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John Vaillant: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

SCEPTRE, 2024

In May 2016, a Canadian oil town was overrun by wildfire, turning entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and driving 90,000 people from their homes.

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Jonas Ridderstrale , Kjell Nordström: Funky Business Forever - How to Enjoy Capitalism

FINANCIAL TIMES PUBLISHING, 2008

Funky Business tells us that difference rules, and difference comes from the way people think. In this world, we can no longer do "business as usual" - we need funky business.

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Jordan B. Peterson: 12 regles pour une vie: Un antidote au chaos

J'AI LU, 2019

Alors que nous n'avons jamais été aussi libres dans nos choix, nous sommes nombreux aujourd'hui a avoir l'impression que notre vie nous échappe et a ne pas savoir quelle voie emprunter parmi la multitude qui s'offre a nous.

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Jordan B. Peterson: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

PENGUIN, 2019

Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you.

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Jordan B. Peterson: Beyond Order

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022

In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties.

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Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality

PENGUIN, 2013

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.

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Joshua Teal: Dance Vision: Dance Through the Eyes of Today’s Artists

CERNUNNOS, 2022

A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of dance.

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Judith Flanders: Christmas: A Biography

PICADOR, 2017

Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth.

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Jules Howard: Wonderdog: How the Science of Dogs Changed the Science of Life

BLOOMSBURY, 2023

How dogs defied science and changed the way we think about animals?What do dogs really think of us? What do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do?

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Juliane Frisse: Feminismus

CARLSEN VERLAG, 2019

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Julie Bindel: Feminism for Women

CONSTABLE, 2022

Feminism is a quest for the liberation of women from patriarchy. Feminism strives for a world in which women are not oppressed. Feminism prioritises exposing and ending male violence towards women and girls.

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Julie Smith: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

MICHAEL JOSEPH, 2022

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the tools you need to get through life's ups and downs.

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Kaushik Basu: Reason to Be Happy - Why Logical Thinking is the Key to a Better Life

TRANSWORLD, 2024

Why do our friends have more friends than we do? How do you book the best available seats on a plane? And if jogging for ten minutes adds eight minutes to our life expectancy, should we still go jogging?

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Keith Grint: Leadership - A Very Short Introduction

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010

The subject of leadership raises many questions: What is it? How does it differ from management and command? Are leaders born or bred? Who are the leaders? Do we actually need leaders?

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Keith Olbermann: Trump is Fucking Crazy - This is not a joke

BLUE RIDER PRESS, 2017

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Ken Robinson: Finding Your Element How To Discover Your Talents And Passions And Transform Your Life

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2014

The Element is the point where your personal passions and natural talents meet. But how do you find this formula for happiness?

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Killing Defence At Bridge

CASSELL, 2013

Killing Defence at Bridge is one of the great classics of bridge. It carries the mark of a genius and was the first in a series of major books written by Hugh Kelsey, who became internationally recognised as a leading authority on the analysis of bridge.

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Knowledge Encyclopedia

DORLING KINDERSLEY, 2013

A bold new approach to family reference that uses 3-D rendered images to explore the wonders of the world in unprecedented detail—from such categories as space, the human body, and history.

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L'épopée du handball français

MAREUIL ÉDITIONS, 2020

Des Bronzés aux Experts en passant par les Barjots et les Costauds, ce sont plus de 30 ans de succes et de folie qui sont retracés dans ce livre.

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La littérature française

NATHAN, 2016

- Faites le point sur les connaissances essentielles a maîtriser - Mémorisez facilement grâce a une organisation par double page - Réussissez vos études supérieures et vos examens !

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Laszlo Bock: Work Rules! - Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How to Live and Lead

JOHN MURRAY, 2015

A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live, Work Rules! offers both a philosophy of the new world of work...

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Lawrence M. Krauss: The Physics of Climate Change

APOLLO, 2024

The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change.

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Lawrence Wright:The Looming Tower (Movie Tie-in): Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2018

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Leif Wenar: Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017

Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world.

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Lisa Genova: Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

ALLEN & UNWIN, 2022

Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place?

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Living and Working in India: The Complete Practical Guide to Expatriate Life in the Sub Continent

HOW BOOKS, 2008

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Lonely Planet - Epic Road Trips of Europe

LONELY PLANET, 2022

Buckle up for the next installment in our Epic series and the follow-up to Epic Drives of the World.

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Lonely Planet - The Best Things in Life are Free - The ultimate money-saving travel guide

LONELY PLANET, 2021

The second edition of Lonely Planet’s The Best Things in Life are Free is the ultimate guide for travellers who want to find the best value for their next trip.

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Lorenz Konrad: Er redete mit dem Vieh, den Vögeln und den Fischen

DTV, 1998

Ein Leben in einer Arche Noah.

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Lori Gottlieb: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

SCRIBE PUBLICATIONS, 2022

When a personal crisis causes her world to come crashing down, Lori Gottlieb - an experienced therapist with a thriving practice in Los Angeles - is suddenly adrift.

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M.H. Salmon: Gazehounds & Coursing - The History, Art and Sport of Hunting With Sighthounds

HIGH LONESOME BOOKS, 1999

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Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2014

In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored the ways we understand and change our world.

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Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon.

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Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce: Unleashing Your Dog - A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible

NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 2019

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Mark Boyle: The Moneyless Man - A Year of Freeconomic Living

ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS, 2015

Imagine living for an entire year without money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is his extraordinary and compelling story.

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Mark Forsyth: A Short History of Drunkenness

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2018

A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink?

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Mark Forsyth: The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase

ICON BOOKS, 2016

Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such lines as To be or not to be and Bond. James Bond.

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Mark Forsyth: The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

ICON BOOKS, 2016

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON.

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Mark Forsyth: The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted

ICON BOOKS, 2014

Mark Forsyth – author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon – reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop.

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Mark H. McCormack: What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School

PROFILE BOOKS, 2014

Mark McCormack, dubbed 'the most powerful man in sport', founded IMG (International Management Group) on a handshake.

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Mark Maslin: Climate Change - A Very Short Introduction

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2021

The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.

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Marshall Goldsmith: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful

PROFILE BOOKS, 2013

Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. That something may just be one of your own annoying habits.

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Máté Gábor: Hold on to Your Kids

VERMILION, 2019

Children take their lead from their friends: being ‘cool’ matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of behaviour, peer groups are often far more influential than parents.

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Máté Gábor: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Close Encounters with Addiction

VERMILION, 2018

Dr Gabor Maté is one of the world’s most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction.

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Máté Gábor: The Myth of Normal - Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

VERMILION, 2022

Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is 'normal' when it comes to health?

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Máté Gábor: When Body Says No

VERMILION, 2019

Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? Is there such a thing as a ‘cancer personality’?

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Matt Parker: Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 2021

The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?"

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Matt Whyman: The Unexpected Genius of Pigs

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2018

We often consider dogs to be our enduring sidekicks but the truth is domestic pigs have played a role in our lives for nearly as long.

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Matthew Burston: Hungarian Vizsla. Hungarian Vizsla or Magyar Vizsla Complete Dog Manual (Dog Care, Costs, Feeding, Grooming,...

IMB PUBLISHING, 2014

Covered in this book: - Brief history - Temperament - Pros and Cons - Where to buy and when - Preparing your home - The first days - Health - Daily care - Grooming - Training - Costs - General tips, tricks and guidelines ..... and much more.

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Maxwell Maltz: Psycho-Cybernetics

SOUVENIR PRESS, 2023

In this updated edition, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Matt Furey, president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, the original 1960 text has been annotated and amplified to make Maxwell Maltz's message even more relevant...

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Megan Hess: Grace Kelly - La princesa que marcó estilo

LUNWERG EDITORES, 2024

Actriz ganadora de un Óscar, musa de Hitchcock, icono de la moda y princesa de Mónaco, Grace Kelly fue una de las estrellas más queridas de los anos cincuenta y aún hoy sigue siendo idolatrada a lo largo y ancho del mundo.

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Michael Blastland: The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything

ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2020

Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.

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Michael Isikoff, David Corn: Russian Roulette - The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

TWELVE, 2018

The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency.

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Michael J. Gelb: Da Vinci Decoded

DELTA, 2005

Da Vinci Decoded, will help you use the same principles to cultivate your spiritual potential.

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Michael Lewis: The Fifth Risk

ALLEN LANE, 2018

The phenomenal new book from the international bestselling author of The Big Short

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Michio Kaku: Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006

Imagine a future where we are not alone - where our universe is just one of countless parallel worlds, some strangely familiar, some almost unimaginable.

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Mikael Krogerus: The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking

PROFILE BOOKS, 2023

Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? How can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently?

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Mike Berners-Lee: How Bad Are Bananas? - The Carbon Footprint of Everything

PROFILE BOOKS, 2020

How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time.

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Mike Carson: The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

BLOOMSBURY, 2014

From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be the manager. But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in crisis?

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Miriam Frankel, Matt Warren: Are You Thinking Clearly?

HODDER PAPERBACK, 2023

Do emotions really cloud your thinking? Are habits holding you back? Is AI manipulating your mind? Does IQ help you think better?

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Morgan Downey: Oil 101

WOODEN TABLE PRESS, 2009

OIL 101 is a straightforward guide to oil and an essential read for anyone coming to grips with where oil prices, the economy and society are headed.

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Morgan Housel: The Psychology of Money

HARRIMAN HOUSE, 2020

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.

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Moshe Bar: Mindwandering - How It Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity

BLOOMSBURY, 2023

Your brain is noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming and intrusive thoughts - taking up to forty-seven percent of your waking time. This is mindwandering.

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Motorräder: Die wichtigsten deutschen Typen von den Anfängen bis heute

PODSZUN, 2006

Es ist keine Kutsche und auch kein Fahrrad, was Daimler 1885 dem belustigten Publikum präsentiert: Ein Holzgestell, zwei Kutschräder, zwei kleine Stützräder, ein Sattel.

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Nada Bakos: The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House

LITTLE BROWN, 2019

A revealing and utterly engrossing account of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets inside Al-Qaida from former CIA analyst Nada Bakos

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Naomi Klein: Doppelganger - A Trip into the Mirror World

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2024

Naomi Klein, author of era-defining bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No Logo, is back with her most compulsive and personal book yet: a revelatory journey into the mirror world of our polarised age.

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Naomi Klein: Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

ALLEN LANE, 2023

When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't.

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Naomi Klein: No Is Not Enough

PENGUIN, 2018

**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**

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Naomi Klein: On Fire - The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020

For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice.

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Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs. the Climate

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015

Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political change.

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Napoleon Hill: Think and Grow Rich

BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1983

Think and Grow Rich, based on the author’s famed Law of Success, represents the distilled wisdom of distinguished men of great wealth and achievement.

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Neil Somerville: Your Chinese Horoscope for Each and Every Year

THORSONS, 2017

Your Chinese Horoscope for Each and Every Year is a helpful and informative guide on Chinese horoscopes. Built on the long-standing success of Your Chinese Horoscope, this new book gives insights into each of the Chinese signs as well as special success

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Neural Networks For Chess

INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED, 2021

Deep Neural Networks have revolutionized computer engines for Go, Shogi and chess. Finally, computers are able to evaluate a game position similar to the way human experts do it.

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Nick Hornby: Dickens and Prince - A Particular Kind of Genius

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2023

In Nick Hornby's completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could.

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Noam Chomsky (Author), Ilan Pappé: On Palestine

PENGUIN, 2015

On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé's indispensable update on a suffering region.Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab.

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Noam Chomsky: Because We Say So

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2016

Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemony

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Noam Chomsky: Global Discontents - Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectual

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Noam Chomsky: How the World Works

HAMISH HAMILTON, 2012

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairs.

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Noam Chomsky: Who Rules the World?

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account.

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Nyáry Krisztián: Eminent Hungarians

CORVINA KIADÓ, 2017

Nyáry Krisztián magyar hősöket bemutató új könyve a ma emberének alapvető olvasmánya kellene, hogy legyen.

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Oliver Bullough: Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back

PROFILE BOOKS, 2019

2019: democracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why? Because in 1962, some bankers in London had an idea that changed the world. That idea was called 'offshore'. It meant that, for the first time, thieves could

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Oliver Bullough: The Last Man in Russia: And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2014

Award-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry.

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Oliver Burkeman: The Antidote - Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2013

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Four Thousand Weeks, a totally original approach to self-help: success through failure, calm through embracing anxiety

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Oliver Kent: Breaking Through Dance Plateaus: Filling in the Blanks of Argentine Tango Book 13

SZERZŐI KIADÁS, 2021

Struggling to take your Argentine Tango to the next level? Worried you'll never break through? Dr. Oliver Kent takes the guesswork out of Argentine Tango to accelerate your learning and get you moving again.

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Oliver Kent: Enjoy Getting the Dances You Want: Filling in the Blanks of Argentine Tango - Book One

SZERZŐI KIADÁS, 2021

Whether you're a beginner to Argentine Tango, or you've been doing it for years, this book will guide you to get more of the dances you want and enjoy them.

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Oliver Kent: Grace and Elegance with Pausa and Adornments: Filling in the Blanks of Argentine Tango Book 10

SZERZŐI KIADÁS, 2020

Add elegance and grace to your dancing!Argentine Tango offers dancers many possibilities with its powerful pausas and beautiful adornments.

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Oliver Kent: The Art of Leading and Following - Conducción to Intención: Filling in the Blanks of Argentine Tango Book 4

SZERZŐI KIADÁS, 2018

Let's face it. If you can't lead or follow, you can't dance tango!

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Oliver Kent: Understanding Musicality Dinámica y Sincopación: Filling in the Blanks of Argentine Tango Book 6

SZERZŐI KIADÁS, 2019

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Oliver Milman: The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World

ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2022

The Insect Crisis explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change.

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Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

PICADOR, 2015

A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind.

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Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World

WH ALLEN, 2017

How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity, and bucking outdated traditions.

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Orvos-Tóth Noémi: La tua famiglia non e il tuo destino

RIZZOLI, 2024

Quanto il passato della nostra famiglia determina chi siamo? E quanto indietro dobbiamo tornare per capire noi stessi?

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Owen Jones: The Establishment: And how they get away with it

PENGUIN, 2015

Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process

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Pacemakers and ICDs

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019

Comprehensive, yet practical and concise, the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Pacemakers and ICDs is the ideal training guide on how to implant, follow-up, and troubleshoot pacemakers and ICDs.

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Paleografía y escritura hispánica

EDITORIAL SINTESIS, 2016

La presente obra constituye una revisión de Introducción a la Paleografía y la Diplomática general, publicada por esta misma editorial ,bajo la dirección de Ángel Riesco Terrero.

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Paul Gilding: The Great Distruption

BLOOMSBURY

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Paul Hawken: Regeneration - Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

PENGUIN, 2021

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken

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Paul Krugman: Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

NORTON, W W & COMPANY, 2021

An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman.

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