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Humorous guide to the 2014 World Cup from Twitter star USA Soccer Guy.

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Urban migration and the rapid growth of cities are creating global change. Brugmann shows how the city is now a medium for revolutionary change. Not just political upheaval but technological, economic and social innovations are forged in our cities. Brugmann shows how they are becoming laboratories for solving the major challenges of this century.

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Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to clutter, this work traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. It shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body.

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Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to clutter, this work traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. It shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body.

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A moving memoir of a young nurses experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriving in the roadless district of Gorkha in 1978, Mary Anne Mercer experiences firsthand the interlacing of modern medicine with an ancient cultureand her life is gradually transformed by immersion in the daily lives of villagers and her team.

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An urgent manifesto for grass-fed foods - for your health and for the planet.

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A seminal Jones/Baraka literary landmine that launches Akashic Books' new African American-focused reprint series.

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From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

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From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

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A fascinating and highly accessible overview of this radical critical approach to understanding power, ideology, race, class and gender.

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A superb graphic guide to the shockwave of innovations that hit art, architecture, music, cinemas and literature during the early and mid-twentieth century.

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An enjoyable, comic-style book on this enigmatic concept that has defined our cultural condition over the past twenty years.

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An exploration of the psychological effects - the pleasures, benefits and disbenefits - of computer games.

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A book which raises all those tricky questions that children ask their teachers and parents, such as 'what is infinity' 'what is democracy' or even 'can I own a gun'

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A celebratory exploration of what our morbid tendencies can teach us about humanity, society and spirituality from the 'Sinister Minister'.

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This book traces the office from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding a legacy of invention and ingenuity - the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant.

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Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth, so when journalist Helen Russell finds herself spending a year in rural Jutland, she decides she'll do all she can to uncover the secrets of the Danes' happiness. But will the long, dark winters and pickled herring take their toll

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'Highly persuasive ... a well-organised and solid dossier that alerts us to legalised chemical trickery.' - The Spectator
'A bombshell book' - Daily Mail
'Eye-opening and important . . . a book full of righteous anger' - Bee Wilson

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A powerful exploration of the use of carcinogenic nitro-additives in the meat millions of people eat every week.