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Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

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Author: Juan Jose MillasFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2022A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to...
Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education

Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education

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Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories

Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories

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A Green History of the World

A Green History of the World

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Esch2022 (Bilingual edition): Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity

Esch2022 (Bilingual edition): Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity

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Author: Anett HolzheidFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 235mm, 580g, 176 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity opens a vivid kaleidoscope of artistic notions of identity that reflect upon...
The Return of Consciousness: A New Science on Old Questions

The Return of Consciousness: A New Science on Old Questions

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Author: Kurt AlmqvistFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 1000g, 280 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022"Consciousness is a scientific problem that is unlike any other. Our own consciousness, as Descartes noted, is...
Femxphotographers.org: Mind Over Matter

Femxphotographers.org: Mind Over Matter

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Author: Roula SeikalyFormat: Paperback, 180mm x 240mm, 620g, 176 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Femxphotographers.org's second publication Mind Over Matter focuses inward. Women's bodies are frequently sexualized while their minds are...
Man and Technology: How Innovation Forms Our Society

Man and Technology: How Innovation Forms Our Society

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Author: Mattias HesserusFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 740g, 300 pagesPublished: Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, 2022Technology is at the heart of the human story. In an era of transformation, comprehending what drives...
Andras Szanto: Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects

Andras Szanto: Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects

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Author: Andras SzantoFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 320g, 288 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Following on the widely-read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing...
Memoria: Tales of a different History

Memoria: Tales of a different History

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Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
Esch2022 (Bilingual edition): Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity

Esch2022 (Bilingual edition): Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity

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Author: Anett HolzheidFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 235mm, 580g, 176 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity opens a vivid kaleidoscope of artistic notions of identity that reflect upon...
From Urbanization to Cities: Toward a New Politics of Citizenship

From Urbanization to Cities: Toward a New Politics of Citizenship

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Like This (Bilingual edition): Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art

Like This (Bilingual edition): Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art

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Format: Paperback, 210mm x 260mm, 520g, 200 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022LIKE THIS. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art brings together a series of specific commissions by ten internationally renowned...
Memoria: Tales of a different History

Memoria: Tales of a different History

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Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

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Author: Susanne AltmannFormat: Paperback, 195mm x 265mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative...
The Global Philosophers: World Politics in Western Thought

The Global Philosophers: World Politics in Western Thought

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Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth

Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth

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Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science

Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science

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Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the Future of the Past

Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the Future of the Past

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Author: Miriam Zadoff, NS-DokumentationFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 240mm, 720g, 300 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Historical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today's world. The interdisciplinary authorship...
Origins of Satan

Origins of Satan

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Mimesis: Culture-Art-Society

Mimesis: Culture-Art-Society

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Mappings

Mappings

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Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance

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The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Sam KnightFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 366g, 256 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2022**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**** Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Times, Observer,...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

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Author: Kate SummerscaleFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES,...
Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic

Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic

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The Soul: A History of the Human Mind

The Soul: A History of the Human Mind

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Author: Paul HamFormat: Hardback, 164mm x 241mm, 1098g, 800 pagesPublished: Random House Australia, Australia, 2024The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to...
Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living

Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living

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Author: Sarah Bakewell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist...
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which...
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

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Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Einstein in Bohemia

Einstein in Bohemia

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Author: Professor Michael D. Gordin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Physics Today, Notable Books of 2020 A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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Author: Durba Mitra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 302 How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the...
The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

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In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation

In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation

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Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

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Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

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Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...
Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand

Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand

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Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

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Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly...
Speaking Their Minds

Speaking Their Minds

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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

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Author: Philippa Gregory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

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Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly...