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1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER. The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again. The next day would see the dawning of a new era. 1971 saw the release of more monumental albums than any yea...
Why Can't We Sleep?
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as hav...
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal
How does Italy actually work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels...
Just Us: An American Conversation
Citizen changed the conversation. Just Us moves it forward again - and this time, urges all of us to take part At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, ho...
Collected Poems
The complete collection of Kingsley Amis's poems, as witty, scabrous and bracing as his celebrated novelsAlthough best known for his comic novels, Kingsley Amis wrote poetry throughout his career. Collected Poems spans subjects from nature and cricket to love, ageing and literature, brimming with his ch...
We Are What We Eat - A Slow Food Manifesto
In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture. When she first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Waters found that the phenomenon of fast food culture, which prioritized chea...
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