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Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History

Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History

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Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
The Sex Lives of African Women

The Sex Lives of African Women

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Author: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A DOROTHY KOOMSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Such a beautiful read, like chatting to...
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored

Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored

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Author: Jeffrey Boakye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK. These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in...
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration and Home

The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration and Home

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Author: Nikesh Shukla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist 'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt...
The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change

The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change

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Author: Michelle M Kim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 2022 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER 2022 NATIONAL ANTIRACIST BOOK FESTIVAL SELECTION 2021 PORCHLIGHT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & HUMAN BEHAVIOR BOOK...
Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

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Author: Eboni K. Williams, Esq. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Essence Magazine 2023 Must Read Eboni K. Williams knew that an important part of her mission as a media...
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir

I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir

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Author: Debra Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Well-Read Black Girl - Book Club Pick* As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like...
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

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Author: Jacqueline Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made...
Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

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Author: Adam Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their...
Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World

Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World

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Author: Rupert Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Rupert Russell, the shock of the Trump-Brexit victories was only the latest in a decade full of them: the unstoppable...
Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

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Author: Julia Serano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

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Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...
The Queer Mental Health Workbook: A Creative Self-Help Guide Using CBT, CFT and DBT

The Queer Mental Health Workbook: A Creative Self-Help Guide Using CBT, CFT and DBT

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Author: Dr. Brendan J. Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A privilege to read, a pleasure to endorse' PROFESSOR TANYA BYRON 'This book completely bowled me over' DOMINIC DAVIES...
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

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Author: Kathleen Stock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard...
Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

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Author: Carla Valentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Fascinating - Prima Engaging and informative - Guardian Agatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors - a storyteller unparalleled...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

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Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
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 Number of Pages: 280 Bound to spark a major national discussion, Which Side of History? offers a collection of over 30 bold essays on...
Into The Silent Land

Into The Silent Land

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Author: Paul Broks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Into the Silent Land marks the debut of an astonishing new voice. Paul Broks draws on his many years as a...
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

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Author: Alexandra Natapoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, "a damning portrait" (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

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Author: John Grindrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
Man Up: Surviving Modern Masculinity

Man Up: Surviving Modern Masculinity

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Author: Jack Urwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Jack Urwin's father died when he was 10. No one around him ever sat him down to talk him through his...
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

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Author: Natasha Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

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Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

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Author: Hugh Brody Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory...
Far Out: The Lives of Former Extremists and What They Teach Us

Far Out: The Lives of Former Extremists and What They Teach Us

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Author: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 A powerful investigation into the world of extremism and redemption, from TIME journalist and author of Cast Away. "Far Out is...
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles

Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles

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Author: Travis Elborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield 'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman 'Lively, engaging and...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

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Author: Charles Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A wonderful, wild, dazzling book. You will feel more human for having read it' - Literary Review 'Foster's daringly imaginative exploration...
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

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Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 QUEEN BEES looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor,...
Let it Lizzo! : 50 reasons why Lizzo is perfection

Let it Lizzo! : 50 reasons why Lizzo is perfection

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Author: Billie Oliver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 104 To many, it seemed as though Lizzo shot to fame overnight. But long-time fans, like author Billie Oliver, know this is...
The Sex Lives of African Women

The Sex Lives of African Women

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Author: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A DOROTHY KOOMSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Such a beautiful read, like chatting to...
Nomadland: ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress

Nomadland: ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress

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Author: Jessica Bruder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A remarkable book' - New Yorker From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce...
Living Dolls: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

Living Dolls: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Natasha Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from...
Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide

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Author: R. D. Hinshelwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis...
Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide

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Author: John Nagle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Sociology: A Graphic Guide traces the discipline's history and explains the intricacies of its major thinkers from Comte and Marx to...
A Home of One's Own: Why the Housing Crisis Matters & What Needs to Change

A Home of One's Own: Why the Housing Crisis Matters & What Needs to Change

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Author: Hashi Mohamed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'A vital work of courage and hope, by a truly remarkable individual.' - Philippe Sands A home is important because it...
The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists: The Official Guide to Characters, Quotes, Timelines, and Memorable Moments

The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists: The Official Guide to Characters, Quotes, Timelines, and Memorable Moments

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Author: Bryan Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 With more than 100 inventive lists, charts, and timelines, The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists offers fans a creative way...
Fish, Flesh And Good Red Herring: A Gallimaufry

Fish, Flesh And Good Red Herring: A Gallimaufry

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Broken Bangles

Broken Bangles

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The Burn Journals

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The Pope's Children

The Pope's Children

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Sin City: London in Pursuit of Pleasure

Sin City: London in Pursuit of Pleasure

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Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia

Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia

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Lives in Limbo: Voices of Refugees Under Temporary Protection

Lives in Limbo: Voices of Refugees Under Temporary Protection

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Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure: A Sunday Times Bestseller and Rough Trade Book of the Year

Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure: A Sunday Times Bestseller and Rough Trade Book of the Year

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Author: Adelle Stripe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom, of madness,...
Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

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Author: Carla Valentine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Fascinating - Prima Engaging and informative - Guardian Agatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors - a storyteller unparalleled...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

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Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN...