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Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

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Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

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Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism

The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism

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Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

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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...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

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Author: Adam Higginbotham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival...
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant

The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant

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Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 This book comes at a critical time. Thirty years ago, Africa was home to a million elephants, today the...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

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Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...