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Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times
Author: Jack Snyder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve...
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales
Author: Professor of Chinese Studies Juwen Zhang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales. The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
Objectivity
Author: Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for History of Science) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 504 The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific...
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Author: Roberto Saba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the...
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
How Growth Really Happens: The Making of Economic Miracles through Production, Governance, and Skills
Author: Michael Best Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century. Achieving economic growth is one...
Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis
Author: Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques An introduction to data science or...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters
Author: Emanuel Deutschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication. Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders....
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
What's the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal-and How It Costs Us All
Author: Hal Weitzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 How the 'First State' has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us. The...
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Author: John G. Matsusaka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism...
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Author: Daniel Kennefick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019' 'Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book...
Idleness: A Philosophical Essay
Author: Brian O'Connor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The case for idleness as freedom from usefulness, performance, and the opinion of...
Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Author: Robert H. Frank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a...
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter
Author: Emily Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download...
Leila & Nugget Mystery: The Case with No Clues
Author: Dustin Brady Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Leila Beal and her little dog, Nugget, are back in this second installment of Leila & Nugget Mysteries. A treasure hunt...
Queen K: Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Author: Sarah Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An enjoyably voyeuristic drama of ambition, exploitation and betrayal, which illustrates how desire for acceptance can lead us to neglect others'...
Rhubarb Lemonade
Author: Oskar Kroon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An award-winning novel about family old and new, friendship growing into romance, the beauty of the sea and a hot summer...
The Lock-Up: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery
Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But...
Simply Chinese Feasts: Tasty Recipes for Friends and Family
Author: Suzie Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Growing up, TV presenter and author Suzie Lee was extremely fortunate in that her parents carried on the customs and traditions...
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking
Author: Kerryn Phelps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Power of Balance is the landmark memoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired...
What's Scarier than a Spider?
Author: Becky Davies Format: Board book Number of Pages: 10 A game of peekaboo - but not as you know it! Spiders are SCARY, but they may just have met...
France - The MICHELIN Guide 2023: Restaurants (Michelin Red Guide)
Author: Michelin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1368 The MICHELIN Guide France is carefully researched, with objective recommendations to numerous restaurants & hotels. Anonymous inspectors use the famed Michelin star...
The Night Animals
Author: Sarah Ann Juckes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Uncover the ghost animals within in this moving and uplifting story about finding help where you need it, from the...
Our Earth is a Poem
Author: Various authors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 This is a book of poetry for everyone. Inside is a treasure trove of writing celebrating the natural world. Read the...
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light
Author: Caroline Eden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Winner of the Art of Eating Prize 2020 Winner of the Guild of Food Writers' Best Food Book Award 2019 Winner...
Cup Countdown!
Author: Sam Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
The Light and the Dark
Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a...
Super Self-Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
Author: Christopher Dines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Christopher Dines has profound experience of recovery and personal growth; he struggled with drug addiction for most of his young adult...
The Holdout: One jury member changed the verdict. What if she was wrong?
Author: Graham Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah 'One of the best legal thrillers...
Reading Champion: The Weather Today: Independent Reading Non-Fiction Pink 1a
Author: Jackie Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with...
Happiness: A Revolution in Economics
Author: Bruno S. Frey (CREAMA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard...
First Person
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings Magazine What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted...
Smoke in the Glass: Immortals' Blood Book One
Author: Chris Humphreys Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A brilliant epic fantasy debut from a master storyteller' Sebastien de Castell, author of the Greatcoat series including The Traitor's Blade...
The Replacement Wife: A Novel
Author: Darby Kane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 International bestselling author of Pretty Little Wife returns with another thrilling domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives...
Shakespeare Quartet: The Box of Red Brocade: Book 2
Author: Catherine Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 On a mission to recover his father lost in time, Jake finds himself in 1940s London. From the rubble of the...
Dragon Storm: Cara and Silverthief
Author: Alastair Chisholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In the land of Draconis, there are no dragons. Once, there were. Once, humans and dragons were friends, and created the...
Pentridge: Behind the Bluestone Walls
Author: Don Osborne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Pentridge tells of prison life and events during the troubled 1970s when rebellion was in the air, and when Pentridge housed...
Magical Negro
Author: Morgan Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'To read MAGICAL NEGRO it is to wonder what each poem will do next, and to be reminded, over and over,...
Death & Sparkles: Book 1
Author: Rob Justus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Being Death isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, you're all-powerful, but collecting souls involves a ton of paperwork, and...