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Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this highly original and hugely entertaining account, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the cult of positive thinking in America....
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New...
The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it
Author: Matthew Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 At what point does prejudice become hate crime? Hate crimes are spiraling to an all-time high on both sides...
Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?
Author: Bobby Duffy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group...
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE WEEK: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice
Author: Julia Laite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece of scholarly historical research and true crime writing.' - Hallie Rubenhold, author of the Baillie Gifford prize-winning...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
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Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went...
Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A breakthrough work in neuroscience-and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience-that finally debunks the myth that there...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
The Handshake: A Gripping History
Author: Ella Al-Shamahi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians do it and so do chimpanzees: in fact, the handshake is so deeply embedded...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business
Author: Nelson Schwartz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On...
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
Author: Ellen Carol DuBois Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the...
Wars of the Interior
Author: Joseph Zarate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the...
Night Sky
Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
Author: Bee Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods, or so...
Change Your World: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference
Author: John C. Maxwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Two of today's most respected world-changers, leadership expert John C. Maxwell and global development leader Rob Hoskins, share...
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information
Author: John Lloyd (Contributing Editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists...
The Social Animal: How We Become the People We are, Why We Do the Things We Do
Author: David Brooks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 430 This is a book about success and how it happens, told through the fictionalised story of a couple, Harold...
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better
Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 We live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad - genuinely...
An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The...
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind
Author: Patricia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place...
Engaging Adolescents: Parenting tough issues with teenagers
Author: Michael Hawton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Parenting teenagers can be tricky at the best of times. But when the tough issues arise - behavioural problems,...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
Himalaya: A Human History
Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...
Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read
Author: Nick Littlehales Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are...
A Zero Waste Family: In thirty days
Author: Anita Vandyke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 252 Reduce your family's waste by 80%. Trying to live a zero waste life while simultaneously raising a family can...
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
Author: Camilla Pang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT...
Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection
Author: Dr Jeff Rediger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A pioneering Harvard psychiatrist uncovers the lost connections between the mind, body and immune system When it comes...
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did): THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Philippa Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The #1 Sunday Times bestselling guide to healthier, happier relationships by a leading psychotherapist How can we have better...
You're Not Broken: Break Free From Trauma and Reclaim Your Life
Author: Sarah Woodhouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The hidden trauma that holds back so many people. In one way or another, we all carry trauma. It...
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series
Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Author: Stuart Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Author: Todd Rose Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The End of Average draws on the very latest findings in the fields of psychology and sociology to show...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Author: Frank Trentmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. We...
The Descent of Man
Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,...
Coffeeland: A History
Author: Augustine Sedgewick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Thoroughly engrossing ... his literary gifts and prodigious research make for a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative...
The Celestial Hunter
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
Author: Richard Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The sequel to the global phenomenon The Spirit Level, this book explores the impact of inequality on each of...
Poor
Author: Caleb Femi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Author: Gaia Vince Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful...
The Penguin Book of Classical Myths
Author: Jennifer March Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 What were the twelve labours of Herakles? Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of gold? What was...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...