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Hot Flushes, Cold Science

A History of the Modern Menopause

by Louise Foxcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011

For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical literature of the eighteenth century, to up-to-the-minute...
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Underlands

A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Landscape

by Ted Nield
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. We live among the remnants of those times but for the most part our mines are gone, our buildings...
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The Smoking Diaries Volume 2

The Year Of The Jouncer

by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next afternoon they (Mummy and Nanny) planted the pram...
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by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

Coda is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in which he struggled to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. Darkly comic depictions of the medical team are set against joyful accounts of sunlit days with his beloved wife, Victoria. Written with exceptional candour and a poignant reluctance...
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by Jáchym Topol
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

'The devil had his workshop here in Belarus. The deepest graves are in Belarus. But nobody knows about them' A young boy grows up in Terez�n - an infamous fortress town with a sinister past. Together with his friends he plays happily in this former Nazi prison, scouting the tunnels for fragments...
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by Michal Witkowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011

Growing up queer in a Communist state, queens Patricia and Lucretia spent the '70s and '80s underground, finding glamour in the squalor, strutting their stuff in parks and public toilets, seducing hard Soviet soldiers, preying on drunks and seeing their friends die of Aids. Today they're about to...
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by Gudrun Eva Minervudottir
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

When L�a's car gets a puncture out in the countryside, the man who lives nearest proves recalcitrantly helpful. She ends up falling asleep in his armchair and wakes to intense guilt at neglecting her daughter back in Reykjavik, followed by shock at what she finds in her helper's back room - half-finished,...
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by Per Wästberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

'I have spent too long on plants and animals. Now it is time for human beings.' This haunting novel is based on the life of Anders Sparrman, the eighteenth-century naturalist and disciple of the pioneering classifier Carl Linnaeus. Despite his humble beginnings, Sparrman joined Captain Cook...
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by Jáchym Topol
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who ran his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to fend for themselves, order...
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The Smoking Diaries Volume 3

The Last Cigarette

by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

The final volume of the trilogy that began with The Smoking Diaries finds Simon Gray determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters?...
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by John G. Cottingham
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

'I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.' Ren� Descartes Revered as the 'father of modern philosophy', Descartes is one of the most influential philosophers...
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What to Eat?

10 Chewy Questions About Food

by Hattie Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012

Deciding what to eat is no longer a simple matter of instinct and appetite. Every choice we make about the food we put on our plates is complicated. Is meat good or bad for me? Is buying local always best? Is organic worth it? WHAT TO EAT? asks all these questions and more: some are specific, going...
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by Hella S. Haasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Amid the lush abundance of Java's landscape, two boys spend their days exploring the vast lakes and teeming forests. But as time passes the boys come to realize that their shared sense of adventure cannot bridge the gulf between their backgrounds, for one is the son of a Dutch plantation owner, and...
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by Malcolm Guite
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013

'I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another' Jesus Christ Christianity began as a minor sect within Judaism and has become one of the major world religions. What started as a small group of people who shared the same language,...
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