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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...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
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,...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
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...
A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: Scottish
**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'In his absorbing book about the lost and...
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...
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...
Sister Outsider
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...
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
An Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far 2024 A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 One of Prospect 's Top Thinkers 2024 ' Utterly engrossing . . . Ambitious,...
Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning
'An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person' CARIAD LLOYD'Brilliantly, brilliantly written ... Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage' FELIX WHITE'It turned on so many lights for...
Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire
This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic....
The Rise of the Creative Class
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class , urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography,...
All About Love: The Deluxe Collector's Edition: New Visions
Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth case stamping with red foil, bold endpapers, and red sprayed edges! A New York Times...
Till Death Us Do Part: True Stories of Australian Marriages That Ended in Murder
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Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide
Author: Eileen Magnello Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive,...
Eroticism
An influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboos A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges...
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author presents his radical and subversive answer 'A landmark work' Brian Eno Imagine a world...
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...
The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown
A cutting-edge exploration of how talent works and how it can be created and honed. 'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually. In The Talent Code,...
GIRLS: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything
'Freya India is an essential voice on Gen Z' -- Scott Galloway, bestselling author and podcast host Coming of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil,...
Two Sisters
'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEARTWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which...
More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS WRITING OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE 2026 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS A GUARDIAN...
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys
In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in...
The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells us about the Power of the Female
'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in. ' Cat Bohannon A myth-busting vindication of women's physical strengths For decades,...
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
An uplifting and mind-shifting new book on the surprising power of being "bittersweet", by the author of the megaselling phenomenon QUIET In this inspiring masterpiece, bestselling author Susan Cain shows...
A Hand to Hold: All I've Learnt About Grief
Coleen Nolan - singer, TV host and agony aunt is known for her warmth, straight-talking and compassion. But her empathy and warmth have been earned the hard way - formed...
How Migration Really Works: 22 things you need to know about the most
Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate...
Lost Boys: THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THE NETFLIX DRAMA ADOLESCENCE
The book that explains the masculine subculture of the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an...
The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and
Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today. From its ancient indigenous origins to British colonisation followed by waves of European then international migration in...
Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
The Underground Sea
The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living
A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and a driving desire to thrive A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives
A hardhitting expose of the overwork culture and modern management techniques which seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer. The British...
Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than
The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same questions: why is parenting so much harder even though the kids are less happy than...
The Plague
What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How...