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World That Never Was
By Alex Butterworth
Paperback
Published 03-Mar-2011
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Follows the interweaving lives of several key anarchists, and of the secret police who tracked them. Framed by the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1905 revolution in St Petersburg, and spread across five continents, theirs is the story of a generation that saw the dream of Utopia crumble, to be replaced by a dangerous desperation.
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Real North Korea
By Andrei Lankov
Hardback
Published 02-May-2013
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In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive.
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Fragile Empire
By Ben Judah
Hardback
Published 19-Apr-2013
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Offers a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people. In this title, the author argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability.
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Fortress Israel
By Patrick Tyler
Paperback
Published 02-May-2013
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A group portrait of the political class that has created Israel's identity and strategy since the birth of the nation, and a look inside the collective militaristic mindset that sustains it.
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Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
By Andro Linklater
Paperback
Published 09-May-2013
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On the two hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - this is the riveting untold story of the murder, the murderer and the repercussions of his act
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Morality of China in Africa
By Stephen Chan
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Published 09-May-2013
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Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
By Katherine Boo
Paperback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.
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Silent Spring
By Rachel Carson
Hardback
Published 29-Nov-2012
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Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the indiscriminate use of pesticides. This title describes the nests full of eggs that would never hatch, the rivers bloated with poisoned fish and the children killed by the very chemicals which had previously been lauded as miracle potions, and sprayed without reservation across the country.
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Moby-duck
By Donovan Hohn
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Published 01-Sep-2012
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Setting out on a series of journeys to track the renegade rubber ducks, Moby-Duck is an adventure into the heart of the sea through science, myth, the global economy and some of the worst weather imaginable.
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How to be Danish
By Patrick Kingsley
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Published 01-Nov-2012
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From Lego to lava lamps - via Borgen, The Killing, and the Muhammed cartoons - Patrick Kingsley takes us on a journey into the mysterious heart of Denmark.
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