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Love can change your life. Can it survive it? 'Howard Jacobson at his finest' — Linda Grant, author of The Story of the Forest'How is it possibl

This volume serves as a guide to research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. Of interest to prof audience of policy makers,

An exploration of visual revelations, including how to display data badly, tabular presentation and trilinear plots. The essays are divided into secti

To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-base

This extraordinary book provides a journey through the jungle of good and bad graphical devices used to illustrate and obfuscate data. The diversity o

Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement ga

Let Secret London guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating London guide book.

Engeland, eind jaren dertig. In de zomermaanden komen drie generaties van de familie Cazalet bij elkaar op hun familielandgoed vlak buiten Londen. Ze

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) is een van de grootste schrijvers van het naoorlogse Engeland, maar haar briljante romans werden vaak overschaduwd d

Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to t

An insightful look at the development of drug discourses in the nineteenth century and drug policy in the twentieth century, Social Poison will appeal

A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure by one of our most prominent medical historians

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding

Understand and take advantage of the fluctuations of markets and come out ahead by learning when and where to invest your money.

Len Howards eerste boek, Vogels als huisgenoten, is een fascinerend onderzoek naar het gedrag van de vogels in en rond haar huis. In Leven met vogels

Booker Prize-winnaar Howard Jacobson was veertig toen hij debuteerde als romanschrijver. In Moederskind blikt hij terug op het leven dat hem daar brac

'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious an

The first book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. With the onset of war, The Light Years reveals a privileged f

This book is broadly concerned with the issue of electronic democracy (e-democracy): It asks whether the Internet strengthens democracy in advanced in