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Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch 'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 'Hopeful and angry, joyful and tear-jerking' Grazia 'An extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph 'Prickles with beautiful, comic and brutal details' Observer 'Oral history at its finest' Daily Mail Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and...
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Collins
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Follow the words using the free booklet, also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources#3000-words Covers the words you need for modern life in Korea with topics on home life, work and school environments, shopping, food and drink, sport and leisure, transport, technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern Korean culture and enhance your experience of Korea and its people, including food and drink, customs, celebrations,...
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Collins
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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A relaxing way to pick up the language.Follow the words using the free booklet, also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources#3000-words Covers the words you need for modern life in Vietnam with topics on home life, work and school environments, shopping, food and drink, sport and leisure, transport, technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern Vietnamese culture and enhance your experience of Vietnam and its...
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Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Follow the words using the free booklet, also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources#3000-words Covers the words you need for modern life in Thailand with topics on home life, work and school environments, shopping, food and drink, sport and leisure, transport, technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern Thai culture and enhance your experience of Thailand and its people, including food and drink, customs,...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story begins with the arrival of twenty Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of...
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER In this incisive, radical and practical essay, Emma Dabiri - acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair - draws on years of research and personal experience to challenge us to create meaningful, lasting change.
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Bluebird
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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'As a Black British man I believe it is vital that I tell this story. It may be just one account from the perspective of a person of colour who has experienced this system, but it may be enough to potentially change an opinion or, more importantly, stop someone else from spinning completely out of control.' - David Harewood Is it possible to be Black and British and feel welcome and whole? Maybe I Don't Belong Here is a deeply personal exploration...
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The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.?The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience? GuardianA worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, The Female Eunuch is a landmark in the history of the women?s movement.Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer?s...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Could hardly be more relevant ... it feels like a light switch being flicked on' OWEN JONES Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem. Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher...
11) A promised land
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English
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency-a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest...
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Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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A relaxing way to pick up the language.Follow the words using the free booklet, also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resourcesCovers the words you need for modern life in the UK with topics on home life, work and school environments, shopping, food and drink, sport and leisure, transport, technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern British culture and enhance your experience of the UK and its people, including...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.' JAMES BALDWIN The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump,...
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earworms MBT
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Earworms MBT Rapid Spanish (Latin American) - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation Volume 2 for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and future, express opinions, chat and even flirt. Volume 3 another lexically rich set of words...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Mohsin grew up in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout shia Muslim community. His family were close-knit and religiously conservative. From a young age, Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where gang violence was a fact of life. As he grew up life didn't seem to offer teenage Mohsin any choices: he was disenfranchised from opportunity...
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earworms MBT
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Earworms MBT Rapid Arabic - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation Volume 2 for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and future, express opinions, chat and even flirt. Volume 3 another lexically rich set of words and phrases, this...
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Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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A step-by-step guide to Spanish pronunciation that will help you build your confidence and communicate better in Spanish.Aimed at beginners and intermediate students this short course focuses on spoken Spanish, and will help you improve your pronunciation, confidence and fluency. The free booklet will show you how to pronounce each sound and give real-life examples of where these sounds are used. You will recognize why you mispronounce certain words...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Brought to you by Penguin. **Longlisted for the National Book Awards 2020** Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours...
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Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon. In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems in our food...
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