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Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom BillionMass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views - and those of our politicians - remain caught between two extremes: popular hostility to migrants, tinged by xenophobia and racism; and the view of business and liberal elites that \'open doors\' are both economically and ethically imperative. With migration set to accelerate, few issues are so urgently in need of dispassionate analysis - and few are more incendiary.Here, world-renowned economist Paul Collier seeks to defuse this explosive subject. Exodus looks at how people from the world\'s poorest societies struggle to migrate to the rich West: the effects on those left behind and on the host societies, and explores the impulses and thinking that inform Western immigration policy. Migration, he concludes, is a fact, and we urgently need to think clearly about its possibilities and challenges: it is not a question of whether migration is good or bad, but how much is best?\'Exodus is an important book and one I have been waiting to read for many years ... [it is] a work that is humane and hard-headed about one of the greatest issues of our times\' - David Goodhart, Sunday Times\'Paul Collier is one of the world\'s most thoughtful economists. His books consistently illuminate and provoke. Exodus is no exception\' - Economist\'Tinged with poignancy ... a humane and sensible voice in a highly toxic debate\' - Colin Kidd, GuardianPaul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University and a former director of Development Research at the World Bank. He is the author of, among others, the award-winning The Bottom Billion and The Plundered Planet. Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and affirms the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together. Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of V-Day, the radical grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls, inspired by Eve Ensler\'s international sensation The Vagina Monologues. This special edition features six never-before-published monologues, a new foreword by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, a new introduction by the author, and a new afterword by One Billion Rising director Monique Wilson on the stage phenomenon\'s global impact.A landmark work in women\'s empowerment, as relevant as ever after a year marked by unprecedented social and political protest in the face of unapologetic racism and misogyny, The Vagina Monologues honours women\'s sexuality in all its complexity, mystery and power. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, this award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women\'s deepest fantasies, fears, anger and pleasure, and calls for a world where all women are safe, equal, free and alive in their bodies.\'This play changed the world. Seeing it changed my soul. Performing in it changed my life\'Kerry Washington Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

\'A brave and necessary book\' GUARDIAN\'Shocking, gripping and sobering\' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNo other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and paedophile teachers are just some of the features of this elite education, and, while some children loved boarding school, others now admit to suffering life-altering psychological damage. Stiff Upper Lip exposes the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that are key to understanding the scandals over abuse and neglect in institutions all over the world.Award-winning investigative journalist Alex Renton went to three traditional boarding schools. Drawing on those experiences, and the vivid testimony of hundreds of former pupils, he has put together a compelling history, important to anyone wondering what shaped the people who run Britain in the twenty-first century. Σελίδες: 416, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0315, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

In this fascinating and often hilarious work – winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 – pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how – and why – the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy. We all want to be happy, but do we know how? When it comes to improving tomorrow at the expense of today, we\'re terrible at predicting how to please our future selves. In ‘Stumbling on Happiness’ Professor Daniel Gilbert combines psychology, neuroscience, economics and philosophy with irrepressible wit to describe how the human brain imagines its future – and how well (or badly) it predicts what it will enjoy. Revealing some of the amazing secrets of human motivation, he also answers thought-provoking questions – why do dining companions order different meals instead of getting what they want? Why are shoppers happier when they can\'t get refunds? And why are couples less satisfied after having children while insisting that their kids are a source of joy? Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

ESSEX BOYS is the brand new edition of the shocking bestseller known as SO THIS IS ECSTASY?. It is the true story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gangs of the 90\'s whose reign of terror was finally terminated when the three leaders were brutally murdered in their Range Rover one winter\'s evening. On their way they had built the drug-dealing organisation that which supplied the pill that killed Leah Betts. They were responsible for a wave of intimidation, beatings and murder. Until, it seems, they took one step too far. Now there is compelling evidence that the men convicted of shooting the dead men are innocent. Which means the real murderers are still at large. Bernard O\'Mahoney was a key member of what has been one of the most feared gangs of the decade. His inside account of their cold-blooded violence reveals that facts can be more terryfing than fiction. Σελίδες: 240, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'Beautifully written\' Rory Stewart \'Compelling\' Ian McEwan \'Engrossing\' Alan Johnson \'Essential\' Robert Peston *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united in its belief in a two-party state. Now, with nationalism resurgent and mainstream parties in turmoil, stark new divisions define the country and the centre ground is deserted.Nick Clegg witnessed this change from the inside. Here he offers a frank account of his experiences and puts the case for a new politics based on reason and compromise.He writes candidly about the tense stand-offs within government and the decision to enter coalition with the Conservatives in the first place. He also lifts the lid on the arcane worlds of Westminster and Brussels, the vested interests that suffocate reform, as well as the achievements his party made despite them.Whatever your political persuasion, if you wish to understand politics in Britain today you cannot afford to ignore this book. Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

The chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial gives his account of the case after more than four decades of silenceDespite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial, David Smith was vilified by the public due to the accusations thrown at him by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady about his involvement in their crimes. Hindley\'s later confession that she and Brady had lied in an attempt to reduce their sentences did little to diminish the slurs against his name. For over four decades, Smith was asked by writers and film-makers to tell his story. Apart from a handful of brief interviews, he always refused. Carol Ann Lee met Smith during her research for One of Your Own, her critically acclaimed biography of Hindley, following which he finally agreed to reveal all. In Evil Relations (previously published as Witness), interviews, archival research and, most significantly, David Smith\'s own vivid memoir are fused to create an unforgettable, often harrowing account of his life before, during and after the Moors Murders.David Smith lived in rural Ireland with his wife prior to his death in May 2012. He is survived by four children and several grandchildren. Carol Ann Lee is an acclaimed biographer and has written extensively on the Holocaust. Her most recent publication, One of Your Own, focused on the life and death of Myra Hindley. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations-and by individuals-to solve problems and save lives both \'down the street and around the world\'. Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, \'regardless of income, available time, age, and skills\', can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams.Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we as individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important.Bill Clinton\'s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving. Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently\' Matt Haig\'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagine how BRILLIANT our country would look if he was\' Caitlin MoranGrayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone?What would happen if we rethought the old, macho, outdated version of manhood, and embraced a different idea of what makes a man? Apart from giving up the coronary-inducing stress of always being \'right\' and the vast new wardrobe options, the real benefit might be that a newly fitted masculinity will allow men to have better relationships - and that\'s happiness, right?Grayson Perry admits he\'s not immune from the stereotypes himself - as the psychoanalysts say, \'if you spot it, you\'ve got it\' - and his thoughts on everything from power to physical appearance, from emotions to a brand new Manifesto for Men, are shot through with honesty, tenderness and the belief that, for everyone to benefit, upgrading masculinity has to be something men decide to do themselves. They have nothing to lose but their hang-ups. Σελίδες: 160, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It’s a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parent’s reaction – good riddance – speaks volumes. Casey’s hackles are immediately up for this poor child. Spencer is the middle child of four siblings. His parents claim all their other kids are ‘normal’ and that Spencer was born ‘vicious and evil’. Casey and her family are disgusted – kids aren’t born evil, they get damaged. Although when vigilante neighbours start to take action and their landlord threatens eviction, Casey is stretched to the limits, trying desperately to hold on to this boy who causes so much pain and destruction. Casey is determined to try and understand what Spencer is going through and help him find the loving home he is so desperately searching for. But it’s only when Spencer’s mother gets in touch with social services for the first time that gradually everything starts to make sense. Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned, personal critique of the British legal system. Helena Kennedy focuses on the treatment of women in our courts - at the prejudices of judges, the misconceptions of jurors, the labyrinths of court procedures and the influence of the media. But the inequities she uncovers could apply equally to any disadvantaged group - to those whose cases are subtly affected by race, class poverty or politics, or who are burdened, even before they appear in court, by misleading stereotypes. Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Cutting through the myths about the white market, Tome Feiling\'s The Candy Machine is the story of cocaine as it\'s never been told before.Gabrielle unwinds at weekends with a line of coke - and also works for a major police force. Juan Pablo is a drugs mule in Bogotá who gets his stash from a sweathouse. Belica started picking coca when she was eleven. Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore, thinks legalization\'s the only way ... Cocaine is big business. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it\'s now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medellín hitmen, US kingpins, British crack users and Brazilian traffickers, and talks to the soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs. \'An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine\'  Financial Times \'The Candy Machine is highly addictive\'  Metro \'It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling\'s future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. A vivid, argumentative, arresting book\'   Sunday Telegraph \'I\'ve read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them\'   Evening Standard Tom Feiling is an award-winning documentary film-maker. He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC\'s Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. His book Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the new Colombia is published by Allen Lane. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

When veteran law-enforcement officer and lifelong motorcycle lover William Queen penetrated the San Fernando chapter of the notorious Mongols, he was at the mercy of psychopaths who sought to have him prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling and doing drugs to arms trafficking, driving getaway cars and, in one shocking instance, stitching up the face of a Mongol \'ol\' lady\' after a brutal beating at the hands of her boyfriend. Yet despite the constant criminality of the gang, Queen came to see the genuine camaraderie they shared. When his lengthy undercover work totally isolated Queen from his relatives and friends, the Mongols felt like the only family he had left. Under and Alone is a breathless, adrenalin-charged read that puts you on the street with some of the most dangerous men in America. Σελίδες: 288, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Now with more than three million copies sold, Oscar-winning filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore\'s bestseller Stupid White Men tells you everything you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. It reveals - among other things - how \'President\' Bush stole an election aided only by his brother, cousin and dad\'s cronies, electoral fraud and tame judges; how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us to live in economic fear; and how politicians have whored themselves to big business. Whether he\'s calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites-only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Michael Moore\'s Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity. A hilarious must-read for anyone who wants to know what the con is and how \'they\' get away with it, Stupid White Men is only available uncensored because public pressure forced the original publishers to publish a book they felt was too hot to handle. Now it\'s time to find out why. \'A really great, hilarious, rollicking, fantastic read\'  Newsnight Review \'Caustic, breakneck, tell-it-like-it-is ... He\'s a genuine populist; a twenty-first-century pamphleteer\'  Observer \'Furious and funny. A great book\'  Time Out \'Hysterically funny. The angrier Moore gets, the funnier he gets. Sensational\'  San Francisco Chronicle Author of international bestsellers Stupid White Men and Dude, Where\'s My Country, Michael Moore\'s 2002 film Bowling for Columbine won the Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary. His 2004 film Fahrenheit 9-11 won the 2004 Palme d\'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Released in 2007, Moore\'s documentary Sicko, focused on the American healthcare system, was nominated for an Oscar. Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

‘Extraordinary’ Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, ‘masculine’ when she should be ‘feminine’. Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules. Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical unconventionality saw them defy the odds to forge their own paths. From the notorious cross-dressing thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to rebel slave Mary Prince and adventurer, industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these diverse characters redefined what a woman could be and what she could do in pre-twentieth-century Britain. Bold, inspiring and powerfully written, Roaring Girls tells the electrifying histories of women who, despite every effort to suppress them, dared to be extraordinary. Σελίδες: 480, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

‘Stuart does not like the manuscript. He’s after a bestseller, “like what Tom Clancy writes”. “But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs,” I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.’ This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer (‘a middle-class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander’), and Stuart Shorter, a homeless, knife-wielding thief. Told backwards – Stuart’s idea – it starts with a deeply troubled thirty-two-year-old and ends with a ‘happy-go-lucky little boy’ of twelve. This brilliant biography, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, presents a humbling portrait of homeless life, and is as extraordinary and unexpected as the man it describes. Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love\' Peter WildebloodIn March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free after turning Queen\'s Evidence.Against the Law tells the story of Wildeblood\'s childhood and schooldays, his war service, his career as a journalist, his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and finally his return to freedom. In its honesty and restraint it is eloquent testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of gay men in Britain within living memory. Σελίδες: 208, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1126, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Clapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering comeback; with the aim of shutting. it. down.___________In order to have an honest and open conversation about race, we need to identify areas where things are not right. The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling Out Racist Stereotypes examines the evolution of the negative stereotypes towards the black community and arms you with the tools to shut them down once and for all. Taking readers on a journey through history, and providing facts and detailed research, this is an eye-opening and refreshing look at race and language. With a light-hearted, razor sharp wit and a refreshing honesty, The Clapback is the handbook the world needs - dishing out the hard truths and providing a road map for bringing some \'act right\' into our everyday lives.It\'s time to Clapback. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0123, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING UZO ADUBA AND MATTHEW BRODERICK \'This is the book that started it all. Barry Meier is a heroic reporter and Pain Killer is a muckraking classic\'Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain Every catastrophe has a beginning. For the opioid crisis in America, the seed was a drug called OxyContin.First hailed as a miracle drug for severe pain in the early 1990s, OxyContin went on to ignite a plague of addiction and death across America, fuelled by the aggressive marketing of its maker, Purdue Pharma and the billionaire Sackler brothers who owned the company.Investigative journalist Barry Meier was the first to write about the elusive Sackler family, their role in this catastrophic epidemic and the army of local doctors, law enforcement and worried parents that tried to bring them down. Σελίδες: 240, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1029, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

*CATCH THE TV ADAPTATION OF SHRILL ON BBC3 NOW*\'Women are told, from birth, that it\'s our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We\'re supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry. I want to obliterate that expectation...\'Guardian columnist Lindy West wasn\'t always loud. It\'s difficult to believe she was once a nerdy, overweight teen who wanted nothing more than to be invisible. Fortunately for women everywhere, along the road she found her voice - and how she found it! That cripplingly shy girl who refused to make a sound, somehow grew up to be one of the loudest, shrillest, most fearless feminazis on the internet, making a living standing up for what\'s right instead of what\'s cool.In Shrill, Lindy recounts how she went from being the butt of people\'s jokes, to telling her own brand of jokes - ones that carry with them with a serious message and aren\'t at someone else\'s expense. She reveals the obstacles and stereotyping she\'s had to overcome to make herself heard, in a society that doesn\'t think women (especially fat women and feminists) are or can be funny. She also tackles some of the most burning issues of popular culture today, taking a frank and provocative look at racism, oppression, fat-shaming, twitter-trolling and even rape culture, unpicking the bullshit and calling out unpalatable truths with conviction, intelligence and a large dose of her trademark black humour.\'Lindy West is an essential (and hilarious) voice for women. Her talent and bravery have made the Internet a place I actually want to be.\' Lena Dunham Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0309, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography\' Daily Express\'I\'ve turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,\' said the Sergeant. \'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they\'ve got brains and common sense.\'No two days were ever the same for bobby-on-the-beat Martyn Johnson. Come rain or come shine, he patrolled his patch with a sharp eye for troublemakers and a kind word for those in need of a friend. Whether he was pursuing unlikely coal thieves, tracking down peacocks gone AWOL or investigating mysterious flying saucers over Sheffield, PC Johnson faced every new challenge with a smile and a healthy dose of his copper\'s common sense. In his charming and funny memoir, Martyn Johnson recalls the rogues, cheats and scoundrels - as well as the many friends - who made his life on the beat so unforgettable. Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1025, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama recounts an emotional odyssey, retracing the migration of his mother\'s family from Kansas to Hawai\'i, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father\'s life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Written nearly fifteen years before becoming president, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama\'s journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history and what makes us who we are. Σελίδες: 464, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm.Hell\'s Prisoner is the powerful story of one man\'s battle to survive in some of the world\'s cruellest and most inhumane prisons. Christopher Parnell, wrongly accused of drug trafficking, found himself catapulted into the maelstrom of madness and degradation that exists within Indonesian jails. Surrounded by murderers and sadistic, violent criminals, he soon learned that life can be as cheap as a bowl of rice or a cigarette.During his imprisonment, Parnell was subjected to unthinkable sessions of torture, both physical and psychological. Left to starve and fight every day for his survival, he was forced to eat everything from cockroaches to human flesh.This is an incredible tale of fatalism and bureaucracy, of corruption and the horrors of prison, but most of all it is a no-holds-barred account of what the human spirit can endure. Σελίδες: 240, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

‘Determination, grit and humour shine through’ Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat – female journalists – are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands, often risking their lives on the front lines of war.Here, nineteen of these women tell us, in their own words, about what it’s like to report on conflicts that (quite literally) hit close to home. Their daring and heartfelt stories, told here for the first time, shatter stereotypes about the region’s women and provide an urgently needed perspective on a part of the world that is frequently misunderstood.With a foreword by CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour.INCLUDING ESSAYS BY: Donna Abu-Nasr, Aida Alami, Hannah Allam, Jane Arraf, Lina Attalah, Nada Bakri, Shamael Elnoor, Zaina Erhaim, Asmaa al-Ghoul, Hind Hassan, Eman Helal, Zeina Karam, Roula Khalaf, Nour Malas, Hwaida Saad, Amira Al-Sharif, Heba Shibani, Lina Sinjab, and Natacha Yazbeck Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.In 1996 Roger Deakin set out to swim the British Isles. He swam in the sea, in rivers, in streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools, fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts, waterfalls, flooded quarries and even canals. This funny, wise, delightful book documents his journey. It inspired a movement, creating wild swimmers out of many readers.Detained by water bailiffs in Winchester, intercepted in the Fowey estuary by coastguards, mistaken for a suicide on Camber sands, confronting the Corryvreckan whirlpool in the Hebrides, Deakin discovered just how much of an outsider the native swimmer is to his landlocked, fully-dressed fellow citizens.Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer\'s right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.INTRODUCED BY OLIVIA LAING\'A delicious, cleansing, funny, wise and joyful book, so wonderfully full of energy and life’ Jane Gardam\'\'Roger Deakin is the perfect companion for an invigorating armchair swim\' Daily Telegraph Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals. Discover Jonathan Safran Foer\'s eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat.\'Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you\' Time OutEating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good.Whether you\'re flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book.From the bestselling author of the essential book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the Weather.\'Shocking, incandescent, brilliant\' The Times\'Everyone who eats flesh should read this book\' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall\'Universally compelling. Jonathan Safran Foer\'s book changed me\' Natalie Portman\'Gripping [and] original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals\' Times Literary Supplement\'If you eat meat and fish, you should read this book. Even if you don\'t, you should. It might bring the beginning of a change of heart about all living things\' Joanna Lumley Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett\'s The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: How almost everything - from life expectancy to mental illness, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it isThat societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them - including the well-off How we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world. \'A big idea, big enough to change political thinking\' - Guardian \'A remarkable new book ... the implications are profound\' - Will Hutton, Observer \'The evidence is hard to dispute\' - EconomistRichard Wilkinson studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. Her work with Richard Wilkinson on The Spirit Level was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year 2009 by the Times Higher Education Supplement, and their book was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman. Σελίδες: 400, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER\'Fantastic, timely, eye-opening\' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year\'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening\' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the YearBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds, and the vested interests that bind them together, Jones shows how, in claiming to work on our behalf, the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite. In fact, they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today - and it is time they were challenged.\'A book of revelations ... The Establishment have stitched it up - stitched you up - and they know it\' Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education Supplement\'A dissection of the profoundly and sickeningly corrupt state that is present-day Britain. He is a fine writer, and this is a truly necessary book\' Philip Pullman\'Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our times\' David Kynaston, The Times Literary Supplement \'You will be enlightened and angry\' Irvine Welsh Σελίδες: 384, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Dana Thomas\'s Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre goes deep inside the workings of today\'s world of profit margins and market share to discover the real meaning of \'luxury\'. Fashion may be fabulous, but what\'s the true price of luxury? From the importance of fashion owners, to red carpet stars and the seasonal \'must-have\' handbags, Dana Thomas shows how far illustrious houses have moved from their roots. Thomas witnesses how these \'luxury\' handbags are no longer one in a million, discovers why luxury brand clothing doesn\'t last as long, and finds out just who is making your perfume. From terrifying raids on the Chinese sweat shops to the daunting chic of Paris workshops, from the handcrafting and economics of early-twentieth century designers to the violent truth behind the \'harmless\' fakes, Deluxe goes deep into the world of extravagance, and asks: where can true luxury go now? \'Definitive\'  Daily Telegraph \'Thomas\'s message is relevant to shoppers of every stripe\'  The New York Times \'Thomas explores what luxury meant before the word was both inflated and devalued\'  Guardian \'Great aversion therapy ... we suspect we\'re being fleeced, but we don\'t know with what cynical dedication\'  The Times Dana Thomas is now European Editor for Portfolio following twelve years as the cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris. She has written about style for the New York Times Magazine since 1994, and has contributed to various publications including the New Yorker, Harper\'s Bazaar, Vogue and the Financial Times. Σελίδες: 384, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.The authors are concerned to present an analysis of knowledge in everyday life in the context of a theory of society as a dialectical process between objective and subjective reality. Their development of a theory of institutions, legitimations and socializations has implications beyond the discipline of sociology, and their ‘humanistic’ approach has considerable relevance for other social scientists, historians, philosophers and anthropologists. Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we must develop new forms of secular, civic ritual that make us more skilful in living with others. From Medieval guilds to today\'s social networks, Richard Sennett\'s visionary book explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened. Σελίδες: 336, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

AN IMPOSSBLE CHOICEJorge Salcedo was trapped. For years, he had climbed the ladder inside the Cali drug cartel, the world\'s most powerful crime syndicate, and risen to Head of Security. But he\'d kept clean, avoided the dirty work, managed to sleep at night. Until now. He\'d finally received the order he\'d long dreaded, and it meant one thing: kill or be killed. THE HARD WAYSalcedo was a family man, a man with a conscience, a father - he was no cold-blooded murderer. He was left with the last resort. It meant risking his life, his family\'s life, and the lives of everyone he cared for. He would have to take the whole syndicate down. It was the price to pay for salvation.WOULD YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO SAVE YOUR SOUL? Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag\'s searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror.\'A coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering\' The New York TimesWhat is the purpose of images of pain and suffering? Can there be any real justification for the creation, and consumption, of such images?In this seminal volume, Susan Sontag examines the uses and meanings of images, from inspiring dissent to fostering violence to creating apathy. And through this lens she considers the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.\'A far-reaching set of ruminations [...] on what it means to be alive and alert in the twenty-first century\' Independent\'Sontag is on top form: devastating\' Los Angeles Times\'Simple, elegant, fiercely persuasive\' Metro Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

After ten years with the Metropolitan Police, Mike has returned to his North Yorkshire roots. Working a rural beat in God\'s Own Country he finds that life and crime in the countryside continue to throw up fresh challenges.When a drug dealer targets the towns and villages of Ryedale, Mike launches an investigation that will uncover nationwide connections. News of a proposed ban on hunting with dogs raises hackles amongst his friends and contacts, threatening to put him in the firing line. And, as he starts working towards his sergeant\'s exams, there\'s trouble on the home front. The roof at Keeper\'s Cottage springs a leak during a thunderstorm - and they have to share their love-nest with the builder.But none of this matches the drama of the anti-hunt demo which threatens to stop a train bringing a local MP to town. With horseman racing alongside the steam engine, and a protester lying on the tracks, Mike has to call on all his resources to handle an inflammatory situation with the media looking on. Σελίδες: 400, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0612, Διαστάσεις: 13.1x13.1cm

We are all caught up in our children\'s lives. We all remember our own schooldays and, as parents, we watch anxiously as our children go through it. As we look at the world of teaching from the outside we wonder not only what is going on but what we can do to help. Jonathan Smith, a born teacher and writer, takes us on his personal journey from his first days as a pupil through to the challenges of his professional and private life on the other side of the desk. He makes us feels what it is like to be a teacher facing the joys and the battles of a class. How do you influence a child? He describes how you catch and stretch their minds. What difference can a teacher make, or how much damage can he do? Should clever pupils teach themselves? What works in the classroom world and what does not? And while influencing the young, how do you develop yourself, how do you teach yourself to keep another life and find that elusive balance? This is a compelling and combative story, warmly anecdotal in approach, yet as sharp in its views of the current debates as it is sensitive in its psychological understanding. From the first page to the last, and without a hint of jargon, this inspiring book rings true. Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0327, Διαστάσεις: 12.4x12.4cm