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All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
Author: Liza Jessie Peterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Eighteen years ago, performance artist Liza Jessie Peterson never thought that her day of substitute teaching at Rikers Island C-74...
Fear: A Cultural History
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
The Renaissance: All That Matters
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences...
An Introduction to Coping with Childhood Trauma, 2nd Edition
Author: Helen Kennerley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Practical support for how to overcome childhood trauma Many psychological and emotional problems faced by adults have their roots in childhood...
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
Author: Ian Goldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. Covid-19 left...
Women at the Ready: The Remarkable Story of the Women's Voluntary Services on the Home Front
Author: Robert Malcolmson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band...
Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology; Authorized Translation from the Third Russian Edition
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The R.C.s: A Report on Roman Catholics in Britain Today
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The Way of Tradition
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Ancestral Images Again: A Third Hong Kong Album
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The Polite World: A Guide to English Manners and Deportment from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century
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Seize the Time
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Unions in Crisis
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Fantasy: A Practical Guide to Escapism
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Enemies of Society
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Australia Under the Scalpel
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The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
Author: Joseph Sassoon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The...
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
Author: Gareth Harney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary story of ancient...
Poverty, by America
Author: Matthew Desmond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest country on...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author: Matthew Desmond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This searing, heartbreaking book tells the story of poverty today, and the people who live it Arleen spends nearly all her...
Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity
Author: Katherine Boo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story...
Pathogenesis: How germs made history
Author: Jonathan Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of...
Shadow Lines
Author: Stephen Kinnane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In this award-winning novel, Stephen Kinnane has written a deeply personal story of two remarkable people and of a vibrant, resilient...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to
Author: Bernard Wasserstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in...
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
Author: Harald Jahner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of...
The Last of the Nomads
Author: W J Peasley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Described by the Australian Book Review as 'deeply moving', this is the story of Warri and Yatungka, an exiled couple...
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Author: Tyson Yunkaporta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schroedinger's cat....
Supporting a Column
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The Hunting Hypothesis
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The Social Contract
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A History of the Labour Party from 1914
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Simply Human Beings
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People's Prison
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The Making of Mankind
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The Imperial Animal
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Animal Liberation
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The Way of Tradition
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Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba, 1928 - 1978
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The Love Scene
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Betoota-isms
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The Fate of IBM
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Reformers: Shaping Australian Society from the 60s to the 80s
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Shoes: A Love Story
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The Ever Open Door: A History of the Royal Melbourne Hospital
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In the Blink of an Eye: A Cultural History of Spectacles
Author: Stefana Sabin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 This book examines those who wore glasses through history, art and literature, from the green emerald through which Emperor Nero watched...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
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Author: Tom Segev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 816 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man...