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Truly Peculiar: Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction
Author: Tom Standage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Frequently unasked questions include: Are overweight politicians less trustworthy? What can bosses learn from a hostage negotiator? What happened...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information
Author: John Lloyd (Contributing Editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists...
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
Author: Bob Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money
Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion
Author: Eliot Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg,...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums
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Author: The Economist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali...
Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution
Author: Jill Abramson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the first woman editor of The New York Times, the definitive in-the-room account of the battle between prestige...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes,...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
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...
Sex Power Money: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Sara Pascoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'I've never read a book so fast and laughed so loudly while learning...
Your House Will Pay
Author: Steph Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both? 'Masterful.' - Ruth...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...