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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

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Author: Edith Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead...
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...
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

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Author: Ellen Carol DuBois Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the...
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...
Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

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Author: Gina Rippon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A breakthrough work in neuroscience-and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience-that finally debunks the myth that there...
Jews Don't Count

Jews Don't Count

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Author: David Baddiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's...
The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport

The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport

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Author: Jonathan Lichtenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son....
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence

This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence

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Author: Corey Tutt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written...
Mother and Child Companion

Mother and Child Companion

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Author: Kate Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "A mother always has to think twice - once for herself and once for her child." This simple truth hides an...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

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Author: Adam Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their...
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

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Author: Dimitris Xygalatas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Xygalatas is a brilliant polymath ... An important intellectual contribution and a true delight' - Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The...
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...
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

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Author: Kevin Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama....
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940

The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940

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Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

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Author: Brett Archibald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone. --The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

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Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

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Author: Jane Eastoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as distinctive in style...
Night Sky

Night Sky

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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...
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

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Author: Binyamin Appelbaum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells...
Gender Mosaic: Beyond the myth of the male and female brain

Gender Mosaic: Beyond the myth of the male and female brain

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Author: Prof. Daphna Joel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This timely manifesto calls for a future free from gender-based assumptions about human potential. Written by the internationally renowned neuroscientist...
Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China

Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China

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Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the century China. In...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

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...
Lawfare

Lawfare

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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...
People Like Us

People Like Us

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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...
How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way Back to God When Everything is Pulling You Away

How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way Back to God When Everything is Pulling You Away

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Author: Christine Caine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Your best days are ahead of you, not behind you. It may not always seem like it, look like it, or...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

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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...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

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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...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime

A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime

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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...
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

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Author: Tom Roston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world-built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy-and an era in New...
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

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 Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

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...
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World

A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World

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Author: Fred Pearce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Trees keep our planet cool and breathable. They make the rain and sustain biodiversity. They are essential for nature and for...
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

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Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

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Author: John Eidinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

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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

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...