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The Way of the Samurai

The Way of the Samurai

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Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by InazoNitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a hugeimpact both...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
The Art of War

The Art of War

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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
Dream Psychology

Dream Psychology

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Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.'In this fascinating work by one of the pioneers of...
The Art of Rhetoric

The Art of Rhetoric

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Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was...
The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

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Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one...
Meditations

Meditations

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Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121_180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Dialogues of Socrates

The Dialogues of Socrates

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Author: Plato Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Socrates' most dedicated student, Plato, offers a detailed and eye-opening account of the Socratic belief in one's own responsibility through Socrates' dialogue with...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

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Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Meditations on First Philosophy & Other Metaphysical Writings

Meditations on First Philosophy & Other Metaphysical Writings

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Author: Frank Sewall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Meditations is considered the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy.
The Book of Five Rings

The Book of Five Rings

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Author: Miyamoto Musashi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

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Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Tibetan Book of the Dead

Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Author: Format: Paperback Number of Pages: One of the greatest works created by any culture and one of the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The...
The Analects

The Analects

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Author: Confucius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of Confucius' sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express...
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free

This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free

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Author: Martin Hagglund Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'It is always lucid, and is at its heart remarkably simple. You could extract its essence and offer it to thirsty...
Snowing in Bali

Snowing in Bali

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Author: Kathryn Bonella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Snowing in Bali is the true crime story of the organised drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . ....
If This Is A Man/The Truce

If This Is A Man/The Truce

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections

When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections

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Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a reminder of past experiences and a symbol of...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

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Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

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Author: Jack Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do...
Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

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Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sexual Abberations Infantile Sexuality Transformations of Puberty"At the turn of the last century, Freud...
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

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Author: James Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . ....
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel

Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel

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Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

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Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman

Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman

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Author: Charles Dunst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 ' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim...
Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small

Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small

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Author: Clare Balding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bobbie the Wonder dog crossed more than 2,500 miles of plains, desert and mountains to find his way home - and...
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

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Author: Jonathan Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A distinguished religious leader's "brilliant, urgent" (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values. With liberal democracy embattled,...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

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Author: Dr Guy Leschziner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands...
Friendship & Other Essays

Friendship & Other Essays

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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most well-known American nature writers, essayists and poets.
On Liberty

On Liberty

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Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty....
The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades

The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades

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Author: Lewis Laney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966

Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966

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Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now

A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now

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Author: James M. Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment...
Who Discovered What When

Who Discovered What When

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Author: David Ellyard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 p>An absorbing introduction to the growth of scientific ideas and knowledge in the last 500 years./p> p>strong>Who Discovered What...
How to Read Freud

How to Read Freud

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Author: Josh Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a...
Lighting the Path: The Dalai Lama teaches on wisdom and compassion

Lighting the Path: The Dalai Lama teaches on wisdom and compassion

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Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this accessible and important follow up to The Art of Happiness His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us how...
Joe Biden: American Dreamer

Joe Biden: American Dreamer

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Author: Evan Osnos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former...
On Earth as in Heaven: Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians

On Earth as in Heaven: Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians

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Author: Amy Weatherly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Is it just me Am I the only one who's lonely Am I the only one without friends If...
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times

Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times

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Author: Margaret K. Nydell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work...
Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind: The Beginnings of Humankind

Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind: The Beginnings of Humankind

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Author: Donald C. Johanson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 409 "A glorious success...The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip" (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the...