Addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol & sex are taking over our lives. Our most casual daily habits can quickly become obsessions that move beyond our control. Damian Thompson, who has himself struggled with a range of addictions, argues that human desire is in the process of being reshaped. Shunning the concept of addiction as disease, he shows how manufacturers are producing substances like ipads, muffins & computer games that we learn to like too much & supplement tradition addictions to alcohol, drugs & gambling. He argues that addictive behaviour is becoming a substitute for family & work bonds that are being swept away by globalisation & urbanisation. This battle to control addiction will soon overshadow familiar ideological debates about how to run the economy, & as whole societies set about ...

A hero will be forged from this broken l&.

From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebbanburg.

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Classic romantic comedy starring Marlene Dietrich. The story revolves around a gold-digger (Dietrich) who masquerades as a Countess with the help of her maid (Theresa Harris) in order to secure a wealthy husb&. When the man she is planning to marry (Rol ...

Books British History Books During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest & most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany. Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing & exotic dancing, her beauty & sexuality; she was the most highly-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all 'negroes & Jews'. Yet, instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay & to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight she went from performer to Resistance spy. Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the years of the war, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers
- a cover for her spying work-- she participated in numerous clandestine activities & emerged as formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served: the US, the nation of her birth; France, the land that embraced her during her adult career; & Britain, the country from which she took her orders, as one of London's most closely-guarded special agents. Baker's secret war embodies a tale of unbounded courage, passion, devotion & sacrifice, & of deep & bitter tragedy, fueled by her own desire to combat the rise of Nazism, & to fight for all that is good & right in the world. Drawing on a plethora of new historical material & rigorous research, including previously undisclosed letters & journals, Lewis upends the conventional story of Josephine Baker, revealing that her mark on history went far beyond the confines of the stage.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529416763 •†Author: Damien Lewis  •†Publisher:†  Quercus •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 496 •†Dimensions:† 12.8 x 3.6 x 19.6 cm
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Have hours of fun piecing together your favourite superhero with this fabulous 3D The Flash Jigsaw Puzzle!

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Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, & fast. Leon Twomey works nights & needs cash.

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Man against man. Face to face. One machine against another.

It was shortly after the outbreak of the First World

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When Dr James Dalcott is shot dead in his cottage it looks very much like an execution. & as DI Wesley Peterson begins piecing together the victim's life, he finds that the well-liked country doctor has been harbouring strange & dramatic family secrets. Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson has discovered a number of skeletons in nearby Tailors Court that bear marks of dissection & might be linked to tales of body snatching by a rogue physician in the sixteenth century. But when Neil finds the bones of a child buried with a 1930s coin, the investigation takes a sinister turn. Who were the children evacuated to Tailors Court during World War II? & where are they now? When a link is established between the wartime evacuees & Dr Dalcott's death, Wesley is faced with his most challenging case yet. ...

Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home.

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The flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie was one of history's greatest manhunts. It created Scotland's most treasured legend during 1746, when Charles Edward, heir to the Stuart throne, was ruthlessly hunted down after the Battle of Culloden. This book tells the story of his flight. ...