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Sociology & Anthropology
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Gaffs : Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About it€17.99
The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.
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The Amur River : Between Russia and China€13.99
A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific, the Amur River forms the tense border between Russia and China.
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The Fairy Tellers : A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales€13.99
The surprising origins and people behind the world's most influential magical tales: the people who told and re-shaped them, the landscapes that forged them, and the cultures that formed them and were in turn formed by them.
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Inside Qatar : Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth€13.99
Just 75 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition.
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The World Before Us€13.99
How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules.
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The Authority Gap€13.99
Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it
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The Fairy Tellers€18.99
Filled with adventure, tragedy and real-world magic, this bewitching book uncovers the stranger lives behind the strangest of tales.
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Heaven and Hell : A History of the Afterlife€13.99
Where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from? As strange as it may seem to us now, there was a time when no one thought they would go to heaven or hell after they died. In fact, there is no mention of them in the Old Testament, and Jesus did not believe the souls of the departed were bound for either realm.
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The Last Tree on Easter Island€6.99
Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
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Exercised : The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health€13.99
The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing. In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes.