 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.55 All cops should read it, so should everyone else
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 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.88 Heartbreakingly beautiful, achingly sad, yet ultimately uplifting
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 | Poker: Bets, Bluffs & Bad Beats by A. Alvarez
Buy used from: £2.67 Poker-playing poet, rock-climbing raconteur, a proper renaissance man
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 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.85 possibly politically suspect but I read it in one sitting!
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 | King of the World by David Remnick
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 probably the finest sports biography ever written
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 | Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £1.00 everyone has a weird books shelf, mine is full of mountain-climbing books even though I'm a couch potato
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 Questions the wisdom of turning Everest into a funpark
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 | Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Public Planet) by Sanford Levinson
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £6.27 Is it Stalinist for formerly-communist countries to tear down statues of Stalin? Brilliantly argued piece of history/art criticism
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