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The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

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Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before....
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

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Author: Frank Tallis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

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Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year

The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year

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Author: Janice Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, full of strange...
Takeover

Takeover

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Author: Timothy W. Ryback Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler...
Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances

Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances

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Author: Julian Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'It's rare to find a book that is not only intensely personal but deeply practical. Julian Fisher has somehow pulled it...
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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Author: Amanda Montell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

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Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the

The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the

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Author: Alex Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 New York Times-bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

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Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing...
Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear

Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear

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Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

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Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

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Author: Stephanie Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic...
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence

Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence

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Author: Bethany Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Excellent...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It

Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It

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Author: Tobias Rose-Stockwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND An invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

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Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar 'Jaw dropping even for North Korea ....
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

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Author: Mike Rothschild Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ***** ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A chilling overview of a movement that should arguably have no place...
The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency

The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency

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Author: Egil "Bud" Krogh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The true story of the White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, their ill-conceived plans to stop...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New...
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right

White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right

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Author: Jacob Kushner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet

The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet

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Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It

Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It

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Author: Jake Wallis Simons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write...
Butts: A Backstory

Butts: A Backstory

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Author: Heather Radke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and...
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB

The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB

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Author: Gordon Corera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man - Vasili Mitrokhin -...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide

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Author: Litza Jansz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Did Fascism end with the Allied victory over the Axis powers in 1945, or has it been lying dormant and is...
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide

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Author: Ivan Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and...
Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

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Author: Craig Unger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Argo meets Spotlight, as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald...
Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation

Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation

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Author: Aaron Zebley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The behind-the-scenes story of the investigation that shook America to its core-the Mueller investigation that presented all the evidence of Russian...
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

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Author: Laura Dodsworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is...
Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire

Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire

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Author: Jon E. Grant (University of Chicago) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 356 Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that...
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60

A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60

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Author: Nikhil Krishnan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A real achievement' New Statesman 'Beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

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Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new...
Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is - and why it

Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is - and why it

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 This is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and...
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

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Author: Marc Dingman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But...
Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us

Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us

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Author: Pete Etchells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

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Author: Patrick Winn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region...
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

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Author: Mike Rothschild Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ***** PERFECT FOR FANS OF 'THE COMING STORM' ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A chilling overview of a...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business

The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business

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Author: Lucy Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 If you want to be a successful leader in today's business world, you need to think like an activist. If you...
Goddesses in You

Goddesses in You

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Author: Christine Lister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Goddesses In You illuminates how archetypal patterns are the doorway into a hidden universe, the key to who you truly are....
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide

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Author: Richard Appignanesi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 What connects Marilyn Monroe, Disneyworld, The Satanic verses and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is this phenomenon? This graphic...
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide

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Author: Cathia Jenainati Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes...
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

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Author: Harvey Whitehouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Insightful and breathtaking . . . Explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures.' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens...
Patterns In The Mind: Language And Human Nature

Patterns In The Mind: Language And Human Nature

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Author: Ray Jackendorf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why...
Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

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Author: Gordon Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An insightful playbook for getting out of the permacrisis we seem mired in' - Walter Isaacson 'A sensible plan for reform...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

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Author: Liz Cheney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...