Transport & industry
Facts are Sacred
By Simon Rogers
Hardback
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
Hardback
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
Paperback
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
Paperback
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
Paperback
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
Hardback
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
Paperback
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
Paperback
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
Hardback
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
Hardback
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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