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All The Devils Are Here
- £10.00
- Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent…
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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
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- Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales s riveting…
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
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Calvin and Culture, Exploring a Worldview (Calvin 500)
- £20.00
- No other Christian teachings in the past five hundred years have affected our Western culture as deeply as the worldview of John Calvin. It extends far beyond the theological disciplines as demonstrated by the list of contributors and subjects below. They have inspired a large number of followers to apply…
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Crossing Cultures with Jesus: Sharing Good News with Sensitivity and Grace
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- You can be a missionary by crossing an ocean or by crossing the street. We now have unprecedented opportunities to meet people from every culture and nation. International study and global migration allow us to build relationships with Buddhists and Muslims, students from Singapore and workers from the Middle East.…
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Dark Matter: A Thinking Fans Guide to Philip Pullman
- £15.00
- "My books are about killing God." So declares Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Appealing to millions of children and adults alike, Pullman's books create a universe in which the church…
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents
- £25.00
- A groundbreaking, Òlavishly informativeÓ (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one anotherÑfrom the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events,…
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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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Inside the Kingdom
- £10.00
- Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
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- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
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It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- £20.00
- ÒBoydÕs new book is layered and smart . . . ItÕs Complicated will update your mind.Ó_Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review ÒA fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today's tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.Ó_People ÒThe briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isnÕt.Ó_Andrew…
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Motel Nirvana: Dreaming Of The New Age In The American Desert
- £12.00
- A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
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Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
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- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
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All The Devils Are Here
- £10.00
- Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent…
- Add to basket
-
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- £15.00
- Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales s riveting…
- Add to basket
-
Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
- Add to basket
-
Calvin and Culture, Exploring a Worldview (Calvin 500)
- £20.00
- No other Christian teachings in the past five hundred years have affected our Western culture as deeply as the worldview of John Calvin. It extends far beyond the theological disciplines as demonstrated by the list of contributors and subjects below. They have inspired a large number of followers to apply…
- Add to basket
-
Crossing Cultures with Jesus: Sharing Good News with Sensitivity and Grace
- £10.00
- You can be a missionary by crossing an ocean or by crossing the street. We now have unprecedented opportunities to meet people from every culture and nation. International study and global migration allow us to build relationships with Buddhists and Muslims, students from Singapore and workers from the Middle East.…
- Add to basket
-
Dark Matter: A Thinking Fans Guide to Philip Pullman
- £15.00
- "My books are about killing God." So declares Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Appealing to millions of children and adults alike, Pullman's books create a universe in which the church…
- Add to basket
-
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
- Add to basket
-
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents
- £25.00
- A groundbreaking, Òlavishly informativeÓ (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one anotherÑfrom the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events,…
- Add to basket
-
Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
- Add to basket
-
Inside the Kingdom
- £10.00
- Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology, and yet its powerful religious establishment would have…
- Add to basket
-
Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
- Add to basket
-
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- £20.00
- ÒBoydÕs new book is layered and smart . . . ItÕs Complicated will update your mind.Ó_Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review ÒA fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today's tech-savvy teenagers are using social media.Ó_People ÒThe briefest possible summary? The kids are all right, but society isnÕt.Ó_Andrew…
- Add to basket
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Motel Nirvana: Dreaming Of The New Age In The American Desert
- £12.00
- A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
- Add to basket
-
Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
- Add to basket