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Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series ** THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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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...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

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Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
Facebook: The Inside Story

Facebook: The Inside Story

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Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Sister Outsider

Sister Outsider

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Winner of the FT Business Book of the Year Award

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Winner of the FT Business Book of the Year Award

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Author: Sarah Frier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The extraordinary inside story of how Instagram became the world's most successful app Winner of the FT & McKinsey...
Made In America: An Informal History of American English

Made In America: An Informal History of American English

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Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive'...
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

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Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

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Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents

What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents

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Author: Nina Power Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A philosopher asks, what exactly do men get out of being men in the 21st century? It would be easy to...
Jason And The Argonauts

Jason And The Argonauts

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Author: Robert Byrd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of...
Cocaine Confidential: True Stories Behind the World's Most Notorious Narcotic

Cocaine Confidential: True Stories Behind the World's Most Notorious Narcotic

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Author: Wensley Clarkson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly...
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

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Author: Jay Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

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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...
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

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Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing,...
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

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Author: Samira Shackle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Karachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

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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...
Your House Will Pay

Your House Will Pay

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Author: Steph Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both? 'Masterful.' - Ruth...
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works

I Saw the Dog: How Language Works

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Author: Alexandra Aikhenvald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Volume 41

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Volume 41

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Author: Frederick Douglass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his own wordsConsidered to be the most famous work written by a...
Nomadland: ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress

Nomadland: ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress

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Author: Jessica Bruder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A remarkable book' - New Yorker From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to...
Fifty Shades of Feminism

Fifty Shades of Feminism

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Author: Lisa Appignanesi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

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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...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

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Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

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Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
Islands of Abandonment

Islands of Abandonment

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Author: Cal Flyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
The Unnamable Present

The Unnamable Present

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists,...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
Orwell's England

Orwell's England

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray

Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray

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Author: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 252 With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand...
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

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Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...
The Hero

The Hero

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Author: Lee Child Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read...