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The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
Author: Niall Kishtainy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
The Real Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Rose Sgueglia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed. That's probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his...
A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off
Author: Emma Kay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with...
Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know About
Author: Michelle Rosenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 193 Keeping it to just 100 was a struggle. But we figured that any more miscast, missing and misunderstood women in one...
Sleep in Early Modern England
Author: Sasha Handley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
I Have a Dream
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles
Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring... ________________...
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Author: Gabriella Braun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow...
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...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions...
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Paul Morland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives
Author: Guillaume Coudray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Did you know that bacon, ham, hot dogs and salami are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as...
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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Author: Jon Ronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
The Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers
Author: Robert Mazur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel, he re-emerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his...
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel
Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID...
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
Author: Edward Glaeser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which...
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
Author: James Ball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible...
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the...
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
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Author: Don Kulick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years...
The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport
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Author: Jonathan Lichtenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son....
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
Author: Tom Roston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world-built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy-and an era in New...
The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
Author: Kerry Daynes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Enthralling and terrifying. THE DARK SIDE OF THE MIND is a chilling glimpse into a world of miscreants, monsters and the...
Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul
Author: Jamie Ducharme Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Big Vape is a dazzling story that crackles with the energy of a nicotine buzz, mixing tales of ground-breaking...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'I suppose this is what people call seeing history in the making .' Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague during...
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Author: Sally Hayden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY 'Journalism of the most urgent kind'...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
The Antisocial Network
Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Secret Societies and the Hermetic Code: The Rosicrucian, Masonic, and Esoteric Transmission in the Arts
Author: Ernesto Frers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A look into secrets hidden in music, painting, sculpture, and architecture * Ranges from paintings of Byzantine icons to...
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology
Author: Arnold Pacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 318 From cathedrals to star wars, Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the past 1000 years...