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Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction
Author: Luca Peliti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The first comprehensive graduate-level introduction to stochastic thermodynamicsStochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to interpret thermodynamic...
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake
Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
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...
The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now
Author: Henry Shue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming Climate change is...
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement
Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics
Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
How Birds Live Together: Colonies and Communities in the Avian World
Author: Marianne Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Featuring dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in...
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Author: George A. Akerlof Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today....
Literature for a Changing Planet
Author: Martin Puchner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this...
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times
Author: Jack Snyder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Author: Roberto Saba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the...
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis
Author: Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques An introduction to data science or...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
What's the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal-and How It Costs Us All
Author: Hal Weitzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 How the 'First State' has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us. The...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book...
This Girl Can Be a Bit Shy
Author: Stephanie Stansbie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Meet Ruby. Some days she is brave, bouncy and chat-chat-chatty. Other days, she is not - and that's OK! She knows...
Late Light: WINNER OF THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING
Author: Michael Malay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey,...
Frank and Bert: The One Where Bert Learns to Ride a Bike
Author: Chris Naylor-Ballesteros Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 The hilarious fox and bear double act from bestseller Chris Naylor-Ballesteros is back for a second adventure. Bert is CERTAIN he...
Our Earth is a Poem
Author: Various authors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 This is a book of poetry for everyone. Inside is a treasure trove of writing celebrating the natural world. Read the...
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light
Author: Caroline Eden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Winner of the Art of Eating Prize 2020 Winner of the Guild of Food Writers' Best Food Book Award 2019 Winner...
Reading Champion: The Weather Today: Independent Reading Non-Fiction Pink 1a
Author: Jackie Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with...
Warriors: The Broken Code #6: A Light in the Mist
Author: Erin Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling Warriors series continues with the thrilling conclusion to the epic Broken Code story arc. The hardcover edition includes...
The Raven's Nest
Author: Sarah Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In 2008, on a week-long trip to a film festival in Iceland, Sarah Thomas was spellbound by the strange landscape she...
Himalaya
Author: Michael Palin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this his most challenging journey, Michael Palin tackles the Himalaya, the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall...
Dear Earth...From Your Friends in Room 5
Author: Erin Dealey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 "A well-thought-out presentation of an important environmental message." -Kirkus When the kids in Room 5 write to Earth asking what they...
Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea
Author: David Doubilet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The first major book in two decades by the pioneering underwater photographer, beloved as the 'Audubon of the sea'. The ocean...
Paola Pivi
Author: Paola Pivi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The first complete survey of the work of the much-loved and collected contemporary Italian multimedia artist Paola Pivi - with more...
Bacon in Moscow
Author: James Birch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount...
Some Answers Without Questions
Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...
This is Pollock
Author: Catherine Ingram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 In 1956 Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale...
Claris: The Secret Crown: The Chicest Mouse in Paris: Volume 6
Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 The card had no address - just one special clue: a small golden crown. Claris knew what to do! Claris and...
Can You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree?
Author: Jane Godwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 'Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its...
Diary of a Wombat 20th Anniversary Edition
Author: Jackie French Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A special new edition of the much-loved modern classic -- celebrating 20 years of Australia's best-loved wombat, Mothball MondayMorning: Slept. Afternoon:...
My Dream for You
Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 A heart-warming aspirational picture book for new mums and babies from First Nations tennis champion Ash Barty, with Jasmin McGaughey and...
Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean
Author: Melissa Greenwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 An ode to happy days spent by the ocean, from Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood, the creator of the heart-stirring picture books...
Claris: Pasta Disaster: Claris: The Chicest Mouse in Paris: Volume 7
Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 The seventh delightful rhyming tale about courage, compassion and a stylish little mouse, from beloved children's author Megan Hess. Ciao! Claris...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...
Second Helpings: Delicious Dishes to Transform Your Leftovers
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Author: Sue Quinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "I've read enough by Sue Quinn to know I would want any book she wrote." - Nigella Lawson "This will change...
All You Need is Love (Notes)
Author: John Tabis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A parcel of personal, sweet moments told through the intimacy of real bouquet notes from real senders, delivered with The Bouqs...