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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...
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World

Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World

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Author: Will Sommer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an insurrection and convince millions that...
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...
How Good is Scott Morrison?

How Good is Scott Morrison?

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Author: Peter van Onselen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating...
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety

The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety

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Author: Frank Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Tallis writes with clarity and wit' Sebastian Faulks Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on...
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

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Author: Vicky Osterweil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy. Looting -- a crowd of...
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

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Author: Muhammad Yunus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

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Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
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...
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

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Author: Edward Glaeser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical...
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

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Author: James Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author...
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...
Achilles in Vietnam

Achilles in Vietnam

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Author: Jonathan M.D. Shay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 246 An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History

Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History

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Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

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Author: James Suzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary...
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill

Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill

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Author: Adrian Gill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often...
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...
Gender Mosaic: Beyond the myth of the male and female brain

Gender Mosaic: Beyond the myth of the male and female brain

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Author: Prof. Daphna Joel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This timely manifesto calls for a future free from gender-based assumptions about human potential. Written by the internationally renowned neuroscientist...
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It

The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It

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Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and hisallies fought to reverse the outcome of...
The Hard Good: Showing Up for God to Work in You When You Want to Shut Down

The Hard Good: Showing Up for God to Work in You When You Want to Shut Down

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Author: Lisa Whittle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Learn how to see the good, again, even after hard times. What does it feel like to come back...
The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families

The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families

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Author: Shannon Bream Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect.... "Have faith" is a phrase we...
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

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Author: Peter S. Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder...
Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline...
Hot Feminist

Hot Feminist

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Author: Polly Vernon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 'Suffering from Feminist Fatigue? Worried wearing those stilettos breaks the unspoken rules of ladyhood? Irked by the fact that...
Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO files

Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO files

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Author: Meredith Burgmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Well-known Australians - mavericks, activists, movers and shakers - reflect on their own ASIO files. In this moving, funny and sometimes...
The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year

The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year

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Author: Janice Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, full of strange...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

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Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new...
Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader

Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader

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Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership "Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than...
The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

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Author: Dunya Mikhail Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq...
KJV, Foundation Study Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version

KJV, Foundation Study Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version

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Author: Thomas Nelson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 2176 The full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes and dozens of study resources in a convenient...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

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Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

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Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur,...
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

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Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

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Author: Thomas Mayo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru...
Dreams From My Mother

Dreams From My Mother

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Author: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by...
Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done

Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done

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Author: Elizabeth Ricker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Join Ricker on a wild and edifying romp through the cutting-edge world of neuroscience and biohacking. You'll encounter Olympic athletes, a...
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles

Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles

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Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions...
Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement

Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement

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Author: Heather Gautney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Senator Bernie Sanders won 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary, giving...
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

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Author: Lawrence O'Donnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the...
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic

The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic

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Author: Christina Lamb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's'...
Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

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Author: Bobby Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group to show...
Young Women: An addictive, timely story of an intense female friendship from a powerful new voice

Young Women: An addictive, timely story of an intense female friendship from a powerful new voice

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Author: Jessica Moor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin,...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and...
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World

Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World

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Author: Ian Goldin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford....
Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain's Gangs

Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain's Gangs

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Author: Harriet Sergeant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Journalist, think-tank report writer and mother Harriet Sergeant befriended a teenage gang when she was researching a report on...
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

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Author: Yang Jisheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great...
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

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Author: Talia Lavin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 *** "One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to...
Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul

Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul

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Author: Jamie Ducharme Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Big Vape is a dazzling story that crackles with the energy of a nicotine buzz, mixing tales of ground-breaking...