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Lisa B Lifestyle Essentials

The perfect 21st century woman's guide to life and how to live it to the fullest.

'Now I know how Lisa manages to get so much done and still look so amazing. She always seems to be one step ahead, it's so annoying!' Yasmin Le Bon

Click here to read more about Lisa B's fabulous new lifestyle manual, and click here to visit the Lifestyle Essentials website.

'One of the year's most amusing reads, a carefully controlled rant backed up with well-researched facts.' Observer

What is it about sport that makes people behave so irrationally?

Joe Humphreys' Foul Play challenges the idea that sport is a positive influence on athletes, spectators and the world as a whole. Drawing on thinkers from Plato to Bill Shankly, Foul Play shows how sport is bad for your health and damaging to your character, as well as being the last refuge of sexism, racism, homophobia and animal cruelty.

Read Foul Play - your head isn't only for keepie-uppies

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Proust and the Squid

How have humans learnt to read? And why?

Maryanne Wolf brings both a personal passion and deft style to this story of the reading brain.

Proust and the Squid is 'an entertaining, comprehensive, delightfully clear account of how our brain allowed us to become word magicians. A splendid achievement!' Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading

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'Stephen Fender knows more facts about America than anyone I've ever met, and he's put fifty of the most fascinating in his book.' John Sutherland

Did you know that only 18 per cent of Americans own a passport; that occupational fraud cost the US $652 billion in 2006; and that Thomas Edison thought jazz sounded better played backwards?

Stephen's Fender's 50 Facts You Need to Know: USA is the essential tour through the real America.

50 Facts You Need to Know: USA

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The New Rome

Is the USA the new ancient Rome?

The New Rome is a fresh look at America's imperial adventure from the editor-at-large of one of its most highly respected magazines, Vanity Fair

'A lovely book - elegant but playful, as reasonable as it is amiable ... It may be the most important thing written about the U.S. government in many years.' Thomas E. Ricks, Military Correspondent for The Washington Post.

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Time to rethink your 5 a day

It's no secret that fruit and veg can help keep your body fitter, healthier and happier. But are all these foods equal?

A deft mixture of fascinating popular science and practical health advice, The Red Bodyguard explains why and how tomatoes offer the prospect of amazing health-promoting properties.

Click here to find out more about this incredible superfood.

The Red Bodyguard

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Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton: The Full Story

F1's leading journalist, Mark Hughes, uncovers the reason behind the most scorchingly exciting and controversial F1 season in living memory - Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton: The Full Story, gives unmatched insight into the man and the driver, with personal accounts of friends, colleagues, team-mates and rivals.

Click here to get the inside track on F1's hottest star.

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