2015 World Factbook
Reference and Education
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Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World
Robert Crocker and Keri Chiveralls
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The dominant understanding of reuse for sustainability is a technical one, which assumes reuse's...
Tweet of the Day: A Year of Britain's Birds from the Acclaimed Radio 4 Series
Stephen Moss and Brett Westwood
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Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme. Then imagine that he is able to play half a dozen...
What is a Dog?
Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger
Book
Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food,...
Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip Bohlman
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Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading...
The Ottoman Age of Exploration
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In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first...
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There
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Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the...
The Social Challenges and Opportunities of Low Carbon Development
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This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of...
Cave Art
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Deep underground, hidden from view, some of humanity's earliest artistic endeavours have lain buried...
Anni Dewani: A Father's Story
Vinod Hindocha and Shekhar Bhatia
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On November 13, 2010 while on honeymoon in South Africa, newly-weds Shrien and Anni Dewani, from...