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Gavin Stamp

Gavin Stamp is a well known architectural historian and writer. He has taught at Glasgow School of Art and held a research post at Cambridge. He lives in London.

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The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme

Gavin Stamp

The definitive account of the history and significance of a world landmark – reissued in time for the anniversary of the Somme.

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Out today, a fascinating and timely book from @newscientist Managing Editor Rowan Hooper: How to Spend a Trillion Dollars.

If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of world GDP, and about the valuation of Google, Microsoft or Amazon. It's a much smaller sum than the world found to bail out its banks in 2008 or deal with Covid-19.

But what could you achieve with $1 trillion?

You could solve the problem of the pandemic, for one, and eradicate malaria, and maybe cure all disease. You could end global poverty. You could settle on the Moon and explore the solar system. You could build a massive particle collider to probe the nature of reality like never before. You could build quantum computers, develop artificial intelligence, or increase human lifespan. You could even create a new life form.

Or how about transitioning the world to clean energy? Or preserving the rainforests, or saving all endangered species? Maybe you could refreeze the melting Arctic, launch a new sustainable agricultural revolution, and reverse climate change?

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars is the ultimate thought experiment but it is also a call to arms: these are all things we could do, if we put our minds to it - and our money.

#RowanHooper #HowToSpendATrillionDollars #ProfileBooks #NonFiction #Economy #Wellbeing #SavingTheWorld #Science #GlobalEconomy #GlobalMatters

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Congratulations to the truly brilliant Raja Shehadeh, whose Going Home: A walk through fifty years of occupation has won the Moore Prize 2020, awarded to the best book to advance our understanding of human rights.

In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city.

This is, in many ways, an elegy. Green spaces - gardens and hills crowned with olive trees - have been replaced by tower blocks and concrete lots; the occupation and the settlements have further entrenched themselves in every aspect of movement-from the roads that can and cannot be used to the bureaucratic barriers that prevent people leaving the West Bank.

Shehadeh notes the ways that the past still invades the presence from the ruins of the compound that was Yasser Arafat's home to the power of emigrated families to reshape neighbourhoods by selling their long-abandoned homes.

The Moore Prize judges said: 'This book was selected as the winner of the Moore Prize 2020 because of the beauty of its writing and the author’s ability to convey the everyday realities of generations of ordinary Palestinians living under occupation. Readers will not come away from this book with a multi-party history, an analysis of Palestinian resistance to occupation, or a catalogue of human rights violations. Instead, the poignant power of Raja Shehadeh’s memoir draws the reader towards a sense of intimacy with the city and people of Ramallah trying to live their lives in dignity and peace.'

#goinghome #rajashehadeh #palestine #westbank #autobiography #culturalhistory #nonfiction #bookstagram

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'Unmissable' - The Times
'Rich in compassion, patience and humanity' - The Tablet
'The best account I've seen of the realities of living through last year' - Iona Heath

GP and bestselling author Gavin Francis’s extraordinary #IntensiveCare is out today.

Intensive Care is about how coronavirus emerged, spread across the world and changed all of our lives forever. But it’s not, perhaps, the story you expect.

Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban and rural communities, splitting his time between Edinburgh and the islands of Orkney. When the pandemic ripped through our society he saw how it affected every walk of life: the anxious teenager, the isolated care home resident, the struggling furloughed worker and homeless ex-prisoner, all united by their vulnerability in the face of a global disaster.

In this deeply personal account of nine months spent caring for a society in crisis, Francis will take you from rural village streets to local clinics and communal city stairways. And in telling this story, he reveals others: of loneliness and hope, illness and recovery, and of what we can achieve when we care for each other.

#intensivecare #gavinfrancis #medicalmemoir #medicaljournal #nonfiction #bookstagram

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*Breaking news! *

Following the news of former British spy and Soviet Union double agent George Blake’s death in Russia aged 98, we will publish a biography of the last major British traitor of the Cold War by acclaimed author and journalist Simon Kuper: The Happy Traitor, on 4th February 2021. Perfect for fans of John le Carré and Ben Macintyre.

George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a Senior Officer in the British Intelligence Service who was double agent for the Soviet Union, his actions had devastating consequences for Britain. Yet he was also one of the least known double agents, and remained unrepentant.

In 1961, Blake was sentenced to forty-two years imprisonment for betraying to the KGB all of the Western operations in which he was involved, and the names of hundreds of British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. This was the longest sentence for espionage ever to have been handed down by a British court.

On the surface, Blake was a charming, intelligent and engaging man, and most importantly, a seemingly committed patriot. Underneath, a ruthlessly efficient mole and key player in the infamous 'Berlin Tunnel' operation. This illuminating biography tracks Blake from humble beginnings as a teenage courier for the Dutch underground during the Second World War, to the sensational prison-break from Wormwood Scrubs that inspired Hitchcock to write screenplay.

Through a combination of personal interviews, research and unique access to Stasi records, journalist Simon Kuper unravels who Blake truly was, what he was capable of, and why he did it.

Kuper says: ‘I went to see him in his dacha in May 2012, expecting just to write an article for a Dutch newspaper. I left several hours later thinking, “This is the most interesting interview I have ever done.” Blake’s life tracks so much of the twentieth century: fighting in the Dutch Resistance, working for the British secret services in World War Two, captivity in North Korea, spying for the KGB, prison in London, an escape so spectacular that Hitchcock spent his last years trying to make a film about it, and then living in Moscow with the reality of communism alongside Kim Philby and Blake’s

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Many bookshops are still open for click and collect - check the website and social media to find out if yours is offering the service. Very handy for those last minute presents when you need to get someone something to cheer them up - like one of the books on our Books to Bring Cheer shelf.

In Shaun Bythell’s Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops we meet the furtive erotica browser, the crafty Antiquarian and more… Travel across the country and back in time on a cheese odyssey with Ned Palmer’s Sunday Times bestselling A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles. Comfort yourself with the tall tales of liberal life in Stuart Heritage’s Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals.

#shaunbythell #wigtownbookshop #nedpalmer #cheesemonger #acheesemongershistory #stuartheritage #bedtimestoriesforworriedliberals #bookstagram #igreads

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What if you were about to read something that will forever change the way you understand your own mind? Out on January 28th, this is an era-defining work of neuropsychology that will blow. your. mind. Pre-order your copy and be one of the first to enter this new frontier of scientific thinking.

How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, the man who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming appears to have made a breakthrough.

The very idea that a solution is at hand may seem outrageous. Isn't consciousness intangible, beyond the reach of science? Yet Mark Solms shows how misguided fears and suppositions have concealed its true nature. Stick to the medical facts, pay close attention to the eerie testimony of hundreds of neurosurgery patients, and a way past our obstacles reveals itself.

Join Solms on a voyage into the extraordinary realms beyond. More than just a philosophical argument, The Hidden Spring will forever alter how you understand your own experience. There is a secret buried in the brain's ancient foundations: bring it into the light and we fathom all the depths of our being.

#psychology #psychoanalysis #freud #neuropsychology #marksolms #thehiddenspring #nonfiction #sciencereads #bookstagram

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