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Society & culture
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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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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Why Not Socialism?
By G Cohen
Hardback
Published 23-Aug-2009
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Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? This book presents a moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.
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Bluestockings
By Jane Robinson
Paperback
Published 29-Apr-2010
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In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. This title tells the story of the fight for female education in Britain.
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Invisible
By HsiaoHung Pai
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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In this chilling expose, investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel and unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade.
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Give Me Everything You Have
By James Lasdun
Hardback
Published 14-Feb-2013
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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate. It chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled 'verbal terrorist', who began trying, in her words, to 'ruin him'.
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Righteous Mind
By Jonathan Haidt
Hardback
Published 29-Mar-2012
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Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe from you? Why is it so easy to see the flaws in others' arguments, and less in our own? This book reveals that the reason we find it so hard to get along is because our minds are designed to be moral.
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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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Silence of Animals
By John Gray
Hardback
Published 28-Feb-2013
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What happens to us when we starve, when we fight, when we are imprisoned? And how do our imaginations leap into worlds way beyond our real experience? This title is filled with images and a delight in the conundrum of our existence.
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