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Swift Press Behind You is the Sea
Behind You Is the Sea is a compelling debut that fearlessly challenges stereotypes surrounding Palestinian culture.A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Ms Magazine, Lithub and ElleFunny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars Palestinian immigrants who've all found a different welcome in America.Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: the wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for dishonouring' their name. Only a trip to Palestine, where Marcus experiences an unexpected and dramatic transformation, can bridge this seemingly unbridgeable divide between t
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Swift Press No One Left
''Highly readable ... Everything we need to know on this subject'' Financial TimesA population calamity is unfolding before our eyes. It started in parts of the developed world and is spreading to the four corners of the globe. There are just too few babies being born for humanity to replace itself.Leading demographer Paul Morland argues that the consequences of this promise to be calamitous. Labour shortages, pensions crises, ballooning debt: what is currently happening in South Korea which faces population decline of more than 85% within just two generations - threatens to engulf us all, and sooner than we think. In the developed world we may be able temporarily to stave off the worst of its effects with immigration, but many countries, including those the immigrants come from, will get old before they get rich.No One Left charts this future, explains its causes and suggests what might be done. Unless we radically change our
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Swift Press The End of DrumTime
Shortlisted for the National Book AwardA story of forbidden love and fugitive faith in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle''Transports readers deep into an unfamiliar world, yet with familiar conflicts and desires. I was absorbed and changed. Absolutely beautiful'' Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl EarringIn 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something that ultimately crosses borders?of cultures, of beliefs, and of political divides?as Willa follows the herders on their arduous annual
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Swift Press Bad Therapy
From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into how mental health overdiagnosis is harming, not helping, children''Apacy, no-holds barredattack on mental health professionals and parenting experts ... thought-provoking''Financial Times''A message thatparents, teachers, mental health professionals and policymakers need to hear'' New StatesmanIn virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing up. What's gone wrong?In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem i
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Swift Press River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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Swift Press Feminism Against Progress
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Swift Press Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
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Swift Press Quarantine
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Swift Press A Decent World
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Swift Press The Vedas and Upanishads for Children
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Swift Press Seesaw
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Swift Press The Corpse Flower
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Swift Press How to Grow Your Own Poem
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Swift Press 7 Rules of Power: Surprising - But True - Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career
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Swift Press Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children
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Swift Press The Shards: Bret Easton Ellis. The Sunday Times Bestselling New Novel from the Author of AMERICAN PSYCHO
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Swift Press Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
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Swift Press Time to Think
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION?SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING?''This is what journalism is for'' - Observer?Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS's flagship gender service for children.The Tavistock''s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) was set up initially to provide talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity.But in the last decade GIDS referred around two thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty. In the same period, the number of referrals exploded and the profile of the patients changed: from largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls, who were often contending with other difficulties. Was there enough clinical evidence to justify such profound medical interventions?<
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Swift Press The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
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Swift Press The Book of Days
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Swift Press Vassal State
''Provocative and detailed ... Excellent'' The Telegraph''Shocking and meticulous'' Danny Dorling''An eye-opening revelation ... a must-read'' Joel BakanBritish politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed special relationship' with the US. But are we really America's economic partner or its colony?Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain's economy: how American business chiefs decide what we're paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. US companies have carved up Britain between them, siphoning off enormous profits, buying up our most lucrative firms and assets, and extracting huge rents from UK PLC all while paying little or no tax. Meanwhile, policymakers, from Whitehall mandarins to NHS chiefs, shape their decisions to suit the whims of our American corporate overlords.Based on his 40 years of business exp
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Swift Press Tiananmen Square
''An extraordinary book. Truly important'' - William BoydA stunning, deeply moving novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in Tiananmen Square protestsIt is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a formidable figure no-nonsense and uncompromising, but loving towards her granddaughter while her ageing beauty of a mother snipes at her father, a sunken figure who has taken refuge in his work.As she grows up, Lai comes to discern the realities of the country she lives is: an early encounter with the police haunts her for years; her father makes her see that his quietness is a reaction to experiences he has lived through; and an old bookseller subtly introduces her to ideas and novels that open her mind to different perspectives. But she also goes through what anyone goes through when young the
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Swift Press Transsexual Apostate: My Journey Back to Reality
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Swift Press Moscow X: From the Bestselling Author of THE TIMES Thriller of the Year DAMASCUS STATION
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Swift Press Three Tales of My Father's Dragon
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Swift Press Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)
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Swift Press Run to the Western Shore: ‘Surprising, poignant, elemental’ novel from award-winning author
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Swift Press The Shards: Bret Easton Ellis. The Sunday Times Bestselling New Novel from the Author of AMERICAN PSYCHO
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Swift Press Black Success
How did the Windrush generation become so prosperous? Why are Nigerians achieving so highly in the education system? Why does Hollywood rush to cast Black British actors? And why are so many Jamaicans winning Olympic gold? And what lessons are there from these success stories for young black people in low-income communities?In this truthful and often surprising book, Tony Sewell weaves together memoir and argument to explore the drivers of black success. He traces black people's hard-won achievements back to their source: family, religion, education, hard work, discipline and the property market. He argues in favour of rejecting victimhood and low expectations and embracing high ambitions, drawing on a range of interviews and stories to offer a more exciting, sometimes visionary new view of black life in Britain today.Black Success is essential reading not only for black Britons who are fed up with a narrative that denies them agency and responsibility, but al
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Swift Press Feminism Against Progress
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Swift Press Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it
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Swift Press Bring Back Our Girls: The Heart-Stopping Story of the Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
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