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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer It's all over our televisions, newspapers and the internet. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything...
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace
In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the American Marines, and he sought...
Hung Together: The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government
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Hung Together tells the story of a year that made political history as told by the protagonists and as witnessed by two journalists with unrivalled access to events. Adam Boulton...
Living in Sin?
Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying Should the church receive people who identify as LGBTQ into its...
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...
Cecily: An epic feminist retelling of the War of the Roses
Wife. Mother. Politician. Traitor. Fighter. Survivor. CECILY 'Rebellion?' The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips. She chooses to start...
Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results
Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level, in any kind of organization, immediate, proven, and evidence-based...
The Gumbo Coalition: 10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire,
Ignore radical social changes by clinging to hopes of restoring a past that can never be revisited or embrace change and find ways to use our new realities to create...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Collins Modern
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The...
Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist's Guide to the Economy and How We
An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us...
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
How an innocent man, who spent 30 years on death row, found nothing could destroy his capacity for hope, joy and love. **WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ** **THE...
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel prize-winning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind...
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living
One hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting. Jess Pan goes out on behalf of all the introverts to answer the question- is it really true that extroverts have...
Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day
An eye-opening investigation into life below the poverty line that turns received thinking on its head Winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 Why...
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and...
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
An era-defining, agenda-setting call for trans liberation which will reshape our current conversation on transgender rights Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up...
Be Who You Are to Get What You Want: Negotiating to Win, Whoever You
'Invaluable information ... that will help you show up as yourself - and leverage that to your advantage' - SUNNY HOSTIN '[A] groundbreaking, powerful book' - TIFFANY ALICHE 'Essential advice...
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control
Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense . In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential....
Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
#1 New York Times bestselling author and radio and tv host Glenn Beck's ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life's most important arguments. FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. It happens to all...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...
The Rainbow People of God: South Africa's Victory Over Apartheid
Through the eyes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this work sketches the story of South Africa from 1976 when apartheid opression was at its peak, to the birth of democracy in...
The Red House: Kumanjayi Walker and Zachary Rolfe: An Australian
A young Aboriginal man and a white police officer face each other in a house in the desert. The violence that passes between them carries the pain and anger of...
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It
If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. Widespread corruption, elitism and...
The Descent of Man
Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny, essential book What is masculinity and what can it become? It...
The Gumbo Coalition: 10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire,
Ignore radical social changes by clinging to hopes of restoring a past that can never be revisited or embrace change and find ways to use our new realities to create...
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On April 3, 1968, Dr....
Still Lucky
At a time when politics seems increasingly negative and our society increasingly divided, Still Lucky shows that we are more fortunate than we think, and have more in common than...
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well , one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and...
Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march...
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering The Legacy Of Poverty In America
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Collins Modern
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The...
Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist's Guide to the Economy and How We
An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us...
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future 'This book upended my understanding of the ancient world' Zoe Schlanger, author of The Light...
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
A grand unifying theory of human flourishing and inequality from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkers A bold retelling of the entire human story from one of the world's pre-eminent...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty and racism in an unequal America. 'A classic to...
Beyond Vietnam
With a new foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At...
Mothers and Others
'When are you having children?' 'Why didn't you have another child?' 'Well, I guess that's your choice, but...' They are questions asked of women of a certain age all the...
Poor Support: Poverty In The American Family
The subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one of the country's leading experts on poverty. In this book he describes...
What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's
"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future 'This book upended my understanding of the ancient world' Zoe Schlanger, author of The Light...