
21 Lessons For The 21st Century
In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. How can we protect ourselves from...
View full detailsIn twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. How can we protect ourselves from...
View full details500 Years Later offers a thrilling deep dive into the creation of the revered PlayStation RPG. Comprising over 30 interwoven voices, this beautiful...
View full detailsLee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...
View full detailsNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these ...
View full detailsConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspirac...
View full detailsPristine lawns, tennis whites, strawberries and cream, tennis is synonymous with the upper echelons of society, but scratch beneath the surface and...
View full details'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own....
View full detailsRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constr...
View full details'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating lo...
View full detailsA visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem p...
View full detailsAfropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identi...
View full detailsAgainst Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mar...
View full details'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man tha...
View full detailsSir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 2...
View full detailsIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to un...
View full detailsOne hundred and fifty Americans are killed each day by the opioid epidemic, described by a former head of the Food and Drug Administration as 'one ...
View full detailsIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9Ù an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning ...
View full detailsThe crucial 'difference', of course, was slavery. Here he examines its roots in the colonial era, early racial attitudes, the new Revolutionary com...
View full detailsOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse ...
View full detailsOne of the finest mountaineering books. A phenomenal tale of strength and valour. In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climb...
View full detailsThis is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggle...
View full detailsIn Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has...
View full detailsDrawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exci...
View full detailsSurfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way o...
View full detailsPacked with witty career advice for budding entrepreneurs, this Star Wars self-help book is full of brilliant business advice and funny quotes from...
View full detailsThis novelty Star Wars book is full of wise words and sage advice from the galaxy's leading rebel, Princess Leia, and many other brave, confident c...
View full detailsMove from apprentice to master with assertiveness advice from the Star Wars galaxy's most powerful leaders, including Darth Vader, Palpatine, and S...
View full detailsBe the best you can be and make no apologies! Whether you want the confidence to take on a challenge or the voice to speak up and right a wrong in ...
View full detailsPursue a more mindful life with words of wisdom from esteemed Star Wars mentors Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker. A balanced mind. Inner ca...
View full detailsOne thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultu...
View full detailsFrom one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversie...
View full detailsBill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty aro...
View full detailsIt is human instinct to sort and categorize. According to Professor Kevin Dutton, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, we are hardwired to d...
View full detailsIn spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not ...
View full detailsAn infinite geography of possible futures What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together ...
View full detailsIn these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited fro...
View full detailsIn the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a worki...
View full detailsAn art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will st...
View full detailsWriter and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games crea...
View full detailsWith two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children’s favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? I...
View full detailsThe civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magni...
View full detailsBritsoft: An Oral History is a collective story of the early British games industry. Composed of interviews with thirty-five people who shaped the ...
View full detailsWhy is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...
View full detailsIn Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built...
View full detailsWhen eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle...
View full detailsBeginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, vi...
View full detailsIn Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Capt...
View full detailsIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller--with heart and a profound feeling for the times--gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of ...
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