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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

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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

The Handshake: A Gripping History

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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

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

The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business

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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

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

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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

Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

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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

Wars of the Interior

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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

Night Sky

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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

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

The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

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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

The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

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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

Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

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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

The Social Animal: How We Become the People We are, Why We Do the Things We Do

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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

How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better

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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

Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts

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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

Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

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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

Engaging Adolescents: Parenting tough issues with teenagers

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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

The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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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

Himalaya: A Human History

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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

Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

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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

Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read

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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

A Zero Waste Family: In thirty days

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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

Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020

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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

You're Not Broken: Break Free From Trauma and Reclaim Your Life

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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

Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

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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

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

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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

Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control

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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

Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

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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

The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

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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

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

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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

The Descent of Man

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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

The Celestial Hunter

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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

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

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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

The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being

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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

Poor

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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

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

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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

Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

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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

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths

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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

The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism

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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

The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone

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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

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

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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

Citizen: An American Lyric

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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

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

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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

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

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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

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

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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

English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life

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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

The Bookseller's Tale

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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

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix

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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...