Fools, Frauds and Firebrands - Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
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Category: Non-Fiction
In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, Galbraith and Dworkin, Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the wor ...Show more
Reinventing the Wheel - Milk, Microbes and the Fight for Real Cheese by Bronwen Percival; Francis Percival
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Category: Non-Fiction
Wine and Spirits Book of the Year 2017 In little more than a century, the drive towards industrial and intensive farming has altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from the bodies of the animals that provide the milk to the science behind the microbial strains that ferment it. Reinventing the ...Show more
The Fire This Time - A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Non-Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America. In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of wri ...Show more
Clearing the Air by Tim Smedley
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Category: Non-Fiction
Air pollution has become the world's greatest environmental health risk, and science is only beginning to reveal its wide-ranging effects. Globally, 19,000 people die each day from air pollution, killing more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and car accidents combined. What happened to the air we br ...Show more
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger Hotter Smarter World by Amanda Little
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Category: Non-Fiction
Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-con ...Show more
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
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Category: Non-Fiction
'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, ObserverDemocracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the p ...Show more
Working With Nature by Jeremy Purseglove
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Category: Non-Fiction
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature a ...Show more
Faber & Faber - The Untold Story by Toby Faber
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Category: Non-Fiction
To celebrate its 90th anniversary, here is the untold story behind one of one of the world's most iconic publishing houses. Faber and Faber is one of the world's greatest independent publishers. Literary superstars like T.S.Eliot, William Golding, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath are synonymous with the nam ...Show more
The Professor and the Parson - A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking by Adam Sisman
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Category: Non-Fiction
One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. ...Show more
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ord ...Show more
Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives ... the Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin by Eileen Ormsby
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Category: Non-Fiction
Dark . . . A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in mysterious circumstances in a Bangkok jail cell, just as the author arrives there. Who is Variety Jones and why have darknet marke ...Show more