
Easily Distracted
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Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an...

Edith Piaf: A Cultural History
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The world-famous French singer Edith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies...

Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier
Christopher Fifield and Kathleen Ferrier
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In 1953, at the age of 41, Kathleen Ferrier, England's greatest lyric contralto, lost her courageous...

My Uncle Charlie
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If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the '40s and '50s, then you knew there was one...

N.F.S. Grundtvig: An Introduction to His Life & Work
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N F S Grundtvig (1783-1872) was a prominent preacher, poet, scholar and politician, who played a...

Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story - How a Single Man Saved the World's Largest Satellite Constellation from Fiery Destruction
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary...

Fixing Fashion: Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes
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With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the...

Deep Space: Beyond the Solar System to the End of the Universe and the Beginning of Time
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Govert Schilling explores the mysteries of space that lie beyond our solar system on this...

Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos
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An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw,...

Wonders of Life
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What is Life? Where did it come from? Why does it end? In this beautiful and definitive new book,...