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2011
Hare with Amber Eyes
By Edmund Waal
Paperback
Published 22-Jan-2011
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Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
By Owen Hatherley
Hardback
Published 22-Sep-2010
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Darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built
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Chasing the Devil
By Tim Butcher
Paperback
Published 05-Feb-2011
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For many years war made Sierra Leone and Liberia too dangerous for outsiders to travel through. Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the devastation wrought by lawless militia, child soldiers, brutal violence, blood diamonds and masked figures.
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Death to the Dictator!
By Afsaneh Moqadam
Paperback
Published 06-May-2010
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For much of the world, Iran's 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed. This title tells the story of these historic months, from the mass marches that greeted the disputed election results to their brutal suppression by the hated Basij militia - and a dark aftermath of imprisonment.
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Ernest Gellner
By John Hall
Hardback
Published 01-Jul-2010
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Ernest Gellner (1925-95) was one of the last great thinkers from Central Europe to be condemned by his Jewish background to experience the worst horrors of the twentieth century. He was a multilingual polymath, able to set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. This title presents an account of Gellner's life.
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Hitch 22
By Christopher Hitchens
Paperback
Published 04-Dec-2010
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The acid, hilarious, confessional, provocative bestselling memoirs of our greatest contrarian, and the author of God Is Not Great.
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Let Our Fame be Great
By Oliver Bullough
Paperback
Published 03-Mar-2011
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The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's attempts to add them to its empire. Travelling from remote village to refugee camp, rocky mountain gorge to forgotten massacre site, the author discovers exiles, fighters, defiant survivors - and an unbreakable spirit.
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Betrayal
By Helen Dunmore
Paperback
Published 03-Feb-2011
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Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the post-war, post-siege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry for State security.
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Rule of Law
By Tom Bingham
Paperback
Published 24-Feb-2011
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The idea of 'The Rule of Law' as the foundation of modern states and civilisations is more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? This book examines what the idea actually means.
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