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The Importants

The Importants

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Author: Kevin Amato Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The much-anticipated first book by photographer Kevin Amato, a leading influencer in fashion today Kevin Amato, a fashion insider whose influence...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

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Author: Tom Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown 'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie Amos To thrive...
Surviving an Eating Disorder [Fourth Revised Edition]: Strategies for Family and Friends

Surviving an Eating Disorder [Fourth Revised Edition]: Strategies for Family and Friends

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Author: Michele Siegel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research and methodologies, the fourth edition of the classic guide written specifically...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)

Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)

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Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'I suppose this is what people call seeing history in the making .' Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague during...
Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind

Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind

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Author: Johan Norberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to...
Some Answers Without Questions

Some Answers Without Questions

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Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

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Author: Sally Hayden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY 'Journalism of the most urgent kind'...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

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Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New...
The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it

The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it

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Author: Matthew Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 At what point does prejudice become hate crime? Hate crimes are spiraling to an all-time high on both sides...
Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

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Author: Bobby Duffy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

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Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went...
Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

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Author: Gina Rippon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A breakthrough work in neuroscience-and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience-that finally debunks the myth that there...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

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Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
The Handshake: A Gripping History

The Handshake: A Gripping History

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Author: Ella Al-Shamahi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians do it and so do chimpanzees: in fact, the handshake is so deeply embedded...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business

The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business

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Author: Nelson Schwartz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On...
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

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Author: Ellen Carol DuBois Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the...
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

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Author: Michael Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Who controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their...
Wars of the Interior

Wars of the Interior

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Author: Joseph Zarate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the...
Night Sky

Night Sky

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Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

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Author: Bee Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods, or so...
The Harbour Within: A Book of Simple Spirituality

The Harbour Within: A Book of Simple Spirituality

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Author: Sister Consilio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In today's busy world, we can get caught up with the worries and stresses of life. We live in our heads,...
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

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Author: John Lloyd (Contributing Editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists...
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

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Author: Bob Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace...
The Social Animal: How We Become the People We are, Why We Do the Things We Do

The Social Animal: How We Become the People We are, Why We Do the Things We Do

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Author: David Brooks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 430 This is a book about success and how it happens, told through the fictionalised story of a couple, Harold...
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better

How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better

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Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 We live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad - genuinely...
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

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Author: Patricia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place...
Engaging Adolescents: Parenting tough issues with teenagers

Engaging Adolescents: Parenting tough issues with teenagers

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Author: Michael Hawton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Parenting teenagers can be tricky at the best of times. But when the tough issues arise - behavioural problems,...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
Himalaya: A Human History

Himalaya: A Human History

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Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

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Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in...
Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read

Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read

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Author: Nick Littlehales Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are...
A Zero Waste Family: In thirty days

A Zero Waste Family: In thirty days

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Author: Anita Vandyke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 252 Reduce your family's waste by 80%. Trying to live a zero waste life while simultaneously raising a family can...
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020

Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020

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Author: Camilla Pang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT...
Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection

Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection

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Author: Dr Jeff Rediger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A pioneering Harvard psychiatrist uncovers the lost connections between the mind, body and immune system When it comes...
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did): THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did): THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Philippa Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The #1 Sunday Times bestselling guide to healthier, happier relationships by a leading psychotherapist How can we have better...
You're Not Broken: Break Free From Trauma and Reclaim Your Life

You're Not Broken: Break Free From Trauma and Reclaim Your Life

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Author: Sarah Woodhouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The hidden trauma that holds back so many people. In one way or another, we all carry trauma. It...
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

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Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how...
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

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Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control

Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control

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Author: Stuart Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

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Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding

The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding

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Author: Dan Sperber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exploration of human rationality from two ground-breaking thinkers Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the...
The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

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Author: Todd Rose Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The End of Average draws on the very latest findings in the fields of psychology and sociology to show...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

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Author: Frank Trentmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. We...
The Descent of Man

The Descent of Man

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Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,...
Coffeeland: A History

Coffeeland: A History

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Author: Augustine Sedgewick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Thoroughly engrossing ... his literary gifts and prodigious research make for a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative...