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The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time

The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time

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Author: Russ Frushtick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games,...
A Deepening Roar: A History of Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851-2001

A Deepening Roar: A History of Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851-2001

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Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

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Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon & Henry Kendall

Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon & Henry Kendall

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Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession: Redbacks

Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession: Redbacks

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The Future for Our Kids: Plan for the future for yourself and your children with Phil Ruthven futurologist and strategist.

The Future for Our Kids: Plan for the future for yourself and your children with Phil Ruthven futurologist and strategist.

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Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them

Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them

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Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It

Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It

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Author: Tobias Rose-Stockwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND An invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with...
The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays

The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays

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In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed

In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed

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You Aren't What You Eat: fed up with gastroculture

You Aren't What You Eat: fed up with gastroculture

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Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

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Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and...
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

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Author: Marieke Bigg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.' IRISH TIMES 'A ground-breaking new book.' EVENING STANDARD 'A must read.' DAILY...
Toxic

Toxic

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Author: Sarah Ditum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to the...
The Mountain People

The Mountain People

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Unsolved: More of the World's Strangest Mysteries

Unsolved: More of the World's Strangest Mysteries

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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The Organizational Zoo: A Survival Guide to Workplace Behavior

The Organizational Zoo: A Survival Guide to Workplace Behavior

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No Visible Bruises: What we don't know about domestic violence can kill us

No Visible Bruises: What we don't know about domestic violence can kill us

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A Brief History of the Celts

A Brief History of the Celts

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Author: Peter Ellis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that...
Diary of an Invasion

Diary of an Invasion

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Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

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Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

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Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered...
When the Dust Settles: The gripping behind-the-scenes story from the UK's top disaster planner -A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

When the Dust Settles: The gripping behind-the-scenes story from the UK's top disaster planner -A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring. ________________...
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

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Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend...
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

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Author: Marc Dingman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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Author: David Randall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring,...
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

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Author: Sean Howe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural...
Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide

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Author: Maggie Hyde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 An ideal companion to Introducing Freud, Introducing Melanie Klein and Introducing Psychology. Carl Gustav Jung was a controversial disciple of Sigmund...
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

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Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN 'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is the story of generations of parents, Britain's...
The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead: A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense

The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead: A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense

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Author: Adam Sharp Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Know your tater trap from your sniffle herring in Sharp's journey around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense -...
Together: 10 Choices For a Better Now

Together: 10 Choices For a Better Now

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Author: Ece Temelkuran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 This is not about how we messed things up. This is about what kind of world we want to live in...
The Song of Eve: Illustrated Journey into the Myths, Symbols and Rituals of the Goddess

The Song of Eve: Illustrated Journey into the Myths, Symbols and Rituals of the Goddess

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1947: when now begins

1947: when now begins

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Breaking the Maafa Chain

Breaking the Maafa Chain

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Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
Urban Legends Uncovered: An investigation into the truth behind the myths

Urban Legends Uncovered: An investigation into the truth behind the myths

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The Prince and the Assassin: Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror

The Prince and the Assassin: Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror

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Mafia: The Complete History of a Criminal World

Mafia: The Complete History of a Criminal World

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Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800

Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800

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Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat

Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat

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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

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Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape

Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape

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Broometime

Broometime

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The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

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Author: Adam Kuper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A formidable work' - Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' - Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A...
Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the World

Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the World

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Author: James Proud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 - DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR GARDEN? - WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO...
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World

Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World

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Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with...
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

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Author: Joanna Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 'Buoyed by an appealing and measured sense of affection. Whether you love Marvel 3000 or you're a Scorsese sympathisers, MCU is...