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halfvalue.co.uk Hot 25 Society, Politics & Philosophy
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Balderdash and
Piffle
~Alex
Games
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Discover the fascinating stories behind the words and
phrases we use every day. English is now the world's most
popular second language, understood by over 700 million
people across the globe. Its use is amazingly broad: not
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Blink: The Power
of Thinking Without Thinking
~Malcolm Gladwell
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Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden
from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours
and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments and
particular rules and principles. This book shows us how we
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The Game:
Undercover in the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists
~Neil
Strauss
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Is it for real? Is The Game by Neill Strauss an
assiduously detailed, highly entertaining exposé of a
fascinating secret society -- the international community of
pickup artists who have refined their talents for getting
women into bed to the nth degree? Or is it an extremely
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The End of Faith:
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
~Sam
Harris
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This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis
of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam
Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's
willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious
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Life in the United
Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship
~Home
Office
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This compendium of information aims primarily to assist
teachers of English as a second language, mentors and others
helping immigrants to integrate, It will also help
immigrants who have workable English and who are required to
take a citizenship test if they apply for naturalisation as
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The Tipping Point:
How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
~Malcolm Gladwell
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"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of
unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage
smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of
the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life,"
writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics.
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The Big Book of Me
~Nina
Grunfeld
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Go on, admit it. You've picked this book up because you're
curious.
You may be wondering what life coaching is all about. You
may even be wondering how life coaching could change your
life. Just by reading this, you've already started coaching
yourself, because curiosity is one of the main features...
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God's Politics:
Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't
Get It
~Jim
Wallis
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Jim Wallis, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the
crossroads of religion and politics in America today. He is
the founder of Sojourners, a US network of progressive
Christians working for justice and peace. A bestselling
author, his columns appear in "The New York Times", "The
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Lions, Donkeys and
Dinosaurs
~Lewis
Page, Harold Evans (Preface)
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Lewis Page's cover story in "Prospect" on the military's
most useless and expensive hardware set off a firestorm of
controversy, back pedalling, and accusations. In this
irreverent and provocative book, he gives us the full story:
how British soldiers are sent off to war with some of the
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Introducing NLP
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
~Joseph
O'Connor, John Seymour
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Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is one of the fastest
growing developments in applied psychology. This handbook
describes in simple terms what gifted people do differently,
and enables the reader to learn these patterns of
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NVQ Level 3 Health
and Social Care Candidate Handbook
~Yvonne
Nolan
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The essential resources for the new S/NVQs in Health and
Social Care Written by Yvonne Nolan, the author of the
bestselling textbooks for S/NVQ 2 and 3 Care, these
Candidate Handbooks contain everything candidates need for
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Teaching Today: A
Practical Guide
~Geoffrey Petty
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As in the previous edition the focus remains on practical
strategies that can be implemented in the classroom. This
new edition now features completely new sections including:
assessing learner's needs; the monitoring and support of
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NVQ Level 3
Children's Care, Learning and Development: Candidate
Handbook
~Penny
Tassoni, et al
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The complete solution for the new NVQs and SVQs in
Children's Care, Learning and Development Written by the
authors of the bestselling S/NVQ Early Years Care and
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After the Neocons
~Francis Fukuyama
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Attacking the right-wing policymakers he had previously
associated with, Francis Fukuyama argues that the Bush
administration, in the war in Iraq, has wrongly applied the
principles of neoconservatism - a philosophy that is vital
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Prison Diary 3
~Jeffrey Archer
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The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries covers
the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual
release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking
account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious
Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration
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Vengeance
~George
Jonas
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This is the gripping true story of the Israeli-led hunt for
the men responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli
athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, which has inspired
Steven Spielberg's forthcoming film epic "Munich". 'Avner'
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