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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...
The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
Author: Bee Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods, or so...
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...
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
Author: Will Sommer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an insurrection and convince...
The Harbour Within: A Book of Simple Spirituality
Author: Sister Consilio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In today's busy world, we can get caught up with the worries and stresses of life. We live in our heads,...
The Secrets of LEGO (R) House: Design, Play, and Wonder in the Home of the Brick
Author: Jesus Diaz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This guide takes you on a tour of the "home of the brick," the official LEGO (R) House, so you can...
The Celestial Hunter
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
Out of the Woods
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
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...
Space Between
Author: Nico Tortorella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Actor and LGTBQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella's narrative investigation of love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through the lens of...
Do It Like a Woman: ... and Change the World
Author: Caroline Criado-Perez (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
Exit
Author: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The wisdom of saying goodbye In this wise and provocative book, the renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot trains her lens on the...
A Monstrous Commotion, The Mysteries of Loch Ness
Author, Gareth Williams Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 432 The Loch Ness Monster, a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
Author: Kate Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman...
War is Not Over When it's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War
Author: Ann Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 2007, the International Rescue Committee (IRC),which brings relief to countries in the wake of war, wanted to understand what really...
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
Author: Roanne van Voorst Format: Hardback 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...
Nightbitch: Stylist's summer 2021 cult breakout
Author: Rachel Yoder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur,...
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic
Author: Christina Lamb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's'...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
Fears to Fierce: A Woman's Guide to Owning Her Power
Author: Brita Fernandez Schmidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A feminist Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by leading voice in female empowerment Find Meaning Own...
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
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Author: Richard Wilkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin Why are people more relaxed and at...
Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your body. Your baby. Your choices.
Author: Milli Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent's 10 best...
Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
Author: Symeon Brown (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Being an influencer is now the top future career choice for children. What if you could spend your life adored...
Animal Rights: All That Matters
Author: Mark Rowlands Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's...
Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Author: Irin Carmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country
Author: Will Hutton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal...
The Penguin Book of Classical Myths
Author: Jennifer March Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 What were the twelve labours of Herakles? Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of gold? What was...
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about...
Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout
Author: Ginger Gorman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. She...
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...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives
Author: Guillaume Coudray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Did you know that bacon, ham, hot dogs and salami are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as...
Goddesses In You: Discovering the myths and archetypes that are your reality
Author: Christine Lister Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Goddesses In You illuminates how archetypal patterns are the doorway into a hidden universe, the key to who you...
Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of a Cameraman
Author: Gavin Thurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Gavin's book is extraordinary: his easy prose and gasp-making encounters make for a gripping and very funny read. It's...
Some Answers Without Questions
Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania?...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA...
How We Roll: The Art and Culture of Joints, Blunts, and Spliffs
Author: Noah Rubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 164 From the classic joint to The Scorpion, The Braid, The Holy Cross, and beyond, How We Roll brings you the best...
The First Stone
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When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles
Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring... ________________...
The Great British Tree Biography: 50 legendary trees and the tales behind them
Author: Mark Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Inspired by the history of Britain, from the tree under which the first trade union was formed to the branches from...