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Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

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Author: Sarah Prager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers...
The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique

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Author: Betty Friedan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and...
How To Be an Antiracist

How To Be an Antiracist

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Author: Ibram X. Kendi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A radical new way to think about racism and an inspiring treatise for what to do about it from the...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love

12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love

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Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD* Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined...
Nightbitch: Stylist's summer 2021 cult breakout

Nightbitch: Stylist's summer 2021 cult breakout

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Author: Rachel Yoder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

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Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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Author: Kate Murphy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will...
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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Author: Caroline Criado Perez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one...
The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

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Author: Nadifa Mohamed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan...
The Second Sex

The Second Sex

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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes.A long awaited, highly acclaimed new translation...
Freud: The Making of an Illusion

Freud: The Making of an Illusion

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Author: Frederick Crews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

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Author: Guillaume Coudray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 306 The result of more than five years of detailed research, documentary filmmaker Guillaume Coudray's book demonstrates why many in...
Talking with Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking: Death Row's worst killers - in their own words

Talking with Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking: Death Row's worst killers - in their own words

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Author: Christopher Berry-Dee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with...
The Queer Bible

The Queer Bible

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Author: Jack Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written...
The Magical Unicorn Society: Official Handbook

The Magical Unicorn Society: Official Handbook

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Author: Selwyn E. Phipps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 These learned lovers of unicorns have created a treasure chest of unicorn lore - the facts, the fiction, the where,...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

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Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet....
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
Talking with Female Serial Killers - A chilling study of the most evil women in the world

Talking with Female Serial Killers - A chilling study of the most evil women in the world

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Author: Christopher Berry-Dee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Because female murderers, and especially serial murderers, are so rare compared with their male counterparts, this new study will...
Places I've Taken My Body

Places I've Taken My Body

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Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

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Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

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Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

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Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion

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Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were...
Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during...
The Coffin Confessor

The Coffin Confessor

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Author: William Edgar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the...
Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Author: Irin Carmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will...
Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life

Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life

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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at...
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World

Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World

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Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Do you know where your shoes come from? Do you know where they go when you're done with...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

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Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series ** THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition

The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

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Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

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Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
Facebook: The Inside Story

Facebook: The Inside Story

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Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

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Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Sister Outsider

Sister Outsider

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Winner of the FT Business Book of the Year Award

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Winner of the FT Business Book of the Year Award

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Author: Sarah Frier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The extraordinary inside story of how Instagram became the world's most successful app Winner of the FT & McKinsey...
Made In America: An Informal History of American English

Made In America: An Informal History of American English

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Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive'...
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

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Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

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Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents

What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents

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Author: Nina Power Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A philosopher asks, what exactly do men get out of being men in the 21st century? It would be easy to...