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Pleasure of Thinking

Pleasure of Thinking

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Author: Wang XiaoboFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 170g, 224 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in...
The Naked Neanderthal

The Naked Neanderthal

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Author: Ludovic SlimakFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 158g, 208 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey...
The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World

The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World

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Author: Alex O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it...
Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live

Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live

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Author: Kennon M Sheldon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A renowned psychologist argues that free will is not only real but essential to our well-being It s become fashionable...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The...
The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: the truth about misogyny, and how it affects us all

The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: the truth about misogyny, and how it affects us all

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Author: Maya Oppenheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'This is a vital book. Hand this out in schools, in the workplace, everywhere. It's also beautifully written.' Olivia Colman 'Brilliant....
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

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Author: Judith Herman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'A magnificent and inspiring contribution with profound implications' Bessel van der Kolk MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score 'Celebrates...
The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

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Author: Tali Sharot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Selected as a best book of 2017 by Forbes, The Times, Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Greater Good Magazine, Stanford Business School and...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

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Author: Derek A. Bardowell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around...
A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity

A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity

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Catching the Wolf of Wall Street

Catching the Wolf of Wall Street

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Octavia, Daughter of God

Octavia, Daughter of God

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How to be Sad: The Key to a Happier Life

How to be Sad: The Key to a Happier Life

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Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know it

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know it

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Breaking Out of the "Man Box": The Next Generation of Manhood

Breaking Out of the "Man Box": The Next Generation of Manhood

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Cold Case Files: Past Crimes Solved by New Forensic Science

Cold Case Files: Past Crimes Solved by New Forensic Science

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The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

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Author: Michael Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional...
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

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Author: William Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous,...
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*

Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*

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Author: Victoria Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023 'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer 'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap

Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap

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Author: Carrie Gracie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight for equal...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

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Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

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Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

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Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Can Globalization Succeed?

Can Globalization Succeed?

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Author: Dena Freeman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies have delivered economic integration between countries and brought global inter-connectedness to individuals. So why...
Toxic

Toxic

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Author: Sarah Ditum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to the...
Malcolm McLaren: Interviewed at The Eagle Gallery, London 1996

Malcolm McLaren: Interviewed at The Eagle Gallery, London 1996

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Author: Malcolm McLaren Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 40 Malcolm McLaren, Interviewed at The Eagle Gallery, London 1996, prints for the first time a 1996 interview with the artist and...
It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth: How the Economics of Race Really Work

It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth: How the Economics of Race Really Work

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Author: Remi Adekoya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection...
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

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Author: Emma Dabiri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next...
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

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Author: Barbara Demick (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's...
Strange and Unsung All-Stars of the DC Multiverse: A Visual Encyclopedia

Strange and Unsung All-Stars of the DC Multiverse: A Visual Encyclopedia

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Author: Stephanie R. Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Peacemaker had a long road to the spotlight and he's not alone. There are dozens of unique, sometimes absurd, and...
Getting to Neutral: How to Conquer Negativity and Thrive in a Chaotic World

Getting to Neutral: How to Conquer Negativity and Thrive in a Chaotic World

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Author: Trevor Moawad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Foreword by Ciara In this breakthrough book, the author of Wall Street Journal bestseller It Takes What It Takes provides life-changing,...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

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Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 452 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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Author: Amanda Montell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

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Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
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 SharpFormat: Hardback, 134mm x 200mm, 280g, 224 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023Know your tater trap from your sniffle herring in Sharp's journey around the world in...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

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Where Soldiers Fear To Tread

Where Soldiers Fear To Tread

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Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America

Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America

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The Penguin Freud Library,Vol.6: Jokes And Their Relation to the Unconscious

The Penguin Freud Library,Vol.6: Jokes And Their Relation to the Unconscious

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The Lively Place: Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents

The Lively Place: Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents

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Police Lab

Police Lab

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Ordinary Resurrections

Ordinary Resurrections

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Only Child: A Provocative Analysis of the Impact of Being an Only Child

Only Child: A Provocative Analysis of the Impact of Being an Only Child

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Motive to Murder: How Police Take Homicide from Case to Court

Motive to Murder: How Police Take Homicide from Case to Court

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Leading Women: Tactics for Making the Difference

Leading Women: Tactics for Making the Difference

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