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Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives
Author: James P. Steyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Bound to spark a major national discussion, Which Side of History? offers a collection of over 30 bold...
Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life
Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
Author: David Goodhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Author: Anand Giridharadas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
Made In America: An Informal History of American English
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive'...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time
Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Author: Ben Rawlence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 These early Irish stories, probably first written down around the eighth century A.D., represent the oral tradition of the...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In...
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Author: Jon Ronson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Author: Cedric J. Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Author: Robin DiAngelo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism Anger. Fear....
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us...
One World
Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 365 Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Author: Kate Manne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de...
Growing Up Disabled in Australia
Author: Carly Findlay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins
Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella
Author: Jack Charles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian...
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)
Author: Helen Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them...
I Am Not Your Negro
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work...
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...
Status Anxiety
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering...
My Story
Author: Julia Gillard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three...
The Origins of Psychic Phenomena: Poltergeists Incubi Succubi and the Unconscious Mind
Author: Stan Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Examines unexplained phenomena in psychiatric and psychological terms rather than occult terms * Explores how the unconscious mind manifests...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life
Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans -...
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
Author: Andrew Keen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In his bestselling books The Cult of the Amateur and The Internet is not the Answer, Andrew Keen exposed...
The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection
Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop
Author: Josh Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'A probing exploration of the creative and imaginative possibilities of inactivity' - The Financial Times 'To do nothing at...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
On Suicide
Author: Emile Durkheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
The Stonewall Reader
Author: Jason Baumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...
The Tain
Author: Ciaran Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
Orientalism
Author: Edward W. Said Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 25th anniversary of first publication Orientalism is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...