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Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian and Vegan Survival Guide

Is there a blocked vegetarian in your life? In this second edition of her bold and original book, Carol J. Adams offers real-life advice that vegetarians and vegans can use to defuse any situat..

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Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change

Be inspired by 21 key writings onnonviolence and reconciliationby Vietnamese peace activist and refugee advocate Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh "The essence of nonviolence is love," Thich Nhat Hanh s..

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Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Romantic Relationships

Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Romantic Relationships is an innovative work that explores the concept of intimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book provides an ..

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Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful loo..

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and poli..

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Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A Times Business Book of the Year A Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year 'People who like horror films will love this book' F..

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Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church

In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a mino..

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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL 'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' N..

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Museum of Other People, The : From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions..

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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour Racism is n..

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No Logo

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generatio..

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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth

"Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood an..

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Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It

Updated with new chapters and an introduction for the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the fascinating and authoritative history of Dungeons & Dragons that "tracks D&D's turbulent rise, fall, a..

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On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

Manners, order and respect... these are all ideals we subscribe to. In opposedpositions, we ought to be able to 'agree to disagree'. Today's world is builtfrom structures of standards and reason, but ..

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On Violence

Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima..

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Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman's bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of ..

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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business

Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society-state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights po..

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Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good

What do you think of when you hear the word "tribalism?" For many, it conjures images of bigotry, xenophobia, and sectarian violence. Others may envision their own tribe: family, friends, and the bond..

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Outrage Machine

Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND A noticeable shift has occurred in the last two decades. The prevalence of hate speech online. The turn toward authoritarianism and ..

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Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

"This startling, vital book deserves our attention." -San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the..

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Parenting in the Anthropocene

Humans are changing the world in extremely complex ways, creating a new geological age called the Anthropocene. How do we - as parents, caregivers and as a society - raise our children and dependents ..

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Pegasus: The Secret Technology that Threatens the End of Privacy and Democracy

The gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created, which is threatening democracy and human rights. 'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journa..

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Pegasus: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Spyware

Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by as little as a missed WhatsApp call, once on your phone it can record your calls, copy your messages, steal ..

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Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health

In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences. Big Pharma is more ..

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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands ..

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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands ..

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Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

'I am surrounded by women who are emblems of modern feminism and #Girlboss culture. These same women admit to me in private that the hardest part of the day is getting dressed, that they Facetune thei..

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Property: The myth that built the world

Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain..

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Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World

In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Randomistas is a brilliant and entertaining exploration of a hidden but vital foundation of modern life. 'The subject of this book could hardly be more vital..

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Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind

"A highly personal, richly informed and culturally wide-ranging meditation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to rediscovering it." -Gabor Mate, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry G..

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Reconnected: A communities builder's handbook

Why Australians need social connection and community, and how to create it We're all in this together. Strong social connections make communities more resilient. But today Australians have ..

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Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking

Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming'. ..

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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services..

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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indig..

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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

A book about how we can reclaim time from a culture that commodifies and capitalises it from the bestselling author of HOW TO DO NOTHING A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, ..

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ScreenAge: How TV shaped our reality, from Tammy Faye to RuPaul's Drag Race

A riotous tale of pop culture, backstage drama and showbiz gossip from the co-producer of RuPaul's Drag Race and award-winning director Fenton Bailey World of Wonder is the iconic Hollywood-based..

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Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

Michelle Obama's Becoming meets Hygge in this insightful, paperback exploration of gender equity, written by the sitting First Lady of Iceland THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! A New York Times ..

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Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescri..

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Seeing Gender

In this vibrant book, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb visually explores gender in all of its complexities, answering questions and providing guidance while also mining history and pop culture fo..

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Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, l..

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Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and..

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Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

From the bestselling author of "No Logo", Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" cracks open the secret history of our era to look at how from a privileged few are making ..

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Should All Drugs Be Legalized?: A primer for the 21st century

A timely re-examination of the pros and cons of legalizing drug use. Combining a unique visual approach with carefully constructed narrative text, this book provides a survey of the history of ..

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Somebody Told Me: One Man's Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies

The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight b..

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Superbugs (WIRED guides): How to prevent the next global health threat

The everything-you-need-to know WIRED guide to the greatest medical threat now confronting us The number of people dying due to drug-resistant diseases is rising every year. What medical weapons ..

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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World

The world today is so complex that it mitigates our understanding of it. It can be difficult to comprehend the flows of power which run through the networked technologies, global supply chains, and su..

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Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be

'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of Fully Connected We all have ten types of human in our head. They're the people we become when we face life's ..

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The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer: How the Handover from Boomers to Gen Z Will Revolutionize Capitalism

An insider's look into how Generation Z's focus on ethics, climate change and purpose will change capitalism forever. In the next ten years there will be an unprecedented wealth transfer from t..

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The Alternative: And How We Build It

Owen Jones's bestseller The Establishment exposed the elites who run our lives. Now The Alternative shows us what we can do about it We know our world's unequal. But, says Owen Jones, it doesn't ..

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The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

A provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Confronted by the devastating trends of the early twenty-first..

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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

A fascinating and important history of meritocracy, and a Times book of the year Meritocracy- the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at bi..

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