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Hippo Eats Dwarf

Hippo Eats Dwarf

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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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Wednesdays Closest to the Full Moon: History of South Gippsland

Wednesdays Closest to the Full Moon: History of South Gippsland

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Women Our History

Women Our History

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Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock

Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock

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Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It

Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It

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The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about...
Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else

Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else

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Children of the Lucky Country?

Children of the Lucky Country?

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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

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Looking Inwards: Finding and Accepting Yourself and Those Around You

Looking Inwards: Finding and Accepting Yourself and Those Around You

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African Europeans: An Untold History

African Europeans: An Untold History

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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 -- Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains

Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains

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'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore

Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore

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An unprecedented look at women's everyday clothes-from Sylvia Plath's Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers' uniforms-this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background...
Extraordinary Pools

Extraordinary Pools

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A visual feast of 50 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world. Swimming pools are no longer simply places to swim, they are versatile sites of...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

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Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave...
We All Go into the Dark

We All Go into the Dark

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A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968...
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy

Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy

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Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World

Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World

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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution

When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution

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In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking...
Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire

Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire

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This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic....
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

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'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

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A cutting-edge exploration of how talent works and how it can be created and honed. 'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually. In The Talent Code,...
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind

Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind

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From the world's foremost forensic anthropologist and bestselling author of All That Remains, this book is an exploration - from skull to feet - of how our bones reveal all...
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE...
Birds, Beasts and Relatives

Birds, Beasts and Relatives

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A new standalone edition of the second book in the trilogy that inspired ITV''sThe Durrells In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu,...
On Violence

On Violence

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Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still...
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

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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....
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

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The thrilling history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, that would shape the great wars to come Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870,...
Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

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An evocative exploration of the origins and impact of one of our most intimate and essential possessions Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool- through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

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A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control...
Women Who Stay with Men Who Stray: The Truth about Men, Women and Affairs

Women Who Stay with Men Who Stray: The Truth about Men, Women and Affairs

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For millions of women, infidelity becomes central to their marriages. For those women life can be emotional torture and this book addresses three basic questions: why do women stay when...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

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'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM,...
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

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A fascinating history of World War I in the words of those who were there - 'an extraordinary and immensely moving book' Stephen Fry This unique landmark oral history uses...
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England

The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England

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Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina 'Ramirez blasts a...
Bunk

Bunk

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction "There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential." --Marlon James...
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

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A Spectator Book of the Year 'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review 'A terrific storyteller' New York Times 'Exceptional ....
No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World

No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World

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An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control.Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders-he's interested in their...
Eternity: Stories from the Emotional Heart of Australia

Eternity: Stories from the Emotional Heart of Australia

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India: Life, Myth and Art

India: Life, Myth and Art

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Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

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World Poverty for Dummies

World Poverty for Dummies

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Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

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Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

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Introducing Media Studies: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Media Studies: A Graphic Guide

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Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking relationships in the 21st century

Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking relationships in the 21st century

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Part memoir, part sociological study, IS MONOGAMY DEAD? highlights the huge disparities in how people define a 'relationship' and what constitutes 'cheating'. Rosie draws on her own experience and interviews...
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

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With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER! 'Essential reading' Guardian 'A joyful read' Sunday Times 'Disarmingly honest' Daily Mirror 'Bravely revealing' Bernardine Evaristo 'Filled with relatable insights'...
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio

Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio

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'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched...