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society and culture

-a selection of books that reflect our modern world.

  • 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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    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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  • high society book cover. text is in a large pink and red smoke cloud coming fromt eh pipe of a lady iin old fashioned clothes and a hat

    High Society - Mind Altering Drugs in History and Culture

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    High Society explores the proliferation of mind-altering substances both around the world and throughout history. Cultural historian Mike Jay discu...

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  • Hegarty on Advertising

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    This updated version of the classic Hegarty on Advertising discusses how John Hegarty's career coincided with the rise of the advertising agency. W...

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  • Book Coever for Edible. Orange book cover with yellow flowers, brown seeds and green and purple plant with eight leaves. White band along top of cover with book title in black lettering

    Edible - 70 Sustainable Plants that are Changing How we Eat.

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    Edible 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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    A life long hiker, Roz Purcell grew up at the foot of Sliabh Na mBan in Tipperary, which was her childhood playground and escape from the jobs on t...

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

    Topographia Hibernica

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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 Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read

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    This warm, practical and witty book by Philippa Perry delves into relationships and the quality of those connections in this practical guide to eva...

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  • The Late Night Writers Club

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    The Late Night Writers Club sees a talented, but rather annoying, writer struggle through writer's block to complete his first novel. Tortured by h...

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  • The Preserving Garden

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    A delight to the eyes, this beautifully laid out book is a catalogue of ways on how to use garden produce to provide food all year round. It steps ...

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  • Changing World

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    The terrifying effects of a warming planet are as impossible to ignore as they are hard to contemplate, making it hard at times to pick through the...

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  • Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers & Other Irish Words for Nature

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    The words gathered in these pages, matched with evocative illustrations by Steve Doogan, should leave you with no uncertainty about the poetry, wis...

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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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  • 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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    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. Featuri...

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  • Secret Dublin - An Unusual Guide

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    Discover the inner sanctum of Freemason's Hall, see Napoleon's toothbrush, marvel at a hoax plaque hidden in plain sight on O'Connell Bridge, try G...

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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 traveled from Irish shores all over the world and played a profound role in world hist...

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  • Kawaii! book cover red with white circle and red lettering and 4 smiling figures on cover
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    Kawaii! - your step by step guide to cute Japanese drawing.

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    Kawaii, 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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    With a grungy, vintage letterpress vibe, the letters irresistibly recall the age of print newspapers - and the collection includes type ornaments, ...

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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
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    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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    Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

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    In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling author Fintan O'Toole challenges how we tend to interpret Shakespeare's tragedys. Originally publ...

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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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