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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Author: Irin Carmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will...
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...
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism

Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism

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Author: Adrian Gill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber 'A golden writer' Andrew Marr A. A. Gill was rightly...
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...
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 / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A remarkable book' - New Yorker From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gender: A Graphic Guide

Gender: A Graphic Guide

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Author: Meg-John Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History ('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender'...
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...
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....
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

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Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the...
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,...
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...
The Museum of Broken Relationships Modern Love in 203 Everyday Objects

The Museum of Broken Relationships Modern Love in 203 Everyday Objects

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Author: Olinka Vistica Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 What to do with the fragments of a love affair? A postcard from a childhood sweetheart. A wedding dress in a...
How to Read Freud

How to Read Freud

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Author: Josh Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a...