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Gypsies: An English History

Gypsies: An English History

David Cressy (Clare 1964)

A history rich in archival detail, tracing five hundred years of misunderstanding and prejudice regarding Gypsies in England and Europe.

Twins & Multiple Births: the essential parenting guide from pregnancy to adulthood

Twins & Multiple Births: the essential parenting guide from pregnancy to adulthood

Carol Cooper (Newnham 1969)

Updated twice since its original publication, this popular and inspiring parenting guide is for parents of twins or more. It’s written by a practising GP and mother of twins who seamlessly combines her medical know-how with first-hand experience of having more than one baby at once.

Hampstead Fever

Hampstead Fever

Carol Cooper (Newnham 1969)

In a London heatwave, emotions reach boiling point. The lives of six Londoners overlap and entangle as each of them searches for love, sex, money, or just a truce between squabbling children. Like “Love, Actually,” but set in Hampstead in midsummer, this is a slice of contemporary urban life to make you laugh, cry, and nod in recognition.

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One Night at the Jacaranda

Carol Cooper (Newnham 1969)

Contemporary novel in which a diverse group of Londoners search for someone special and end up finding themselves. For one booze and hope-fuelled night, the lives of a clutch of thirty-somethings criss-cross at a singles event. Undercover journalist Harriet is after a by-line, not a boyfriend. She’s a struggling freelance with a live-in lover, who unexpectedly has to choose between the comfortable life she knows and a bumpy road that could lead to happiness.

General Practice Cases at a Glance

General Practice Cases at a Glance

Carol Cooper (Newnham 1969) and Martin Block

A workbook of clinical scenarios, ideal for those working in general practice, students on their GP rotations, or anyone looking to improve their history–taking, diagnostic and management planning skills. Written by practising teaching GPs, it provides an accessible overview of the richness and complexity of general practice.

Cambridge en mitad de la noche

Cambridge en mitad de la noche

David Jimenez Torres (Clare 2008)

David Jimenez Torres's second novel is also the first by a Spanish author to be set in Cambridge.

Roll of Honour: Schooling and the Great War, 1914-1919

Roll of Honour: Schooling and the Great War, 1914-1919

Barry Blades (Trinity Hall 1995)

'Roll of Honour' examines how the Great War of 1914-1919 was experienced by school communities in Great Britain. It focuses on the myriad faces of war rather than traditional stereotypes. The impact of the first 'total war' on students, teachers and governors from across the social and educational spectrum - from the elite public schools to the elementary schools for the poor - is considered using a wide range of resources and case studies. 'Roll of Honour' is the first book in the 'Schooling and the Great War' trilogy.

Speaking the Piano

Speaking the Piano

Susan Tomes (King's 1972)

In Speaking the Piano, renowned pianist Susan Tomes turns her attention to teaching and learning. Teaching music encompasses everything from putting a drum in a child's hands to helping an accomplished musician unlock the meaning and spirit of the classics. At every stage, some fundamental issues keep surfacing. In this wide-ranging book, Susan Tomes reflects on how her own experience as a learner, in different genres from classical to jazz, has influenced her approach to teaching.

Violence: Humans in Dark Times

Violence: Humans in Dark Times

Natasha Lennard (Sidney Sussex 2005)

In a series of penetrating conversations, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting-edge thinkers—including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, Elaine Scarry, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak—to explore the role of violence in politics, culture, the media, public speech, and against the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to confront the worst of what humans are capable of doing to one another. In short, there is a need to confront the intolerable realities of violence in this world."

Big Copyright Versus the People: How Major Content Providers Are Destroying Creativity and How to Stop Them

Big Copyright Versus the People: How Major Content Providers Are Destroying Creativity and How to Stop Them

Martin Skladany (Jesus 1998)

When the idea of copyright was enshrined in the Constitution, it was intended to induce citizens to create. Today, however, copyright has morphed into a system that offers the bulk of its protection to a select number of major corporate content providers (or Big Copyright), which has turned us from a country of creators into one of consumers who spend, on average, ten hours each day on entertainment.

The Aladdin Trial

The Aladdin Trial

Abi Silver (Girton 1986)

When an elderly artist plunges one hundred feet to her death at a London hospital, the police sense foul play. The hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee, is arrested for her murder. He protests his innocence, but why has he given her the story of Aladdin to read and why does he shake uncontrollably in times of stress?

Mormonism and the Emotions

Mormonism and the Emotions

Mauro Properzi (Peterhouse 2003)

Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award this book positions factors and outcomes in the constructs of emotion within a particular faith culture, involving conflicting and complementary dualities within Mormon views of authority, cognition, and responsibility.

Astroball: The New Way to Win it All

Astroball: The New Way to Win it All

Ben Reiter (King's 2002)

When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article’s author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment, a club that didn’t even appear to be trying to win. The cover story, combined with the specificity of Reiter’s claim, met instant and nearly universal derision. But three years later, the critics were proved improbably, astonishingly wrong. How had Reiter predicted it so accurately?

The Impatient Dr. Lange One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic

The Impatient Dr. Lange One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic

Seema Yasmin (Hughes Hall 2005)

When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky and disappeared among the burning debris. Seated in the plane’s business-class cabin was Joseph Lange, better known as Joep, a shrewd Dutch doctor who had revolutionized the world of HIV and AIDS and was working on a cure. Seema Yasmin (MB BChir '09) studied medicine at Cambridge on Dr. Joep Lange's advice. In this book she tells the story of a fearless man who fought relentlessly to end the epidemic.

With Honourable Intent - A Natural History of Fauna & Flora International

With Honourable Intent - A Natural History of Fauna & Flora International

Tim Knight (Catharine's 1980)

With Honourable Intent is the previously untold story of an organisation that has been shaping and influencing conservation practice since its foundation in 1903. From its origins in African wildlife conservation, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has grown into a truly global organisation, with projects in over 40 countries encompassing temperate and tropical forests, grasslands and deserts, limstone caves, wetlands and marine habitats.

'The Excursion' and Wordsworth’s Iconography

'The Excursion' and Wordsworth’s Iconography

Brandon Yen (Queens' 2012)

This book considers William Wordsworth’s use of iconography in his long poem 'The Excursion'. Through the iconographical approach, the author steers a middle course between The Excursion’s two very different interpretive traditions, one focusing upon the poem’s philosophical abstraction, the other upon its touristic realism. Fresh readings are also offered of Wordsworth’s other major works, including 'The Prelude'.

Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise

Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise

Peter Dale (Selwyn 1969) and Brandon Yen (Queens' 2012)

A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise provides a vivid account of Wordsworth as a gardening poet who not only wrote about gardens and flowers but also designed - and physically worked in – his gardens.

What Works at Work: a guide for thoughtful managers

What Works at Work: a guide for thoughtful managers

Mark O'Sullivan (Clare 1975)

Mark O'Sullivan's careful and thoughtful analysis exposes the deep flaws in management common sense and the ideas of the management gurus that sadly seem too often to drive managerial behaviour and decision-making.  His unbeatable combination of critical thinking and use of good quality research evidence about what does and doesn't work is applied to a wide range of classic management challenges producing compelling and practical advice.

This book is essential reading for any manager who wants to be a better manager.

Britanniae

Britanniae

Mark O'Sullivan (Clare 1975)

Britanniae is an historical novel set in Britain in the fourth century. When it opens we find a young woman holding her own running the family estate after the death of her parents, and harbouring secret ambitions for literary success. As rumours mount of political plots and of barbarian threats, she sets off through Britain beyond Hadrian's wall, on a journey on which she encounters love, a new future, and a chance of scholarly fame.

The Calais Letterbook of William Lord Hastings (1477) and Late Medieval Crisis Diplomacy 1477-1483

The Calais Letterbook of William Lord Hastings (1477) and Late Medieval Crisis Diplomacy 1477-1483

Edward Meek (Clare 1996)

Text and translation of important letters written by William Lord Hastings, king's lieutenant of Calais, during the first months of the international crisis that followed the death of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, at Nancy in January 1477. A Franco-Burgundian war broke out and England wished to maintain diplomatic relations with both sides: Edward IV's sister, Margaret of York, was Charles the Bold's widow, but Edward also wished to keep the peace treaty he had concluded with Louis XI of France in 1475.

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