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Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know About
Author: Michelle Rosenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 193 Keeping it to just 100 was a struggle. But we figured that any more miscast, missing and misunderstood women in one...
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
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Author: Simon Baron-Cohen (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity. Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour
Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, The Second Sex is the crowning...
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella
Author: Jack Charles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian...
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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Author: Jon Ronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
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Author: Kevin Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama....
If the World Were 100 People
Author: Jackie McCann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Imagine the world's population as 100 people: what would it look like? There are almost 8 billion humans living on Earth,...
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt
Author: Sinan Aral Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power...
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
Author: Victoria Shepherd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the presenter of the Radio 4 hit series A History of Delusions Why would someone wake up and claim they're...
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence
Author: Corey Tutt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written...
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
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Author: Don Kulick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years...
The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
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Author: Dr Guy Leschziner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Dumplings: A Global History
Author: Barbara Gallani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The dumpling has become synonymous with comfort food across the world. Whether stuffed or unfilled, steamed or boiled, many countries have...
A Taste for Poison: Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them
Author: Neil Bradbury Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Indecently entertaining.' A Daily Mail Book of the Week An Amazon US Best Book of 2022 'A fascinating tale...
The Power of Privilege: How white people can challenge racism
Author: June Sarpong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality of...
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life
Author: Gloria Mark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking new look at how we pay attention that can help us perform better - and be happier...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
Author: Naomi Wolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. The bestselling classic that...
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...
Rice: A Global History
Author: Renee Marton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 This is a detailed history of rice, from its origin as a staple food in Asian and West African countries to...
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Author: Sarah Abrevaya Stein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors,...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
Author: Meri Lao Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Their celestial voices drove mast-lashed Ulysses nearly out of his mind with libidinous promises as they beckoned him ever...
The Dictionary of Body Language
Author: Joe Navarro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 From former FBI agent and bestselling author Joe Navarro, a field guide companion to his classic What Every BODY...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This terrifying book...
Unforbidden Pleasures
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Author: Adam Phillips Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 AN AMBITIOUS BOOK THAT EXPLORES THE PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS THAT GOVERN HUMAN DESIRE AND SHAPE OUR EVERYDAY REALITY A...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...
The Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers
Author: Robert Mazur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel, he re-emerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his...
Unconscious Bias: Everything You Need to Know About Our Hidden Prejudices
Author: Annie Burdick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 How can we challenge the judgements we don't even know we're making? Unconscious bias affects us all. From the smallest assumption...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'I suppose this is what people call seeing history in the making .' Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague during...
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...
Rape From Lucretia to #MeToo
Author: Mithu Sanyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape. From Title IX cases on campus,...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
The Struggle for Black Equality
Author: Harvard Sitkoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
When There Were Birds
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a reminder of past experiences and a symbol of...
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Author: Elizabeth Lesser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 What story would Eve have told about picking the apple Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box And...
Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on,...
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Paul Morland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires...
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...
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...
Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media, and the Destruction of Today's Youth
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Author: Henry A Giroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Kate Moss wears a sexual pout in a Calvin Klein ad. Kurt Cobain's suicide is held aloft as the archetypal...
Grab a Coldie!: 80s Beer Culture in Australia
Author: Michael Bannenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: What a glorious decade for beer - the 1980s. This book will release a wealth of memories for anyone who was there...
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...