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Author: Henry Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World...
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
Author: Bradley Schurman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age...
Law in a Time of Crisis
Author: Jonathan Sumption Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Brexit, the possible break-up of the UK, pandemics, this is a country in crisis. In crises the law sets the boundaries...
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Author: Gabriella Braun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow...
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
Author: Amelia Pang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Discover the truth behind the discounts. In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations....
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
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Author: Michael E McCullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A fine achievement.--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do A sweeping...
Fear: A Cultural History
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap
Author: Carrie Gracie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight...
The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Author: Paul Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A "Masterful" (Washington Post) book that delves into demographic changes that will affect American politics, education, family, and economics...
On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System
Author: Martha Shirk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives
Author: Guillaume Coudray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Did you know that bacon, ham, hot dogs and salami are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 'category 1...
Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend
Author: Wilt L. Idema Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers...
Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout
Author: Ginger Gorman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. She...
Breaking Free Workbook: Practical help for survivors of child sexual abuse
Author: Kay Toon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 As a survivor of sexual abuse in childhood, you may find that its effects continue to haunt you -...
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
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
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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...
My Misspent Youth
Author: Meghan Daum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 With a new introduction. One of Flavorwire's 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time. Meghan Daum is one of the most...
The Struggle for Black Equality
Author: Harvard Sitkoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant...
Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family
Author: Tash Aw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives
Author: Sally Hayden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 WINNER OF THE MICHEL DEON PRIZE 2022 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 'The most...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
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...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection
Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...
The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Author: Darrell Bricker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and...
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race
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...
Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine
Author: Ed Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making -...
Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel previously published as The Antisocial Network
Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short...
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians
Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his...
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
Author: Meteorologist Joe Moran, PhD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal...
Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
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Author: Nadav Eyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly...
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
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Author: Linda K Kerber (University of Iowa) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than...
First Generations: Women in Colonial America
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Author: C Berkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native...
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Author: Tom Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown 'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie Amos To thrive...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
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
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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...
Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action and Activism
Author: Sophie Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Gives you the information you need to begin, or continue, your understanding of what it means to be a...
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap
Author: Carrie Gracie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 EQUAL is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and...
Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think
Author: Eyal Winter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Which is smarter,your head or your gut? It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too emotional. Try and think rationally. But is...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...
We Eat Bananas
Author: Katie Abey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Is that a flamingo munching on a banana? What about that hippo flipping pancakes? And why is that llama...
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
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Author: Paul Broks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong...
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology
Author: Arnold Pacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 318 From cathedrals to star wars, Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the past 1000 years...