Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf
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Category: General Non Fiction
The bestselling author of Vagina illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day. That law was the Obscene Publications Act and it was a crucial turning point. Why? Because dissent and morality; 'deviancy' and 'normalcy'; ...Show more
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
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Category: General Non Fiction
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping investigation of Israel's assassination policy' Sunday Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Riveting' Daily Mail 'Compelling' John le Carré Winner of 2018 National Jewish Book Award From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, the instinct to take every measure to ...Show more
Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Editor); Jeffrey Simons; Charles Liu
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Category: General Non Fiction
For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative book brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most conf ...Show more
The Mechanism by Vladimir Netto
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Category: General Non Fiction
INTRODUCTION BY MISHA GLENNY, author of McMafia A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering became a political crisis that threatened to bring down a nation. When a small team of investigators discovered that ...Show more
White by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: General Non Fiction
Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985, earning him devoted fans and, perhaps, even fiercer enemies. An enigmatic figure who has always gone against the grain and refu ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
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Category: General Non Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
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Category: General Non Fiction
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
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Category: General Non Fiction
An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibres in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still m ...Show more
Infinite Powers - The Story of Calculus - the Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
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Category: General Non Fiction
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost popularisers of mathematics, the author of The Joy of X.
The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals Its Secrets by Michael Blastland
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Category: General Non Fiction
Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingeniou ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen MATTHEWS
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Category: General Non Fiction
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge the man John le Carre called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and ...Show more