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The Cold War: A World History
Author: Odd Arne Westad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan...
The Origins of the Second World War
Author: Professor A J P Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject...
Poor
Author: Caleb Femi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture...
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
Author: Jonathan Aldred Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A scathing examination of how, by making market efficiency our moral standard, we've come to believe that bad is...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Author: Richard McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
Hinduism: with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen
Author: K. M. Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Hinduism provides an invaluable introduction to its schools of thought and the very different ways in which it...
Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians
Author: Derek Rowntree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is...
Sabotage: The Business of Finance
Author: Anastasia Nesvetailova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Two leading political scientists show why the financial sector is an 'industry of sabotage', with systemic malpractice at the...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Author: Gaia Vince Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful...
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and...
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
Author: John Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?' Drawing...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
Seven Types of Atheism
Author: John Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by...
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Author: Michael Pollan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back...
The Song of the Tree
Author: Coralie Bickford-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 An enchanting tale from the award-winning designer and creator of The Fox and the Star, now a beautiful paperback...
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
Author: David Edgerton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of...
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
Author: Dominic Lieven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The story of how and why Russia defeated Napoleon In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe,...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the...
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
Author: Nate Silver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The acclaimed international bestseller that will change the way you think about the future Every time we choose a...
The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter
Author: Colin Tudge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'One of those books that you want everyone to have already read' Sunday Telegraph 'Everyone interested in the natural...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 832 Whether you're young or old, once you've stepped into the brilliant, troubling world of Roald Dahl, you'll never be...
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...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Enter the sinister, twisted world of Roald Dahl- whether you're young or old, you'll never want to leave. Roald...
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam
Author: Christopher Goscha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The first history for a general audience of one of Asia's most fascinating and complex countries As more and...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue?...
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
Author: Katie Mack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. When will it take place? How is it likely...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Author: David Christian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars - Winner of the 2021 Whiting Award...
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism
Author: Paul Kildea Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A dazzling exploration of Romantic music unlike any other, from one of the most exciting writers about classical music...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Author: Kate Pickett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think Why do...
On China
Author: Henry Kissinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The definitive history of Ukraine which helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis Located at the...
Lost Japan
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japan's landscape, culture, history and future Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance- A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling...