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Powerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World and Me From 2008-2016, the...
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Professor Brian Cox on the...
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On his first day of work at a struggling brand management firm, an ambitious intern discovers a blog created by his predecessor, Iris Massey. Iris,...
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths,...
On a platform in Paris before dawn, a woman whispers goodbye.It is the end.But also the beginning.In the tradition of Virginia Bailey's Early One Morning...
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naive and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of...
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Money gives us freedom. It gives us choices . . . But why is it women are nearly always poorer than men? ...
William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's...
'Wintering is every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself ... This is truly a beautiful book' Elizabeth Gilbert'A peaceful rebuff to life...
LOGAN: THE HUNTED! It's a showdown in the Savage Land! Will Logan be able to outwit Kraven, Marvel's greatest hunter? And what's behind Kraven's obsession...
For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the lack of women...
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what...
An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests. Why is there a devil shown on the crest of Manchester...
What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was...
The traces of much of human history - and that which preceded it - lie beneath the ocean surface, broken up, dispersed, often buried and...
'Extraordinary imagination . . . As the book races towards a mindboggling climax it leads the reader to some remarkable ideas about the nature of...