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Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence
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...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
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...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It
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...
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...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
I Have a Dream
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
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...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...
Ardor
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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the...
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
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Author: Jacob McHangama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." --P.J. O'Rourke Hailed as...
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...
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...
The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
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...
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 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...
The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response
Author: Dr Ellen Vora Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A redeeming way to look at the condition, as not merely a burden but ultimately a blessing ... unexpectedly moving...
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Author: Lewis Hyde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we...
The Queer Bible
Author: Jack Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
Author: Rahul Bhatia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
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 ....
Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wit and Wisdom of Women
Author: Virginia Wilde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 True wisdom comes with age, the saying goes. Of course it does - and this book proves it. Older, Wiser, Fiercer...
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...
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...
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...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Author: Robert B. Zoellick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with...
Butts: A Backstory
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 Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
Author: Adam Kuper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A formidable work' - Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' - Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A...
The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency
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
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
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
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...
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...
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,...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker
Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...
Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means for You
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Author: Parag Khanna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like...
American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
Author: David S. Rudolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.' The Guardian From the fearless defense...
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
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Author: Alan Rusbridger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of...
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide
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...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to...
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB
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 -...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It
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...
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60
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...
Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is - and why it
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...
Small Angels: 'A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak and revenge' Jennifer Saint
Author: Lauren Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak and revenge' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE ''This story of bewitchment and revenge...
The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals
Author: Rosie Harte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir '[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail 'A sparkling history' -...
Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us
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...