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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...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker
Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...
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...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his...
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
Author: Meteorologist Joe Moran, PhD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the...
Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power
Author: Tom Bower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest person to hold that office since...
Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education
Author: Luke Rosiak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs. Improved STEM literacy. Greater achievement for inner-city children. Happiness for all children....
Life Makeover: Embrace the Bold, Beautiful, and Blessed You
Author: Dominique Sachse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Have you ever been so overwhelmed by responsibilities or other people's needs that you forgot to make time for yourself They...
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...
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Author: Nesrine Malik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Nesrine Malik writes with urgent eloquence about the world we live in, applying her brilliant mind to some of the most...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal...
Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet
Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 From His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Mutt's cartoonist and award-winning author Patrick McDonnell comes a powerful and...
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo
Author: Kenan Malik (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by...
The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against Isis
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Author: Margaret Coker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team...
Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
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Author: Nadav Eyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly...
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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Author: Matthew B Crawford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of...
Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy.
Author: Bob Goff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The world has never been more distracting-joy has never been more possible. You live with a massive amount of distraction: desperate...
First Generations: Women in Colonial America
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Author: C Berkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native...
Studies in Jewish Theology: Reflections in the Mirror of Tradition
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Author: Byron L. Sherwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 "Studies in Jewish Theology" invites the reader into the 'laboratory' of a Jewish theologian as he confronts visceral...
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Author: Tom Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown 'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie Amos To thrive...
I'll Be There (But I'll Be Wearing Sweatpants): Finding Unfiltered, Real-Life Friendships in This Crazy, Chaotic World
Author: Steve Chalke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Your life is precious - a precious gift. It is sacred; every moment of it. The opportunity to live...
Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed
Author: David Cole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Donald Trump's policies, from his travel ban to his approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline, have prompted an immediate...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
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Author: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a sharply written and brilliantly reported (Shelf Awareness) look inside...
A Sense of Something Greater: Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley
Author: Les Kaye Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Welcome to Silicon Valley's search for fulfillment and purpose beyond devices, money, and power. With worker stress at an...
Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action and Activism
Author: Sophie Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Gives you the information you need to begin, or continue, your understanding of what it means to be a...
The Home Stretch: Why the Gender Revolution Stalled at the Kitchen Sink
Author: Sally Howard (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Forty years of feminism, and still women do the majority of the housework. Why? In fact, whilst we're...
Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think
Author: Eyal Winter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Which is smarter,your head or your gut? It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too emotional. Try and think rationally. But is...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
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...
We Eat Bananas
Author: Katie Abey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Is that a flamingo munching on a banana? What about that hippo flipping pancakes? And why is that llama...
Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
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...
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
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Author: Paul Broks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong...
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology
Author: Arnold Pacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 318 From cathedrals to star wars, Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the past 1000 years...