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Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The...
Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing...
Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed, yet enduringly neglected. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai deserts on the one hand and...
A searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will...
From His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Mutt's cartoonist and award-winning author Patrick McDonnell comes a powerful and timely gem of a book on how...
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORK.Normal Women is a radical reframing of our nation's story, told not with...
The most important book about the history and future of politics since The End of History....
This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda.Betty MacDonald...
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National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History • Winner...
*One of Bloomberg's Best Books of the Year* The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on...
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Emily Post has gone to pot. As we enter the dawn of a new ",post-prohibition", era, the stigma surrounding cannabis use is fading, and the...
Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical...
'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher...
From New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and...
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Surveys the history of changing tastes in food and fine dining - what was available for people to eat, and how it was prepared and...
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