As the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world Jon has travelled the length & breadth of the United States experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of he has flown aboard Air Force One interviewed President Obama & has even been described as a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump Through music film literature TV & even through the food we eat & the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is & through our shared tangled history we claim a special relationship But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine It is fearful angry & impatient for change Reflecting on his journey across the continent to cover the most turbulent race in recent history Jon Sopel lifts a lid on the seething resentments profound anxieties & sheer rage that found its embodiment in a brash unpredictable & seemingly unstoppable figure In this fascinating insightful portrait of American life & politics Jon sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism racial division & increasingly perverse beliefs ...

As the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world Jon has travelled the length & breadth of the United States experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of he has flown aboard Air Force One interviewed President Obama & has even been described as a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump Through music film literature TV & even through the food we eat & the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is & through our shared tangled history we claim a special relationship But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine It is fearful angry & impatient for change Reflecting on his journey across the continent to cover the most turbulent race in recent history Jon Sopel lifts a lid on the seething resentments profound anxieties & sheer rage that found its embodiment in a brash unpredictable & seemingly unstoppable figure In this fascinating insightful portrait of American life & politics Jon sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism racial division & increasingly perverse beliefs ...

If I were paper & you picked me from the pile I'd become for you a folded swan Just to see you smile This collection of heartfelt poems & adorable illustrations captures some of the sweetest most whimsical & romantic gestures that could ever be imagined
- the perfect way to show your loved one just how much you care!
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' One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDAs Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games Bernie is caught between violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in 1950s' Cuba Berlin 1934 The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations
- a blatant example of discrimination Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel Two bodies are found
- one a businessman & the other a Jewish boxer As Bernie digs to unearth the truth he discovers a vast labour & construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world It is a plot that finds its dramatic & violent conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolutionary Cuba

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A study of the human organs their 'character' & how we can optimise our health 170 pages Koob Olaf ...

The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials & no one can tell the story better than Davis herself Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela & including contributions from numerous radicals & commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson Huey P Newton Bobby Seale & Erica Huggins this book is not only an account of Davis's incarceration & the struggles surrounding it but also perhaps the most comprehensive & thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States & the figure embodied in Davis's arrest & imprisonment-the political prisoner Since the book was written the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength with more of its black population behind bars than ever before The scathing analysis of the role of prison & the policing of black populations offered by Davis & her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published ...

Science fiction tales some humorous & some not-so-funny about the downside of the future—and how to deal with a universe ruled by Murphy&s Law!

Includes:: stories by Robert A Heinlein Sarah A Hoyt Fritz Leiber Gordon R Dickson Lester del Rey Christopher Anvil Fredric Brown & more WHAT COULD GO WRONG ? Progress! It’s wonderful—though it sometimes has unexpected & undesirable side effects Read the long warning list of possible side effects on a medicine bottle’s label sometime the part in really tiny print But surely the benefits of modern technology outweigh the drawbacks Until they don’t Remember how increasingly deadly weapons from the machine gun to the H-bomb were supposed to make war too horrific to even be contemplated? Didn’t happen The cell phone has made it possible to phone from almost anywhere—too bad if you wanted to be out of reach & civilization is so big & complicated that a breakdown of any part can have disastrous consequences Modern transportation makes it possible to get anywhere in a hurry though traffic jams & overextended airports may slow the hurry part to a crawl & it also can ensure that a new disease can go all over the planet in a few days Then there’s the sheer complexity of society itself from interminable waits at the DMV to trying to get tech help on the phone (“ Your call is important to us ”) & that’s just the present day What new technologies new ways of organizing (or disorganizing) society new confused & confusing government bureaucracies new ways for small disgruntled groups to wreak havoc & worse will the future bring? Will privacy keep eroding? Could computers & robots take over? Maybe they wouldn’t want to & if the pace of modern life is driving you batty just wait to see what’s on the horizon Exploring such scary yet fascinating possibilities are such masters of science fiction as Robert A Heinlein Sarah A Hoyt Fritz Leiber Gordon R Dickson Lester del Rey Christopher Anvil Fredric Brown & more writers who have seen the future—and it may not work

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With the moral stamina & intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan this slightly built duitful unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth steadfastly to think it through & then to render it comprehensible in lucid unpretentious prose He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events & with the most contempible What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable but also in THE PERIODIC TABLE & THE WRENCH his delight in what made the world exquisite to him He was himself a magically endearing man the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known
- PHILIP ROTH
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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women
- housewives doctors
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Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why for centuries did people fear fruit? All these questions
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- are answered in this juicy truly intimate history of the home Through the bedroom bathroom living room & kitchen Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed in the bath at the table & at the stove From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding teeth-cleaning to masturbation getting dressed to getting married this book will make you see your home with new eyes

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