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How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly – often enthusiastically – oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In this book, Laurence Rees combines history and the latest research in psychology to help answer some of the most perplexing questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust. Ultimately, he delves into the darkness to explain how and why these people were capable of committing the worst crime in the history of the world. Rees traces the rise and eventual fall of the Nazis through the lens of ‘twelve warnings’ – whilst also highlighting signs to look out for in present day leaders who, for example, take control of the media, propound conspiracy theories, and talk about ‘them’ against ‘us’.
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With a focus on nutrient-dense ingredients, Nourished Kitchen contains over 80 vegetarian recipes for a clean eating lifestyle. Each recipe is followed by list of health benefits and the book contains a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use nutritional guide showing which nutrients support the body and what foods they are in. Nourished Kitchen makes healthy eating easy and accessible and helps you find simple meals to match your dietary needs.Â
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How history’s most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O’Hara – can teach us to better understand the world.
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They’re addictions so small we don’t need to say no. Most of us can identify a thing – or seven – which we don’t need to quit; but certainly do a little too much of. These little addictions don’t cost much emotionally or financially, and they only have micro-consequences on our health, wealth, relationships and home life – so what’s the big deal? The ‘snowball effect’ is the big deal. The sum total of these tiny habits can be huge. In this deeply necessary, extensively researched, and wildly empowering book, Catherine Gray shows us how to master our little addictions, freeing up peace of mind, disposable income, time, wellbeing and happiness. In Gray’s inimitable and compelling style, this book is guaranteed to make you laugh, pause, reflect, and rearrange everything you thought you knew. A little at a time, it might even change your life.
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‘Has the power to change the way you look at the world’ Steven Bartlett
‘The heir to Oliver Sacks’ David Baddiel
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024
AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH
Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger.
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With Stalin’s death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one which became more predictable for its citizens and one which made a genuine attempt to create the egalitarian, progressive country that the Russian Revolution had once promised. That this attempt would fail was not clear until the 1980s. Mark B. Smith’s book recreates the day-to-day life of this vast state, the largest ever to exist.
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‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [?] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.’ Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing
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The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to take on a new authoritarian axis-Russia, China, and Iran.
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‘Ingenious? a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning’ Daily Telegraph
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At the Inns of Court, the intellectual, literary, and social heart of early 17th century London, many pivotal friendships were forged: few closer than that of Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward (Ned) Hyde. Both young men were lively characters, industrious, well-connected, principled and optimistic. They dreamed of reforming the government of Charles I, a young court with age-old problems, by restoring the traditional harmony of Crown and Parliament. This is the story of how their hopes climbed, overreached, and fell into an abyss of relentless civil war.
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Few countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was brutally ruled as a French colony, cut off by a series of new borders with equally newly created neighbours that pulled apart families, trade networks and political assumptions that had already been ravaged by the war. Syria’s subsequent history has been a series of attempts to make sense of its borders, including a failed attempt in the late 1950s to unite with Egypt and several humiliations at the hands of Israel’s armed forces. It has been a satellite of France, an ally of the USSR and, most recently, torn apart by a civil war that has now been in turn subverted by the rise of the Islamic State, an entity that refuse to acknowledge any of Syria’s existing borders.
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The Baltic’s time has come. It is not only critical to Europe’s security and increasingly a centre of political and military power in its own right; it is a reservoir of ideas and experiences that could shape the continent’s future. The Baltic offers by far the most successful examples of the reintegration of Europe’s old capitalist and communist blocs. It abounds in pioneering environmental initiatives, ranging from the world’s first geological ‘forever’ storage facility for nuclear waste in Finland to its first ‘zero waste’ community, on the Danish island of Bornholm. Brutalised by the twentieth century, the rebounding economies of Poland, Finland and Estonia are case studies in the mobilisation of social resources and the transformative power of technology. This book explores the history, their culture, their peculiarities and national dilemmas of all nine Baltic countries.
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