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Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
Egg
Author: Dr. Nicole Walker (Northern Arizona University, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World...
The Museum of the Wood Age
Author: Max Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal...
Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century (fully updated edition)
Author: Vikas Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We often talk of war and conflict, the economy, culture and revolutions as if they are something other than us. But...
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes
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In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, Con Artists and Influencers Are Taking Over the Internet - and Why We're Following
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why
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Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood
Author: Brenna Hassett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced...
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
Author: Michael Spitzer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read'...
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
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Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again
Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said...
Food
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Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Author: Hugh Brody Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory...
The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
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The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
Author: Will Storr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... The Status Game might be his best yet' James Marriott,...
Geisha: a Living Tradition: A Living Tradition
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