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The Sirens Call: how attention became the world's most endangered
From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has...
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...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically
An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do...
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and...
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...
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...
Pathogenesis: How germs made history
Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, has had unanimous praise from critics and...
The Naked Neanderthal
In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (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. Yuval Noah...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Himalaya: A Human History
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains 'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph This...
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020 How do we understand the people...
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...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth Humans are a planet-altering force. Our closest living...
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,...
The Book of Tea
First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much more - introduced by Christopher Benfey For a generation adjusting painfully...
The Spike: Accelerating into the Unimaginable Future
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Apocalypse Postponed
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Hmong Story Cloths: Preserving Historical & Cultural Treasures
Hmong story cloths provide a visual documentation of the historical and cultural legacy of the Hmong people from the country of Laos. The Hmong first began making the story cloths...
A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future
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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...
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...
By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam
A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical,...
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the...
Why We Travel
Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping...
Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the USA as a widely appealing cultural, artistic and social form. In this text, Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors...
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesn't just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When...
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live-and How Their Wealth Harms Us
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.Have you...
The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion
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Author: Weston La BarreBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen and Unwin, 1972, First G.B. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book is a classic search for the origins of religion,...
The Last Cannibals
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Author: Jens Bjerre; Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Morrow and Company, 1957, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Last Cannibals by Jens...
The Spears of Twilight: Life and death in the Amazon jungle
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Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies
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Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
Author: Jurg WassmannFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 453g, 458 pagesPublished: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1998The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism...
China Wakes
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Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea
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Author: Douglas NewtonBinding: SoftbackPublished: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings It highlights the artistic richness found within small villages, showcasing works of art...
Culture of Complaint: Fraying of America
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The Runaway Brain: The evolution of human uniqueness
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The Acali Experiment: Five Men and Six Women on a Raft Across the Atlantic for 101 Days
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Author: Santiago Genovésbinding: HardbackPublished: Times Books, 1980Condition: book: Good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThe Acali Experiment chronicles a daring social experiment conducted in 1973, where a diverse group...
Black Kingdoms: Black Peoples
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Author: Anthony Atmore, Gillian Stacebinding: HardbackPublished: Orbis, 1985Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the rich heritage of West African civilizations and cultures. It...
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER
Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
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Simply Human Beings
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The Meme Machine
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Aida
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