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  • Kamran Nazeer Send in the idiots

    "When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates...

    Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Kate Colquhoun Taste

    "From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and...

    Engels | 480 pagina's (6,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Rosie Boycott Spotted pigs and green tomatoes

    "Small farm in Somerset proves a daunting task, but Rosie and her new husband Charlie are determined, and their immersion in rural living, hilarious and profoundly moving, reaps rewards they never expected. Pigs, ducks and geese are fattened for the butcher; vegetables and cut flowers are grown for a reluctant marketplace; and Rosie and Charlie discover much about the hard graft of running a smallholding. They learn too about weightier issues that affect the local community of Ilminster - particularly...

    Engels | 320 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Paul Gilding The great disruption

    "It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The `Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's...

    Engels | 304 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Nic Dunlop The lost executioner

    "Police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 of them. Twenty years later, not one member of the Khmer Rouge had been held accountable for what had happened, and Comrade Duch had disappeared. Photographer Nic Dunlop became obsessed with the idea of finding Duch, and shedding light on a secret and brutal world that had been sealed off to outsiders. Then, by chance, he came face to face with him... The Lost Executioner describes Dunlop's personal journey to the heart of the...

    Engels | 352 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Natasha Joffe | Justine Roberts Why did nobody tell me?

    "Do `milestones' feel like millstones? Does the thought ofwaiting at the school gate make you more nervous than yourfive-year-old? Do you find yourself sometimes tempted to just let your childrenfight to the death? And does flicking through childcare books leave you feelingmostly bewildered and blamed? Then TheMumsnet Rules are what you have been waiting for...Drawn from the message boards of mumsnet.com and based onthe assumption that if thousands of parents have found a piece of advice to behelpful...

    Engels | 416 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Harry Patch | Richard van Emden The last fighting Tommy

    "Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he...

    Engels | 256 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Deborah Jackson Three in a bed

    "Parents benefit by getting virtually a full night's sleep.;The author explains the advantages of this radical form of baby care, including its benefits for breastfeeding mothers, reviews the history of babies in the bed and, through interviews with parents, explores attitudes to the idea. The book also contains a fresh perspective on the tragedy of cot death, as well as practical advice on how to sustain your sex life, hints on safety in the bed and"

    Engels | 320 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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  • Rachel Resnick Love junkie

    "Rachel Resnick is a self-confessed Love Junkie. Her life has consisted of a continuous stream of men, all of whom have treated her badly, and yet she chose them and has convinced herself that she cannot live without them. Obsessive and possessive, she allows herself to be humiliated and degraded in her pursuit of love. Finding herself single, broke, depressed and childless, Rachel is determined to break the cycle. But to do this, she has to face the troubled past that she has been trying desperately...

    Engels | 256 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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  • Sally Brampton Shoot the damn dog

    "A journey through (and out of) severe depression as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it will speak volumes to anyone whose life has been haunted by depression, as well as offering help and understanding to those whose loved ones suffer from this terrifying condition."

    Engels | 336 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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  • Mark Edmundson The death of Sigmund Freud

    "When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued and brought to London. Edmundson probes Freud's ideas about secular death and the rise of fascism and fundamentalism, and grapples with the demise of psychoanalysis after Freud's death now that religious...

    Engels | 288 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Lorenza Clifford Interview others

    "Interviewing prospective job candidates can be a real challenge, and sometimes the interviewers are just as nervous as the interviewee! If you are new to interviewing and need to learn some essential skills, Interview Others is the book for you. Full of advice on how to get the best from others and from yourself, it covers everything from preparing for an interview, to dealing with different types of interview situations, to the right (and wrong) questions to ask, to making a job offer. This book...

    Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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  • Get that job

    interviews

    "You've got a fantastic CV; now comes the big test. 'Where do you seeyourself in five years' time?' 'What is your greatest weakness?' Get That Job: Interviews providesstrategies to cope with these classic questions and more. The bookcontains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-stepguidance and action points, top tips, common mistakes and advice on howto avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of the best sourcesof further help."

    Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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  • Katherine Swift The Morville hours

    "In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's...

    Engels | 384 pagina's (5,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Kamin Mohammadi The cypress tree

    "Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history.The Cypress Tree...

    Engels | 288 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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  • Michael Mansfield Memoirs of a radical lawyer

    "A radical lawyer with an unparalleled commitment to his clients, driven by anger at injustice and hypocrisy, intelligent, handsome and dynamic, Michael Mansfield has been tearing down the citadels of arcane legal conventions for more than forty years. Unafraid of rejection or failure, Michael has taken on the most difficult and challenging cases of our times and despite the odds, won plenty. In Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer Michael dissects many of them, revealing his motivations, meticulous approach...

    Engels | 512 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Sam Kiley Desperate glory

    "In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted access to the front line, Sam Kiley is with them to bear witness to the most intense challenges of their lives. Desperate Glory is an unflinching portrait of the reality of war - the bombs, the shooting and the daily struggles that push them to the very limit of human...

    Engels | 288 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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  • Chloë Schama Wild romance

    "In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, nineteen-year-old Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become the Viscount of Avonmore. Their flirtation soon blossomed into a clandestine, epistolary affair, and five years later they married secretly in Edinburgh. Then, that same summer, they married again in Dublin - or did they? Separated by circumstance soon after they were wed, Theresa and Charles would never live together as husband and wife. And when Yelverton...

    Engels | 272 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Julia Sweeney If it's not one thing, it's your mother

    "Julia Sweeney was nearing forty, and quite famous, when she got on a flight to China to turn her life upside down. She had a flourishing career as a comedienne and performer, ample friends and admirers, but what she didnt have was a child and, after a string of non-committal boyfriends, she decided to adopt alone.Mulan was one-and-a-half years old when she met her new mother, and every bit as feisty as the Disney character (whom she was emphatically not named for). If It's Not One Thing, Its Your...

    Engels | 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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  • Keith Devlin The man of numbers

    "In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the seventh and eighth centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it but had failed to see its potential. The young Italian, Leonardo of Pisa (better known today...

    Engels | 192 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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