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Slavery Inc.

By Lydia Cacho

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Published 06-Sep-2012


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A powerful, brave and uncompromising investigation into the global underground world of sex trafficking from one of the world's most influential campaigners against sexual exploitation.


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Millions Like Us

By Virginia Nicholson

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Published 15-Mar-2012


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We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells the story of the women's Second World War.


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Philosophical Life

By James Miller

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Published 01-Feb-2012


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Learn how to live from history's grweatest thinkers


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How England Made the English

By Harry Mount

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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

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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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Reason for God

By Timothy Keller

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Published 17-Sep-2009


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An intelligent, intellectually rigorous examination of why the Christian faith still makes sense in an age of scepticism


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Public Woman

By Joan Smith

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Published 07-May-2013


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How are women supposed to make sense of the world today? Women have never had more freedom - yet questions of inequality persist from the bedroom to the boardroom. A quarter of a century after the publication of her seminal text, Misogynies, Joan Smith looks at what women have achieved - and the price they've paid for it.


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Glasgow: The Real Mean City

By Malcolm Archibald

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Published 11-Apr-2013


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There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from stealing a ship to singing a seditious song, but nineteenth century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. This book chronicles the century long struggle of the forces of law and order to bring peace to a troubled city.


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Justice

By Michael Sandel

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Published 25-Feb-2010


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Is it always wrong to lie? Should there be limits to personal freedom? Can killing sometimes be justified? Is the free market fair? What is the right thing to do? This title invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection, and shows how reasoned debate can illuminate our lives.


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Amexica

By Ed Vulliamy

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Published 06-Oct-2011


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Amexica - the area of land that forms the border between the US and Mexico - is both the busiest and most deadly frontier in the world, studded with guard-posts, infra-red searchlights and heavily armed patrols. This title explores the author's own love-hate relationship with the place and its people.


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