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All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of
'Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' - Sunday Times At the heart of this history is the female body. The...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...
Technologies of the Human Corpse
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today. "One of our greatest thinkers" on death presents a radical...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Another tiger-golden day lay ahead of us. It was as though England...
Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating exploration of our moral universe We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they are the pets we keep,...
All Desire is a Desire for Being
A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desire Rene Girard eludes easy categories, bridging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, sociology,...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s reflections on love and its transformative power-a stellar addition to Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. "I have also decided...
Clubland: How the working men's club shaped Britain
The untold story of a British institution 'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson 'Compelling.' David Kynaston 'The beer drinkers' Bill Bryson.' Times Literary Supplement Ferment Magazine's Best Beer Book of the Year Pete...
Trauma Proof: Healing, Attachment and the Science of Prevention
Author: Benjamin Perks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Lucid, clear, visionary' - Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps The Score 'An important book' Bruce Perry, author...
Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World
This year, as they have for millennia, people will set out on pilgrimages. From Mecca to the Outer Hebrides, each of these journeys will be filled with spiritual and personal...
Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein , introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Those who read the book were thrilled by this...
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism
'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of WHITE FRAGILITY 'It should be mandatory reading ......
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power
From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria,...
Aztecs: Conquest and Glory
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Who were the Aztecs, how did they become so powerful, and where did they go? This new book traces the Aztec Empire's 200-year span, from its mythical beginings to its...
Growing Up Black in Britain: Stories of courage, success and hope
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What is it like to grow up Black or Black dual heritage in Britain? Stuart Lawrence, brother of Stephen Lawrence, talks to seven inspirational figures about their childhood experiences, as...
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class and
'If everyone read Edna Bonhomme's incredible, humane, insightful book-and I hope they do-we might stand a chance' Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World 'Fascinating and thought-provoking' Jonathan...
The Colour of Injustice
Lee Lawrence was just eleven when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot by police during a raid on the family's south London home. It was an event that would spark...
Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You
The difficulty of raising kids in America is well-known-no federally supported parental leave, a lack of mental health support, a crushing combination of workplace pressure and aspirational parental perfection, and...
Family
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With the same quirky brilliance that drew fans to his previous work, Ian Frazier narrates the history of his family from early colonial days to the present. He reconstructs two...
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution
A kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America's long civil rights movement-the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and...
No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a...
Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces
Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti?...
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them....
The Cuckoo (The UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 3): The dramatic
Leo Carew's much-lauded UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY trilogy draws to its spellbinding conclusion... Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made anew. Driven...
London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious
Step into the hidden world of London's private members' clubs with London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious . This guide, by the leading historian on the subject, offers a...
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on...
Shoulder to Shoulder: The Best Queer History Book You'll Read This
The best queer history book you'll read this year. LONGLISTED FOR THE BREAD & ROSES AWARD Shoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ pioneers of solidarity and...
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World: The hilarious and
'Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm' Telegraph 'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply...
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Annie Besant's Fight for Reproductive Rights
An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories. 'Makes...
Sum of Us: A History of the UK in Data
What has data ever done for us? Georgina Sturge, House of Commons Library statistician and author of the critically acclaimed Bad Data , explores the rich history of the times...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of
'Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' - Sunday Times At the heart of this history is the female body. The...
My Fathers' Daughter
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A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time. What a story. So...
The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover up, Pick up the
This book shows how managers, workers and organization members exhibit symptoms of addiction - denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of behaving, manipulating events to...
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion,...
The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to
Are our brains wired to hate? Does online hate incite violence on the streets? With hate crimes at an all-time high, what can we do to help turn the tide?...
How Australia Compares
How Australia Compares is a handy reference that compares Australia with 17 other developed democracies on a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. Whenever possible, it gives not...
Mothers and Sons
Based on frank and revealing interviews with mothers and sons of all ages, Babette Smith's ground-breaking book tells the truth about this crucial relationship. She probes behind the myths and...
Harrods: The Story of Society's Favourite Store
The book titled Harrods: The Story of Society's Favourite Store by the author Sean Callery. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Fuzzy Monsters: Fear and Loathing at the BBC
Delving into the recent history of the BBC, once thought of as the last bastion of British paternalism, this book explores the truth behind accusations that the appointment of Sir...
Brief Lives
The book titled Brief Lives by the author John Aubrey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens & 300 Years of English History
THIS OTHER EDEN is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also...
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
This wide-ranging study vividly presents the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that claimed one-quarter of the Venetian...
Together: the Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation
Living with people who differ--racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically--is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics...
Hearth and Home: History of Material Culture
The book titled Hearth and Home: History of Material Culture by the author Norman John Greville Pounds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
London: A Social History
This work describes London's social life, its growth and the experiences of living in the city. With the redevelopment of Docklands and much of the East End, London is now...
The Human Jungle: An Intriguing Look at How We Have Adapted to Cope
A look at the hidden patterns of behaviour which underpin our daily life, based on research in environmental psychology and urban anthropology. Topics discussed are the concept of personal space...
Household's Work
This book is intended for students and researchers in gender studies, economics, soacila and welfare policy and the socilogy of the family.
Hizmet: Question & Answers on the Gulen Movement
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This book is about a contemporary social phenomenon which is known by a number of different names: "the Volunteers' Movement", "the Service Movement" or just "Hizmet". Hizmet is also often...