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Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life

Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life

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Author: Mike Brearley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind

Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind

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Author: Johan Norberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and...
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...
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: 336 For Rupert Russell, the shock of the Trump-Brexit victories was only the latest in a decade full of them: the unstoppable...
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...
Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being

Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being

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Author: Maureen Perry-Jenkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can help. Low-wage...
In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church

In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church

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Author: Steph Lentz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulnerability' Kumi Taguchi...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

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Author: John Eidinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten...
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 -...
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity

Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity

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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...
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...
Comics and Stuff

Comics and Stuff

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Author: Henry Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most...
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...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

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Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World...
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...
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

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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...
Law in a Time of Crisis

Law in a Time of Crisis

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Author: Jonathan Sumption Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Brexit, the possible break-up of the UK, pandemics, this is a country in crisis. In crises the law sets the boundaries...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II

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...
NABRE, New American Bible, Revised Edition, Catholic Bible, First Communion Bible: New Testament, Leathersoft, Blue: Holy Bible

NABRE, New American Bible, Revised Edition, Catholic Bible, First Communion Bible: New Testament, Leathersoft, Blue: Holy Bible

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Author: Catholic Bible Press Format: Leather / fine binding Number of Pages: 512 A beautiful gift to commemorate your child's first communion that they will treasure as a keepsake and...
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work

All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work

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Author: Gabriella Braun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow...
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind

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...
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code

The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code

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Author: Michael E McCullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A fine achievement.--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do A sweeping...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

Who Poisoned Your Bacon?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

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Author: Guillaume Coudray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Did you know that bacon, ham, hot dogs and salami are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 'category 1...
To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth

To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth

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Author: Philip Zelikow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A deeply researched international history and exemplary study (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

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Author: Jon Ronson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society

The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society

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Author: Matthew Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ignited panic throughout the financial system, sparking a chain reaction that led...
Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution

Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution

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Author: Jill Abramson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the first woman editor of The New York Times, the definitive in-the-room account of the battle between prestige...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

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Author: Yancey Strickler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life...
What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?

What's So Controversial About Genetically Modified Food?

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Author: John T. Lang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 184 The rampant use of genetically modified food incites public debate among activists, ethicists, scientists, regulators and industry representatives....
Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last

Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last

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Author: MR David Edwards (The University of Oxford UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do,...
Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War

Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War

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Author: James Kitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior

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Author: Liz Cheney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...
Will You Help Me?: Ralph's true story of abuse, secrets and lies

Will You Help Me?: Ralph's true story of abuse, secrets and lies

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Author: Maggie Hartley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?' Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care...
Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire

Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire

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Author: Jon E. Grant (University of Chicago) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 356 Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that...
A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects

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Author: Claudy Op den Kamp (Bournemouth University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 What do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer...
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...