society and culture
-a selection of books that reflect our modern world.
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The History of Information
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Money: A Story of Humanity
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High Society - Mind Altering Drugs in History and Culture
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Hegarty on Advertising
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Edible - 70 Sustainable Plants that are Changing How we Eat.
original price €29.50 - original price €29.50original price€29.50€29.50 - €29.50current price €29.50Edible is a food adventure exploring 70 sustainable plants that are changing how we eat. While you might not find most of these in your local super...
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The Hike Life
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Asylum - inside Grangegorman
original price €19.00 - original price €19.00original price€19.00€19.00 - €19.00current price €19.00In 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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Topographia Hibernica
original price €24.00 - original price €24.00original price€24.00€24.00 - €24.00current price €24.00There 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 Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read
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The Late Night Writers Club
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The Preserving Garden
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Changing World
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Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers & Other Irish Words for Nature
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Why We Swim
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Irish Insult Generator
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Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
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Motherfocloir: Dispatches from a not so Dead Language
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Secret Dublin - An Unusual Guide
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The Irish - Tales of Emigration Exile and Imperialism
original price €15.50 - original price €15.50original price€15.50€15.50 - €15.50current price €15.50The Irish explores the lives of over forty men and women who traveled from Irish shores all over the world and played a profound role in world hist...
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Kawaii! - your step by step guide to cute Japanese drawing.
original price €12.00 - original price €12.00original price€12.00€12.00 - €12.00current price €12.00Kawaii, meaning cute or adorable, is an aesthetic closely associated with Japanese culture. It came to prominence in the 1970's and has remained po...
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The Ransom Note Sticker Book
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Ireland's Forgotten Past - A history of the overlooked and disremembered.
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Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life
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Windfall - Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect
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