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Tim Harford
[Paperback 2007]
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A fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, from who makes money from fair trade to why it is impossible to buy a decent second hand car. A fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to... more
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Nelson Mandela
[Paperback 2010]
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New edition of the bestselling Mandela biography, which has now been split into two volumes, in order to make it more accessible to younger readers and break into the schools market. Illus. Part 2 of this two-volume edition, published to appeal to a younger audience. Subtitled }The Triumph of Hope{.... more
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David Bodanis
[Hardbound 2007]
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The thrilling history of the turbulent love affair that fired the Enlightenment's intellectual revolution, between Emile du Chatelet and Voltaire. '...pays fresh tribute to a remarkable woman' }Sunday Telegraph{... more
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Dennis Lehane
[Paperback 2012]
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Acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling author Dennis Lehane delivers an explosive tale of integrity and vengeance--heralding the long-awaited return of private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's... more
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Alexander Mc Call Smith
[Paperback 2005, 2nd Edition]
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A change of scenery for this brand new series from the creator of the all conquering }No.1 Ladies' Detecive Agency{ series. Again the protagonist is an amateur female sleuth, but Isabel Dalhousie, a philosopher by trade, treads the corrupt pavements of Edinburgh rather than the dirt tracks of Botswana. A... more
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Ruth Padel
[Paperback 2006]
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After a terrible year, the end of a five-year affair and the death of her father, Ruth Padel wants out from normal life and happens across an advert for a trip to India. She visits a tiger reserve - and so begins a remarkable journey and an obsession. She travels... more
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Malcolm Gladwell
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-The Tipping Point- is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple: that many of the problems we face - from murder to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren-t linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to... more
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Jane Gardam
[Paperback 2011]
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A portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the 50-year union of two remarkable people, "The Man in the Wooden Hat" is fiction of a very high order from the author of "Old Filth." Companion volume to }Old Filth{, written from the perspective of... more
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Gregory David Roberts
[Paperback 2008]
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In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum-security prison, spending the next ten years on the run as... more
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Domingo Villar
[Paperback 2012]
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One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a suicide. But details... more
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Sheena Iyengar
[Paperback 2011]
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Every day people make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Iyengar's award-winning research reveals that the reasons for people's choices are surprising and profound. Every day people make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or... more
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Tim Harford
[Paperback 2012]
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When faced with complex problems, we have all become accustomed to looking to our leaders to set out a plan of action, to blaze a path to success. In this groundbreaking book, Harford shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. Everything... more
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Michael Thomas L Mandelbaum Friedman
[Paperback 2012]
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About the Book : America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic... more
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Carl Sagan
[Paperback 1983]
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The best-selling science book ever published in the England language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way. New edition.... more
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Chang Rae Lee
[Paperback 2010]
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June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty years after her escape from war-ravaged Korea, the... more
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Will Hutton
[Paperback 2011]
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The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. This book sets out to... more
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Christopher Brookmyre
[Paperback 2012]
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Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do can't-miss-whodunit. It's a lesson that has served her well, but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it,... more
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Beryl Bainbridge
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin... more
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Alex James
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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This is the story of Alex James??s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his... more
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Alexander Mc Call Smith
[Paperback 2012]
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One of Phuti Radiphuti's apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi to help the couple work things out. In this latest installment in the charming, bestselling series, Precious Ramotswe faces two confounding... more
