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Truly Peculiar: Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction
Author: Tom Standage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Frequently unasked questions include: Are overweight politicians less trustworthy? What can bosses learn from a hostage negotiator? What happened...
Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind
Author: Johan Norberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
Wars of the Interior
Author: Joseph Zarate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the...
Night Sky
Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
Black Snake: The Daring of Ned Kelly
Author: Carole Wilkinson (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Part of the award-winning Young Adult non-fiction series, The Drum. "Everyone looks on me like a black snake."...
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 Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to...
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information
Author: John Lloyd (Contributing Editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists...
The Crap Secret Santa Gift Book
Author: Secret Santa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 A budget-friendly Secret Santa present for fans of HOW TO POO AT WORK and VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS featuring advice on how...
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind
Author: Patricia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place...
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the...
Behavioural Economics: Psychology, neuroscience, and the human side of economics
Author: David Orrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational individuals who optimise our own 'utility'. Then,...
Jealousy
Author: Peter Toohey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A witty and insightful investigation into the green-eyed monster's role in our lives Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living...
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
Author: Kevin Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama....
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No...
Space Between
Author: Nico Tortorella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Actor and LGTBQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella's narrative investigation of love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through the lens of...
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
Author: Yancey Strickler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour
Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life
Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at...
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism
Author: Adrian Gill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber 'A golden writer' Andrew Marr A. A. Gill was rightly...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time
Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life
Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans -...
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
Author: Andrew Keen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In his bestselling books The Cult of the Amateur and The Internet is not the Answer, Andrew Keen exposed...
The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...
Eat Something
Author: Evan Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Wise Sons is a nationally recognised deli and Jewish food brand with a unique Californian ethos. Inspired by the past but...
The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes
Author: Kind Studio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome reader. Please, make yourself comfortable: pull your chair nearer the fire, put your feet up on the dog,...
Should We All Be Vegan?: A primer for the 21st century
Author: Molly Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards As concern grows over the...
Future Crimes: A Journey To The Dark Side of Technology - and How To Survive It
Author: Marc Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous...
Gender: A Graphic Guide
Author: Meg-John Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History ('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender'...
Glimpses of Utopia
Author: Jess Scully Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is...
Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
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Author: MR David Edwards (The University of Oxford UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do,...
What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?
Author: John T. Lang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 184 The rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators and industry representatives....
Hot Feminist
Author: Polly Vernon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Suffering from Feminist Fatigue? Worried wearing those stilettos breaks the unspoken rules of ladyhood? Irked by the fact that...
The Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything
Author: Bobby Duffy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise...
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
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Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the...
Blue Collar Frayed: Working Men in Tomorrow's Economy
Author: Jennifer Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us,...
So Here's the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older and Not Giving a Shit
Author: Alyssa Mastromonaco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From the New York Times bestselling author of WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? comes a fun, frank...
The Study of Culture At a Distance
Author: Margaret Mead Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the...
A Primer for Forgetting Getting Past the Past
Author: Lewis Hyde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we...
Defining You How to profile yourself and unlock your full potential - SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019
Author: Fiona Murden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 *Take the online psychometric test and receive a full professional report* Have you ever wondered what a profiling session...