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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
The Second Sex
Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, The Second Sex is the crowning text of second wave feminism TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER...
American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
Author: David S. Rudolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.' The Guardian From the...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
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This collection captures the essence of a remarkable woman, one of the foremost thinkers of our century Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled
'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford'[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data ... a penetrating analysis of why statistical literacy matters to...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore (Author) 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...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
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Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it Back in 1930,...
Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The
SHORTLISTED FOR FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A New Statesman Book of the...
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, lunches with work...
Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism'
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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...
The Street 2
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Sister Outsider
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The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry.'A methodical, sensitive and occasionally harrowing polemic about the gamblingindustry ....
Think Like an Anthropologist
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Essential reading for anyone who wants a fresh take on our cultural values that goes beyond economics, psychology and politics What is anthropology? What can it tell us about the...
Notes to John
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
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The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb. We have long been encouraged to think of old age as...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER! 'Essential reading' Guardian 'A joyful read' Sunday Times 'Disarmingly honest' Daily Mirror 'Bravely revealing' Bernardine Evaristo 'Filled with relatable insights'...
A Very Easy Death
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution
In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking...
The Encyclopedia of Crime
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Leviathan
One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma...
Triumph of the Airheads
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The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty
This is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more divided and less egalitarian Australian society. Based on the author's conversations with hundreds of...
The Streets
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Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women
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Contemporary China: Society and Social Change
China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of...
On Suicide
New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely...
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
A major book from the author of the bestselling Emotional Intelligence. Social Intelligence does for relationships what Emotional Intelligence did for emotions- brings readers a radically different way of thinking...
Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information
When incentives work well, individuals prosper. When incentives are poor, the pursuit of self-interest is self-defeating. This book is wholly devoted to the topical subject of incentives from individual, collective,...
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our
How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases...
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR...
What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists
From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists...