Biography
Bonfire of the Brands
By Neil Boorman
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Published 07-Aug-2008
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Average number of ads exposed to each day: 3000. Average number of ads exposed to by age of 65: 2 million. Average number of brand names memorised by a 10-year-old: 400. Worldwide advertising spend in 2006: $427 billion. This title assesses the impact of advertising on the individual.
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Ziggyology
By Simon Goddard
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Published 28-Mar-2013
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It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music - the rock god who came from the stars - which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens. When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy to a superstar who changed the face of music forever. But who was Ziggy Stardust?
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Craig Bellamy: Goodfella My Autobiography
By Oliver Holt
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Published 03-Jun-2013
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Craig Bellamy's much sought-after Autobiography is set to be one of the most honest and explosive football stories in recent years.
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Real Jane Austen
By Paula Byrne
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Published 17-Jan-2013
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Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books.
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Into The Silence
By Wade Davis
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Published 04-Oct-2012
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For George Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive.
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English Affair
By Richard Davenport-Hines
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Published 03-Jan-2013
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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.
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Bedsit Disco Queen
By Tracey Thorn
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Published 07-Feb-2013
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Mom and Me and Mom
By Maya Angelou
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Published 11-Apr-2013
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Lean IN
By Sheryl Sandberg
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Published 12-Mar-2013
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The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour - of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. This title draws on author's own experience.
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Pigs Might Fly
By Mark Blake
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Published 07-Mar-2013
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Mark Blake's history of Pink Floyd - the first for fifteen years - has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band's life.
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