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Selective Memory
By Katharine Whitehorn
Paperback
Published 07-Aug-2008
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* Now out in paperback, the successful autobiography from the famous and well-loved columnist and author of COOKING IN A BEDSITTER comes her autobiography. Witty and brilliant, these are frank and funny tales
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Def Jam Recordings
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Published 20-Sep-2011
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Uses of Literacy
By Richard Hoggart
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Published 01-Oct-2009
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When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? This book asks these questions.
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Carine Roitfeld
By Carine Roitfeld
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Published 05-Oct-2011
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Mad Women
By Jane Maas
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Published 01-Mar-2012
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Did people really have sex in the office? Did they actually drink martinis at 11am? And what was it really like for women working on Madison Avenue in the 1960s? This title provides answers to all these questions. It deals with the tougher issues of the era, such as equal pay, jaw-dropping sexism, and more.
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Hello Everybody!
By Joris Luyendijk
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Published 27-May-2010
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Featuring the story of author's five years as a reporter in the Middle East, this title alerts us of the way the media gives us a filtered and manipulated version of reality in the Middle East.
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Powers of Persuasion
By Winston Fletcher
Hardback
Published 10-Jul-2008
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During much of the second half of the 20th century advertising in Britain led the world. Powers of Persuasion tells the story of this dynamic, exhilarating era, with pen portraits of the personalities involved, anecdotes, and case histories - written from the inside by one of the industry's leaders and best-known commentators.
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We Saw Spain Die
By Paul Preston
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Published 28-May-2009
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A study of how the war correspondent came of age. It examines the problems - political, professional and personal, faced by some of the century's greatest war correspondents both within Spain and also in America, Britain, France and Russia. It throws light not just on the Spanish Civil War but also on internal politics within all those countries.
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American Radical
By D D Guttenplan
Hardback
Published 04-Apr-2011
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Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist. Fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars. Enterprising, independent reporter and avid amateur classicist. As D.D. Guttenplan puts it in his compelling book, I.F. Stone did what few in his profession could-he always thought for himself.
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Digital Wars
By Charles Arthur
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Published 03-Mar-2012
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Which of Apple, Google and Microsoft had an office with a "drawer of broken dreams" - and what (real) objects lay inside it? This title examines their different strategies to try to win the battle to control the exploding network connecting the world.
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