Jan-2010
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The seventies encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and the three-day week. This title goes in search of what really happened, what it felt like at the time, and where it was all leading.
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