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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...
Jews Don't Count

Jews Don't Count

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Author: David Baddiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's...
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

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Author: James Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . ....
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future

Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future

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Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now

A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now

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Author: James M. Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Kings of the Grail: Tracing the Historic Journey of the Cup of Christ from Jerusalem to Modern-Day Spain

Kings of the Grail: Tracing the Historic Journey of the Cup of Christ from Jerusalem to Modern-Day Spain

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Author: Margarita Torres Sevilla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify the location where the...
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World

Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World

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Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

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Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...
On Liberty

On Liberty

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Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty....
How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power

How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power

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Author: Jaideep Prabhu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand...
Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe

Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe

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Author: N. t. Wright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Today's leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and acclaimed author N. T. Wright returns with a collection of pastoral...
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

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Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
Sex: Lessons From History

Sex: Lessons From History

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Author: Fern Riddell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. __________ These are the facts:...
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

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Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The Times In the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind: The Beginnings of Humankind

Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind: The Beginnings of Humankind

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Author: Donald C. Johanson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 409 "A glorious success...The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip" (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966

Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966

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Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony

In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony

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Author: Darren Byler (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated...
Finding the Heart of the Nation 2nd edition: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues

Finding the Heart of the Nation 2nd edition: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues

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Author: Thomas Mayo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas...
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success

The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success

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Author: Jay Van Bavel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

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Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport

The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport

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Author: Jonathan Lichtenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son....
Revelations of Divine Love (Hodder Classics)

Revelations of Divine Love (Hodder Classics)

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Author: Halcyon Backhouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 And all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well...In 1373, when she was thirty years...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

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Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence

This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence

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Author: Corey Tutt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written...
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

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Author: Julie Bindel (Freelance journalist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling '[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight...
The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response

The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response

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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...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

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Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

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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...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This terrifying book...
Mother and Child Companion

Mother and Child Companion

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Author: Kate Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "A mother always has to think twice - once for herself and once for her child." This simple truth hides an...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Paul Morland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires...
Age of Assassins: The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World

Age of Assassins: The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World

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Author: Michael Newton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing...
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past

A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past

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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...
Lighting the Path: The Dalai Lama teaches on wisdom and compassion

Lighting the Path: The Dalai Lama teaches on wisdom and compassion

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Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this accessible and important follow up to The Art of Happiness His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us how...
Reluctant Saint: Life of Francis of Assisi

Reluctant Saint: Life of Francis of Assisi

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Author: Donald Spoto (Donald Spoto) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true...
Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

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Author: Symeon Brown (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Being an influencer is now the top future career choice for children. What if you could spend your...
So You've Been Publicly Shamed

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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Author: Jon Ronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

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Author: Andrew Whitby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the...
Spinning Plates: Music, Men, Motherhood and Me: TALES FROM OUR FAVOURITE 24 HOUR KITCHEN DISCO QUEEN

Spinning Plates: Music, Men, Motherhood and Me: TALES FROM OUR FAVOURITE 24 HOUR KITCHEN DISCO QUEEN

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Author: Sophie Ellis-Bextor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Sophie Ellis-Bextor shares her experiences, insights and reflections on men, music and motherhood. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's kitchen discos became a...
Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting

Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting

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Author: Michael Wolff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House, Michael Wolff dissects...
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

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Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
The Queer Bible

The Queer Bible

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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...
Dumplings: A Global History

Dumplings: A Global History

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Author: Barbara Gallani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The dumpling has become synonymous with comfort food across the world. Whether stuffed or unfilled, steamed or boiled, many countries have...
The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire

The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire

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Author: Dr Frank Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A psychologist explores the intersection of love and madness through the riveting stories of the patients he has treated In...