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How We Make Stuff: The Story Behind our Everyday Things
This informative book is packed with details about how common items such as clothes, chocolate and mobile phones are cretaed
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Politics - cutting through the crap
What is politics? How does Parliament work? Is the great British democracy even a true democracy?
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Chavs
Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain
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Singing for Mrs Pettigrew: A Storymaker's Journey
Morpurgo encourages writers of all ages to nurture the seeds of creativity we all hold within us, and strives to reassure those who find school an unfulfilling and unpleasant place, as he did.
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Summer of Unrest: Generation Vexed
An antidote to the broadsheet commentariat, this street-level view of the defining moment of the Summer of Unrest finds much to inspire hope and confidence for our future.
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Cowards
This literary non-fiction book tackles the difficult subject of conscientious objectors during the first World War, relating the true stories of men who believed it was wrong to kill even in times of war.
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The Bird King
A treasure trove of Shaun Tan’s sketches and drawings that inspired him to create his picture books
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Gang Leader for a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago
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Amongst the hoods
Harriet Sergeant's three year friendship with a teenage gang, and in particular the gang leader, Tuggy Tug began when she was researching a report on why so many black Caribbean and white working class boys are failing
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Unheard Voices
This collection of writing about slavery was published to coincide with the 200 year anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807.
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Don't Pick on Me!
This book explores why some people bully, why others are bullied and what you can do to change things






