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Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism

Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism

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Author: Robert F Barsky (Vanderbilt University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 The intersecting worlds of Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky's intellectual and political mentor. In 1995, Robert Barsky met with...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

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Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller 'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . ....
The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

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Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on...
Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

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Author: Cassandra King Conroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I've read." - Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times...
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

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Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...
The Road Beneath My Feet

The Road Beneath My Feet

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Author: Frank Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Featuring an exclusive new chapter! On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his...
Another Bloody Love Letter

Another Bloody Love Letter

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Author: Anthony Loyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. ANOTHER BLOODY LOVE LETTER exposes...
Becoming: Sex, Second Chances, and Figuring Out Who the Hell I am

Becoming: Sex, Second Chances, and Figuring Out Who the Hell I am

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Author: Laura Jane Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 When the man Laura Jane Williams thought she'd wed dumped her and married her friend, she was devastated....
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

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Author: Rhyannon Styles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop...
Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me

Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me

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Author: Dan Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For fans of Ronda Rousey's My Fight Your Fight and John Kavanagh's Win or Learn comes the first book...
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

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Author: Julian Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'ALPHA GIRLS will be a story to make you laugh and cry. It will inspire and infuriate you. It...
Stay Golden

Stay Golden

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Author: Lucky Blue Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 While most kids my age were sitting in English class waiting for the bell to ring, I was...
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

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Author: Jean Findlay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece And suddenly the memory returns. The...
Schadenfreude, A Love Story

Schadenfreude, A Love Story

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Author: Rebecca Schuman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 You know that feeling when you catch the elevator but don't hold it for the person behind you? Seeing Lindsay Lohan...
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

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Author: John Stubbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 One of Europe's most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican...
Over But Not Out: The heart of the game and beyond

Over But Not Out: The heart of the game and beyond

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Author: Richie Benaud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Few people understand cricket as well as Richie Benaud. For sixty years, as player and commentator, he has set...
The Child Bride

The Child Bride

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from...
Kangaroo Dundee

Kangaroo Dundee

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Author: Chris Barns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Brolga (aka Chris Barns) is the 6ft 7in strong but sensitive Aussie star of the extraordinary BBC series Kangaroo...
The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

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Author: Dr Peter Dorward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult...
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller

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Author: Maggie O'Farrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 AS FEATURED ON BIG SCOTTISH BOOK CLUB AND THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE...
The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret

The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret

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Author: Karen Dolby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 172 Celebrate the rapier-like wit of the royal rebel, the late, great Princess Margaret - or 'Ducky' as she was known behind...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy

Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy

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Author: Niccolo Guicciardini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Isaac Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

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Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

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Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Tutu: The Authorised Portrait of Desmond Tutu, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Tutu: The Authorised Portrait of Desmond Tutu, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Author: Allister Sparks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 Tutu: The Authorised Portrait is a celebration of eighty years of the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an icon whose humanity...
For the Love of Money: A Memoir of Family, Addiction, and a Wall Street Trader's Journey to Redefine Success

For the Love of Money: A Memoir of Family, Addiction, and a Wall Street Trader's Journey to Redefine Success

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Author: Sam Polk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 "Part coming-of-age story, part recovery memoir, and part expose of a rotten, money-drenched Wall Street culture" (Salon), Sam Polk's...
The King's War

The King's War

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Author: Mark Logue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which...
On the Road with Janis Joplin

On the Road with Janis Joplin

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Author: John Byrne Cooke Format: Book Number of Pages: 432 One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis...
Open Book

Open Book

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Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

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Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince...
Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

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Author: Marcello Simonetta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but...
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

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Author: Alaa Aljaleel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When the Syrian civil war forced the people of Aleppo to flee their homes, thousands of the city's pets...
Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s

Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s

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Author: Joan Lock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When Joan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

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Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman

Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman

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Author: Lindy West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 *CATCH THE TV ADAPTATION OF SHRILL ON BBC3 NOW* 'Lindy West is an essential (and hilarious) voice for women. Her talent...
The Trials of the King of Hampshire Madness

The Trials of the King of Hampshire Madness

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Author: Elizabeth Foyster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen...
The Last Diaries

The Last Diaries

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Author: Alan Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first two volumes of Alan Clark's were irresistible, irreverent, infamous, outrageous. This last volume is a fitting finale to...
Blaise Pascal Miracles and Reason

Blaise Pascal Miracles and Reason

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Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 This book, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal's life and work that are...
Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea

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Author: Jane Dolby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her...
Bruce

Bruce

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Author: Peter Ames CarlinFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 496  Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the...
Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine

Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine

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Author: Hector Tobar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ' . . . an eloquent testament to the human spirit' The Times The heart-stopping survival...
The Eitingons A Twentieth-Century Family

The Eitingons A Twentieth-Century Family

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Author: Mary-Kay Wilmers (editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China...
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

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Author: Ann Wroe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where...