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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...
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...
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill
Author: Adrian Gill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and...
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...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes
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,...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
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...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
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 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...
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...
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...
Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done
Author: Elizabeth Ricker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Join Ricker on a wild and edifying romp through the cutting-edge world of neuroscience and biohacking. You'll encounter Olympic athletes, a...
Shy: How Being Quiet Can Lead to Success
Author: Annie Ridout Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Society tells that us that being shy is a fault, but Annie Ridout says it's a gift. Shy: How being quiet...
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...
Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort
Author: Darren Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One of the families that dominated the thirteenth century were the de Montforts. They arose in France, in a hamlet close...
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...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...
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...
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
Author: James Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author...
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 Handshake: A Gripping History
Author: Ella Al-Shamahi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians do it and so do chimpanzees: in fact, the handshake is so deeply embedded...
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...
Peace, Love, Goats of Anarchy: How My Little Goats Taught Me Huge Lessons about Life
Author: Leanne Lauricella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Weve all seen the goats of Goats of Anarchy, now goat mama Leanne Lauricella will tell her stories of what the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
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Author: Judith Rodin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Building resilience,the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively,is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible...
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt
Author: Sinan Aral Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power...
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...
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...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new...
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...
Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future
Author: Edward F. Malkowski (Edward F. Malkowski) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The truth behind ancient myths and the return of the celestial conditions for a Golden Age of...
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...
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...
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...
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions...
Open: The Story Of Human Progress
Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic
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'...