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Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
Author: Claire Dederer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...
How To Live With Each Other: An Anthropologist's Notes on Sharing a Divided World
Author: Farhan Samanani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Increasingly, we are coming to see difference, whether in the form of conflicting values or growing ethnic diversity, as an existential...
Night Sky
Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed exposed the impossibility of living on the minimum wage in the USA. Now, with...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
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 Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world
Author: Rob Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27? Is there any hope of...
The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Author: Dunya Mikhail Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq...
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them
Author: Dr Jessica Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women...
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles
Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring... ________________...
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani
Author: Behrouz Boochani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania?...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Author: Ashley Mears Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how...
The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN...
Human
Author: Charlotte Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of...
Hummus: A Global History
Author: Harriet Nussbaum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 This is a global history of hummus bi-tahina, the delicious combination of chickpeas, tahini, lemon and garlic that we know and...
The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time
Author: Russ Frushtick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games,...
A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice - Sports Book Award Special Commendation
Author: Hana Walker-Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should. A teenage rugby player plays on through multiple blows - and never...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It
Author: Tobias Rose-Stockwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND An invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
Virgins: A Cultural History
Author: Anke Bernau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Virgins haunted the medieval imagination; in those days only virgins were thought capable of taming a unicorn. To the most devout...
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
Author: Will Sommer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an insurrection and convince millions that...
Achilles in Vietnam
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Author: Jonathan M.D. Shay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 246 An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
The Study of Culture At a Distance
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...
Hot Feminist
Author: Polly Vernon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 'Suffering from Feminist Fatigue? Worried wearing those stilettos breaks the unspoken rules of ladyhood? Irked by the fact that...
The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals
Author: Rosie Harte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir '[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail 'A sparkling history' -...
Dreams From My Mother
Author: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by...
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts...
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities
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Author: Gregory Berns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A New York Times-bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are critical to our lives We all...
Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us
Author: Pete Etchells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a...
The Unofficial Ted Lasso Cookbook: From Biscuits to BBQ, 50 Recipes Inspired by TV's Most Lovable Football Team
Author: Aki Berry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Inspired by the beloved, Emmy Award-winning TV show Ted Lasso, a collection of 50 recipes, DIY ideas, and other Easter eggs...
Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength
Author: Andrea Owen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A bold and unabashed guide to finding your voice, harnessing your true desires, and leading the life you really...
Taste: A Philosophy of Food
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...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical
Author: Joel Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in...
Lawfare
Author: Geoffrey Robertson, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur,...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
Goddesses in You
Author: Christine Lister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Goddesses In You illuminates how archetypal patterns are the doorway into a hidden universe, the key to who you truly are....