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Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication

Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication

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Author: Michael Horsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the...
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....
What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires

What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires

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Author: Charlotte Fox Weber Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Chloe is beautiful and fiercely bright, but her thirst for booze and attention is insatiable. Sara resents being tied down...
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 Number of Pages: 288 *** "One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the...
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud

Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud

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Author: Tom Mueller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live...
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

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Author: Jonathan White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing...
The Unofficial Ted Lasso Cookbook: From Biscuits to BBQ, 50 Recipes Inspired by TV's Most Lovable Football Team

The Unofficial Ted Lasso Cookbook: From Biscuits to BBQ, 50 Recipes Inspired by TV's Most Lovable Football Team

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Author: Aki Berry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Inspired by the beloved, Emmy Award-winning TV show Ted Lasso, a collection of 50 recipes, DIY ideas, and other Easter eggs...
The Dragonfly in the Haze: A Being Human guide to creating meaningful connection

The Dragonfly in the Haze: A Being Human guide to creating meaningful connection

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Author: Dr. Carrie Hayward (Clinical Psychologist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A specialist in human psychology explores our increasing disconnection with the physical world, and its impact on leading...
Taste: A Philosophy of Food

Taste: A Philosophy of Food

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Author: Sarah E. Worth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does...
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter

Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter

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Author: Emily Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download...
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...
Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine

Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine

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Author: Ed Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making -...
Dissent: The History of an American Idea

Dissent: The History of an American Idea

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Author: Ralph Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy

Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy

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Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 235 Does science have all the answers? The view that it does is known as scientific naturalism or scientism, and is now...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

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Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
The Beauty Chasers: Recapturing the Wonder of the Divine

The Beauty Chasers: Recapturing the Wonder of the Divine

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Author: Timothy D. Willard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Can we afford to chase beauty in a world that emphasizes distraction and naked ambition over a lifestyle of wonder...
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...
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...
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...
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

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Author: Nesrine Malik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave...
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...
Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength

Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength

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Author: Andrea Owen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A bold and unabashed guide to finding your voice, harnessing your true desires, and leading the life you really...
Space Between

Space Between

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Author: Nico Tortorella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Actor and LGTBQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella's narrative investigation of love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through the lens of...
Peace, Love, Goats of Anarchy: How My Little Goats Taught Me Huge Lessons about Life

Peace, Love, Goats of Anarchy: How My Little Goats Taught Me Huge Lessons about Life

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Author: Leanne Lauricella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Weve all seen the goats of Goats of Anarchy, now goat mama Leanne Lauricella will tell her stories of what the...
The Rise of the Creative Class

The Rise of the Creative Class

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Author: Richard Florida Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class...
Butts: A Backstory

Butts: A Backstory

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Author: Heather Radke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and...
Dog Days: A Year with Olive & Mabel

Dog Days: A Year with Olive & Mabel

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Author: Andrew Cotter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Are you sitting nicely? Good. Let's discover exactly what happened after two superstar Labradors chewed up the lockdown internet and found...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

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Author: Nouriel Roubini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we...
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

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Author: Joanna Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 'Buoyed by an appealing and measured sense of affection. Whether you love Marvel 3000 or you're a Scorsese sympathisers, MCU is...
Women Without Kids

Women Without Kids

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Author: Ruby Warrington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What is "woman" if not "mother"? Anything she wants to be. Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Specially Commended at the William Hill Sports Book Awards A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should A 14-year old-rugby...
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul

The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul

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Author: Asne Seierstad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding 'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

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Author: George Chauncey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The "monumental" (Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New...
A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East

A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East

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Author: Lawrence Freedman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme;...
The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: the truth about misogyny, and how it affects us all

The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: the truth about misogyny, and how it affects us all

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Author: Maya Oppenheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'This is a vital book. Hand this out in schools, in the workplace, everywhere. It's also beautifully written.' Olivia Colman 'Brilliant....
Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna

Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna

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Author: Marcus Baynes-Rock (Unaffiliated) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what...
Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

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Author: Annie Nightingale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'I loved this book. Annie Nightingale is my heroine. The woman is a legend' Irvine Welsh 'A joy to read' Guardian...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life

Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life

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Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans - oppressive authorities,...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

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Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

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Author: Jaclyn Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From two leading, agenda-setting feminist editors, BELIEVE ME brings readers into the current landscape of the anti-sexual violence movement--and outlines how...
Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World

Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World

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Author: Rupert Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too...
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) In An Age Of Conflict

Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) In An Age Of Conflict

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Author: William Ury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The author of the world's best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

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Author: Hugh Brody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. It is about a childhood in England in the shadow of the Second...
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America

Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America

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Author: John F Kasson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the...
Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

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Author: Ben Ramalingam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 '[A] creative and original book on resilience through crises' DAVID MILIBAND '[A] fascinating book is full of insights ... I highly...
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

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Author: Emanuel Deutschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication. Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders....
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science

Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science

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Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition

What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition

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Author: Samuel J. Gershman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition At the heart of human intelligence...