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Psychologcal Foundations of Success: A Harvard-Trained Scientist Separates the Science of Success from Self-Help Snake Oil

Psychologcal Foundations of Success: A Harvard-Trained Scientist Separates the Science of Success from Self-Help Snake Oil

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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution

When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution

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In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking...
Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire

Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire

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This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic....
England's Gardens: A Modern History

England's Gardens: A Modern History

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Discover the iconic and enduring beauty of English gardens, the people who made them, and the legacy they leave We may all feel we know what an "English" garden is,...
The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss

The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss

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'Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure. A must-read.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester 'Nicola is a beautiful human being and her story is full of the joys and sorrows...
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

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'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

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A cutting-edge exploration of how talent works and how it can be created and honed. 'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually. In The Talent Code,...
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind

Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind

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From the world's foremost forensic anthropologist and bestselling author of All That Remains, this book is an exploration - from skull to feet - of how our bones reveal all...
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE...
The AfterGrief: Finding a Way to Live After Loss

The AfterGrief: Finding a Way to Live After Loss

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A timely exploration of the long-term grieving process, from NYT-bestselling author and grief expert Hope Edelman Grief is a path we can all expect to walk one day, when we...
Birds, Beasts and Relatives

Birds, Beasts and Relatives

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A new standalone edition of the second book in the trilogy that inspired ITV''sThe Durrells In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu,...
On Violence

On Violence

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Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still...
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

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Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

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The thrilling history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, that would shape the great wars to come Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870,...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

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A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control...
Women Who Stay with Men Who Stray: The Truth about Men, Women and Affairs

Women Who Stay with Men Who Stray: The Truth about Men, Women and Affairs

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For millions of women, infidelity becomes central to their marriages. For those women life can be emotional torture and this book addresses three basic questions: why do women stay when...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

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'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM,...
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England

The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England

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Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina 'Ramirez blasts a...
Bunk

Bunk

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction "There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential." --Marlon James...
No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World

No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World

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An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control.Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders-he's interested in their...
Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy [American Measurements]

Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy [American Measurements]

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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Welcome friends and family back around your table with Jamie Oliver's brand-new cookbook, Together - a joyous celebration of incredible food to share. Being with our loved...
Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

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Making a Difference: Fifty Years of Indigenous Programs at Monash University

Making a Difference: Fifty Years of Indigenous Programs at Monash University

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India: Life, Myth and Art

India: Life, Myth and Art

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Our Cheating Hearts: Love and Loyalty, Lust and Lies

Our Cheating Hearts: Love and Loyalty, Lust and Lies

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Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

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World Poverty for Dummies

World Poverty for Dummies

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Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

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Art in Europe, 1700-1830: A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth

Art in Europe, 1700-1830: A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth

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Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

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Introducing Media Studies: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Media Studies: A Graphic Guide

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Dead Man Walking: The murky world of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich

Dead Man Walking: The murky world of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich

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Nothing to Spare: Recollections of Australian Pioneering Women

Nothing to Spare: Recollections of Australian Pioneering Women

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Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking relationships in the 21st century

Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking relationships in the 21st century

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Part memoir, part sociological study, IS MONOGAMY DEAD? highlights the huge disparities in how people define a 'relationship' and what constitutes 'cheating'. Rosie draws on her own experience and interviews...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER! 'Essential reading' Guardian 'A joyful read' Sunday Times 'Disarmingly honest' Daily Mirror 'Bravely revealing' Bernardine Evaristo 'Filled with relatable insights'...
Butts: A Backstory

Butts: A Backstory

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"Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

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Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs organizations of talent, science of breakthroughs, politics of insight,...
We Are The Legion: The Royal British Legion at 100

We Are The Legion: The Royal British Legion at 100

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Formed in 1921 to provide welfare to soldiers returning from the First World War, the Royal British Legion is today the UK's leading military charity. In May 2021 the Legion...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain

Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain

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The history of British gambling is a history that stretches back nearly one thousand years, reaching into some of the nation's most fabled periods. It's now an industry worth billions...
Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve

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Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life-and the love-you deserve. Few things in the world have a more profound...
Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We Love

Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We Love

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From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports , a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose...
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

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A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year What kind of...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it

Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it

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One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

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A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
Why We Travel

Why We Travel

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Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Good...
Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace

Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace

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Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally, "Please don't spend your time telling us why developing and retaining a diverse workforce is important. We get it. The problem is, we...
Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

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Australian Bushrangers: The Romance of Robbery

Australian Bushrangers: The Romance of Robbery

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