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Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani

Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani

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Author: Behrouz Boochani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness...
Shy: How Being Quiet Can Lead to Success

Shy: How Being Quiet Can Lead to Success

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Author: Annie Ridout Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Society tells that us that being shy is a fault, but Annie Ridout says it's a gift. Shy: How being quiet...
In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle

In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle

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Author: Kamala Tiyavanich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and...
Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort

Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort

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Author: Darren Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One of the families that dominated the thirteenth century were the de Montforts. They arose in France, in a hamlet close...
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...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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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...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

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Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State

We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State

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Author: Kai Strittmatter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been...
Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron

Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron

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Author: John Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of the UK's 2022 Costa Prize for Biography "A portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures in the annals...
Trust: America's Best Chance

Trust: America's Best Chance

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Author: Pete Buttigieg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Trust will be our essential tool as we face unique challenges of the decades ahead. 'The most...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China

Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China

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Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the century China. In...
Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings

Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings

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Author: Trevor Barnes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War--and the international manhunt that...
The Handshake: A Gripping History

The Handshake: A Gripping History

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Author: Ella Al-Shamahi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians do it and so do chimpanzees: in fact, the handshake is so deeply embedded...
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...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

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Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
The Art of the Publisher

The Art of the Publisher

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing...
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...
A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War

A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War

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Author: Monte Reel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and...
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

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Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No...
Fighting God

Fighting God

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The Study of Culture At a Distance

The Study of Culture At a Distance

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Author: Margaret Mead Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the...
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...
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...
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider

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Author: Ian Dunt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that...
Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us

Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us

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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...
October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election

October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election

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Author: Devlin Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon....
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain

Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain

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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts...
The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

The Sadeian Woman: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN...
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

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Author: Susie Alegre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

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Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History

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Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

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Author: Judith Rodin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Building resilience,the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively,is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible...
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,...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

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Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn...
Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical

Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical

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Author: Joel Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in...
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...
Lawfare

Lawfare

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Author: Geoffrey Robertson, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney...