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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....
Pandemonium: Some verses on the Current Predicament
Author: Armando Iannucci Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation...
The World We Make
Author: N. K. Jemisin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts "a glorious fantasy" (Neil Gaiman) - a story...
Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness
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Author: Stephen Fleming Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Unlock the secrets to understanding yourself and others with the surprising science of the human mind's greatest power: introspection. "Are you...
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Author: Gershom Gorenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans...
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
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Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII...
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Author: Scott E. Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Data, data, data: It's all one ever hears about these days. Science is all about big data. Our bosses call...
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Author: Winston Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the...
Augustine
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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire...
City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
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Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow
Author: Deyan Sudjic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously...
The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight
Author: Adam Bulley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future. Our ability to think about the future is one of...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Wonder Woman Volume 5: Heart of the Amazon. Rebirth
Author: Shea Fontana Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 From the writer Shea Fontana, who brought you the hit series DC SUPER HERO GIRLS, comes a new journey for the...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
Author: Brandon Presser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World
Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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Author: David Halberstam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's...
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler
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Author: Tom Dunkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich...
Two Kitchens: 120 Family Recipes from Sicily and Rome
Author: Rachel Roddy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Rachel's first book, FIVE QUARTERS: RECIPES AND NOTES FROM A KITCHEN IN ROME, won the Andre Simon Food Book Award and...
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...
Jeremy Pang's School of Wok: Delicious Asian Food in Minutes
Author: Jeremy Pang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 AS SEEN ON TV Celebrate fast, furious and fresh Asian cooking with over 80 recipes from TV's Jeremy Pang and his...
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe
Author: Cathie Pelletier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been...
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Author: Bruce de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has...
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
Author: Benjamin Cunningham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely-they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
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Author: Morten H Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Forget the language instinct--this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity's...
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
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Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It
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Author: Erica Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are...
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
Author: James Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a...
The Italian Cooking Course
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Author: Katie Caldesi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 No-fuss Italian cooking packed with flavor and texture, perfect for beginners and experts alike. Katie has travelled the rice fields of...
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
Author: Douglas Preston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous "Lost City...
Chetna's Easy Baking: with a twist of spice
Author: Chetna Makan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A brand-new baking collection from Bake Off's Chetna Makan, with over 80 deliciously-tempting recipes that combine her love of simple home...
A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War
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Author: Abbe R Gluck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An unprecedented constellation of experts--leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more--explore the legacy and the shortcomings from...
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
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Author: Charles Seife Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true...
The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was none of his business
Author: Werner Holzwarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 A phenomenal success since its publication in 1989, The Story of the Little Mole has delighted adults and children alike to...
The Extraordinary World of Birds
Author: David Lindo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 A gorgeously illustrated book all about birds, for young animal and conservation enthusiasts Enter the world of birds for an incredible...
Again, Rachel: The love story of the summer
Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Rachel Walsh gets a second chance at first love in Marian Keyes's phenomenal no. 1 bestseller Back in the long ago...
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
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Author: Jacob McHangama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." --P.J. O'Rourke Hailed as...
Free Market: The History of an Idea
Author: Jacob Soll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal....
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Author: Michael E Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have...
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption
Author: Patrick Alley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ***** 'Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue 'Very Bad People...