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The Measure of Civilisation
Ian Morris
A unique insight into the index of social development that measures change in East and West - and ...
InWhy the West Rules - For NowIan Morris argues that to understand the development of East and West, we need to look beyond'long-term lock-in'theories (that suggest it was inevitable) and'short-term accident'theories. Instead, we need to measure ...
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Up Pohnpei
Paul Watson
Penguins Stopped PlaymeetsCool Runningsin this hilarious and uplifting true story of footballing ...
After one too many late night discussions, football journalist Paul Watson and his mate Matthew Conrad decide to find the world's worst national team, become naturalised citizens of that country and play for them - achieving their joint boyhood dream...
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Turned Out Nice Again
Richard Mabey
An exploration of our preoccupation with the weather, as heard on BBC Radio 3:Changing Climates.
In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists'...
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Gone to the Forest
Katie Kitamura
A gripping and psychologically intense novel about the destruction of a family, a farm, and a way ...
Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of international literature's rising young stars weaves a brilliant tale of family drama and political turmoil.Since his mother's death ten years earlier, Tom ...
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Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Aprovocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing ...
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012.Why are some nations more prosperous than others?Why Nations Failsets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to ...
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Invisible Romans
Robert C. Knapp
Rome's invisible inhabitants - prostitutes, innkeepers, housewives, priests, freedmen, slaves, ...
Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace ...
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Enterprise Rules
Don Young
The tried-and-tested rules so many business have lost sight of that determine lasting success - and ...
The messages ofEnterprise Rulesare hugely important. Organisations that manage to provide meaning to employees, satisfaction to customers and a net contribution to society can expect to prosper in the long term. This has been known for a long time, ever since the great...
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The Economist Guide to Project Management (2nd Edition)
Paul Roberts
How to make sure that projects run to budget and schedule - and deliver the intended results.
From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device that resulted in all the pictures it took being blurred to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of example of projects that damaged organisations because they were ...
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The Economist Guide to Project Management (2nd Edition)
Paul Roberts
How to make sure that projects run to budget and schedule - and deliver the intended results.
From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device that resulted in all the pictures it took being blurred, to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of example of projects that damaged organisations because they were ...
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Lost Memory of Skin
Russell Banks
A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer.
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere ...
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What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?
Tony Juniper
The true value of ecosystems to world economies.
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the'natural services'that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated ...
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Underground, Overground
Andrew Martin
Paperback published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground
Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line?The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and ...
