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The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales
Author: Professor of Chinese Studies Juwen Zhang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales. The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings...
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...
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Author: Roberto Saba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the...
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...
Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book...
Idleness: A Philosophical Essay
Author: Brian O'Connor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The case for idleness as freedom from usefulness, performance, and the opinion of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
France - The MICHELIN Guide 2023: Restaurants (Michelin Red Guide)
Author: Michelin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1368 The MICHELIN Guide France is carefully researched, with objective recommendations to numerous restaurants & hotels. Anonymous inspectors use the famed Michelin star...
The Night Animals
Author: Sarah Ann Juckes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Uncover the ghost animals within in this moving and uplifting story about finding help where you need it, from the...
Our Earth is a Poem
Author: Various authors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 This is a book of poetry for everyone. Inside is a treasure trove of writing celebrating the natural world. Read the...
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light
Author: Caroline Eden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Winner of the Art of Eating Prize 2020 Winner of the Guild of Food Writers' Best Food Book Award 2019 Winner...
Cup Countdown!
Author: Sam Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
The Light and the Dark
Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a...
Super Self-Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
Author: Christopher Dines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Christopher Dines has profound experience of recovery and personal growth; he struggled with drug addiction for most of his young adult...
The Holdout: One jury member changed the verdict. What if she was wrong?
Author: Graham Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah 'One of the best legal thrillers...
Reading Champion: The Weather Today: Independent Reading Non-Fiction Pink 1a
Author: Jackie Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with...
Happiness: A Revolution in Economics
Author: Bruno S. Frey (CREAMA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard...
First Person
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings Magazine What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted...
Smoke in the Glass: Immortals' Blood Book One
Author: Chris Humphreys Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A brilliant epic fantasy debut from a master storyteller' Sebastien de Castell, author of the Greatcoat series including The Traitor's Blade...
The Replacement Wife: A Novel
Author: Darby Kane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 International bestselling author of Pretty Little Wife returns with another thrilling domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives...
Shakespeare Quartet: The Box of Red Brocade: Book 2
Author: Catherine Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 On a mission to recover his father lost in time, Jake finds himself in 1940s London. From the rubble of the...
Pentridge: Behind the Bluestone Walls
Author: Don Osborne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Pentridge tells of prison life and events during the troubled 1970s when rebellion was in the air, and when Pentridge housed...
Magical Negro
Author: Morgan Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'To read MAGICAL NEGRO it is to wonder what each poem will do next, and to be reminded, over and over,...
Death & Sparkles: Book 1
Author: Rob Justus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Being Death isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, you're all-powerful, but collecting souls involves a ton of paperwork, and...
Reporting from the Front: The Media and the Military
Author: Judith Sylvester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 During what some have called the "most televised war in history," did journalistic objectivity fall by the wayside? Were the experiences...
Web Campaigning
Author: Kirsten A. Foot (Associate Professor, University of Washington) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The use of the Web in U.S. political campaigns has developed dramatically over the course...
Beast Quest: Kronus the Clawed Menace: Series 8 Book 5
Author: Adam Blade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The fifth book in a brand new series featuring fabulous adventures for Tom and his companions! Great for boys, with a...