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		<title>The fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. Drawing on years of unprecedented access to the Murdoch family and key players, Michael Wolff plunges us behind the scenes of an empire of influence, and the result is astonishing and unforgettable. Here is Rupert Murdoch, the ninety-two-year-old billionaire - concerned about his legacy, but more concerned about profits. Here are his contentious children, jockeying to take over when the old man is gone. Here is star anchor Tucker Carlson considering a run for the presidency while his bosses have other plans for him. Sean Hannity, the richest man in television, has his own plans: to put Trump back in office.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH &#8211; AND A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b></p>
<p>Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down.</p>
<p> In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency &#8211; <i>Fire and Fury</i>, <i>Siege</i>, and <i>Landslide </i>&#8211; the journalist Michael Wolff led readers deep into the twisted corridors of the White House. Drawing on years of unprecedented access to the Murdoch family and key players, he plunges us behind the scenes of another empire of influence, and the result is astonishing and unforgettable.</p>
<p> Here is Rupert Murdoch, the ninety-two-year-old billionaire &#8211; concerned about his legacy, but more concerned about profits. Here are his contentious children, jockeying to take over when the old man is gone. Here is star anchor Tucker Carlson considering a run for the presidency while his bosses have other plans for him. Sean Hannity, the richest man in television, has his own plans: to put Trump back in office. While presenter Laura Ingraham is just trying to survive in a man&#8217;s world.</p>
<p> As the fallout from the 2020 election and the Dominion lawsuit pummels the reputation of the network, the battling Murdoch heirs position themselves for the final act in this riveting drama.</p>
<p>&#8220;Michael Wolff&#8217;s books were my foundation and port of entry for working on <i>Succession</i>.&#8221; Jeremy Strong (&#8220;Kendall Roy&#8221;)</p>
<p><b>Praise for <i>Fire and Fury</i>:</b></p>
<p><b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, a Book of the Year in the <i>Guardian</i>, <i>Sunday Times</i>, <i>Observer</i>, <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>
<p>&#8216;The pages of Wolff&#8217;s book are littered with insults and intrigue, backstabbing and dysfunction&#8217; <i>Washington Post</i></p>
<p>&#8216;What makes the book significant is its sly, hilarious portrait of a hollow man, into the black hole of whose needy, greedy ego the whole world has virtually vanished&#8217; <i>Guardian</i></p>
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		<title>Numbercrunch</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. So, what can we grasp hold of to make sense of it all? Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all&#8217; &#8211; Tom Whipple, The Times&#8217;The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics &#8211; fluent, friendly and practical&#8217; &#8211; Tim Harford, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add UpIn our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. So, what can we grasp hold of to make sense of it all? Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. From the exponential growth of viruses to social media filter-bubbles; from share-price fluctuations to growth of computing power; from the datafication of our sports pages to quantifying climate change. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? What are the chances of rain ruining your barbecue this weekend? How about which queue is the best to join in the supermarket?Journeying through the three sections of Randomness, Structure, and Information, we meet a host of brilliant minds such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and we learn the tools, tips and tricks to cut through the noise all around us &#8211; from the Law of Large Numbers to Entropy to Brownian Motion.  Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician&#8217;s toolkit to make sense of your world.</p>
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		<title>Videogame atlas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A look at modern videogame worlds seen through an architectural lens, utilizing maps, diagrams and graphic illustrations to offer new perspectives on the art of virtual world building.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>A dazzling look at modern videogame worlds seen through an architectural lens, utilizing maps, diagrams and graphic illustrations to offer new perspectives on the art of virtual world building.</b></p>
<p>  <i>Videogame Atlas</i> presents a journey through twelve well-known videogame worlds via panoramic maps, intricate exploded diagrams and detailed illustrations. The book offers a playful new way of seeing these beloved virtual worlds using the practices and academic rigour that underpins real-world architectural theory.</p>
<p>  Titles such as Minecraft, Assassin&#8217;s Creed Unity and Final Fantasy VII are explored in exhaustive detail through over 200 detailed illustrations of the micro and macro, each with supporting commentary and architectural theory. Taking influence from high-end architectural monographs, the book is carefully designed to the smallest of details and its production is intricately executed. </p>
<p>  This book, printed in five colours, with neon ink throughout, is a culmination of Luke and Sandra&#8217;s work, which includes founding the Videogame Urbanism studio at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL that promotes the use of game technologies in architectural education.</p>
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		<title>Have I Got News for You</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some people when they reach the end of a long, uncharted year of chaos on the home and world stages like to look forward to new horizons (albeit another long, uncharted year of chaos on the home and world stages, only with increasingly worse weather). But before you leave the cosy confines of 2022, challenge yourself to live through it all one more time with a quiz book from your favourite topical Friday night panel show, with rounds including 'London's Hottest Party Venue', 'Backbench MP or Charles Dickens Character?', 'It's a Royal Cock-up' and Have I Got News for You regular features: the Missing Words and Odd One Out rounds. With over 1000 questions and plenty of gags on everything from politics to pop culture, 'Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022' promises hours of entertainment and will serve as a timeless souvenir of a rollercoaster year.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><H3>Whatever word you&#8217;d care to apply to 2022, no one can deny it&#8217;s been eventful. Russia invaded Ukraine, Boris Johnson resigned, the Queen passed the baton to Charles after a 70-year reign, heat records were broken, food and energy bills went through the roof, fading celebrities discovered that libel laws are a great way to generate publicity, Liz Truss spent more money in her first week as PM than anyone since the war, and &#8211; as usual &#8211; most of the biggest stories broke while HIGNFY was off the air.</H3></p>
<p><H3>What better way, then, to commemorate a year most of us probably want to forget than with over 1,000 quiz questions about it? There&#8217;s the Missing Words Round, the Odd One Out Round, loads of rounds that we&#8217;ve nicked from other puzzle books, and for any insomniacs out there, there&#8217;s even one on the Labour Party.</H3></p>
<p><b><H3>With questions on everything from politics to pop culture, and Paul Merton and Ian Hislop&#8217;s predictions for 2023, <i>Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022</i> promises hours of entertainment (albeit probably by candlelight) and will serve as the ultimate souvenir of a rollercoaster year.</H3></b></p>
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		<title>Cinema Speculation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The legendary Academy award-winning writer and director takes the reader on a unique joyride of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history. For the first time, in his own words, explore the mind, the myth, and the movie magic of the one and only Quentin Tarantino.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><h2> <b>A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.</b></h2>
<p><b>The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one <i>New York Times</i> bestselling </b><b><i>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: </i></b><b>a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.</b></p>
<p>In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. </p>
<p>Now, with <b><i>CINEMA SPECULATION</i></b>, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans &#8211; and all movie lovers &#8211; could have hoped for. </p>
<p>Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. </p>
<p>At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT&#8217;s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.</p>
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		<title>The Newspaper Axis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II</b><br />   <br /><b>&#8220;A damning indictment . . . The parallels with today&#8217;s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable.&#8221;-Matthew Pressman, <i>Washington Post</i></b><br />   <br /><b>&#8220;A first-rate work of history.&#8221;-Ben Yagoda, <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br />   <br /> As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The media empires of Robert McCormick, Joseph and Eleanor Patterson, and William Randolph Hearst spanned the United States, reaching tens of millions of Americans in print and over the airwaves with their isolationist views. Meanwhile in England, Lord Rothermere&#8217;s <i>Daily Mail</i> extolled Hitler&#8217;s leadership and Lord Beaverbrook&#8217;s <i>Daily Express</i> insisted that Britain had no interest in defending Hitler&#8217;s victims on the continent.<br />   <br /> Kathryn S. Olmsted shows how these media titans worked in concert-including sharing editorial pieces and coordinating their responses to events-to influence public opinion in a right-wing populist direction, how they echoed fascist and anti?Semitic propaganda, and how they weakened and delayed both Britain&#8217;s and America&#8217;s response to Nazi aggression.</p>
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		<title>Democracy &#038; Its Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>An urgent exploration of the challenges facing democracy today</strong></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The EU referendum in the UK and Trump&#8217;s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In <em>Democracy and Its Crisis</em> A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters.</p>
<p>First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered and what solutions were found. Then he lays bare the specific threats facing democracy today.</p>
<p>The paperback edition includes new material on the reforms that are needed to make our system truly democratic.</p>
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