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Back from the Dead: Peter Hughes's Story of Survival and Hope after Bali
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All Fall Down
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1st to Die
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I AM UNSTOPPABLE
Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 The right words at the right time can do wonders to lift your mood, raise your confidence, control negative feelings...
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic...
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
Author: Virginia Trimble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 504 The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed...
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Author: Lord Martin Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees...
Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction
Author: Luca Peliti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The first comprehensive graduate-level introduction to stochastic thermodynamicsStochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to interpret thermodynamic...
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake
Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement
Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black...
Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics
Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
How Birds Live Together: Colonies and Communities in the Avian World
Author: Marianne Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Featuring dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in...
Literature for a Changing Planet
Author: Martin Puchner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this...
What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition
Author: Samuel J. Gershman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition At the heart of human intelligence...
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times
Author: Jack Snyder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
Objectivity
Author: Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for History of Science) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 504 The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific...
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
How Growth Really Happens: The Making of Economic Miracles through Production, Governance, and Skills
Author: Michael Best Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century. Achieving economic growth is one...
Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis
Author: Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques An introduction to data science or...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters
Author: Emanuel Deutschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication. Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders....
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
What's the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal-and How It Costs Us All
Author: Hal Weitzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 How the 'First State' has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us. The...
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Author: John G. Matsusaka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism...
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Author: Daniel Kennefick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019' 'Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Author: Robert H. Frank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a...
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter
Author: Emily Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download...
Leila & Nugget Mystery: The Case with No Clues
Author: Dustin Brady Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Leila Beal and her little dog, Nugget, are back in this second installment of Leila & Nugget Mysteries. A treasure hunt...
Hacked!: The Cyber Crime Puzzle Book - 100 Puzzles to Crack
Author: Gareth Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The dark web is waiting for you ... Get ready to immerse yourself in the internet's darkest corners and stop the...
This Girl Can Be a Bit Shy
Author: Stephanie Stansbie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Meet Ruby. Some days she is brave, bouncy and chat-chat-chatty. Other days, she is not - and that's OK! She knows...
Late Light: WINNER OF THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING
Author: Michael Malay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey,...
Queen K: Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Author: Sarah Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An enjoyably voyeuristic drama of ambition, exploitation and betrayal, which illustrates how desire for acceptance can lead us to neglect others'...
Rhubarb Lemonade
Author: Oskar Kroon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An award-winning novel about family old and new, friendship growing into romance, the beauty of the sea and a hot summer...
Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
Author: Paul Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body acts as a...
The Lock-Up: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery
Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But...
Family Lore
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Elizabeth Acevedo has made the transition into the adult world look easy. The true gift of a stunningly talented writer' -...
Frank and Bert: The One Where Bert Learns to Ride a Bike
Author: Chris Naylor-Ballesteros Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 The hilarious fox and bear double act from bestseller Chris Naylor-Ballesteros is back for a second adventure. Bert is CERTAIN he...
What's Scarier than a Spider?
Author: Becky Davies Format: Board book Number of Pages: 10 A game of peekaboo - but not as you know it! Spiders are SCARY, but they may just have met...