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Open: The Story Of Human Progress
Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...
The Handshake: A Gripping History
Author: Ella Al-Shamahi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians do it and so do chimpanzees: in fact, the handshake is so deeply embedded...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space,...
Looking for Clancy
Author: mr Robert Ingpen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 In 1889 the revered Australian folk poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, first published his ballad, 'Clancy of the Overflow'. The verse...
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...
The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes
Author: Kind Studio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome reader. Please, make yourself comfortable: pull your chair nearer the fire, put your feet up on the dog,...
Rice: A Global History
Author: Renee Marton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: This is a detailed history of rice, from its origin as a staple food in Asian and West African countries to its...
The Study of Culture At a Distance
Author: Margaret Mead Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the...
Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world
Author: Rob Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27? Is there any hope of...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
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...
A Taste for Poison: Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them
Author: Neil Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week An Amazon US Best Book of 2022 'A fascinating tale of poisons...
Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical
Author: Joel Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in...
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...
Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future
Author: Edward F. Malkowski (Edward F. Malkowski) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The truth behind ancient myths and the return of the celestial conditions for a Golden Age of...
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Author: Manata Hashemi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have...
Virgins: A Cultural History
Author: Anke Bernau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Virgins haunted the medieval imagination; in those days only virgins were thought capable of taming a unicorn. To the most devout...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song...
Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort
Author: Darren Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One of the families that dominated the thirteenth century were the de Montforts. They arose in France, in a hamlet close...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA...
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles
Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring... ________________...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
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Author: Paul Betts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of...
Goddesses in You
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....
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill
Author: Adrian Gill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and...
England: A Class of Its Own: An Outsider's View
Author: Professor Detlev Piltz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and...
Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength
Author: Andrea Owen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A bold and unabashed guide to finding your voice, harnessing your true desires, and leading the life you really...
The Undesirables
Author: Mark Isaacs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Isaacs takes us behind the gates of Nauru and provides a shocking, and often touching, eyewitness account of...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Jon Ronson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes
Author: Iain Borden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world....
Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double
Author: Jacques Ranciere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Ranci re has pursued across...
People Like Us
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...
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
Author: Yancey Strickler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life...
Space Between
Author: Nico Tortorella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Actor and LGTBQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella's narrative investigation of love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through the lens of...
What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?
Author: John T. Lang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 184 The rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators and industry representatives....
Onions and Garlic: A Global History
Author: Martha Jay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Do you know your onions? From large, sweet onions to shallots, garlic, chives and leeks, the allium family contains some of...
Fats: A Global History
Author: Michelle Phillipov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 136 No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter, oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz - culinary fats...
Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
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Author: MR David Edwards (The University of Oxford UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do,...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
Author: Elise Bohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from...
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...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
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...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better
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...
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better
Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 We live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad - genuinely sad -...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime
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...
Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Author: Ralph Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent...