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