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Have you wondered at how English became the Lingua Franca (pardon the pun) of the world or what it was like running a brothel in 18th Century London.  Perhaps building the Universe or finding out about sharks is more to your taste.  No matter what your interests are there should be quite a few items of interest in our latest selection of titles that picked our fancy.  The 18 books in this box are:

1. White Man's Game: Saving Animals By: Stephanie Hanes ISBN: 9780805097160


2. Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of an Irish Whore By: Julie Peakman ISBN: 9781782067740


3. The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind By: David Kidder ISBN: 9781594867453


4. Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language By: Daniel Tammet ISBN: 9780316353052


5. Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language By: Robert McCrum ISBN: 9780393062557


6. How to Build a Universe: From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe By: Ben Gilliland ISBN: 9781454915904


7. The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism By: Julia Ebner ISBN: 9781788310321


8. Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World By: Anette Asp ISBN: 9780374535933


9. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker By: James McManus ISBN: 9780312430085


10. The Pain Chronicles: Cures Healing and the Science of Suffering By: Melanie Thernstrom ISBN: 9780312573072


11. Second Best By: Ben Pobjie ISBN: 9781922419125


12. Sharks: A History of Fear in Australia By: Callum Denness ISBN: 9781925870466


13. My Lucky Stroke By: Sarah Brooker ISBN: 9781925972498


14. The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World By: Oliver Morton (The Economist) ISBN: 9781783780952


15. Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain By: Dr Allan Ropper ISBN: 9781782395478


16. The Ultimate Book of Impostors: Over 100 True Stories of the Greatest Phonies and Frauds By: Ian Graham ISBN: 9781402288678


17. Against Creativity By: Oli Mould ISBN: 9781786636485


18. Unscaled By: Hemant Taneja ISBN: 9781610398121