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|title=A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand

|author=Andrew Rugasira

|rating=3

|genre=Politics and Society

|summary=There are few billionaire black African entrepreneurs. As Andrew Rugasira points out in ''A Good African Story'', the people who make money from African exports are virtually always white Westerners. Even Fair Trade participants remain skewed by the status quo of trade barriers which discriminate against Third World countries.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571927</amazonuk>

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|title=Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible

|summary=Twenge and Campbell have been studying the rise in narcissism as a social trend. They are well-qualified to comment, having worked since 1998 with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research in this field. At more than three hundred pages it's rather weighty for the popular market at which it's aimed, but even if you only dip into this book, I think you'll take home their message.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Tim Moore~~

~~|title=You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Travel~~

|summary=This is not the first book I've read about the scummy, unloved corners of our country, and I approached it in just the same way I did with the last - I looked to see if it might feature Leicester, where I live. The opinion seems to be that you can only like Leicester enough to be proud of it if you're not from there originally - and as I grew up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere, it suits me fine. But no - despite its problems (thanks, Labour councils) it doesn't count. It's not grotty, ugly, run-down and unappreciated enough. It still has some semblance of life, unlike too many towns and cities in Britain where the industry, the jobs, the life and the thought have been sucked out, seemingly beyond repair. After stumbling upon the nightmare that is the out-of-season, redundant English coastal town, our author has valiantly journeyed round many of these grot-spots, and found the story of decrepitude only exacerbating.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546930</amazonuk>~~

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