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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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Bluestockings
By Jane Robinson
Paperback
Published 29-Apr-2010
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In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. This title tells the story of the fight for female education in Britain.
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Keeping Up with the Germans
By Philip Oltermann
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2013
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In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, the author's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying questions arise. How would English schoolboys take to a lanky 16-year-old German?
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Brief History of Nakedness
By Philip Carr Gomm
Paperback
Published 14-Dec-2012
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Traces our preoccupation with nudity in three distinct areas of human endeavour: religion, politics and popular culture. This book explores new territory - revealing the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protestors and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves, or simply to entertain us.
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Love-charm of Bombs
By Lara Feigel
Hardback
Published 17-Jan-2013
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As poetic as it is enlightening, this detailed biography of five literary figures is achingly beautiful in its depiction of the disturbing, everyday realities of war
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Better Angels of Our Nature
By Steven Pinker
Paperback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. In this title, the author shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare.
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Discovery of France
By Graham Robb
Paperback
Published 04-Jul-2008
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The perfect holiday read (pre, post or during)
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Second World War
By Antony Beevor
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian
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Walk-on Part
By Chris Mullin
Paperback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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Offering an account of the New Labour era, this title covers the rise and fall of New Labour from start to finish.
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View from the Foothills
By Chris Mullin
Paperback
Published 14-Jan-2010
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The author has been a Labour MP for 20 years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line, he has held several prominent posts. This book offers humorous and incisive takes on various aspects of political life: from the build-up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax-payers' money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use.
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