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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...
Churchill & Son

Churchill & Son

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Author: Josh Ireland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of...
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...
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...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

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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...
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...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

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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...
Virgins: A Cultural History

Virgins: A Cultural History

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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

Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

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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

I Have a Dream

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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

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...
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 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....
Open: The Story Of Human Progress

Open: The Story Of Human Progress

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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...
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

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...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

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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 Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

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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...
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...
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*

Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*

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Author: Victoria Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023 'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer 'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times...
Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century

Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century

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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

The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

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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...
Friendship and Other Essays

Friendship and Other Essays

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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: In this collection of essays, Emerson reflects on friendship, love, heroism, and the other qualities which represent the nest humanity has...
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...
Ardor

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...
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 ....
Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wit and Wisdom of Women

Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wit and Wisdom of Women

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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...
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...
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...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century

Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century

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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

A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World

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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...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

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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...
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

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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...
American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System

American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System

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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

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...
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...
Small Angels: 'A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak and revenge' Jennifer Saint

Small Angels: 'A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak and revenge' Jennifer Saint

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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 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 Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

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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

Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

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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,...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America

Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America

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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...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

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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...
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption

Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption

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Author: Patrick Alley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ***** 'Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue 'Very Bad People...
The World: A Brief Introduction

The World: A Brief Introduction

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Author: Richard Haass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 New York Times Bestseller An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone,...
Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means for You

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...
From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance

From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance

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Author: John Pomfret Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War,...
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...
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...