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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...
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth

Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth

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Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'STAND BY FOR FIREWORKS AS IT HITS THE SHELVES' SUNDAY TIMES 'IF ORWELL WERE WITH US TODAY, HE'D BE WRITING BOOKS...
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...
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...
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...
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 Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

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Author: Toby Ord Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all...
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...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
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 Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will

The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
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....
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Thinking Differently

Rebel Ideas: The Power of Thinking Differently

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Author: Matthew Syed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'I like listening to people who know things that I don't,' Gareth Southgate told me. 'That's how you learn.' Former Olympian...
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

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Author: Peter Zeihan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times Bestseller! 2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting...
The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

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Author: Laura Bates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Laura Bates explains how they built the future - and forgot to put women in it' CAITLIN MORAN 'Fascinating and essential......
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 'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES...
THE END OF WOKE: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution

THE END OF WOKE: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution

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Author: Andrew Doyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Doyle writes beautifully, trenchantly, near-irrefutably' Richard Dawkins 'Thought provoking and entertaining. Andrew...
Moveable Feasts: A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR

Moveable Feasts: A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Author: Chris Newens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A joy and an education for anyone who loves Paris' Diana Henry, author of From the Oven to the Table 'A...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Exhilarating' Financial Times'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must...
Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords

Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords

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Author: Nicola Tallant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An insightful and explosive expose' - Stephen Breen, author of The Cartel and The Hitmen Ireland's top crime journalist traces the...
For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today

For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today

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Author: Elliot Cosgrove Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove...
Beyond Vietnam

Beyond Vietnam

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Author: Martin Luther King, Dr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 With a new foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond...
Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere

Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere

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Author: Jamie Tahsin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'This gripping book is destined to become THE book about Andrew Tate' Jon Ronson 'This is the behind the scenes investigation...
I Wanna Be An Influencer (Bilingual edition)

I Wanna Be An Influencer (Bilingual edition)

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Author: Benedetta Donato Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 I wanna be an Influencer is a photographic journey that maps out the new geography of places based on the choices...
Life's Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching

Life's Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching

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Author: Ann Hood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There's a reason that Vogue calls...
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World: The hilarious and fascinating new book from the international bestselling author of HUMANS

A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World: The hilarious and fascinating new book from the international bestselling author of HUMANS

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Author: Tom Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm' Telegraph 'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it...
Right from Wrong: My Story of Guilt and Redemption

Right from Wrong: My Story of Guilt and Redemption

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Author: Jacob Dunne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A powerful story about hope, humanity, and the possibility of change In 2011 Jacob Dunne threw a single punch that ended...
Raven Smith's Men

Raven Smith's Men

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Author: Raven Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey 'Thoroughly entertaining.' OTEGHA UWAGBA 'Funny and beautifully revealing.' BELLA MACKIE 'Wise, sharp and naughty.' THE OBSERVER...
The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics

The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics

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Author: Margot Saville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to...
The Tyranny of Experts (Revised): Economists, Dictators, and the

The Tyranny of Experts (Revised): Economists, Dictators, and the

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Author: William Easterly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly uncovers our failing efforts to fight global poverty. The expert approved, top-down...
Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results

Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results

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Author: Iris Bohnet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level,...
The Anti-Catastrophe League: The pioneers and visionaries on a quest

The Anti-Catastrophe League: The pioneers and visionaries on a quest

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Author: Tom Ough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Consummate and thorough' - The Times 'Darkly entertaining' - The Spectator A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting...
All In: How we build a country that works

All In: How we build a country that works

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Author: Lisa Nandy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield 'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman 'Lively, engaging and...
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals

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Author: Maurice J Casey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 418 'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's...
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

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Author: Neil Gorsuch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into...
Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

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Author: Brian Tyler Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen...
The Cambridge Legal History of Australia

The Cambridge Legal History of Australia

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Author: Peter Cane (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 814 Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and...
The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America

The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America

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Author: Miranda Devine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, and national bestselling author of Laptop from Hell returns with the explosive, definitive...
The Truth Detective: Lessons from Poker on Risk, Reward and Imperfect Information

The Truth Detective: Lessons from Poker on Risk, Reward and Imperfect Information

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Author: Alex O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it...
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us about Finding Fulfillment

The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us about Finding Fulfillment

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Author: Frank Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Life and its meaning is a mystery almost impossible to solve, but what can the leading theories teach us about the...
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines

My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines

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Author: Efren C Olivares Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER - The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book This deeply personal perspective from a human...
In Their Defence: Fighting for Youth Justice One Child at a Time

In Their Defence: Fighting for Youth Justice One Child at a Time

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Author: Aika Stephenson (Just for Kids Law) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Using real-life case studies this important book from a leading youth justice expert uncovers the shocking failures...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
The Lost Sun: A Being Human guide to weathering life's storms

The Lost Sun: A Being Human guide to weathering life's storms

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Author: Dr. Carrie Hayward (Clinical Psychologist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A profound and impactful lesson on coping with life's unexpected changes, from a specialist in Acceptance and Commitment...