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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...
Foie Gras: A Global History

Foie Gras: A Global History

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Author: Norman Kolpas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 152 Few ingredients inspire more high-soaring praise and provoke greater outrage than foie gras. Literally meaning 'fat liver', foie gras is traditionally...
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

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Author: Jason E. Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life,...
Mini and Milo: The Big Flappy Ears

Mini and Milo: The Big Flappy Ears

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Author: Venita Dimos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Mini and Milo help children gain much-needed skills such as conflict management and resilience skills. Story-led, with humour and heart, this...
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...
When Grandma Burnt Her Bra

When Grandma Burnt Her Bra

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Author: Samantha Tidy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 In When Grandma Burnt Her Bra, author Samantha Tidy and illustrator Aska depict the world as seen by a child whose...
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

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Author: Jack Snyder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

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Author: Ashley Mears Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how...
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

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Author: Adriana Petryna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds As carbon dioxide...
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...
Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis

Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis

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Author: Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques An introduction to data science or...
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...
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton

The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton

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Author: Stanley Corngold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States....
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security

The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security

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Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
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...
Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World

Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World

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Author: Jess Scully Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions...
The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

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Author: Jim Sciutto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Are we losing a war few of us realize we're fighting Jim Sciutto, CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible...
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

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Author: Elise Loehnen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO 'A guide to liberation and a return to the...
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

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Author: Jeff Yang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barnes and Noble's Best History Books of 2022 * Finalist for the CALIBA Golden...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics

Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics

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Author: Peter Turchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
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...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

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Author: Derek A. Bardowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around...
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 -...
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians

Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians

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Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better

How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better

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Author: Helen Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 We live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad - genuinely sad -...
Inseparable across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of the Tibetan Visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo

Inseparable across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of the Tibetan Visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo

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Author: Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A true story of love, separation, and rediscovery in a time of cultural and spiritual upheaval in Tibet. In the...
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...
Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution

Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution

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Author: David N. Livingstone (Professor of Geography and Intellectual History, The Queen's University Belfast) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer...
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 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...
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny

The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny

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Author: Bradley Schurman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age...
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...
The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization

The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization

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Author: Michael O'Sullivan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The world is at a turning point. While globalization benefited many, it produced extremes with drastic wealth inequality, indebtedness, and political...
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

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Author: Robert B. Zoellick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with...
Fear: A Cultural History

Fear: A Cultural History

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

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Author: John Lewis, Dr, Ed.D (Virginia Tech) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 180 Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography In turbulent times Americans look to the...
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap

Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap

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Author: Carrie Gracie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight...
The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

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Author: Paul Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A "Masterful" (Washington Post) book that delves into demographic changes that will affect American politics, education, family, and economics...
Firehouse

Firehouse

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Author: David Halberstam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 NOW IN PAPERBACK! The New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author David Halberstam is an...
Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend

Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend

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Author: Wilt L. Idema Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers...
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

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Author: Ben Shapiro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West....
Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal

Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal

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Author: Jefferson Bethke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the Western notion of the nuclear family and calls...
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 / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
The Power of Privilege: How white people can challenge racism

The Power of Privilege: How white people can challenge racism

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Author: June Sarpong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality...
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...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection

Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection

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Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...
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...