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The Penguin Book of Classical Myths
Author: Jennifer March Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 What were the twelve labours of Herakles? Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of gold? What was...
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
Author: Donald D. Hoffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A ground-breaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two Do we see the...
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Author: Kate Pickett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think Why do...
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Author: Emma Dabiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 'Brilliant, mind-altering...Everyone should read this astonishing book' David Runciman, Guardian Contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less...
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and...
Jealousy
Author: Peter Toohey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A witty and insightful investigation into the green-eyed monster's role in our lives Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living...
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
Author: Kevin Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama....
A Monstrous Commotion, The Mysteries of Loch Ness
Author, Gareth Williams Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 432 The Loch Ness Monster, a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on...
Rise of the Warrior Cop, The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Author, Radley Balko Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 400 The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
Author: Jack Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question:...
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No...
Space Between
Author: Nico Tortorella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Actor and LGTBQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella's narrative investigation of love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through the lens of...
Eating Animals
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A passionate expose that serves up the truth about the meat on our plate - and where it's...
People Like Us
Author: Sasha Gusov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 What is it that makes us human? There are more than seven billion of us on the planet and we come...
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
Author: Yancey Strickler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life...
Who Discovered What When?
Author: David Ellyard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Who Discovered What When? is an absorbing and easy-to-read book about the growth of scientific ideas and knowledge since...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
Author: Kate Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Australia Day
Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really...
Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History
Author: Sarah Prager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers...
The Feminine Mystique
Author: Betty Friedan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Author: Caroline Criado Perez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one...
The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes.A long awaited, highly acclaimed new translation...
The Queer Bible
Author: Jack Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour
Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
The Mabinogion
Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were...
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
Author: Hannah Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world Feminism is the insight that women are...
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Women so empowered are dangerous Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing...
Women, Race & Class
Author: Angela Y. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis 'Black...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
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'...
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up...
What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents
Author: Nina Power Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A philosopher asks, what exactly do men get out of being men in the 21st century? It would be easy to...
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...
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
Author: Samira Shackle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Karachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in...
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...
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...