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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...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
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...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

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Author: Lee Smolin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story

The Egyptians: A Radical Story

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Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

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Author: Anthony Gottlieb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The definitive introduction to early Western philosophy, now fully revised and updated. Already a classic, this landmark account of...
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,...
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order

The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order

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Author: Bruno Macaes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A bold and eye-opening account of the coming integration of Europe and Asia In this original and timely book,...
Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories

Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories

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Author: Ahron Bregman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Cursed Victory tells the story of Israel's troubled presence in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and...
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...
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case

Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case

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Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions Anatol Lieven's major...
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization

Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization

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Author: Colin McEvedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York From Alexandria to York,...
The Celestial Hunter

The Celestial Hunter

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation

Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The essential book for understanding the history of Britain's place in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the present...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

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Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Steven Pinker's landmark defence of human nature Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

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Author: David Pilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

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Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom

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Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...
Augustus: The Biography

Augustus: The Biography

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Author: Jochen Bleicken Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when...
The Assault On Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

The Assault On Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

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Author: Michael V. Hayden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself,...
The Art of Flight

The Art of Flight

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Author: Fredrik Sjoeberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

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Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation

All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation

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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

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Author: Jesse Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now...
A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk

A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk

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Author: Baroness Susan Greenfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the science of consciousness by exploring a single day in the life of the...
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being

The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being

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Author: Richard Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The sequel to the global phenomenon The Spirit Level, this book explores the impact of inequality on each of...
Poor

Poor

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Author: Caleb Femi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

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Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

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Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

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Author: Richard McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

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Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
Hinduism: with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen

Hinduism: with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen

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Author: K. M. Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Hinduism provides an invaluable introduction to its schools of thought and the very different ways in which it...
Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians

Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians

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Author: Derek Rowntree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

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Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy

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Author: John Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?' Drawing...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

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Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...
Seven Types of Atheism

Seven Types of Atheism

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Author: John Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by...
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

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Author: Michael Pollan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back...
The Song of the Tree

The Song of the Tree

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Author: Coralie Bickford-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 An enchanting tale from the award-winning designer and creator of The Fox and the Star, now a beautiful paperback...
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

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Author: Dominic Lieven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The story of how and why Russia defeated Napoleon In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe,...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent

Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent

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Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Enter the sinister, twisted world of Roald Dahl- whether you're young or old, you'll never want to leave. Roald...
The Aeneid

The Aeneid

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Author: Virgil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by...
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue?...