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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...
Atlas of Imagined Cities: Who lives where in TV, books, games and movies?
Author: Matt Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Explore the fictional topography of the most inspiring world cities - including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo -...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
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
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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...
Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse
Author: Eric Alterman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president...
Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small
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...
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
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...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
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...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage
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...
Mother and Child Companion
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 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....
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
Author: Glyn Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature and art, and the...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump
Author: James A. Morone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone...
The Peace Book: Teachings from the Greatest Minds of All Time
Author: Editors of Cider Mill Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Trace the inspirational teachings of peace from some of the greatest minds of all time with The Peace...
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World
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...
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 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...
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
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...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
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...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire
Author: Michael Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional...
The Case against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
Author: P. E. Moskowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 There's a critical debate taking place in this country over one of the most fundamental pillars of our democracy: free...
Night Sky
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 Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
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...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...
The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time
Author: Russ Frushtick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games,...
Hummus: A Global History
Author: Harriet Nussbaum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 This is a global history of hummus bi-tahina, the delicious combination of chickpeas, tahini, lemon and garlic that we know and...
Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China
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...
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider
Author: Ian Dunt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that...
October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election
Author: Devlin Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon....
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
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Author: Judith Rodin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Building resilience,the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively,is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible...
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Author: Daniel Treisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence,...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
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...
Lawfare
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...
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...
How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way Back to God When Everything is Pulling You Away
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...
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...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Author: Barnes Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma
Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians...
Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life
Author: Mike Brearley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Josh Rogin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of...
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
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...