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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...
Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles

Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles

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Author: Joseph O Chapa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our...
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...
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...
The Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018

The Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018

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Author: James Crabtree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics...
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 Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

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Author: Kevin Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama....
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

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Author: Binyamin Appelbaum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells...
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940

The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940

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Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

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Author: Don Kulick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years...
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...
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition

A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition

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Author: Michael Paterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

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Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
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...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

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Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley Park by cracking...
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary

Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary

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Author: Aleksandr Fursenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth...
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

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Author: Edward Slingerland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive,...
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...
The Case against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

The Case against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

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Author: P. E. Moskowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 There's a critical debate taking place in this country over one of the most fundamental pillars of our democracy: free...
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

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Author: Helena Merriman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Economist Book of the Year 2021 'A captivating retelling of one of the most astonishing episodes in East Germany's grim history.'...
Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world

Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world

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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...
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...
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...
Night Sky

Night Sky

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Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them

Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them

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Author: Dr Jessica Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women...
The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence

The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence

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Author: Douglas London Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents...
Kim and Jim: Philby and Angleton, Friends and Enemies in the Cold War

Kim and Jim: Philby and Angleton, Friends and Enemies in the Cold War

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Author: Michael Holzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Kim Philby's life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. He was one of the...
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill

Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill

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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...
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...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
American Jesus: How The Son Of God Became A National Icon

American Jesus: How The Son Of God Became A National Icon

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Author: Stephen Prothero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Jesus the Black Messiah; Jesus the Jew; Jesus the Hindu sage; Jesus the Haight-Asbury hippie: these Jesuses join the...
Animal Rights: All That Matters

Animal Rights: All That Matters

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Author: Mark Rowlands Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's a topic...
Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England

Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England

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Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

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Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
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: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

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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...
The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes

The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes

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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,...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

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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...
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy

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Author: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed exposed the impossibility of living on the minimum wage in the USA. Now, with...
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...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

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Author: Patrick Winn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region...
The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time

The Book of Fun: An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time

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Author: Russ Frushtick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games,...
A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice - Sports Book Award Special Commendation

A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice - Sports Book Award Special Commendation

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Author: Hana Walker-Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should. A teenage rugby player plays on through multiple blows - and never...
Hummus: A Global History

Hummus: A Global History

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Author: Harriet Nussbaum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 This is a global history of hummus bi-tahina, the delicious combination of chickpeas, tahini, lemon and garlic that we know and...
Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

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Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russiawas about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was...
Green Nation Revolution: Use Your Future to Change the World

Green Nation Revolution: Use Your Future to Change the World

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Author: Valentina Giannella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Take your place in the Green Nation, a nation without geographical borders that unites the youth of today in...