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Sapiens: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human. **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Interesting...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By...
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect...
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
'Insightful and breathtaking . . . Explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures.' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Why are humans everywhere prone to believe in ghosts?...
Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism'
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus...
Our Tribal Future: How to channel our human instinct into a force for
An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism - and how we can learn to harness this powerful instinct to improve the world around us What do you...
Upon A White Horse: A Financial Times Best Book of 2025 and Radio 4
*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2025, SCOTSMAN BOOKS OF 2025, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025* 'Packed with anecdote and colour, it's...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published...
The Ruin of Kasch
A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects- "the first is Talleyrand,...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times. **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made...
In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa....
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. Read this...
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara
Blue-veiled nomads, camels crossing infinite dunes, oases shimmering on the horizon: ready-made images of the Sahara are easy to conjure. But they can never truly capture a region that crosses...
Dark Justice: Inside the World of Paedophile Hunters
It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported every seven minutes. In...
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Roger Lewin Format: Hardback...
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears...
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age
'A tour de force' Alice Roberts'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture...
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind
From the world's foremost forensic anthropologist and bestselling author of All That Remains, this book is an exploration - from skull to feet - of how our bones reveal all...
Clementine Deliss: The Metabolic Museum: The Metabolic Museum
On the Pulse of the Museum as Institution of the Future For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become...