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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...
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...
Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna

Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna

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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...
Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

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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...
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

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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...
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

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Author: Jonathan White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing...
The Unofficial Ted Lasso Cookbook: From Biscuits to BBQ, 50 Recipes Inspired by TV's Most Lovable Football Team

The Unofficial Ted Lasso Cookbook: From Biscuits to BBQ, 50 Recipes Inspired by TV's Most Lovable Football Team

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Author: Aki Berry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Inspired by the beloved, Emmy Award-winning TV show Ted Lasso, a collection of 50 recipes, DIY ideas, and other Easter eggs...
The Lost Sun: A Being Human guide to weathering life's storms

The Lost Sun: A Being Human guide to weathering life's storms

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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...
Foie Gras: A Global History

Foie Gras: A Global History

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Author: Norman Kolpas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 152 Few ingredients inspire more high-soaring praise and provoke greater outrage than foie gras. Literally meaning 'fat liver', foie gras is traditionally...
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

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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,...
Mini and Milo: The Big Flappy Ears

Mini and Milo: The Big Flappy Ears

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Author: Venita Dimos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Mini and Milo help children gain much-needed skills such as conflict management and resilience skills. Story-led, with humour and heart, this...
When Grandma Burnt Her Bra

When Grandma Burnt Her Bra

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Author: Samantha Tidy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 In When Grandma Burnt Her Bra, author Samantha Tidy and illustrator Aska depict the world as seen by a child whose...
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

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Author: Jack Snyder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve...
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

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Author: Adriana Petryna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds As carbon dioxide...
Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis

Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis

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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 Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton

The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton

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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....
The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

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Author: Jim Sciutto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Are we losing a war few of us realize we're fighting Jim Sciutto, CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible...
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

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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...
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...
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...
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...
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

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Author: Shibani Mahtani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was...
The Being Human Collection

The Being Human Collection

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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...
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness

Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness

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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 Unwanted Friend: A Being Human guide to recognising the mind's stories

The Unwanted Friend: A Being Human guide to recognising the mind's stories

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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...
The Dragonfly in the Haze: A Being Human guide to creating meaningful connection

The Dragonfly in the Haze: A Being Human guide to creating meaningful connection

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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...
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal

The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal

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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...
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...