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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,...
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...
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...
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,...
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal

The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal

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Author: Felix Salmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis-drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture-of the profound and transformative years of 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...
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...
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...
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...
American Politics: A Graphic History

American Politics: A Graphic History

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Author: Laura Locker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Julia Scheele teams up with Dr Laura Locker...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies

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Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...
Permission to Offend: The Compassionate Guide for Living Unfiltered

Permission to Offend: The Compassionate Guide for Living Unfiltered

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Author: Rachel Luna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When you choose to become unfiltered and unafraid, YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE. Looking at Rachel Luna today, you would never guess...
Now What?

Now What?

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Author: Carol Vorderman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Politics: The three vowels and five consonants which control our world. 'But what has politics got to do with me?' I...
How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence

How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence

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Author: Matt Richtel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 "This is essential reading for parents." - Dr. Vivek Murthy, former U.S. Surgeon General Greatly expanding his award-winning New York Times...
Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children

Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children

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Author: Nicole Louie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A must-read for everyone' Stylist 'Tender, emotive and quietly revelatory' Irish Times 'A vital work' Stella Duffy In a world that...
Muslims Don't Matter

Muslims Don't Matter

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Author: Sayeeda Warsi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Burns with righteous anger. An urgent read for our times' Riz Ahmed 'There is no more powerful fighter for the cause...
Head North: Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram's Manifesto to Fix Britain

Head North: Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram's Manifesto to Fix Britain

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Author: Andy Burnham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ANDY BURNHAM & STEVE ROTHERAM'S PLAN FOR BRITAIN Described as: 'A PATH-BREAKING BOOK' - Gordon Brown 'HEARTFELT, AMBITIOUS' - Brian Groom...
Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland

Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland

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Author: Salena Zito Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "Salena Zito is the journalist who knows Trump-and his voters-better than anyone." - The Free Press From the acclaimed journalist standing...
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

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Author: Peter Schweizer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality...
Black Friend: Essays

Black Friend: Essays

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Author: Ziwe Fumudoh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, personal, and darkly hilarious takedown and send-up of our culture's (mis)understanding of raceZiwe...
(Un)kind: How Kindness Culture Punishes Women

(Un)kind: How Kindness Culture Punishes Women

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Author: Victoria Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Victoria Smith is a brilliant writer who every feminist should read' Sharron Davies 'This brilliant book shows how demands for compassion...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world

Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world

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Author: Danny Sriskandarajah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Think you have to accept the status quo? This book will make you think again. YOU have the power the change...
A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It

A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It

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Author: Leigh McGowan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This instant New York Times bestselling political book is "an essential companion for anyone who suspects that politics is in fact...
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: Paperback 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,...
Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files

Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files

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Author: Kate Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN 'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING'...
Trust Your Mind: Embracing Nuance in a World of Self-Silencing

Trust Your Mind: Embracing Nuance in a World of Self-Silencing

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Author: Jenara Nerenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An urgent examination of self-silencing culture and the toxic impact of groupthink, by the author of Divergent Mind and founder of...
Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We

Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We

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Author: Gotham Chopra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of...
Our Tribal Future: How to channel our human instinct into a force for

Our Tribal Future: How to channel our human instinct into a force for

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Author: David R Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism - and how we can learn to harness this powerful...
Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe

Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe

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Author: Jesse Watters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Can the political be way too personal What if most radical activists are trying...
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

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Author: John Lloyd (Contributing Editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists respond? Are...
Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free

Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free

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Author: Steve Magness Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this highly anticipated book, the bestselling author of Do Hard Things Steve Magness-"one of the giants of modern thinking about...
Die Hot With A Vengeance: Essays On Vanity

Die Hot With A Vengeance: Essays On Vanity

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Author: Sable Yong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "With humor and candor, Die Hot With a Vengeance shows why beauty should be a tool of self-expression, not self-hate." -...
The State of It: Stories from the Frontline of a Broken Care System

The State of It: Stories from the Frontline of a Broken Care System

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Author: Chris Wild Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'The authentic inside track... Gripping' Lemn Sissay 'An important and hugely powerful book... So inspiring, I loved The State of It'...
Countless Sleepless Nights: A collection of coming-out stories [...]

Countless Sleepless Nights: A collection of coming-out stories [...]

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Author: Carina Maggar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 'I'm sorry I can't say this to your face, but words fail me every time I try, even though I know...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

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Author: Craig Olsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New...
Queen of Clubs: An exciting and gripping new crime saga series

Queen of Clubs: An exciting and gripping new crime saga series

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Author: Beezy Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Don't miss the next gripping and unputdownable gangland saga in the series by Beezy Marsh 'Oh my goodness what a story'...
Mini and Milo: The Big Flappy Ears

Mini and Milo: The Big Flappy Ears

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Author: Venita Dimos Format: Paperback 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...
These Foolish Things: A Memoir

These Foolish Things: A Memoir

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Author: Dylan Jones (Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some...
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital

Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital

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Author: Sam Bright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today.'Intelligently written and powerfully argued.' Paul Mason 'Witty,...
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution

When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution

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Author: Devra Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her...
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success

The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success

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Author: Jay Van Bavel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly...
The Contraceptive Revolution

The Contraceptive Revolution

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Author: Charles F. Westoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 398 Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women...
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

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Author: Shibani Mahtani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was...
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: Paperback 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 Unwanted Friend: A Being Human guide to recognising the mind's stories

The Unwanted Friend: A Being Human guide to recognising the mind's stories

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Author: Dr. Carrie Hayward (Clinical Psychologist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A unique and insightful guide to managing unhelpful thinking, from a specialist in human psychology. As Wren faces...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to policy. This is...
Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel previously published as The Antisocial Network

Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel previously published as The Antisocial Network

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Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short...