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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Author: Tiya Miles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
The Planet's Most Spiritual Places
This majestically illustrated and deeply insightful guide explores 100 of the most spiritually significant places throughout the world, seeking to understand what it is that defines these sites. Spirituality has...
Blue
Author: Sarah Christou Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Once I had a secret that was big and monstery... I thought of it as Blue. But Blue the monster doesn't...
Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage
Author: Ms. Rachael Lennon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of...
I AM UNSTOPPABLE
Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 The right words at the right time can do wonders to lift your mood, raise your confidence, control negative feelings...
Sketchbook
Author: Daniel Arsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative...
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
Author: Virginia Trimble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 504 The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed...
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...
A Course in Complex Analysis
Author: Saeed Zakeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Written with exceptional clarity and insightful style, A Course in Complex Analysis is accessible to beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates...
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...
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton
Author: Stanley Corngold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States....
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...
What Is a Bird?: An Exploration of Anatomy, Physiology, Behavior, and Ecology
Author: Tony D. Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 There are some 10,000 bird species in existence today, occupying every continent and virtually every habitat on Earth. The variety...
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...
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture
Author: Professor Jason Koenig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor...
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...
Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being
Author: Maureen Perry-Jenkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can help. Low-wage...
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...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
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...
Simply Chinese Feasts: Tasty Recipes for Friends and Family
Author: Suzie Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Growing up, TV presenter and author Suzie Lee was extremely fortunate in that her parents carried on the customs and traditions...
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking
Author: Kerryn Phelps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Power of Balance is the landmark memoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired...
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...
Eyes That Speak to the Stars
Author: Joanna Ho Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 New York Times bestselling team Joanna Ho and Dung Ho present Eyes That Speak to the Stars, companion to the acclaimed...
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...