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By: David Butler

ISBN: 9780241198384
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features behind-the-scenes look at Coca-Cola's design-led strategy for growth. This title shows how any business can use the same approach to get to the next level. It is a must read for leaders, creatives and entrepreneurs.


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By: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

ISBN: 9780143107361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later a corrupt businessman. As Wariinga struggles to survive, she realizes that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaise and that much of the misfortune stems from the Western, capitalist influences on her country.


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By: Dr Mike Dow

ISBN: 9780718158279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Guides you through a 28-day weight-loss programme. This title shows us how to withdraw painlessly from bad foods and looks at why we craved them in the first place.


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By: Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 9780141014821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, this book is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader. It is a sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs.


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By: Mohsin Hamid

ISBN: 9780241146323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a compelling case for recognizing our common humanity while relishing our diversity - both as readers and citizens; for resisting the artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or race; and for always judging a country or nation by how it treats its minorities, as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a minority of one'.


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By: Nicholas Thomas

ISBN: 9780141986715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Karl Marx

ISBN: 9780141441924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. During his eleven years writing for the "New York Tribune", Marx tackled an abundance of topics, from issues of class and the state to world affairs.


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By: Alex Kerr

ISBN: 9780141010007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese "economic miracle" failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this miracle, the Japanese had turned their country into a concrete shambles. This book describes the dazzling nature of Japanese culture and its ruination.


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By: Howard Linskey

ISBN: 9781405945097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Will Self

ISBN: 9780141040202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the summer of 1981, aristocratic, drug-addicted Henry Wooten and Warhol-acolyte Baz Hallward meet Dorian Gray. Dorian is a golden adonis - perfect, and deliciously uncorrupted. The subject of Baz's video installation, Cathode Narcissus, and the object of Henry's attentions, Dorian is launched on a hedonistic binge that spans the '80s and '90s.


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By: Pat Barker

ISBN: 9780140270754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself.


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By: Rob Thurman

ISBN: 9780718198527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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If anyone knows that having family isn't always a good thing, it's half-human/ half-living nightmare Cal Leandros. But for once, it's not his relatives causing the trouble. That headache belongs to his half-brother, Niko. His ne'er-do-well father is in town. He needs a favour, and if Niko refuses, it just might doom the entire city.


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By: Es'kia Mphahlele

ISBN: 9780143106791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chris Parry

ISBN: 9780241959626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1982 Lieutenant Chris Parry sailed aboard destroyer HMS Antrim to liberate the Argentine-occupied Falkland Islands. Parry and his crew, in their Wessex helicopter, were soon launched into action rescuing an SAS party stuck on a glacier in gales that had already downed two others. This title tells his story.


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By: Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 9780141014852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn lunatics picks over the rivers detritus.


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By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

ISBN: 9780241962794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Since inheriting a pile in Killiney, the author can add a new string to his not inconsiderable (you know what I mean) bow - lord of the manor. This title tells the story of how he tackles his new responsibilities.


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By: John Leonard

ISBN: 9780241971666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Leonard was a gifted Gaelic football goalkeeper who had the misfortune to reach his prime at the same time, and in the same county, as one of the all-time greats: Stephen Cluxton. This is an account of his life in and out of sport.


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By: Tom Humphries

ISBN: 9781844880867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dublin and Kerry. They were the aristocrats of Gaelic football, with over fifty All-Ireland titles between them, but as the 1974 season dawned, the fans of these two great counties could not have guessed what lay ahead. The author tells the full story of Dublin and Kerry, on and off the field, over the decade that followed.


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By: Joan Frances Turner

ISBN: 9780718158378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After she was buried, Jessie awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. Jessie's gang is the Fly-by-Nights. She loves the ancient, skeletal Florian and his memories of time gone by. She's in love with Joe, a maggot-infested corpse. They fight, hunt, dance together as one-something humans can never understand.


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By: Keith Wrightson

ISBN: 9780140250015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of change, and examining how these changes affected men, women and children at various social levels. It demonstrates the gains and costs of economic change.


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By: Ed Glinert

ISBN: 9780141017181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mud banks gave way to deep-water docks and sweatshops. This book tells the story of this part of London. It reveals the underbelly of the history of the East End.


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By: Younghill Kang

ISBN: 9780143134305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Felicity Lawrence

ISBN: 9780141026015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explains how big business took control of what we eat - and why so few of us even noticed. This book uncovers some startling facts and stomach-churning figures of agribusiness. It is suitable for those who care about their health and our planet.


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By: Meryle Secrest

ISBN: 9780241966860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti elevated the field of women's clothing design into the realm of art. This book deals with her life and work.

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