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Girl Trouble
By Carol Dyhouse
Paperback
Published 14-Mar-2013
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The history of young women is a history of trouble. This title takes a look at the anxieties, horror stories and moral unease that have accompanied changes in girls' lives since Victorian times. It shows the importance of disentangling panic from progress if we are to understand the true story of twentieth century girls.
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How to Read a Graveyard
By Peter Stanford
Hardback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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Clampdown
By Rhian Jones
Paperback
Published 29-Mar-2013
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Political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding 'chavs', has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. This book charts the progress of this cultural clampdown.
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Invention of the Jewish People
By Shlomo Sand
Paperback
Published 24-May-2010
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Shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the 19th century, rather than in biblical times when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation. This book demonstrates the construction of a nationalist myth and the collective mystification that this requires.
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Shadow Lives
By Victoria Brittain
Paperback
Published 06-Feb-2013
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Reveals the impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison in Britain and the US, during the 'war on terror'.
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Leaving Alexandria
By Richard Holloway
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow.
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Flappers
By Judith Mackrell
Hardback
Published 23-May-2013
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A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s
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Heaven on Earth
By Sadakat Kadri
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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Offers a critique of extremism that is human rights-based and entertaining - combining the comparative approach of Karen Armstrong and the immediacy of Ed Husain ("The Islamist") with storytelling. This book goes beyond the explosive headline issues to reveal the stranger ones: genie exorcisms; and the legal consequences of premature ejaculation.
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New Digital Age
By Eric Schmidt
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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The must-read book for anyone concerned about the present and the future
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Mod
By Richard Weight
Hardback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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Tells the story of Britain's biggest and most influential youth cult. This title charts the origins of Mod in the Soho jazz scene of the 1950s, set to the cool sounds of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. It explores Mod's heyday in Swinging London in the mid-60s.
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