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An inspiring international bestseller, Good Morning, Mr Mandela tells the story of Zelda la Grange’s incredible friendship with Nelson Mandela. Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a…
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Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (”The King’s Speech”), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo’s ”Les Miserables” is one of the great works of…
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Humane, witty, wise and full of practical advice: India Knight’s guide to ageing is the book every woman has been waiting for. ’Our mothers’ fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, no nothing. We have no sense of what is and isn’t age-appropriate, or even of whether…
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It’s easy to see why Denmark is often called the world’s happiest country. Not only do they have equal parental leave for men and women, free higher education and trains that run on time, but they burn more candles per household than anywhere else. So nobody knows more about happiness – what the Danes…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
”Connectome”, by Sebastian Seung is ”One of the most eagerly awaited scientific books of the year …intellectually exhilarating, beautifully written, exquisitely precise yet still managing to be inspirational”. (”Irish Times”).
What really makes us who we are? In this…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Charli Howard grew up thinking that she wasn’t good enough. She wasn’t pretty enough. She wasn’t rich enough. She wasn’t thin enough. Fitting in wasn’t exactly easy. Looking at the smiling girls in magazines, she came to the obvious conclusion: to be accepted, she has to be…
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Mid-July in Texas. Cicadas shed their dry summer skins, the scent of roses hangs heavy in the still air, and a woman sits alone on her porch at dusk, watching the empty, merciless prairie, its light falling to darkness. He’s coming home.
Upstairs, Lizzie knows, her daughters are safe in their beds. Joanne, still…
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Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. They have gone to live with Maureen, who has fuzzy red hair like a halo, and a belly like Father Christmas. But the adults are speaking in low voices, and wearing Pretend faces. They are threatening to give Jake to strangers. Since Jake is white and Leon is not.…
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The Queen’s GodDaughter. Her Most Trusted Maid. Adultress. Enemy of The State. Who is The Real Penelope Devereux? Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I, with a smile that would light up the shadows of hell. But it’s not just her looks which have won her favour with the Queen…
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It is the end. And the final battle will commence . . . with Earth as the battlefield. If they stand together, if they are united, if they are one . . . there will be a slim chance of victory. The Mogadorian invasion has come to Earth, and they have all but won the battle for our planet. Their warships loom over our…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Their own origins myths put them at the scene of the Crucifixion, deprived of a home of their own, doomed to a life of wandering, and granted by God the right to steal from other people in order to survive.
In the Middle Ages, it was believed they had come out of Egypt.
And yet their language shares a number of words…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
”The hottest thinker in the world”. (Bryan Appleyard, ”Sunday Times”). In ”The Black Swan”, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from those created in the post-war era. Going beyond the scenes of desperation which have become all-too-familiar in the past few years, Alexander Betts and Paul Collier show that…
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In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in every way. But they were both obsessed with the human mind – and both happened to be geniuses. Together, they would change the way we see the world.
’An enchanted collaboration ……
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San Francisco, 2017. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump’s political ambitions were thwarted.
London, 22nd century. Decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 per cent of humanity. A shadowy start-up hires a young woman named Verity to test a new product: a…
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Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meets Shamus and Helen – a dazzling, bohemian couple who are everything he is not. As he is drawn into their reckless and unpredictable orbit, all that…
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A mother and her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the ’Chateau’) and embark upon a journey through the Alaskan wilderness. At first their trip feels like a vacation: they spot wild animals, build bonfires, enjoy the scenery. But as Josie drives her kids deeper into the…
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Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver … There’s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son’s tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as…
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Brazilian-born doctor André Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about.
The letter prompts André to remember the days of his youth – torrid afternoons on Ipanema beach…
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An utterly engrossing historical romance from debut novelist Bee Ridgeway, ”The River of No Return” is a must-read.
’Time is like a river. It always flows in one direction.’
What if everything you thought was certain was not? 1812: On a lonely battlefield in Spain, Lord Nicholas Falcott,…
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TWELVE CONTESTANTS When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In The Dark, she knows that she will be tested to the limits of her endurance. Beating eleven competitors in a series of survival tasks deep in the forest will be the ultimate challenge before she returns home to start a family. A GAME WITH NO…
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Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has…
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No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front during World War I than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image – but this critically-acclaimed bestseller, on the four months of battle, shows…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Penny’s bags are packed … When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can’t wait to spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. But, between Noah’s jam-packed schedule, less-than-welcoming bandmates and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny wonders whether she’s…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had.All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little bit.So one day, Danny and his father concoct a daring plot…
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Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic – and why it’s coming sooner than you think. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have…
’Kerouac’s grittiest novel … sensual and uninhibited’ The New York Times
Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, ’King of the Beats’, needs peace, quiet and…
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Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs…
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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond’s Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish,…
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Fans of ”The Interpretation of Murder” and ”The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher” will love ”The Yard”, a gripping crime fiction novel from debut author Alex Grecian, set in atmospheric Victorian London. During the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper case, Scotland Yard’s brand new…
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It’s time for a reunion
Lindsey hasn’t spoken to Rachael in twenty years, not since her brother’s 18th birthday party at their parents’ remote country house.
A night that shattered so many friendships – and left Rachel’s father dead.
Now Thornbury Hall is up for sale, and the old…
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