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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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Personal History

By Katharine Graham

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Published 01-Aug-2002


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Now re-issued with an appreciation by Henry Kissinger, this is the late Katharine Graham's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography.


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Along the Enchanted Way

By William Blacker

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Published 05-Aug-2010


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A spellbinding memoir set in rural Romania


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Counting One's Blessings

By William Shawcross

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Published 09-May-2013


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The Queen Mother's witty, entertaining and insightful correspondence, published together for the first time.


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Wings on My Sleeve

By Eric Brown

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Published 01-Jun-2007


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The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history


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Uncle Tungsten

By Oliver Sacks

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Published 10-May-2012


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The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Musicophilia.


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Crossing the Line

By Christian Plowman

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Published 23-May-2013


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As he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police, the author dreamt of being an undercover cop. When he finally achieved his ambition, becoming one an elite group of officers, the reality of covert work turned his life into a nightmare. This title offers an account of what it really takes to be an undercover cop.


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If This is a Man/The Truce

By Primo Levi

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Published 01-Jan-1988


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Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps.


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Inside The Centre

By Ray Monk

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Published 15-Nov-2012


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J Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.


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So Many Everests

By Diana Webster

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Published 19-Oct-2012


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The amazing story of how one woman was determined to reach her full potential - despite the odds.


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