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Facts are Sacred

By Simon Rogers

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Published 04-Apr-2013


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What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly? This title reveals how data has changed our world and what we can learn from it.


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Bees in the City

By Alison Benjamin & Brian McCallum

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Published 03-Aug-2007


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Beekeeping - once seen as an old-fashioned country pursuit - is increasingly attracting young metropolitan professionals, and new hives are springing up all over our cities. This title suggests creative ways you can help bees in your own back garden without keeping a hive. It provides practical information for the novice urban beekeeper.


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Hello Again

By Simon Elmes

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Published 06-Jun-2013


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Offers a history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who pioneered the first gardening programme in the 1920s; The Goons and Kenneth Horne, comedy greats of the 1950s; John Peel, Alan Freeman, Kenny Everett and other heroes of the pirate stations.


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Cancel the Apocalypse

By Andrew Simms

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Published 28-Feb-2013


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* A fascinating look at a world how we became over excited by air travel and put the environment at risk


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Private Empire

By Steve Coll

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Published 02-May-2013


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The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet to outsiders it is a mystery. In this title, the author tells the truth about the world's most powerful and shadowy company.


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Oil Road

By James Marriott

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Published 18-Jul-2011


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Journey along controversial Central Asian pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy.


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Around India in 80 Trains

By Monisha Rajesh

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Published 08-Nov-2012


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To understand India you have to see it, hear it, breathe it and feel it. Living through the good, the bad and the ugly is the only way to know where you fit in and where India fits into you.


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Women of the Revolution

By Kira Cochrane

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Published 29-Feb-2008


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Over the years, the feminist movement has won triumphs and endured trials, but it has never weakened its resolve, nor for a moment been dull. "The Guardian" has followed its progress throughout. This collection brings together the very best of the "Guardian's" feminist writing.


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People's Car

By Berhard Rieger

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Published 19-Apr-2013


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Bernhard Rieger reveals how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became a global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. The Beetle's success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of executives, engineers, advertisers, car collectors, suburbanites, hippies, and everyday drivers across nations and cultures.


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Falling Upwards

By Richard Holmes

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Published 25-Apr-2013


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Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.


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