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The Golden Scales
A Makana Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry.
In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring...
The ancient city of Cairo is a whirling mix of the old and the new, where fates collide and the super rich rub shoulders with the desperate and the dispossessed. It is a place where ambition and...
The Ghost Runner
A Makana Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets.
Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter, is shaken out of his...
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life
Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape.
The arrival of Independence brings new upheavals as well as the...
by Keisuke Yamada
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The lead singer on Supercell's eponymous first album is Hatsune Miku-a Vocaloid character created by Crypton Future Media with voice synthesizers. A virtual superstar, over 100,000 songs, uploaded mostly by fans, are attributed to her. Supercell is a Japanese creator music group with the composer...
Beyond No Future
Cultures of German Punk
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its "no future" sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German urban landscapes, and in German...
by Celia Imrie
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice.
With its beautiful villas, its bustling cafes and shimmering...
by Sheila Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
It is 1948 and the young and beautiful Marguerite Carter has lost her parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. She returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls,...
Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Rock'n'Roll War Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s, a gilded time for the music press.
By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful,...
The Reality of School Leadership
Coping with the Challenges, Reaping the Rewards
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
School leadership can be both immensely rewarding and deeply challenging. Headteachers are under intense pressure when dealing with issues that can range from dealing with difficult parents and the aftermath of tragedy or scandal, to the day-to-day challenges of juggling the many different priorities...
King's Cross Kid
A London Childhood between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Victor Gregg, born in 1919, has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag...
Cities Are Good for You
The Genius of the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our coffin or our ark.
Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities...
Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?
A Beginner's Guide, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The only question more popular among the Jewish people than "have you eaten yet?" is "Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?" Jews have long considered everything from current events to dinner menus to NBC's fall lineup through this essential prism. Revealed here for the first time is the ancient method...
Floodpath
The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Amazon Book of the Year
"Floodpath attempts to rescue the disaster from obscurity . . . The author captures many heartbreaking stories of survivors . . . The effect is powerful." --The Wall Street Journal
A visionary and controversial search for water made Los Angeles possible....
Unaccountable
What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
New York Times Bestseller
"Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.†?-Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated
Dr....