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Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal

Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal

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Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World

Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World

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Author: Sharon Hudgins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important aspect...
Teatimes: A World Tour

Teatimes: A World Tour

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Author: Helen Saberi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In Teatimes: A World Tour food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a journey into the fascinating history of teatimes, from...
The Pleasure's All Mine

The Pleasure's All Mine

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Author: Julie Peakman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 472 What is perverse sex and what isn't? Now available in paperback, The Pleasure's AllMine explores the gamut of sexual activity that...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Photography and Anthropology

Photography and Anthropology

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Author: Christopher Pinney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Early anthropology celebrated photography as a physical record, whose authority and permanence promised an escape from the lack of certainty in...
Taste: A Philosophy of Food

Taste: A Philosophy of Food

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Author: Sarah E. Worth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers

Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers

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Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life

She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life

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Author: Jadah Sellner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Hustle culture isn't working for women. If you've ever . . . had too many things to do and not enough...
The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence

The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence

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Author: Jessica Lahey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 "The Addiction Inoculation is a vital look into best practices parenting. Writing as a teacher, a mother, and, as it happens,...
Girls Like You: Four Young Girls, Six Brothers and a Cultural Timebomb

Girls Like You: Four Young Girls, Six Brothers and a Cultural Timebomb

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Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers And Daughters

Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers And Daughters

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That'd be Right: A fairly true history of modern Australia

That'd be Right: A fairly true history of modern Australia

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Melbourne: The Making of a Drinking & Eating Capital

Melbourne: The Making of a Drinking & Eating Capital

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St Catherine's : a Centenary Celebration 1896-1996

St Catherine's : a Centenary Celebration 1896-1996

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Macquarie

Macquarie

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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

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Governing Forests

Governing Forests

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This Is the Voice

This Is the Voice

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Author: John Colapinto Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author...
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic

The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic

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Author: Christina Lamb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's'...
Taste: A Philosophy of Food

Taste: A Philosophy of Food

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Author: Sarah E. Worth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does...
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

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Author: Jason E. Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life,...
Breathing: An Inspired History

Breathing: An Inspired History

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Author: Edgar Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author...
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

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Author: Kristen Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the...
The Dedalus Book of Absinthe

The Dedalus Book of Absinthe

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Wives, Mistresses and Matriarchs

Wives, Mistresses and Matriarchs

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Dumbest Criminals

Dumbest Criminals

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The Penguin Book of Columnists

The Penguin Book of Columnists

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The Anointed

The Anointed

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Author: Michael Arditti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 337 Michal, Abigail and Bathsheba: three women trapped by circumstance. They are the property of husbands, fathers and grandfathers; their own lives...
Defiant Voices: How Australia's Female Convicts Challenged Authority 17881853

Defiant Voices: How Australia's Female Convicts Challenged Authority 17881853

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Author: Babette Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of...
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

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Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
Defining You: Build Your Unique Personal Profile and Unlock Your True Potential *SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR*

Defining You: Build Your Unique Personal Profile and Unlock Your True Potential *SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR*

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Author: Fiona Murden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *Take the online psychometric test and receive a full professional report* Have you ever wondered what a profiling session would tell...
Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

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Author: Clare Balding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY ANIMAL. EVERY ONE HAS A HEROIC STORY TO TELL. Discover how . ....
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

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Author: Curtis Bunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and...
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

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Author: Mike Rothschild Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ***** PERFECT FOR FANS OF 'THE COMING STORM' ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A chilling overview of a...
Who Are You? Test Your Personality

Who Are You? Test Your Personality

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Author: Salvatore V. Didato, Ph.D Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 With 50 IQ, 40 Personality, and 50 EQ tests, you'll discover every facet of yourself in this book of...
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century

This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century

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Author: Steven Hyden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline....
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

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Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

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Author: Curtis Bunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to policy. This is...
Defining You: Build Your Unique Personal Profile and Unlock Your True Potential *SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR*

Defining You: Build Your Unique Personal Profile and Unlock Your True Potential *SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR*

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The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

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Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law

Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law

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Book of Leaks: Exposes in Defence of the Public's Right to Know

Book of Leaks: Exposes in Defence of the Public's Right to Know

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