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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
2024 || Paperback || Kristen Ghodsee || Vintage Publishing
Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we can do about it. Unregulated capitalism is bad for women.
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Waterlog
2024 || Paperback || Roger Deakin || Vintage Publishing
Encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.
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On Freedom
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.
Timothy Snyder has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians.
His book On Tyranny has inspi...
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The Weather Machine
How We See Into the Future
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Blum || Vintage Publishing
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Genghis Khan
The Man Who Conquered the World
2024 || Paperback || Frank McLynn || Vintage Publishing
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon?
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The Inner Life of Animals
Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
2024 || Paperback || Peter Wohlleben || Vintage Publishing
We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings but have you ever wondered what’s going on in an animal’s head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before.
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Chaos
2024 || Paperback || James Gleick || Vintage Publishing
Brings together work in the field of chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact.
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Danube
2024 || Paperback || Claudio Magris || Vintage Publishing
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
2024 || Paperback || Louis de Bernieres || Vintage Publishing
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily MailIt is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces.
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Sacred Nature
How we can recover our bond with the natural world
2024 || Paperback || Karen Armstrong || Vintage Publishing