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The Battle after the War: The Story of Australia's Vietnam Veterans
Just over five hundred Australians were killed in action in the Vietnam War. Of those who returned, 280 Vietnam veterans have officially been recognised as having committed suicide. Unofficial estimates...
Switzy
The finest book yet from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest: an ageing man with an unreliable mind plans the final days before he flies to Switzerland...
Mr Nice
He was Britain's most wanted man, and spent seven years in America's toughest prison. You'll like him. The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks...
No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
* WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU , THE LATEST SENSATION FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, OUT NOW * 'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale 'A masterpiece' Guardian...
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs - 10th
* 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH AN UPDATED AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY 'Superb ... Thrilling story-telling' NAOMI KLEIN 'A powerful...
The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today's Most Essential Superpower
'Fascinating ... Should be required reading everywhere' STEPHEN FRY Trust: like water, like electricity, our society can't function without it. It's a treasure, a living thing that can be cultivated...
No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
* WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU , THE LATEST SENSATION FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, OUT NOW * 'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale 'A masterpiece' Guardian...
Unforgivable?: Exploring the Limits of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a lovely idea, wrote C. S. Lewis, and in recent decades it has been seen and admired in situations ranging from therapy to politics, and proposed as a...
The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today's Most Essential Superpower
'Fascinating ... Should be required reading everywhere' STEPHEN FRY Trust: like water, like electricity, our society can't function without it. It's a treasure, a living thing that can be cultivated...
Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
It seems like we can't talk about anything nowadays... Whether it's war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying - from...
Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes
Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy. Chinese president Xi Jinping declaring nuclear war. Basketball legend Michael Jordan winning the...
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the...
We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
In 2012, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler published Abundance in which they made bold predictions about where the future was heading, if humanity only harnessed the powers of emerging tech....
We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
In 2012, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler published Abundance in which they made bold predictions about where the future was heading, if humanity only harnessed the powers of emerging tech....
We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
In 2012, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler published Abundance in which they made bold predictions about where the future was heading, if humanity only harnessed the powers of emerging tech....
Working: My Life as a Prostitute
The book titled Working: My Life as a Prostitute by the author Dolores French. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
In Defense of Julian Assange
After being forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange is now in a high security prison in London where he faces extradition to the United States and imprisonment for...
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death
As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two...
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
"A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond...
The Right to Sex: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2022
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what...
Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies
*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*...
The Birth Wars
Essential reading for every woman who is or may one day become a mother Women are told they have pregnancy and birth care choices. But their only real choice is...
Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
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Reproductive rights have never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights and Planned Parenthood v. Casey unexpectedly preserved them. Then an ultra-conservative Supreme Court decimated Roe...
Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
Reproductive rights have never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights and Planned Parenthood v. Casey unexpectedly preserved them. Then an ultra-conservative Supreme Court decimated Roe...
Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy
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Carter considers the nature of civility and incivility, examining how it is reflected in and reinforced by our language and culture, explaining the role of the family and religion, and...
Prostitutes: What's Love Got to Do with it?
The oldest profession continues to flourish, on the streets and in brothels and bedsits, expensive hotels and suburban semis. This is an investigation - neither sentimentalized not glamorized - into...
Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World: The Economics of Sex
This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale...
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs - 10th
* 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH AN UPDATED AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY 'Superb ... Thrilling story-telling' NAOMI KLEIN 'A powerful...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" ( New York Times Book Review ), changes the way we understand human behavior...
A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings
Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy. Some...
Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies
Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to...
The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee
The life and times of a Victorian gentleman of irrepressible curiosity-and shockingly repressed desire. . Henry Spencer Ashbee (18341900) was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, a family man who...
The End of Reality: How Elon Musk and his Friends are Changing Your
A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic...
Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our
Friends. Lovers. Therapists. 'Deathbots'. AI is taking on unprecedented roles for millions of us every day - but how are these new 'relationships' rewiring us? Beyond those who are using...
The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
A wild and entertaining adventure into the business of living forever. Award-winning journalist Aleks Krotoski journeys from the cult fringes to the technological heartlands to find out what it means...
Death Talk, First Edition: The Case Against Euthanasia and
Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with...
Whitewash
Pablo Escobar, king of the Medellin Cartel in Columbia, was the world's richest cocaine baron, with an estimated personal fortune of $5 billion. His forces of hit men became small...
Human Frailties
This study of the human race's weaknesses highlights some of the more unusual frailties - from witch-burning to inflating the price of tulips.
The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the
In the age of big data, no company embodies its promise and its perils more than Palantir. This software firm sells some of the most powerful and dangerous technology in...
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit
Sheds light on some urgent ethical and legal questions that vie for our attention, including the use of human embryos as living human tissue generators; euthanasia; male circumcision; the use...
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography is a portrait of a man who polarises opinion but who has also changed the world. Whether you read this book as a ghosted memoir...
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your
'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES Best Books of 2023 'In a gripping - and sometimes creepy - book, Hill explores the repercussions of [facial recognition] technology and finds...
Call Me Madam: From Mother to Madam
When Dawn Annandale's marriage fell apart, she was overwhelmed by debt and turned to prostitution to support her family. After one year, a near-fatal car crash and numerous encounters with...
The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the
In the age of big data, no company embodies its promise and its perils more than Palantir. This software firm sells some of the most powerful and dangerous technology in...
Extra Confessions of a Working Girl
Having left behind the sauna where she was top girl, Miss S moves to London to start work as a stripper. But after one of the other dancers burns her...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
'H ow rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between...
Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
Vanessa Kisuule is a big Michael Jackson fan. This fixation once gave her great joy, but now it keeps her up at night. In her bracingly honest, energetic and lively...