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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
'Fascinating' Telegraph'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker'[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times'A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright ... Not just...
Paris: The Memoir
Updated edition including new materialHeiress. Party girl. Problem child. Model. Reality star. Self-created. Icon.""The future belongs to girls who refuse to do as they're told." Heiress. Party girl. Problem child....
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice
An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he...
Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern
It is considerably easier to say that modern philosophy began with Descartes than it is to define the modernity and philosophy to which Descartes gave rise. In Lines of Thought,...
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...
Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized
Looking for a precedent that eased the way for "civilized" people to embrace fascism in the twentieth-century, Hannah Arendt found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule,...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...
Black Women Always: Conversations on life, culture and creativity
A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories...
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...
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should...
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir...
Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood
A SHREWD AND TIMELY EXPLORATION OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PREDICATED ON THE PRIMACY OF YOUTHHave you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like a...
Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil...
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir...
Hello Kitty and Friends: You're My BFF: A Fill-In Book
Hello Kitty and her friends have never been cuter! This all-in-one kit includes everything you need to create embroidered cross-stitch crafts of Hello Kitty, My Melody, Keroppi, and Kuromi.- Specifications:...
Snowflake: Breaking Through Mental Health Stereotypes and Stigma
'Sensitively and seriously exploring mental health stereotypes' StylistThis is NOT a book of rules or statistics. It will NOT tell you what you can and can't say to someone with...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' ObserverIn...
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...
Forbidden Cocktails: Libations Inspired by the World of Pre-Code
A stunning package for classic film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike, all the "forbidden" fun of Pre-Code Hollywood and the Prohibition and speakeasy era meet in this stylish cocktail book....
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The
TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over...
Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to
"One of America's most experienced and exemplary journalists has written an unsparing analysis of the dreadful consequences -- for journalism and the nation -- of 'how the news lost a...
The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn't listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively...
The Joker Ruled Pocket Journal
Featuring fourteen pages of in-world content and original illustrations before giving way to blank ruled pages, this pocket-size notebook lets readers feel like they're part of the Joker's world. In...
Snowflake: Breaking Through Mental Health Stereotypes and Stigma
'Sensitively and seriously exploring mental health stereotypes' StylistThis is NOT a book of rules or statistics. It will NOT tell you what you can and can't say to someone with...
Culture: The surprising connections and influences between
It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry,...
The British Bloke, Decoded: From Banter to Man-Flu. Everything finally
'I laughed a lot and now understand blokes a lot more than I ever wanted to' - KATHERINE RYAN 'Geoff is one of the funniest intelligent thinkers in comedy and...
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60
A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A real achievement' New Statesman'Beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and profundity, exuberance and rigour, of Oxford analytic philosophy'...
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' - Kathy BurkeAstonish Me!...
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
'Buoyed by an appealing and measured sense of affection. Whether you love Marvel 3000 or you're a Scorsese sympathisers, MCU is worth your time, being a pacy, lively account of...
Burn Book
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.While tech...
The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
As heard on BBC Radio 4'Likeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful' Observer'An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more...
Little Book of New York Style: The Fashion History of the Iconic City
From Carrie Bradshaw to Grace Jones, and from Nicki Minaj to Blair Waldorf, New York is the fashion 'it girl' capital of the world.Home of both laid-back street style and...
The Little Book of Bullshit: A Load of Lies too Good to be True
The Golden Age of Bullshit.Welcome to the golden age of bullshit, a wiki-wild world knee deep in half-truths and alternative facts, spin and bias, influence and insincerity, little white lies...
All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
Ambition-the want, the hunger, the need to achieve-is woven into America's fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the "right" college...
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60
A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A real achievement' New Statesman'Beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and profundity, exuberance and rigour, of Oxford analytic philosophy'...
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for
'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The TimesFrom the Satanic Panic...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century
What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look.A brilliant new cultural history of the long eighteenth century, Writing on the...
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art
The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. At...
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024'Bracing and brilliant ... scintillating writing of breadth and power' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A radical and important...
People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living
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A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism-only to end up living comfortably alongside itWhat do post-work politics, the cult of crypto,...
Little Book of Givenchy: The story of the iconic fashion house
'It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.' - Hubert de GivenchyEver since Audrey Hepburn stood outside Tiffany's, croissant in...
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do NextWhat part of your beautiful self were you taught to...
The Dark Cloud [export edition]: how the digital world is [...]
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A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A...
K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean [...]
From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television-but...
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days...