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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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
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
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...
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Author: Ben Shapiro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in...
Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China
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...
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...
Open: The Story Of Human Progress
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...
The Handshake: A Gripping History
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 Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
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 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
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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...
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space,...
Feminine Mysteries in the Bible: The Soul Teachings of the Daughters of the Goddess
Author: Ruth Rusca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 An exploration of the repressed, esoteric feminine mysteries in the Bible through the lives of four women, all archetypes...
Looking for Clancy
Author: mr Robert Ingpen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 In 1889 the revered Australian folk poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, first published his ballad, 'Clancy of the Overflow'. The verse...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes
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 Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Author: Graeme Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A timely and essential rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants Based on Graeme Wood's unprecedented...
Rice: A Global History
Author: Renee Marton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: This is a detailed history of rice, from its origin as a staple food in Asian and West African countries to its...
The Study of Culture At a Distance
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...
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
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...
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on...
Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world
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...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
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...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
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
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...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
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...
Lawfare
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...
Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future
Author: Edward F. Malkowski (Edward F. Malkowski) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The truth behind ancient myths and the return of the celestial conditions for a Golden Age of...
The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business
Author: Lucy Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 If you want to be a successful leader in today's business world, you need to think like an activist. If you...
The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Official Secrets
Author: Marcia Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received...
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Author: Manata Hashemi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have...
Sir William Glasgow: Soldier, Senator and Diplomat
Author: Peter Edgar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Sir William Glasgow is a fascinating and valuable book that tells the story of this once famous figure: his early service...
Virgins: A Cultural History
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...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
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...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
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...
Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society
Author: Alberto Alemanno Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative governments, which...
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA...
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles
Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring... ________________...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
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Author: Paul Betts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of...
Goddesses in You
Author: Christine Lister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Goddesses In You illuminates how archetypal patterns are the doorway into a hidden universe, the key to who you truly are....
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
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Author: Noga Arikha Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our...
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...
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill
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...
England: A Class of Its Own: An Outsider's View
Author: Professor Detlev Piltz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and...
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...
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
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...
Trust: America's Best Chance
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...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and...