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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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Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
Flights of Fancy: The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid
£24.95Margaret McLaren-Reid was a society debutante and good-time girl in the 1920s, who enjoyed partying, dancing, flirting and the devotion of two husbands. Richard Cullen wades through over 700 letters to reconstruct her experience of life in the British Empire during the interwar years and subsequently as a wife on the diplomatic circuit.
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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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How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
How to Rescue a Tiger: And Other Animals
£34.95Award-winning news photographer Roger Allen had often taken animal photos, but never grasped how badly humans can mistreat other sentient beings until he met Mely, an orangutan that had been chained all its adult life to the verandah of a waterfront house in a remote part of Borneo. They met, touched hands, and in an […]
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Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
Lost Levant: A Journey of Ideas
£19.95How do we understand the heritage of the Levant? In the last few hundred years, the centre of cultural innovation has moved inexorably westwards, leaving us with too small a grasp of the turmoil out of which our own civilisation grew. In 2003 Rupert de Borchgrave set off on a journey of ideas that took […]
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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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Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
£14.95FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Michael Holman’s eye-witness reports on sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region’s post independence successes and setbacks. From his accounts of atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments […]
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Spy Artist Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
Spy Artist Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
£12.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS An anguished memoir of one man’s political struggle and physical resilience. The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War. He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity […]
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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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The West and the Rest
The West and the Rest
£18.95We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily […]
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Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
£18.95A SOCIOLOGICAL WORK FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the local networking app, the book reveals how a community talks to itself and what matters to it. As well as housing England’s national stadium, Wembley – the community under observation – is unusual in its […]
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Why My Wife Had to Die
Why My Wife Had to Die
£13.95NEW 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 […]
