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Perspectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A GP reflects on medical practice and, well, just about everything . . .<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Judith Harvey. 224 pages<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A compilation of 74 published articles originally written for doctors but providing fascinating insights for medical students and patients \u2013 and we are all sometimes patients.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Since 2006 GP Judith Harvey has contributed a regular column for every issue of the newsletter of the National Association of Sessional General Practitioners, writing on anything from wart-charming to robots. So, this book is a collection of ten years of meditations on health and medical matters in the widest sense, originally published in that newsletter or other journals. Her short articles explore ideas about doctors, patients, the senses, culture, medical practice, careers, ethics and politics, and the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Big Lie <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Truth about Advertising<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chuck Anderson. 320 pages<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

British advertising is cynical, clever and witty – the best in the world. American advertising is saccharine, crass and clunky – an insult to the intelligence. Is that so? Does either work? How?<\/p>\n\n\n

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An American adman who has worked in Europe for thirty years deconstructs the conventional wisdom of Adland to disclose at its heart a black hole of ignorance and deceit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty\n years ago Vance Packard concluded his seminal expos\u00e9, The Hidden \nPersuaders, by questioning the morality of advertising’s manipulative \nmotivational techniques. If his concerns seem quaint now, it is because \nwe have now surrendered to consumerism as the dominant cultural force in\n the world. Advertising has assumed a priestly role: to sustain its \nmyths by promulgating falsehoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the first Big Lie is that advertisers and their agencies know what they are doing. The second is the belief most people have that they are not influenced by advertising. Another is the contention that advertising does not have broad social effects beyond brand-switching. This book also examines whether the seductive techniques advertisers use, such as humour, irony and celebrity endorsement, are really successful; exposes whole industries founded on falsehood; and warns of the false assumptions gathering around the new communications technology and the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of Print<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Primrose Hill Revisited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

She left her heart in the ’60s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chuck Anderson. 212 pages<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When are you too old to ever fall in love again? Claudia was born too soon. A career woman in London, she is an incurable romantic who is swept up in the cultural revolution of the 1960s. But she\u2019s almost forty.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Though the youthful spirit of liberation appeals to her intellectually, emotionally it challenges her conventional values. Claudia’s resistance to change threatens her job as editor of a woman\u2019s magazine. She supports her brain-damaged daughter and an unemployed ex-husband who lives in the basement. She could solve all her problems by marrying Stephen, an older man and a powerful theatrical producer, but her old-fashioned morality gets in the way. And then, on Primrose Hill, along comes Jake, an uncomplicated and unemployed American would-be actor who\u2019s 15 years younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where the Bodies Are Buried<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The West Country Existential Thriller<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chuck Anderson. 400 pages<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When a man has nowhere left to go, he goes home. Ted Golden returns to the West Country harbour he left almost thirty years ago to restore an old yacht and set sail to \u2013 wherever. He owes his new lease on life to his wife’s accidental death \u2013 and some people say he murdered her.<\/p>\n\n\n

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He attempts to rekindle the love of Angie, the girl he\n left behind. She has sought redemption through good works and marriage \nto Bartholomew, a neglected painter of the op art generation. \nBartholomew is missing at sea, together with Matty, his impetuous young \nAustralian mistress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A chain of apparently random disappearances leads to a\n mortal conflict at sea which reveals the solution to the fate of ten \npeople over the past 40 years, including Ted’s own parents. When the \nbodies begin to surface Ted becomes the prime suspect. Leaving the West \nCountry in quest of the lone survivor and a meaning for his life, Ted \nfinds a different resolution of the mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Save the Jubilee Hall!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The battle to preserve the three-hundred-year-old tradition of street market trading in the Piazza of Covent Garden<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chuck Anderson with Ray Green. 208 pages. Hardback<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Why were the citizens of Covent Garden barracking in the residential suburbs of North London?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 What did Lord Geoffrey Rippon think was almost the best thing he ever did?<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u2014 Why did Ken Livingstone pull the rug out from under his own GLC planning committee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Did Yehudi Menuhin and Daniel Barenboim know what was going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Why was the Communist Party of Covent Garden against public housing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 How could market traders who rarely owned their own homes come up with \u00a33million?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These questions are part of the fascinating story of the determined struggle by ordinary Londoners to preserve the Jubilee Market Hall in Covent Garden’s historic Piazza for community use. This large hardback book contains historical background, maps and many photographs and illustrations. Published in 1992, it is now out of print, and not available online nor in a Kindle version. However, it may be ordered from covent-garden.co.uk (see below). Used copies are available on Amazon and Ebay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy Save the Jubilee Hall! now from Covent-Garden.co.uk<\/a> Hardback \u00a316.70<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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