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America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. This book destroys many popular myths about... Read More »

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Helene Hanff's true story of her twenty year correspondence with London bookseller, Frank Doel, is a charming and bittersweet tale of two people united by a love of books. From her apartment in New York, Helene sends Frank her 'wishlist' of first editions and is delighted to receive such quietly efficient service. As... Read More »

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Pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Siege of Paris; horses and mules struggling through miles of fetid mud to bring ammunition to the front in the Great War; dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force in the Second World War - countless brave animals have played their part... Read More »

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The Art of Cheating is a comprehensive guide to cheating in just about every way imaginable, from corporate fraud to lying about your age to get a date. With deadpan delivery and dry wit, we are instructed on how to get away with the most useful cheats in our day and age, and provided with tips and guidelines for protecting... Read More »

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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he... Read More »

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We are constantly bombarded with inaccurate, contradictory and sometimes misleading information-until now. Ben Goldacre masterfully dismantles the dubious science behind some of the great drug trials, court cases and missed opportunities of our time. He also shows us the fascinating story of how we know what we know, and... Read More »

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From his Cornish boyhood, Rory recounts his life of birdwatching, observing his first skylark while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his mate Danny in the ways of birding. Rory's tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical... Read More »

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A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three characteristics: it is unpredictable; it has massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a Black Swan; so was 9/11. And why do we always ignore... Read More »

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For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan defied the authorities - whether Communist or Taliban - and supplied books to the people of Kabul. He was imprisoned by the Communists and had to stand by and watch as illiterate Taliban soldiers burned his books in the street. Award winning journalist Åsne Seierstad spent four... Read More »

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Cheating in casinos is illegal; card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. But casinos understandably dislike the practice and make every effort to keep card-counters out of their premises, banning them and using... Read More »

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Dave Pelzer was brutally abused as a child by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She considered him a slave - no longer a boy, but an "it". He was physically and mentally tortured and starved. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare he experienced behind closed doors, and his father was aware of the abuse... Read More »

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"Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In Dark Star Safari, Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most beautiful - and often... Read More »

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On 23 November 2006, Alexander Litvinenko died, apparently from radiation poisoning. In a dramatic statement from his deathbed, he accused his former employers at the Kremlin of being responsible for his murder. Who was Alexander Litvinenko? What had happened in Russia since the end of the Cold War to make his life there... Read More »

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For years, economist Robert Frank has been encouraging his students to use economics to explain the situations they encounter in everyday life, from peculiar product design to the vagaries of sex appeal. Now he shares the most intriguing questions and the economic principles that answer them to reveal why many of the most... Read More »

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This is the story of Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs - of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who fell in love with them. It's a story of meticulous craftsmanship and unimaginable wealth, of lucky escapes and mysterious disappearances, and ultimately of greed... Read More »

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For more than thirty years, Peter Sallis has played Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine, the world's longest-running sitcom. With his dry, cynical wit and cautious nature, Clegg has been taken to the hearts of the nation. Now the man behind this creation, and the voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit, is telling his... Read More »

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What is fashion? Who decides what's in and what's out? Is the catwalk really that catty? What makes a supermodel so super? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who? And who's in each other's pockets? Exquisitely cut and gorgeously detailed, Fashion Babylon takes you through six months in a designer's life. It... Read More »

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"Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession." When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working... Read More »

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A setback can change the course of your life. But why should the change be a negative one? Challenges and obstacles are part of life - while some wilt under pressure, others rise to the occasion. Could it be there is a method for overcoming adversity and turning failure into success? The flipside is the hidden opportunity... Read More »

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In 1901 Josef Fischer discovered the Waldseemüller Map of 1507 - the first map to depict the world largely as we know it today. In 2003 the Library of Congress bought the Waldseemüller Map for $10 million in the most expensive acquisition of a single document in American history. The Fourth Part of the World tells the epic... Read More »

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It's not easy cycling the Tour de France. Battling it out with old men on butchers' bikes and pursued by cattle, Tim Moore soon finds himself resorting to narcotic assistance and systematic overeating. Accounts of his suffering and chicanery, and those encountered in the race's history, are interwoven through a look at... Read More »

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Popular scientist Matt Ridley's renowned as much for readability as for learning. Following the succes of The Red Queen and The Origins Of Virtue, Genome is a Sunday Times Top Tet Bestseller and a Guardian Book of the Year. Genome unravels the secrets of human nature without the usual reams of technical jargon. It shows... Read More »

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As the author of many classic works on science and philosophy, Richard Dawkins has always asserted the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm it has inflicted on society. He now turns his fierce intellect exclusively on to this subject denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. While Europe is... Read More »

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The Blair administration’s pursuit of a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland stands out as one of the great achievements in modern British politics. Even after the initial moves towards a peace, there was every chance that long-nursed grievances would break out again into paramilitary extremism. That they did not is a... Read More »

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Fired by a long enthusiasm for all things Greek, Edward Enfield mounts his trusty Raleigh to follow in the tracks of such notable travellers as Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Lear and Lord Byron. His journey is set against the great panorama of Greek history and fuelled by fresh fish suppers and a plentiful supply of Retsina... Read More »