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A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
£18.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person […]
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A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
£13.95New from EnvelopeBooks – an important study in social anthropology A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean. The Andamans were […]
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From Bedales to the Boche: The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood
From Bedales to the Boche: The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood
£15.95AN ARCHIVAL RESOURCE ON EDUCATION FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were brought up in prosperous middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s. Their father ran Britain’s most successful lighting factory, wanted his boys to enter the business, and sent them to the best art […]
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My Modern Movement
My Modern Movement
£14.95For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress. […]
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The Green Man: A Novel
The Green Man: A Novel
£15.95After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Vienna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars […]
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The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
£18.95Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime. When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf […]
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Why My Wife Had to Die
Why My Wife Had to Die
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A very tough read, by an impassioned and angry campaigner Huntington’s disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1 in 2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their […]
