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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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Hardback
Published 11-Apr-2013
| RRP: | £50.00 |
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The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden has been published every year since 1864. This 149th edition covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs. Trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records make it the cricketers' bible worldwide.
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Bonfire of the Brands
By Neil Boorman
Paperback
Published 07-Aug-2008
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Average number of ads exposed to each day: 3000. Average number of ads exposed to by age of 65: 2 million. Average number of brand names memorised by a 10-year-old: 400. Worldwide advertising spend in 2006: $427 billion. This title assesses the impact of advertising on the individual.
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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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Pulphead
By John Jeremiah Sullivan
Paperback
Published 02-Aug-2012
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Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World"; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina.
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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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50 Art Ideas
By Susie Susie
Hardback
Published 29-Sep-2011
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The perfect guide to the most important ideas in art through the ages.
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Just My Type
By Simon Garfield
Paperback
Published 22-Sep-2011
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Describes how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world; why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco; the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers; and more.
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How England Made the English
By Harry Mount
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Packed with facts and stories, this book helps you to learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; and why the Midlands became the home of the British curry.
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Karl Marx
By Jonathan Sperber
Hardback
Published 03-May-2013
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Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.
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Mirage Men
By Mark Pilkington
Paperback
Published 29-Jul-2010
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Reveals the long history of UFOria and its parallels in little known tales from the murky worlds of espionage, psychological warfare and advanced military technology.
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