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Judgement at Tokyo
world War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
2023 || Paperback || Gary J. Bass || Picador
The definitive account of the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946-48, WWII and the beginning of the end of the European empires in Asia and the impact the settlement has had on post-war China and Japan, the wider history of East and South Asia and of the world to this day.
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Dead Weight
on hunger, harm and disordered eating
2024 || Paperback || Emmeline Cline || Picador
Fusing memoir and cultural history, this is an essential exploration of disordered eating in the internet era.
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Identity
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
2024 || Paperback || Francis Fukuyama || Picador
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic ...
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How Life Works
a User’s Guide to the New Biology
2023 || Paperback || Philip Ball || Picador
Over the past two decades, our understanding of the ways life functions have been transformed in many ways but the public narratives about biology have not kept up. By drawing on these recent discoveries and insights, this book outlines a new vision of biology for the 21st century.
Inflamed
Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
2022 || Paperback || Rupa Marya e.a. || Picador
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.
The Covid pandemic and the shocking racial disparities in its impact. The surge in inflammatory illnesses such as gastrointestinal disorders and asthma. Mass uprisings around the world in response to...
This is Europe (Heruitgave)
the Way We Live Now
2024 || Paperback || Ben Judah || Picador
A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year
'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, ...
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Roman Stories
2023 || Paperback || Jhumpa Lahiri || Picador
Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of &i>Interpreter of Maladies&/i>, comes to Picador with an astonishing work of fiction, set in and around Rome.