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-a selection of books that reflect our modern world.

  • Yoga for Stiff Birds book. Pink cover with drawing of a black bird with orange beak in a downward yoga pose

    Yoga for Stiff Birds

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    A yoga book for birds of all feathers. Experience the benefits of yoga with bestselling and award-winning artist, Marion Deuchars. She believed yog...

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  • totally wired the rise and fall of music press book cover. Pink with green and white text and black and pink image of a woman singing into a microphone

    Totally Wired - the Rise and Fall of the Music Press

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    Totally Wired provides a comprehensive retelling of the music press's history in both the US and UK, spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s and encom...

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  • Dublin, Written in Our Hearts

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    Specially commissioned for this year's One Dublin One book - Dublin Written in Our Hearts is an Anthology of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about...

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  • Food Rules - Michael Pollan

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    Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. - These are Michael Pollan's now very famous advice for how to eat.  In this pocket size paperback he expand...

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  • The Last Tree on Easter Island - Jared Diamond

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    This is Jared Diamond's viseral account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itse...

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  • Hot Money

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    In Hot Money, Klein lays out the evidence that deregulated capitalism is waging war on the climate and shows that, in order to stop the damage, we ...

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  • Crisp Sommelier - the ultimate guide to crisp and drink pairings

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    Whether you're a casual snacker or a crisp connoisseur this is the guide for you.  Neil pairs 80 different drinks - from Lemonade with Monster Munc...

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  • BLIND BOY BOATCLUD TOPOGRAPHIA HIBERNICA BOOK COVER WHITE WITH LIGHT BLUE PATTERN OF TREES AND BIRDS

    Topographia Hibernica - Paperback

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    There are few writers like Blindboy, and this book is one that is hard to describe. Absorbing and hard to put down, it is packed full of stories an...

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  • The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean

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    David Bodanis wanted to know if you can you succeed without being a terrible person. We're told that 'nice guys finish last, but is it really true ...

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  • Weird Ireland - An Unofficial Guide to the Island.

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    This book is a fascinating look at modern folklore. All around Ireland, there are frankly weird phenomena: singing walls, fairy rings, holy wells, ...

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  • The Irish Words You Should Know

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    Broadcaster and talking head Hector's thesis is that when you speak in Irish, every word is a tiny poem. This very loving look at the intricacies a...

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  • book cover titled money

    Money: A Story of Humanity

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    They say money makes the world go around, but just exactly why is that? Where did it come from, why was it invented and why do we let it have so mu...

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  • The Irish - Tales of Emigration Exile and Imperialism

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    The Irish explores the lives of over forty men and women who travelled from Irish shores all over the world and played a profound role in world his...

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  • Ireland's Forgotten Past book with green hills, castle in the background and stream powered train  on a trackin the foreground

    Ireland's Forgotten Past - A history of the overlooked and disremembered.

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    A collection of 36 curious stories about overlooked aspects of Irish history told in a very entertaining style, you'll definitely learn a thing or ...

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  • Windfall - Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect

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    When regular words just won't do it, sometimes the best way to connect is through poetry, and that's exactly what this lovingly assembled book of...

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  • Asylum - inside Grangegorman

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    In 1814, the Richmond Lunatic Asylum at Grangegorman in Dublin started an extraordinary programme of asylum building across Ireland, aimed at allev...

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  • Social Capital orange book cover with black and white text and image of an eye with blue iris

    Social Capital

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     Social media has been shaping the lives of millions here in Ireland, and billions around the world over the last 3 decades. As each new platform h...

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  • cover of book. green background with four white rectangular text boxes- going vertically down the page, highlighted with orange surrounding. each of the four boxes has one of the following words in a different black font- the/ irish/ insult/ generator

    Irish Insult Generator

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    Is he a shitehawk or a messer? A gombeen or a dope? Take the decision-making out of your trash talk and fire out hilarious one-line insults left, r...

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  • cover of book on a wooden background. cover is a pale green with an illustration of a bird on a brand. there is japanese characters in the top right in gold. the title is in a darker green and the author and description are in gold

    Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

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    Wabi Sabi is a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth a...

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  • Motherfocloir: Dispatches from a not so Dead Language

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    Based on the hilarious Twitter feed @theirishfor, Motherfocloir, by Darach o Seaghdha, is an incredibly funny book about the Irish language. Featur...

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    The Hike Life 2 - 50 More to Explore

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    Rozanna Purcell showcases 50 new trails, showing off new areas around Ireland from popular hikes to lesser known trails. There are fantastic hikes ...

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    The History of Information

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    This labour of love from author Chris Haughton uses the lens of information to explain why the world is like it is. His beautifully illustrated an...

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    Why We Swim

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    Does anything beat jumping into the sea as the sun rises over Dublin Bay? I think not. From the Forty-foot to Seapoint, sea swimming has seen a rea...

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