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People's Car
By Berhard Rieger
Hardback
Published 19-Apr-2013
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| Our price: | £16.99 |
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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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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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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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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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General
By Ahmed Errachidi
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. This title tells the Ahmed's story.
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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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30-Second Philosophies
By Barry Loewer
Hardback
Published 05-Aug-2010
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A full-colour illustrated tour through philosophy's most famous - and most mind-bending - ideas
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Raising Boys
By Steve Biddulph
Paperback
Published 03-Mar-2003
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A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys is to be re-released this month with some startling new research on what helps - and what harms - boys.
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Life Inside
By Erwin James
Paperback
Published 10-Apr-2003
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In the mid 1980s Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. Over recent years, he has written powerfully about prison life for the Guardian. James writes candidly about learning the who, what, why and when of the prison world.
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Straw Dogs
By John Gray
Paperback
Published 01-Sep-2003
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'Straw Dogs' is a radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. John Gray explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
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