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Young Women: An addictive, timely story of an intense female friendship from a powerful new voice
Author: Jessica Moor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin,...
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space,...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and...
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
Author: Ian Goldin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford....
Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain's Gangs
Author: Harriet Sergeant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Journalist, think-tank report writer and mother Harriet Sergeant befriended a teenage gang when she was researching a report on...
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
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Author: Carl Safina Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
Space Between
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...
Rice: A Global History
Author: Renee Marton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: This is a detailed history of rice, from its origin as a staple food in Asian and West African countries to its...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his...
Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication
Author: Michael Horsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life
Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans - oppressive authorities,...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
Be Who You Want: Unlocking the Science of Personality Change
Author: Christian Jarrett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Winner of the 2022 Book Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Today, more than ever, we are aware...
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...
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
Author: Victoria Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023 'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer 'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime
Author: Eric Jaffe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From an "illuminating and entertaining" (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Author: Hugh Brody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. It is about a childhood in England in the shadow of the Second...
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...
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' -...
Coconut: A Global History
Author: Constance L. Kirker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From curries to creamy pina coladas, a delectable global history of the many culinary incarnations of the coconut. The flavor...
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...
Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being
Author: Maureen Perry-Jenkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can help. Low-wage...
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter
Author: Emily Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download...
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters
Author: Emanuel Deutschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication. Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders....
What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?
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....
Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes
Author: Iain Borden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world....
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Author: Manata Hashemi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have...
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...
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...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World...
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
Author: Meteorologist Joe Moran, PhD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the...
England: A Class of Its Own: An Outsider's View
Author: Professor Detlev Piltz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
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Author: Paul Betts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of...
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... ________________...
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Author: Gabriella Braun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow...
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....
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
$20.00
Author: Michael E McCullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A fine achievement.--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do A sweeping...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives
Author: Guillaume Coudray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Did you know that bacon, ham, hot dogs and salami are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 'category 1...
The Undesirables
Author: Mark Isaacs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Isaacs takes us behind the gates of Nauru and provides a shocking, and often touching, eyewitness account of...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Jon Ronson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
People Like Us
Author: Sasha Gusov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 What is it that makes us human? There are more than seven billion of us on the planet and we come...
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
Author: Yancey Strickler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life...
Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
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Author: MR David Edwards (The University of Oxford UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do,...
Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna
Author: Marcus Baynes-Rock (Unaffiliated) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Author: Darrell Bricker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and...
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it
Author: Laura Dodsworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There...
Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ
Author: Annie Nightingale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'I loved this book. Annie Nightingale is my heroine. The woman is a legend' Irvine Welsh 'A joy to read' Guardian...