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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...
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Author: Michael Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Who controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their...
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...
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...
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
Author: Bob Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace...
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...
Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts
Author: Piers Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel 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...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye
Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in...
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...
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,...
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...
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 Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Author: Kate Pickett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think Why do...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and...
The Bookseller's Tale
Author: Martin Latham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 If you were given one trillion dollars, to be spent in a year, on science, what would you do? It's an...