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  • Through the Jungle of Death

    A Boy's Escape from Wartime Burma

    by Stephen Brookes ...
    A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION"As uplifting a testimonial to human courage as any to emerge from World War II."--Daily Mail (London)"A tale of hair-raising adventure, survival, love and loss, shot through with rage, polemic, unlikely humour and a rare spiritual sensibility."--Telegraph Magazine (London)"Unique and heartfelt . . . a tale of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London, 1984

    Conflict and Change in the Radical City

    by Stephen Brooke ...
    In London in 1984 two very different cities came into conflict, one rooted in radical politics and the other shaped by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government. This was a city poised between two eras and identities, remoulded in conflicting ways by social democracy and neoliberalism. Using a wide array of sources, many of which have never been used before, London, 1984 explores the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Trust and Confidence in Government and Public Services

    Edited by Sue Llewellyn, Stephen Brookes, Ann Mahon ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less - identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US, goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media exposure in the UK about MP expenses has been extensive, and a court case ruled in favor of publishing expense claims and against exempting MPs ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Men We Cherish

    by Brooke Stephens ...
    One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the news and the black man she was writing about suddenly seemed enormous. Where were the black men she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

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  • Don't Go Back to Where You Came From

    by Tim Soutphommasane ...
    Offering an unflinching and informed defense of cultural diversity, this book boldly stakes a claim for the overwhelming success of multiculturalism in Australia. Arguing against European governments that declare multiculturalism a failure, it asserts that multicultural Australia has been a national success story. Creating a solid case for why multiculturalism works, it argues against those who ... Read more

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  • I'll Fly Away

    Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

    by Wally Lamb, I'll Fly Away contributors ...
    “Powerful . . . In I’ll Fly Away, the women have penned well-drawn evocative pieces about their experiences . . . . Healing is happening through writing.”—Lisa Ko, author of The LeaversThe #1 New York Times bestselling author offers an inspiring new collection of writings from the members of his acclaimed program in Connecticut’s York Correctional FacilityIn 2003 Wally Lamb, published Couldn’t ... Read more

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  • A Century of Labour

    by Jon Cruddas ...
    Britain’s first Labour government took office on 22 January 1924. Its centenary provides an opportunity to reassess the party's performance over the last 100 years, and with an election pending, the character and purpose of the modern party.Labour defined the dominant political settlement of much of the Twentieth Century: the welfare state. It has achieved much in pursuit of material change, ... Read more

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  • What I Know Now

    Letters to My Younger Self

    by Ellyn Spragins ...
    If you could send a letter back through time to your younger self, what would the letter say?In this moving collection, forty-one famous women write letters to the women they once were, filled with advice and insights they wish they had had when they were younger.Today show correspondent Ann Curry writes to herself as a rookie reporter in her first job, telling herself not to change so much to fit ... Read more

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  • Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century

    by Colin Pooley, Jean Turnbull ...
    Poplulation migration is one of the demographic and social processes which have structured the British economy and society over the last 250 years. It affects individuals, families, communities, places, economic and social structures and governments. This book examines the pattern and process of migration in Britain over the last three centuries. Using late 1990s research and data, the authors ... Read more

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  • Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

    A Memoir of My Father

    by Alysia Abbott ...
    A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child.Steve throws ... Read more

    $12.39 USD