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2011
Through the Language Glass
By Guy Deutscher
Paperback
Published 03-Feb-2011
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Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes.
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Hare with Amber Eyes
By Edmund Waal
Paperback
Published 22-Jan-2011
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Mao's Great Famine
By Frank Dikotter
Hardback
Published 06-Sep-2010
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Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell as Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to overtake Britain in less than 15 years. This book shows that instead of lifting the country among the world's superpowers, in reality, the Great Leap Forward was a disastrous step in the opposite direction.
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People Who Eat Darkness
By Richard Lloyd Parry
Hardback
Published 24-Feb-2011
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Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen.
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Rational Optimist
By Matt Ridley
Paperback
Published 31-Mar-2011
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Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up.
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Reprobates
By John Stubbs
Hardback
Published 24-Feb-2011
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From disastrous foreign forays to syphilitic poets, from political intriguing to ambitious young playwrights keen to curry favour with the king, this title focuses on the cast of characters that were at the centre of the English Civil War. It shows the reader just how the country was brought to one of the most destructive moments in its history.
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Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
By Simon Szreter
Paperback
Published 14-Oct-2010
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Intriguing insight into attitudes toward sexuality in marriage, based on first-hand interviews with a socially diverse range of people.
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