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2020: World of War

2020: World of War

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Author: Paul Cornish Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War. Will the Russian invasion of the...
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

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Author: Alan Rusbridger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of...
The Sunday Times Investigates: Reporting That Made History

The Sunday Times Investigates: Reporting That Made History

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Author: Madeleine Spence Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 A must-have gift for anyone interested in investigative journalism. The Sunday Times national newspaper is famous for its insight investigative journalist...
Open: The Story Of Human Progress

Open: The Story Of Human Progress

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Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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Author: Tom Burgis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'If you think the UK...
Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Shout Less. Listen More.

Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Shout Less. Listen More.

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Author: Iain Dale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Why Can't We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of public discourse in Britain and...
The Importants

The Importants

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Author: Kevin Amato Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The much-anticipated first book by photographer Kevin Amato, a leading influencer in fashion today Kevin Amato, a fashion insider whose influence...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

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Author: Tom Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown 'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie Amos To thrive...
Teenage

Teenage

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Author: Jon Savage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 One of David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read books and the inspiration behind the film Teenage, directed by Matt...
Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind

Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind

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Author: Johan Norberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

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Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

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Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business

The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business

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Author: Nelson Schwartz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On...
Wars of the Interior

Wars of the Interior

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Author: Joseph Zarate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the...
Night Sky

Night Sky

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Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

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Author: Bee Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods, or so...
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

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Author: John Lloyd (Contributing Editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists...
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

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Author: Bob Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace...
The Crap Secret Santa Gift Book

The Crap Secret Santa Gift Book

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Author: Secret Santa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 A budget-friendly Secret Santa present for fans of HOW TO POO AT WORK and VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS featuring advice on how...
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better

How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better

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Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 We live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad - genuinely...
Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts

Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts

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Author: Piers Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel the...
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

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Author: Patricia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place...
Women & Power: A Manifesto

Women & Power: A Manifesto

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Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the...
Jealousy

Jealousy

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Author: Peter Toohey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A witty and insightful investigation into the green-eyed monster's role in our lives Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living...
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

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Author: Kevin Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama....
A Monstrous Commotion, The Mysteries of Loch Ness

A Monstrous Commotion, The Mysteries of Loch Ness

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Author, Gareth Williams Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 432 The Loch Ness Monster, a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on...
Rise of the Warrior Cop, The Militarization of America's Police Forces

Rise of the Warrior Cop, The Militarization of America's Police Forces

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Author, Radley Balko Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 400 The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money

Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money

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Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

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Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No...
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion

The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion

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Author: Eliot Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg,...
Space Between

Space Between

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Author: Nico Tortorella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Actor and LGTBQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella's narrative investigation of love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through the lens of...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

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Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums

Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums

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Author: The Economist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali...
So You Want to Publish a Magazine?

So You Want to Publish a Magazine?

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Author: Angharad Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 So you want to publish a magazine? Start here! This guide shows you how to take your concept from...
Fears to Fierce: A Woman's Guide to Owning Her Power

Fears to Fierce: A Woman's Guide to Owning Her Power

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Author: Brita Fernandez Schmidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A feminist Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by leading voice in female empowerment Find Meaning Own...
Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution

Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution

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Author: Jill Abramson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the first woman editor of The New York Times, the definitive in-the-room account of the battle between prestige...
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

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Author: Yancey Strickler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity

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Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

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Author: Alex Renton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN 'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH No other society sends its young boys...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

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Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness

Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness

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Author: Michael Odell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Michael Odell is a rock music writer who takes his responsibility as cultural gatekeeper seriously; he asks rock stars the forbidden...
No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made

No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made

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Author: Mark Townsend Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Five teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold...
Seriously Curious: 109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down

Seriously Curious: 109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down

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Author: Tom Standage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

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Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up...
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 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...