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A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'An
Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important.A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled
'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford'[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data ... a penetrating analysis of why statistical literacy matters to...
A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and
'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.'Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she began...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for
** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 **The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers,...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]
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Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO'Important and ambitious' OBSERVERThis...
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised [...]
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A truly radical book;...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers,...
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024'A brilliant new cultural history of the gut' Daily Mail'A fascinating, erudite and entertaining journey through the gut-brain connection' TIFFANY WATT SMITH, author...
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...
Shoulder to Shoulder: A Queer History of Solidarity, Coalition [...]
This is a love letter to the pioneers of solidarity and coalition. It's a new global look at those bold moments where marginalised voices came together to say 'enough is...
Black History Walks
From Elephant and Castle to Southwark, from London Bridge to Westminster, Black History Walks takes you to historic locations around the city of London and gives in-depth historical context for...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline [...]
'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, SUNDAY...
The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
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Hollywood Vs America
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Pittsburgh Then and Now
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The Tin Streams of Wendron
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Window to the Future
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The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
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All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
'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, SUNDAY...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'An...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the [...]
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
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Physicians and their Images
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Philosophy: Inspirational Quotations and Thoughts
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Bypaths and Cross-roads
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Author: Jane Ellen PantonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward and Downey, 1889, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerBypaths and Cross-roads is a reflective work by Jane Ellen...
Real Life China
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Author: Richard ThwaitesBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins Sydney, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an insightful look into the everyday life and culture of China during a transformative...
A Long Bright Future
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Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies
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Every Eighteen Minutes: Coming to Terms with a Brother's Disappearance
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What's Happened To The University?: A sociological exploration of its infantilisation
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Dancing With Mister D
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materalism
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively Orwellian version of cultural materialism between 1981 and 2015. The essays address...
Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]
A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
A Voyage Around the Queen
From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
The Pimp and the Pork Sausage: A Story of Life
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