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The thrilling story of the conservationist who pioneered the use of dogs in combating poachers to protect wildlife in South Africa's game reserves

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Why, after thirtyyears of international climate negotiations to reduce carbon emissions, has theUN process failed to deliver a survivable outcome? Nick Breeze goes behind thescenes at the UN COPs, from Paris to Dubai, to find out what on Earth is goingon Most people tend to turn away, perhaps understandably, from the key existential issue of the day: climate change or, somewould say more accurately, climate collapse. Nick Breeze tells the enga...

An accessibleguide to the US political system which provides a rational and compellingexplanation of the ongoing threat to American democracy. This brief guide to US politics provides a non-partisanassessment of the ongoing challenges faced by American democracy, not leastfrom Trump and his supporters. Cooper explains key aspects of recent US political history togive the background to recent, dangerous developments, including how politicalgrou...

Drawing onnew interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally reveals the full corruption ofAmerica's Camelot. For a time, John F. Kennedy ran the US and the world like aplayer with loaded dice. All his life, he expected to be serviced. For most, sex is an optional side order, for JFK, it was demanded: a manifestation of hismajesty, his power, a display of entitlement and godlike behaviour - theresulting mess w...

A shocking, but also wryly humorous and ultimately upliftingmemoir of an ordinary man sentenced to lengthy and brutal imprisonment inPutin's Russia when he refused to give false evidence against Yukos ownerMikhail Khodorkovsky. Published originally in Russian in 2013, The Prisoner is the truestory of how an ordinary man's life was torn apart by the Kremlin. One day, Vladimir was a senior manager in Yukos, an oil and gas company based in Moscow...

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April Ashley was a trailblazing figure in the fight for trans visibility and acceptance, one of the first British people to undergo gender-reassignment surgery, in 1960 - this is her remarkable story

Inspired by the true story of pianist Mosha GebertâEUR(TM)s struggles in Nazi death camp Majdanek. Refusing to play for the camp commandant, Mosha faces a heartbreaking choice: she must share her music âEUR" or suffer crippling torture.

Scrupulously researched, this is as full an account as is possible of his life now that Peter Sutcliffe is dead. Inside the Mind of the Yorkshire Ripper uncovers a number of crimes which Peter Sutcliffe was never charged with. The full number of his victims is unknown

Irena's Gift weaves together a mystery, history and memoir to tell the story of a family torn apart by war

Short, quick-fire jokes have been popular for centuries. Indeed the world‿s oldest surviving joke book, the Philogelos, which was written in Ancient Greek, contains this classic doctor joke:Patient: “Doctor! When I wake up I‿m all dizzy. Then after half an hour I feel fine.�Doctor: “Well, wait half an hour before waking up.�Meanwhile in Rome, they had a gag for every occasion, from senate orations and lavish feasts to throwing Chri...

The astonishing true story of the Scottish coal miner's daughter who fought the Mafia-backed creators of the world's biggest financial fraud - and helped the FBI to convict them.

The biggest annual sports event in the world is the Tour de France. In the wake of its overwhelming popularity, it‿s easy to forget that there is much more to cycling than whoever gets to wear the yellow jersey. Cycling is rich with legends and pioneers, and it is their stories which light up this compelling account of the sport. This is the story of British cycling as told through the lives of the people who built it. From the first recorded ...

Liesl Herbst, Austrian National Tennis champion, fled Nazi occupation with her family - this is the moving story of their escape and of what happened to those left behind

All the ingredients of a Le Carre novel, only it's real' - Matthew Hall, crimewriter and screenwriter (Keeping Faith)

A leading journalist's personal, intense and riveting investigation into the worlds of cults

A shocking account of young women failed by the authorities, and the serial killer in the making who could have been stopped