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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love

12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love

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Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD* Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined...
Nightbitch: Stylist's summer 2021 cult breakout

Nightbitch: Stylist's summer 2021 cult breakout

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Author: Rachel Yoder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

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Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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Author: Kate Murphy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will...
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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Author: Caroline Criado Perez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one...
The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

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Author: Nadifa Mohamed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan...
The Second Sex

The Second Sex

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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes.A long awaited, highly acclaimed new translation...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

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Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet....
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion

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Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were...
Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during...
The Coffin Confessor

The Coffin Confessor

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Author: William Edgar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the...
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 Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition

The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

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Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most...
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,...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

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Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
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...
Early Irish Myths and Sagas

Early Irish Myths and Sagas

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Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 These early Irish stories, probably first written down around the eighth century A.D., represent the oral tradition of the...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

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Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self

The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In...
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

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Author: Cedric J. Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time...
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,...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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Author: Robin DiAngelo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism Anger. Fear....
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Author: Daniel Kahneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us...
One World

One World

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Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 365 Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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Author: Kate Manne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de...
Growing Up Disabled in Australia

Growing Up Disabled in Australia

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Author: Carly Findlay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

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Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge

The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

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Author: Jack Charles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian...
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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Author: Helen Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them...
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...
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

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Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure

The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...
Status Anxiety

Status Anxiety

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Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering...