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The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton
Author: Stanley Corngold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States....
In Their Defence: Fighting for Youth Justice One Child at a Time
Author: Aika Stephenson (Just for Kids Law) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Using real-life case studies this important book from a leading youth justice expert uncovers the shocking failures...
The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World
Author: Jaclyn Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From two leading, agenda-setting feminist editors, BELIEVE ME brings readers into the current landscape of the anti-sexual violence movement--and outlines how...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, World War Two, and high society
Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all...
The Lost Sun: A Being Human guide to weathering life's storms
Author: Dr. Carrie Hayward (Clinical Psychologist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A profound and impactful lesson on coping with life's unexpected changes, from a specialist in Acceptance and Commitment...
The Dragonfly in the Haze: A Being Human guide to creating meaningful connection
Author: Dr. Carrie Hayward (Clinical Psychologist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A specialist in human psychology explores our increasing disconnection with the physical world, and its impact on leading...
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Author: Jason E. Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life,...
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
Author: John F Kasson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the...
Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis
Author: Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques An introduction to data science or...
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend
Author: Wilt L. Idema Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers...
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
Author: Jeff Yang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barnes and Noble's Best History Books of 2022 * Finalist for the CALIBA Golden...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better
Author: Derek A. Bardowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around...
We Eat Bananas
Author: Katie Abey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Is that a flamingo munching on a banana? What about that hippo flipping pancakes? And why is that llama...
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians
Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better
Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 We live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad - genuinely sad -...
Comics and Stuff
Author: Henry Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most...
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
Author: Bradley Schurman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age...
The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Author: Paul Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A "Masterful" (Washington Post) book that delves into demographic changes that will affect American politics, education, family, and economics...
It's Not Banter, It's Racism: What Cricket's Dirty Secret Reveals About Our Society
Author: Azeem Rafiq Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 THE STORY OF ONE MAN WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF...
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success
Author: Jay Van Bavel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly...
Toxic
Author: Sarah Ditum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to the...
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
Author: Tali Sharot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn...
The Contraceptive Revolution
Author: Charles F. Westoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 398 Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women...
Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic
Author: Eliza Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 One of Bustle's Best Books of May A feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the...
The Being Human Collection
Author: Dr Carrie Hayward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Written by a specialist in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the Being Human series features four narratives that delve into the...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Paperback 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...
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness
Author: Nathalie Olah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023 A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical...
The Unwanted Friend: A Being Human guide to recognising the mind's stories
Author: Dr. Carrie Hayward (Clinical Psychologist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A unique and insightful guide to managing unhelpful thinking, from a specialist in human psychology. As Wren faces...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to policy. This is...
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
Author: Felix Salmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis-drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture-of the profound and transformative years of the...
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
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Author: Linda K Kerber (University of Iowa) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than...
Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel previously published as The Antisocial Network
Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
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Author: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a sharply written and brilliantly reported (Shelf Awareness) look inside...