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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

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Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes,...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

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Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

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Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

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Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives

Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives

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Author: James P. Steyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Bound to spark a major national discussion, Which Side of History? offers a collection of over 30 bold...
Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life

Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why play really matters, and 101 ways to get more of it in your life

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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at...
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

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Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
The Real Top Boys: The True Story of London's Deadliest Street Gangs

The Real Top Boys: The True Story of London's Deadliest Street Gangs

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Author: Wensley Clarkson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The true story of London's toughest, deadliest street gangs: the events, the rules and the real top boys. Are...
Signature Dishes That Matter

Signature Dishes That Matter

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Author: Mitchell Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Today's food-lovers often travel the globe to enjoy the food of acclaimed chefs. Yet the tradition of seeking out unforgettable dining...
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...
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...
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

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Author: Ben Rawlence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery...
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...
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...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
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...
Popism

Popism

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Author: Andy Warhol & Pat HackettFormat:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat...
So You've  Been Publicly Shamed

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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Author: Jon Ronson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
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...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life

Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life

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Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans -...
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

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Author: Andrew Keen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In his bestselling books The Cult of the Amateur and The Internet is not the Answer, Andrew Keen exposed...
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...
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop

Not Working: Why We Have to Stop

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Author: Josh Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'A probing exploration of the creative and imaginative possibilities of inactivity' - The Financial Times 'To do nothing at...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

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Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

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Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...
Media, Masculinities, and the Machine: F1, Transformers, and Fantasizing Technology at its Limits

Media, Masculinities, and the Machine: F1, Transformers, and Fantasizing Technology at its Limits

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Author: Professor, PhD Dan Fleming Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 Media, Masculinities, and the Machine identifies a distinctive phenomenon in today's media culture - the contemporary male...
Eat Something

Eat Something

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Author: Evan Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Wise Sons is a nationally recognised deli and Jewish food brand with a unique Californian ethos. Inspired by the past but...
THEOREM[A]: The Body, Emotion + Politics in Fashion

THEOREM[A]: The Body, Emotion + Politics in Fashion

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Author: Filep Motwary Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: How connected are fashion designers to the body they design for today? Is there truly a way for the body...
The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes

The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes

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Author: Kind Studio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome reader. Please, make yourself comfortable: pull your chair nearer the fire, put your feet up on the dog,...
Should We All Be Vegan?: A primer for the 21st century

Should We All Be Vegan?: A primer for the 21st century

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Author: Molly Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards As concern grows over the...
Future Crimes: A Journey To The Dark Side of Technology - and How To Survive It

Future Crimes: A Journey To The Dark Side of Technology - and How To Survive It

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Author: Marc Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous...
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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Author: Maryanne Wolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 How the brain learned to read is a startling reminder of the amazing achievements of humankind. We were never...
Glimpses of Utopia

Glimpses of Utopia

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Author: Jess Scully Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is...
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

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Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...
Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home

Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home

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Author: Victoria Bruce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The story of one citizen's fight to preserve a US stake in the future of clean energy and the elements essential...
Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last

Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last

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Author: MR David Edwards (The University of Oxford UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do,...
The Hero

The Hero

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Author: Lee Child Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read...
What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?

What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?

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Author: John T. Lang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 184 The rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators and industry representatives....
Hot Feminist

Hot Feminist

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Author: Polly Vernon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Suffering from Feminist Fatigue? Worried wearing those stilettos breaks the unspoken rules of ladyhood? Irked by the fact that...
Blue Collar Frayed: Working Men in Tomorrow's Economy

Blue Collar Frayed: Working Men in Tomorrow's Economy

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Author: Jennifer Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us,...
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

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Author: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a "sharply written and brilliantly reported" (Shelf Awareness) look inside...
So Here's the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older and Not Giving a Shit

So Here's the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older and Not Giving a Shit

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Author: Alyssa Mastromonaco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From the New York Times bestselling author of WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? comes a fun, frank...
The Study of Culture At a Distance

The Study of Culture At a Distance

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Author: Margaret Mead Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the...
A Primer for Forgetting Getting Past the Past

A Primer for Forgetting Getting Past the Past

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Author: Lewis Hyde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we...
Defining You How to profile yourself and unlock your full potential - SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

Defining You How to profile yourself and unlock your full potential - SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019

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Author: Fiona Murden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 *Take the online psychometric test and receive a full professional report* Have you ever wondered what a profiling session...