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Orwell Prize-Winner Raja Shehadeh Honoured by Palestinian Prime Minister25 Jul 2008

On 9 July 2008 Profile author Raja Shehadeh was honoured by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, for both his achievements as a human rights lawyer and a writer. Raja’s most recent book, Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, an account of the author’s personal experience of the conflict in his endangered homeland over thirty years, was the winner of this years’ prestigious Orwell Prize.
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	The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. MORE

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
Sam Gosling
Does what's in your bathroom or on your desk reveal what’s on your mind? Is your choice of food or the way you sleep about to give you away? And why do handshakes display how outgoing we are more than our bedrooms? For ten years Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves, and how we form impressions of others. One of the world’s most ingenious researchers, he dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around in people’s homes and offices, and discovers that our possessions and daily lives can unexpectedly say more about us, often when the information is cleverly combined, than our most intimate conversations.
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Fixing Climate: The story of climate science – and how to stop global warming
Robert Kunzig and Wallace S. Broecker
With Broecker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth’s volatile climate history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead. Ice ages, planetary orbits, a giant ‘conveyor belt’ in the ocean … it’s a riveting story full of maverick thinkers, extraordinary discoveries and an urgent blueprint for action.
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Stonehenge Rosemary Hill This is the first book to approach Stonehenge without any theoretical position. It describes what is known and believed about the monument’s construction from c. 3000 BCE onwards. MORE

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The Concise 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
From bestselling author Robert Greene comes a new guide to the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is a guide to the subtle social game of everyday life. Based on profound and timeless lessons, it is abundantly illustrated with examples of the genius and folly of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher and Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as diplomats, captains of industry and Samurai swordsmen.
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The Game Changer: How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation
A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan
It is by making innovation an intimate, intentional part of the business that A. G. Lafley – the Jack Welch of the 21st century – has recently transformed Procter & Gamble from a $39 into a $76 billion dollar company that touches more than 3 billion people around the world. On the brink of collapse when he joined in 2000, it became a model for growth and innovation.
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Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South East Asia
Joe Studwell
40 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to gambling. 13 of the 50 richest families in the world are in South East Asia yet they are largely unknown outside confined business circles.
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Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus
Tim Hindle
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The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade
Glyn Williams
This new interpretation of Cook’s life and death by a great historian of marine exploration argues that the circumstances and reporting of his death are the key to his reputation. For many years he enjoyed unparalleled status as ‘the pride of his century’ and in the white settlements in the Pacific as ‘father of the nation’.
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Taj Mahal Giles Tillotson Giles Tillotson tells us the human drama behind the building, particularity the relationship between Shaj Jahan and his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, who lie there. He explores its reputation as a Wonder of the World over 400 years and its representation in art, and analyses the secrets of its architectural success. MORE

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Charles Campion’s London Restaurant Guide 2009
Charles Campion
Award-winning restaurant critic Charles Campion knows the best places in London for any occasion – and they’re all in this guide. Unlike other listings guides, all Campion’s 400+ restaurants have been carefully selected and all are described in detail. His reviews give colourful insights into the cooking, ambience and service, decode the menus and provide full details of prices, set meals, starters, main courses, desserts and wines.
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