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Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam
Author: Julia Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the...
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
Author: Daniel Everett (Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Author: Dr Kit Heyam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A History Today Book of the Year Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award 'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves...
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women
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...
When the Dust Settles: The gripping behind-the-scenes story from the UK's top disaster planner -A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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. ________________...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 - 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings...
Labouring Men
Author: Prof Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the...
The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions
Author: David Robson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We assume that smarter people are less prone to error. But education and expertise can sometimes make our mistakes worse and...
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend...
The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals
Author: Rosie Harte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir '[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail 'A sparkling history' -...
Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the 2023 Orwell Prize Finalist
Author: Emily Kenway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 *FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023* 'A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation' ROB DELANEY 'A radical...
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works
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...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
Author: Claire Dederer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN...
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Author: Jacob Mikanowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to mind a jumble...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words
Author: Craig Olsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place
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
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...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel More...
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
Author: Clement Knox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as...
Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide
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...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
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...
The Little Book of Scotland: Wit, Whisky and Wisdom
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Land of spectacular landscapes, rich history and fabulous legends. With its jaw-dropping beauty, magnificent architecture, superb art and culture, and friendly,...
Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece
Author: Michael Glover Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 94 A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men's clothing ever created: the codpiece. The codpiece was fashioned in the...
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy for Body Image Dissatisfaction: A Practitioner's Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance & Values-Based Behavior Change Strategies (Professional)
Author: Adria Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Despite ongoing criticism of strict beauty ideals, cosmetic surgeons and diet pill manufacturers continue to thrive and tolerance for body flaws...
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class
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...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead: A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense
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 -...
200 Words to Help You Talk About Psychology
Author: Michael Britt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 If you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about,...
Farewell To The East End
Author: Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her...
Connected Women: Inspiring women who have shaped the world and each other
Author: Kate Hodges Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are...
The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia
Author: Nathan Filer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have...
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness
Author: Nathalie Olah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023 A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for...
Together: 10 Choices For a Better Now
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
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Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth: Australian Bush Foods Recipes and Sources Updated Edition
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Jerusalem in the 20th Century
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Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling
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An Introduction to Political Communication
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The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
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The Native-Born: The First White Australians
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Not Quite Australian: How Temporary Migration Is Changing the Nation
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1947: when now begins
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Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
Author: Donald BogleFormat: Hardback, 214mm x 256mm, 1380g, 272 pagesPublished: Running Press,U.S., United States, 2023From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history,...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin HazzardFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 208mm, 300g, 352 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2024Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A...
Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets
Author: Jennifer KavanaghFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 320g, 416 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2022In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and...
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country youth edition: An Introduction to our First Peoples for Young Australians
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