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£16.99, 9781292218106 Big data and data science are game-changers in the modern business world, but what are they and how can you practically use them? This aims to help you to use them to your advantage in order to better understand your market, build better products, know your customers and improve your financial results.


CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS


WHO FIGHT BACK BBC, 15TH, H/B, £14.99, 9781785942983 BBC documentary


presenter shares what she has learned reporting from the frontline of women’s issues around the world. At the core of her book are incredible women in challenging circumstances, from sex workers in Russia to victims of domestic violence in Honduras.


POLITICAL MURDERS BITEBACK, H/B, £20, 9781250119346 Expert on the KGB puts together the deaths of dozens of Vladimir Putin’s critics to expose a campaign of political murder during his reign, which even includes terrorist attacks such as the Boston Marathon Bombing, the author claims. Also includes new information about the murders of Alexander Litvinenko and Boris Nemtsov.


DAVID ANDRESS CULTURAL DEMENTIA HEAD OF ZEUS, 8TH, H/B, £14.99, 9781788540049 The author, professor of modern history at the University of Portsmouth, argues that we are succumbing to an attack of social and cultural dementia, in which the former great powers of the historic “West”—especially the UK, the US and France—are abandoning the wisdom of maturity and the lessons of history for “senescent daydreams of recovered youth”, stirring up old hatreds along the way.


JOE CLEMENT AND MATT MILES SCREEN SCHOOLED: TWO VETERAN TEACHERS EXPOSE HOW TECHNOLOGY OVERUSE IS MAKING OUR KIDS DUMBER BLACK INC, P/B, £12.99, 9781863959995 This call-to-arms for parents and teachers, by two US teachers, paints a scary picture of how technology use has created a wide range of cognitive and social deficits in young people. It makes compelling reading, but in my limited experience, a lot of the most positive technology use actually takes place in schools, so it seems a little unfair to lay the responsibility primarily with teachers.


STACEY DOOLEY ON THE FRONTLINE WITH THE WOMEN


JEFF GOODELL THE WATER WILL COME: RISING SEAS, SHRINKING CITIES, AND THE REMAKING OF THE CIVILISED WORLD BLACK INC, H/B, £17.99, 9781760640415 By the century’s end, hundreds of millions of people will be retreating from the world’s shores as our coasts become inundated and our landscapes transformed. So says this urgent and frankly alarming account of the coming water, in which Goodell travels to 12 countries and reports from the frontlines.


HELEN PANKHURST DEEDS NOT WORDS SCEPTRE, 8TH, H/B, £20, 9781473646858 Helen Pankhurst is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline, and is herself a leading women’s-rights campaigner. She considers how female lives have changed over the past century, and offers her own powerful and positive take on the way forward.


ROB RIEMEN TO FIGHT AGAINST THIS AGE: ON FASCISM AND HUMANISM NORTON, H/B, £15.99, 9780393635867 Said to be a poignant meditation on our modern predicament: the rise, once again, of the face of fascism, disguised by false promises of freedom and greatness.


MOHAMMAD SABAANEH PALESTINE: IN BLACK AND WHITE SAQI, P/B, £10.99, 9780863569401


NISHA KAPOOR DEPORT, DEPRIVE, EXTRADITE: 21ST CENTURY STATE EXTREMISM VERSO, H/B, £16.99, 9781786633477 In looking at stories of Muslim men accused of terrorism-related offences, Kapoor—“a rising star in the field of race scholarship”— exposes how these subjects are dehumanised and made non-human, both in terms of how they are represented, and through the disciplinary techniques used to expel them.


AMY KNIGHT ORDERS TO KILL: THE PUTIN REGIME AND


One hundred and twenty powerful and provocative cartoons which get to the heart of life in Palestine today in this first book by a talented Palestinian graphic artist. Joe Sacco is an admirer.


RICHARD SENNETT BUILDING AND DWELLING: ETHICS FOR THE CITY ALLEN LANE, 22ND, H/B, £25, 978071399875 The author of The Fall of Public Man, one of the world’s leading thinkers on society, equality, citizenship and our built environment, draws on a lifetime of thought about what makes cities work (or not) for the benefit of their communities in this sweeping study of the relationship between how


cities are built and how people live in them.


JO SWINSON EQUAL POWER: A HANDBOOK FOR MEN AND WOMEN ATLANTIC, 1ST, H/B, £16.99, 9780374200336 Practical call-to-arms which argues that there is much we can all do to promote fairness and create change where equality is concerned, whether we are a teenage student, a global c.e.o., or a taxi driver. Swinson is the MP for East Dunbartonshire and deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, who was also a parliamentary under-secretary at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills in the coalition government.


NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION FEBRUARY


critiques, it offers a way out of the current malaise.”


FILM, TV & MUSIC


NICK AIRES S.T.A.R. LABS: CISCO RAMON’S JOURNAL (THE FLASH) TITAN, 23RD, P/B, £19.99, 9781785651274 The confidential diary entries of Cisco Ramon, one of the original members of Team Flash in US TV series “The Flash”, cover everything from his tech designs, the villains he and his team encounter, and his own Vibe activities.


SHAUN WALKER THE LONG HANGOVER: PUTIN’S NEW RUSSIA AND THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST OUP, H/B, £20, 9780190659240 Experienced reporter on Russia offers a new explanation for why Putin succeeded in reviving the country from the wreckage of the 1990s, and how the memorialisation of the Second World War in all aspects of national life also helped him stitch the country back together. (Not in a good way, presumably).


STEPHEN FOLLOWS CROWDFUNDING FOR FILMMAKERS CREATIVE ESSENTIALS, 22ND, P/B, £16.99, 9780857301833 Crowdfunding is a major source of funding for independent films, with over $250m raised for such projects on Kickstarter alone to date. This guides you through every stage of planning, creating and funding a film crowd- funding campaign, and includes interviews with 50 filmmakers who have been there and done it.


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lyrics, and new testimonies from his family and close friends, this claims to bring us closer than ever before to the truth about his disappearance in February 1993. Foreword by Richey’s sister Rachel.


SIMON WARD OKJA: THE ART AND MAKING OF THE FILM TITAN, 13TH, H/B, £29.99, 9781785657634 This official art book celebrates the new Netflix action movie, directed by Bon Joon Ho, and starring Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal.


CAROLINE YOUNG ROMAN HOLIDAY: THE SECRET LIFE OF HOLIDAYS IN ROME THE HISTORY PRESS, H/B, £20, 9780750982788 Tells the heady tale of Rome during the 1950s and ’60s. when the cafés and nightclubs were filled with movie stars and film directors, as Hollywood productions flocked to the city to film at Cinecittá Studios. Ava Gardner, Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren all feature.


FOOD & DRINK


ANTHONY ZIELONKA COUNTER-REVOLUTION: LIBERAL EUROPE IN RETREAT OUP, H/B, £14.99, 9780198806561 Said to be a bold attempt, via a series of heartfelt letters, to tackle the problems facing present- day Europe, across politics, economics, and culture. “Unlike many other


RYAN LAMBIE THE GEEK’S GUIDE TO SF CINEMA: 30 KEY FILMS THAT REVOLUTIONISED THE GENRE ROBINSON, 15TH, P/B, £12.99, 9781472139856 The deputy editor of film website denofgeek.com provides an entertaining history of the science- fiction genre’s pivotal and most influential movies, from the pioneering films of Georges Méliès to 21st Century blockbusters such as “Avatar” and “Inception”.


LEON NOAKES AND SARA HAWYS ROBERTS WITHDRAWN TRACES: SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT RICHEY MANIC VIRGIN, 1ST, H/B, £20, 9780753545348 With privileged and exclusive access to Richey Manic’s diaries, letters and


MASTERCHEF: SENSATIONAL PUDDINGS DK, 1ST, H/B, £8.99, 9780241333372 This new series pairs aspirational appeal with expert know-how, with each of the 30 recipes created by a “MasterChef” contestant. Also out this month: Quick Wins (02413333358), Amazing Mains (0241333389) and Prepare Ahead (0241333365).


PASTA REINVENTED: GLUTEN-FREE PASTAS, ALTERNATIVE NOODLES, 80 CREATIVE AND DELICIOUS RECIPES DK, 1ST, H/B, £14.99, 9780241319024 Said to be the only pasta and noodle cookbook which focuses exclusively on healthy alternatives to traditional pasta, made


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