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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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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...
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...
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...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection
Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works
Author: Marc Dingman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But...
Women Without Kids
Author: Ruby Warrington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 What is "woman" if not "mother"? Anything she wants to be. Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With...
The Origins of You: How to Break Free from the Family Patterns that Shape Us
Author: Vienna Pharaon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your...
Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
Author: Robert E. Blobaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By...
What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition
Author: Samuel J. Gershman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition At the heart of human intelligence...
The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: the truth about misogyny, and how it affects us all
Author: Maya Oppenheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'This is a vital book. Hand this out in schools, in the workplace, everywhere. It's also beautifully written.' Olivia Colman 'Brilliant....
In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
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Author: Casey Schwartz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 "Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) In An Age Of Conflict
Author: William Ury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The author of the world's best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with...
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...
Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity
Author: Ben Ramalingam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 '[A] creative and original book on resilience through crises' DAVID MILIBAND '[A] fascinating book is full of insights ... I highly...
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....
In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church
Author: Steph Lentz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulnerability' Kumi Taguchi...
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....
Fear: A Cultural History
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine
Author: Ed Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making -...
Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Author: Ralph Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent...
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...
Law in a Time of Crisis
Author: Jonathan Sumption Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Brexit, the possible break-up of the UK, pandemics, this is a country in crisis. In crises the law sets the boundaries...
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...
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
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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...
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...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
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,...
Who Are You? Test Your Personality
Author: Salvatore V. Didato, Ph.D Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 With 50 IQ, 40 Personality, and 50 EQ tests, you'll discover every facet of yourself in this book of...
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
Author: Ellen Atlanta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'An essential mirror reflecting the profound impact of beauty culture on our lives' Chloe Cooper Jones 'Charts the course for a...