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The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win
'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.' - Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.' - Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel it must be true . . .[A]...
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS: The Beatles changed the world.
The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume 7
The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. Virginia Woolf is considered by many to be...
Waking the Giant: Inside the Rebirth of Aston Villa
The true story of one football club's astonishing return to the top Featuring exclusive interviews with Jack Grealish, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa, along with many...
Two Sisters
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was...
Yorro Yorro: Original Creation and the Renewal of Nature
Aboriginal Elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that constitutes the oldest collective memory of humankind. Yorro Yorro tells of Wandjina creation spirits and their 'crossing over'...
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, a group of Ngarinyin people have been engaging with archival material and travelling back to Country to remember and record traditional harvesting and...
Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Storytellers
Out of the Desert is a compelling collection of stories, art and photographs from the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert, in north western Australia. It tells of their...
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history...
The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-daughter Relationship
A father wounded in his psychological development, Linda Leonard believes, cannot often give his daughter the care and guidance she needs. Using examples from her own life and her work...
Crowds and Power
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Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores...
Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad
The New York Times bestselling author and human performance expert tests his knowledge and theories on his own aging body in a quest to become an expert skier at age...
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGE An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by...
Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of
During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the...
Demonic Males
The findings are based on 30 years of field research on the behaviour and ecology of chimpanzees and other mammals in Africa.
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring
A riveting social and medical history of madness in America, from the seventeenth century to today. . In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics...
A History of the Breast
This engrossing work of original research is the first to consider how the breast has been perceived in the Western world from ancient days to the present - how it...
Children in Changing Families: Life After Parental Separation
At time when separation and divorce are increasingly common, this book supplies much-needed insights into why some children survive change in families better than others.
Living within Limits
We fail to mandate economic sanity, " writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology...
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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In hisNew York Times bestseller, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the...
The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine,
Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world's foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The...
To the Sea by Train: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Andrew Martin is a railway wizard' Telegraph 'Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century, the...
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London
There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into...
History's Greatest Drinking Games: From the Notorious to the Wisely
A whistle-stop guide to some of history's brilliantly bizarre drinking games, from the notorious to the wisely forgotten. As long as there have been people, there has been drinking -...
No Na Mamo: Traditional and Contemporary Hawaiian Beliefs and
No Na Mamo is an updated and enlarged compilation of books in the acclaimed Ka Wana series, published in 2005-2010. The books, revised and presented here as individual chapters, offer...
Made in Manchester: A people's history of the city that shaped the
A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER 'What Manchester thinks today,...
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Earth Before Humans
The book titled Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Earth Before Humans by the author Carl Sagan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Human Evolution - Richards
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the subject, "Human Evolution" is unique in focusing on contemporary theories of the evolution of human behaviour and in presenting a balanced review of...
Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our
Friends. Lovers. Therapists. 'Deathbots'. AI is taking on unprecedented roles for millions of us every day - but how are these new 'relationships' rewiring us? Beyond those who are using...
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty
From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as...
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution is a wide-ranging introduction to the human species that places modern humans in evolutionary perspective. Over seventy scholars world-wide have worked on the encyclopedia,...
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
The first opportunity to meet our extinct human ancestors face-to-face, through life-size reconstructions and detailed descriptions "This unusual book draws on three-dimensional recreations to bring to life 22 of our...
The Sex Myth: Why Everything We're Told is Wrong
Is there any truth to the epidemic of sex addiction? Are our children really getting sexualised younger? Are men the only ones who like porn? Brooke Magnanti looks at all...
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth...
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie...
Fossil Trail
One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...
A Beginner's Guide to the End: How to Live Life to the Full and Die a
" I wish I'd had this book when I needed it. Death and dying are not subjects that many people are comfortable talking about, but it's hugely important to be...
Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a
From Dr. Martha Stout's influential work The Sociopath Next Door , we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what to actually do about it. While the...
The Real Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICE 'Essential...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ** 'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker 'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New Statesman EMPTY PLANET...
Bosom Buddies: A Celebration of Female Friendships throughout History
Featuring 25 remarkable and inspiring female friendships throughout history, Bosom Buddies is an illustrated celebration of these empowering relationships. From the formidable Trung Sisters, to friendly rivals Katherine Mansfield and...
The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR ' Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'A fascinating look at a...
The Other Fab Four: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll
'In Liverpool everybody wanted to be in a band. On every street corner and in every cellar there were young fellas practising with guitars. But it was rare to see...