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Ninja
By John Man
Paperback
Published 11-Apr-2013
| RRP: | £8.99 |
| Our price: | £7.19 |
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The Ninjas are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. Could they fly? Make themselves invisible? In a journey to the heartland of the ninjas, the author takes you from their origins over 1,000 years ago, through their heyday.
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Perilous Question
By Antonia Fraser
Hardback
Published 09-May-2013
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Sketchbook War
By Richard Knott
Hardback
Published 01-Jun-2013
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Socialist Way
By Roy Hattersley
Paperback
Published 30-May-2013
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Containing high-profile contributions from journalists, academics, policy-makers and think tanks, this book provides directions for electoral success and seeks to show that there need not be a trade-off between power and principle. It includes chapters that cover a wide range of issues and provide new perspectives in the areas of economic.
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City of London
By David Kynaston
Paperback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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Tells a story as dramatic as any novel, while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that we can all understand. This book is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies, dress codes, eating habits, pay, humour, changing architecture and the unique culture of the Square Mile which brings us up to the modern age.
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Ban This Filth!
By Ben Thompson
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became unlikely figurehead of a mass movement: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
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Sex and Punishment
By Eric Berkowitz
Paperback
Published 08-May-2012
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The 'raging frenzy' of the sex drive has always defied control, yet thousands of years of civilization have tried to do so, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law. Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex.
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Eleventh Day
By Anthony Summers
Paperback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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Investigates the response of President Bush and the US military, and the failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. This book documents the inaccurate official stories told afterwards, considers the contentions of the '9/11 Truth' movement, and notes how the Bush administration tried groundlessly to link Iraq to 9/11.
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London in the Twentieth Century
By Jerry White
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2008
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Tells the story not just of London, but of Londoners too. This book examines the changes on the worlds of work, transport, popular culture, politics and government and shows how London affects its inhabitants, shaping their lives and being shaped in turn by them.
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Grand Pursuit
By Sylvia Nasar
Paperback
Published 19-Jul-2012
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From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess.
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