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Staying the Course: Navigating the Challenges of Part-time Study

Asrif Yusoff (Hughes Hall 2017)

Staying the Course: Navigating the Challenges of Part-time Study is a practical companion that helps and guides you to chart your academic success while progressing in your career. The book is based on the author’s experience in balancing family, work, and study as a part-time student across two master’s programmes and one doctoral programme over the past ten years -- and counting. Across 13 chapters, you will be provided with effective strategies and real insights on:

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Homo Unus: Successor to Homo Sapiens

Kinchit Bihani (Fitzwilliam 2008)

Do you feel disheartened because ... A cocktail of macro trends (changing climate, pandemics, threat of wars, pollution, crony capitalism, etc.), micro trends (inflation, regional wars, racial conflicts, inefficient governments, etc.) and nano trends (strained relationships, loneliness, etc.) is threatening human race. Is there a magical bullet to the aforesaid problems? Will changing leadership and regimes, bringing in new legislations, creating new institutions, new science and other measures bring complete relief?

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Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an Industry in Transition

Leda Glyptis (King's 1997)

The world is going digital, and so is banking—in fits, starts, and circles. Why is it so hard? Why is the industry constantly getting in the way of its own technological progress and what can we do about it all? This book looks at the human and structural obstacles to innovation-driven transformation and at the change in habits, mindsets and leadership needed for the next stage of the digital journey and argues that this change will be brought about, not by external heroes and saviours, not by a generation yet to be born, but people just like us.

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A Dual Perspective: The German in an English Judge

Konrad Schiemann (Pembroke 1958)

The inspirational story of a young German orphan who escaped a war-torn Berlin to rise to the highest ranks of the European legal system. When Konrad Schiemann escaped his home in Berlin to begin a new life in England, he didn’t know what life awaited him there. An orphan who had lost both of his parents at the end of World War Two, he reached this new country to start again with the help of relatives. Grown up, he decided to practise as a barrister in England and became a judge of the Appeal Court and finally of the European Court of Justice.

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A Young Person's Guide to Vocal Health

Olivia Sparkhall (Homerton 1998)

To maintain a healthy speaking and singing voice, it is essential to keep your instrument in good working order. This is a guide specifically aimed at young people, to help them to understand how to look after their voice. Ideal for choristers, choral scholars, aspiring actors and pop singers alike, it covers avoiding or dealing with problems like colds and sore throats, shouting in sports halls, overuse, diet, hormones, anxiety, abuse, and bad habits.

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Blue Swan

James Giles (Tutor, Institute of Continuing Education)

Blue Swan is James Giles’ second album. Weaving its way through rock, indie, alternative-folk, and ambient music, it carries the listener into a whirlwind of musical expressions. From the pulsating rhythm of the title track, Blue Swan, and the melodic but eerie strains of Shallow Graves, to the hypnotizing cycles of The Western Sky, a path is traced that has no evident boundaries. Each song, however, shares something with the others.

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Emba Oak and the Terrible Tomorrows

Jenny Moore (Selwyn 1994)

All the best stories and adventures start with a knock at the door… Or the thwump of a dragon’s tail at the entrance to her cave, in the case of Emba Oak. But then nothing about Emba’s story is normal; from the scales on her arms and legs, to the shocking discovery that she hatched out of a dragon’s egg. Even more shocking is the news that an evil sorcerer is after her dragon blood and will do anything to get his hands on it. Can Emba keep herself safe or will her loved ones pay the price?

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Odelia and the Varmint

Jenny Moore (Selwyn 1994)

'What if I don't want to go back to a life of storms and soggy sea biscuits?' said Captain Blunderfuss. 'What if I'd rather stay here and search for treasure instead?' When a pair of unruly fictional pirates escape out of their book into Victorian London, 11-year-old Odelia Hardluck-Smythe's lonely life is turned upside down. Captain Blunderfuss and Cook are rude, dangerous and obsessed with marzipan fruits, but they could be the answer to all her prayers. Pirates mean treasure and poor, fatherless Odelia could really do with some of that.

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Skandar and the Unicorn Thief

Annabel Steadman (Selwyn 2010)

Thirteen-year-old Skandar Smith has only ever wanted to be a unicorn rider. To be one of the lucky few selected to hatch a unicorn. To bond with it for life; to train together and race for glory; to be a hero. But just as Skandar's dream is about to come true, things start to take a more dangerous turn than he could ever have imagined. A dark and twisted enemy has stolen the Island's most powerful unicorn - and as the threat grows ever closer, Skandar discovers a secret that could blow apart his world forever...

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Forty Poems for Dylan Thomas

Roger Stennett (Christ's 1969)

A collection of ooems looking at the life, work and themes of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53) and at the connections and differences between us as writers.

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Deadly Shores

Kerry Buchanan (Jesus 1985)

Compelling crime thriller featuring detectives Asha Harvey & Aaron Birch. Two ships in the night. Another dead body. No safe harbour. A wave lifts the stern of the boat, rigging groans in protest and a crash comes from down below, as the wails of the cargo rise above the howl of the storm. It’s a wild Christmas Day on the rugged Northern Irish coast. But there’s no time for turkey and pud with the family for Detectives Harvey and Birch. DS Aaron Birch leans into the wind and driving sleet. Thick, scudding clouds make the streets of Lisburn almost as dark as early evening.

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PopUpular Cambridge - the city in creases

John O'Hare (Homerton 1994)

Recreate the timeless beauty of Cambridge with paper engineering. Build 55 display-worthy pop-up architectural origami sculptures of Cambridge University, the colleges and city scenes. With full colour instructions and templates, no previous crafting experience is needed. The models are brought to life with a wealth of tourist information, infographics and architectural background mixing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) with Arts.

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Journal of Two Plague Years

George W. Liebmann (Visiting Fellow 1996)

This is a collection of 70 op-ed pieces appearing in the Baltimore Sun, The American Conservative Online, the Washington Examiner, Chronicles Online, the Washington Times, and the Calvert Institute website in the two years beginning with the presidential election of 2020. It reflects the views of a writer discouraged by the indifference to constitutional values of former President Trump and the devotion to identity politics and moral nihilism of too many of his opponents.

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True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays

Eugene Stelzig (King's 1966)

This gathering of autobiographical essays focuses on different experiences and periods of the author’s life and hybrid identity: a childhood spent in Austria, teenage years in an American school and then a lycèe in France, coming to the U.S. as a young adult and attending college, studying in England for two years, and then settling permanently in the U.S. into an academic career. The word “essay” in the title is meant in its original or French sense, as an attempt or trial.

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Taming The Beast - Memoirs of a Pioneering Cancer Physician

John Fletcher Smyth (Trinity 1964)

This short autobiography recounts my life as a professional singer and cancer researcher. I was the inaugural Professor of Medical Oncology in Edinburgh (1979-) and have played a major part in developing cancer medicine in the UK and Europe. I reflect on the amazing changes in cancer treatment over the past 50 years from cancer being an "untamed" disease to the present day when we have managed to control (tame) so many of these disease that now affect 1 in 2 of us. I have also enjoyed making music with Sir John Eliot Gardiner amongst others for over 50 years.

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Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata – or, Why Does the Krishna Avatāra Inaugurate the Worst Yuga?

Simon Brodbeck (Clare 1989)

Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata reflects on the theology of time in this early Hindu text and poses the key question: why does the Krishna avatāra inaugurate the worst yuga? The Sanskrit Mahābhārata describes a massive war facilitated by God and the gods. That war took place between the third and the last ages of a 12,000-year cycle; within the cycle, moral behaviour and human lifespan always decrease in steps before being rebooted for the next cycle (initial lifespan 400 years).

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Reimagining Arab Political Identity: Justice, Women's Rights, and the Arab State

Salam Hawa (Lucy Cavendish 1988)

This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result that present day Arab societies are characterised by a crisis of identity where fundamentalism or chaos seem to be the only available choices.

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Grounded

Alisa Bryce (Jesus 2012)

Life on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil: food, fibre, medicines and more. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth.There are already plenty of books about agriculture, ecology or how to grow tomatoes. This book is about the other stuff. Like…

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The Woman Before

Jennifer Moore (Selwyn 1994)

A perfect home… A destructive obsession… A fatal secret… When Fern and Paul move into the large, old house on Crenellation Lane, with beautiful high ceilings and a luscious garden, they think they’ve found their dream home. After the devastating loss of Fern’s twin sister, it will be a fresh start and somewhere to raise their first baby. But as soon as they arrive, Fern starts having terrifying nightmares about the woman who lived there before. When the woman showed Fern around, they bonded over their pregnancies. Now, Fern can’t let her go.

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Reflections Before and During Covid-19

Henry Disney (Sidney Sussex 1959)

The Covid pandemic has impacted all our lives. The new poems in this volume constitute a challenging set of reflections and provide an interesting contrast with some of the poems the author published before Covid-19. The author is a distinguished entomologist who is author or co-author of hundreds of scentific papers and 10 previous books of poems.

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