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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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You Aren't What You Eat
By Steven Poole
Hardback
Published 18-Oct-2012
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An impassioned, researched and intelligent argument against the extraordinary power that celebrity chefs, food writers and restaurateurs have over our lives.
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Story of Music
By Howard Goodall
Hardback
Published 10-Jan-2013
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Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialised and complex. This title focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made sound.
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WikiLeaks
By David Leigh & Luke Harding
Paperback
Published 01-Feb-2011
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It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity.
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Swerve
By Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. This book details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.
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You Aren't What You Eat
By Steven Poole
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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An impassioned, researched and intelligent argument against the extraordinary power that celebrity chefs, food writers and restaurateurs have over our lives.
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Constellation of Genius
By Kevin Jackson
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding everything that realistic fiction and Georgian poetry held dear.
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Gin
By Lesley Jacobs Solmonson
Hardback
Published 01-May-2012
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Gin: A Global History features many enticing recipes and images from the past and present of gin. The book will entice both cocktail aficionados and students of socio-political change, as it chronicles gin's evolution from humble berry to modern alcoholic marvel.
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Alone of All Her Sex
By Marina Warner
Hardback
Published 21-Mar-2013
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A polemical study about the most powerful divine woman in the history of the world.
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Most Remarkable Woman in England
By John Carter Wood
Paperback
Published 01-Aug-2012
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