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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...
Jason And The Argonauts

Jason And The Argonauts

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Author: Robert Byrd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of...
Cocaine Confidential: True Stories Behind the World's Most Notorious Narcotic

Cocaine Confidential: True Stories Behind the World's Most Notorious Narcotic

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Author: Wensley Clarkson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly...
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

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Author: Jay Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

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Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

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Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing,...
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

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Author: Samira Shackle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Karachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

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Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
Your House Will Pay

Your House Will Pay

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Author: Steph Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both? 'Masterful.' - Ruth...
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works

I Saw the Dog: How Language Works

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Author: Alexandra Aikhenvald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Volume 41

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Volume 41

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Author: Frederick Douglass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his own wordsConsidered to be the most famous work written by a...
Nomadland: ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress

Nomadland: ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress

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Author: Jessica Bruder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A remarkable book' - New Yorker From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to...
Fifty Shades of Feminism

Fifty Shades of Feminism

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Author: Lisa Appignanesi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become...
A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past

A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

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Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

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Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
Islands of Abandonment

Islands of Abandonment

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Author: Cal Flyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
Early Irish Myths and Sagas

Early Irish Myths and Sagas

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Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 These early Irish stories, probably first written down around the eighth century A.D., represent the oral tradition of the...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

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Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram...
Popism

Popism

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Author: Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett Format:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self

The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In...
The Dream Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

The Dream Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

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Author: Jane Teresa Anderson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Your dreams contain wisdom and insight about your waking life - that's why they are so important. Using...
Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis

Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis

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Author: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Riot police are shutting down borders, 800 lives are lost in a single shipwreck, a boy's body washes up...
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

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Author: Cedric J. Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time...
The Unnamable Present

The Unnamable Present

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists,...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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Author: Robin DiAngelo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism Anger. Fear....
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Author: Daniel Kahneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us...
One World

One World

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Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 365 Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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Author: Kate Manne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de...
Growing Up Disabled in Australia

Growing Up Disabled in Australia

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Author: Carly Findlay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

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Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge

The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

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Author: Jack Charles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian...
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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Author: Helen Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

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Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure

The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...
Status Anxiety

Status Anxiety

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Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering...
My Story

My Story

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Author: Julia Gillard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three...
Orwell's England

Orwell's England

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
A Matter of Death and Life

A Matter of Death and Life

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Author: Irvin D. Yalom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her fatal diagnosis, as they reflect...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'If you think...
Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action and Activism

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action and Activism

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Author: Sophie Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Gives you the information you need to begin, or continue, your understanding of what it means to be a...
Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays: Conversations in Defense of the Future

Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays: Conversations in Defense of the Future

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Author: Andrew Keen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The current crisis of democracy, the growing economic inequality between rich and poor, our narcissistic social media culture and...
The Origins of Psychic Phenomena: Poltergeists Incubi Succubi and the Unconscious Mind

The Origins of Psychic Phenomena: Poltergeists Incubi Succubi and the Unconscious Mind

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Author: Stan Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Examines unexplained phenomena in psychiatric and psychological terms rather than occult terms * Explores how the unconscious mind manifests...
The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will

The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection

Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection

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Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...