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Dangerous Relations: The Threat of Homosexuality

Dangerous Relations: The Threat of Homosexuality

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Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics

Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics

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Ideas That Changed the World

Ideas That Changed the World

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Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life

Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life

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Undercover

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Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse

Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse

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Challenging Consumption: Pathways to a more Sustainable Future

Challenging Consumption: Pathways to a more Sustainable Future

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A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

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Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital

Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital

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Have I Got Views For You

Have I Got Views For You

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Zero Fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service

Zero Fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service

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'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work - the determinative work - in this field ... Terrifying.' -Rachel Maddow The first definitive account...
The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective story' Telegraph

The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective story'

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Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death. Through 24 intriguing, never-before-told cases,...
The Britannias: An Island Quest

The Britannias: An Island Quest

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The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

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A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our

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How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases...
The Naked Neanderthal

The Naked Neanderthal

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A Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as...
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

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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....
The Hong Kong Diaries

The Hong Kong Diaries

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The diaries of the last British Governor, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories

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How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his...
Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World

Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World

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From internationally renowned sociologist Mich le Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? For many of us, it signifies accomplishment, self-reliance,...
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

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A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning

The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning

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A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

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First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled...
Eroticism

Eroticism

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An influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboos A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges...
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

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A major new assessment of one of the most controversial topics in history The Bible observes that God made humanity 'for a while a little lower than the angels'. If...
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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The extraordinary story of modern Europe on the move. A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations. Whether through war, state policy or a...
The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death

The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death

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A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients,...
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and

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From the UK's 'statistical national treasure', a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty We live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable. How...
Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past

Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past

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A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage, in fifty detective stories. Here is the history of humankind's relationship with...
Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination

Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination

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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,...
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction

Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction

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A sparkling exploration of the four cardinal directions, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps North, south, east and west- almost all societies use...
Love in Exile

Love in Exile

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'We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human' Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the...
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

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A groundbreaking history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people...
The Sirens Call: how attention became the world's most endangered resource

The Sirens Call: how attention became the world's most endangered

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From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has...
The World After Gaza

The World After Gaza

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From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to

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From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world From renowned historian and #1...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century

Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st

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A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known- that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers...
Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World

Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World

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Invisible Women meets Doughnut Economics- An international bestseller from an exciting new voice in the feminist space *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* WINNER OF THE POLITIKEN LITERATURE PRIZE 2024 'Brilliantly rewrites the...
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

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The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Sport

The Seven Deadly Sins of Sport

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A highly entertaining romp through sporting history's best sins and greatest sinners. WHERE THERE'S SPORT, THERE'S SINNING. Name a global sports icon and there will be a sin or two....
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

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A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

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This definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama. This definitive collection gathers...
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

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A titanic history of the three great oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian - and of mankind's relationship with the sea from the first voyagers to the...
The Art of More: how mathematics created civilisation

The Art of More: how mathematics created civilisation

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Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world. 1,...
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19

The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish

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A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with a new chapter on COVID-19. A Financial Times Best Book of...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of three remarkable individuals From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost...
The Joy of Connections: 100 ways to beat loneliness and live a happier and more meaningful life

The Joy of Connections: 100 ways to beat loneliness and live a happier

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An urgent guide to combatting the loneliness epidemic, with 100 ways to increase connectivity right now, from the iconic therapist and Holocaust survivor appointed as New York's first-ever loneliness ambassador....
A Matter of Death and Life

A Matter of Death and Life

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A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her fatal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. A year-long journey by...