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Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century (fully updated edition)
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The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Author: Angela SainiFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 220g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023...
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Author: Lewis HydeFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 220mm, 521g, 384 pagesPublished: Canongate Books, United Kingdom, 2019We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality...
A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition
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Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Author: Juan Jose MillasFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2022A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to...
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
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Author: Juan Jose MillasFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2022A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to...
The Greeks and Romans
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The Politics of Identity: Who Counts as Aboriginal Today?
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The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
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Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy
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The Culture of the Europeans
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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Author: Dimitris XygalatasFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 257g, 320 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEFrom fire walking to funerals, the hidden science...
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Author: Peter Ross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Never have the joys of exploring the churches and cathedrals of this country been so vividly conveyed as they are in...
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Author: Dimitris XygalatasFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 257g, 320 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZEFrom fire walking to funerals, the hidden science...
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book...
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
Author: Helen De Cruz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world Wonder and awe lie at the...
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History
Author: Marc Millon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of...
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
Author: Ian Goldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. Covid-19 left...
The Intercultural Mind: Connecting Culture, Cognition, and Global Living
Author: Joseph Shaules Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden...
The Last of the Nomads
Author: W J Peasley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Described by the Australian Book Review as 'deeply moving', this is the story of Warri and Yatungka, an exiled couple...
Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
Author: Christopher E. Forth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Fat. Such a little word evokes big responses. While 'fat' describes the size and shape of bodies - their appearance...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Author: Ashley Mears Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how...
The Amur River: Between Russia and China
Author: Colin Thubron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two...
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2015* *Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural...
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...
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood
Author: Brenna Hassett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced...
The Museum of the Wood Age
Author: Max Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again
Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said...
Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century (fully updated edition)
Author: Vikas Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We often talk of war and conflict, the economy, culture and revolutions as if they are something other than us. But...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
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Geisha: a Living Tradition: A Living Tradition
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Egg
Author: Dr. Nicole Walker (Northern Arizona University, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary...
Inferior: The true power of women and the science that shows it
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Inferior is more than just a book. It's a battle cry - and right now, it's having a galvanising effect on...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...