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Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do...

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Have you ever been overtaken at work by someone with fewer qualifications? Have you ever wondered how some people move effortlessly up the career ladder, while others stall at each rung? Drawing on 27 years' experience since the publication of Mer...

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After the runaway success of "You Couldn't Make It Up, "Jack Crossley has compiled a second selection of anecdotes from around the British Isles. In his many years as a newspaper journalist, Jack Crossley has collected literally thousand...

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After a lifetime of getting up at 7.30am, starting work at 8.30am and returning home in the evening, too tired and stressed out to do anything but watch television, most people look forward to reducing their workload at around 60 years and to putt...

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Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins of hundreds...

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All Englishmen over the age of 14 must spend two hours a week practising the Longbow, supervised by the local clergy. This law dates from the middle ages when there was no standing army so in times of war noblemen were required to provide knights,...

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Public speaking and presenting rank in the top ten of people's greatest fears. Yet being able to speak coherently and persuasively in a speech, seminar or meeting room is important when progressing our careers and living our lives to the fullest. ...

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This book, written by Britain's leading railway historian, provides an authoritative account of the progress made by British Rail prior to privatisation and a unique insight into its difficult role in the government's privatisation planning from 1...

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