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The Dream of Europe (Heruitgave)

travels in the Twenty-First Century

2022 || Paperback || Geert Mak || Vintage UK

'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial Times

How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?

From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.

The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a united Europe striving towards a common goal. The EU was to set an ex...

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The Journey of Humanity

2023 || Paperback || Oded Galor || Vintage UK

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery' LEWIS DARTNELL

'Completely brilliant and utterly original' JON SNOW

'Astounding in scope and insight' NOURIEL ROUBINI

The stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and timeless forces, operating since the dawn of our species. Drawing on a lifetime's scientific investigation, Oded Galor's ground-breaking new vision identif...

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The Coming Wave (Heruitgave)

The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider

2024 || Paperback || Mustafa Suleyman e.a. || Vintage UK

The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider- the only book you need to read on this subject. AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY.

QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world.

From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google. 'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry'An excellent guide for...

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

2019 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage UK

'Fascinating... compelling... [Harari] has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century' Bill Gates, New York Times 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian'21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book' Adam Kay

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The Sense of an Ending

2024 || Paperback || Julian Barnes || Vintage UK

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.

Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anyb...

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As I Lay Dying

1996 || Paperback || William Faulkner || Vintage UK

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.

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Invisible Women

Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

2020 || Paperback || Caroline Criado Perez || Vintage UK

Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.

If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systemati...

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November 1942 (Heruitgave)

an Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War

2024 || Paperback || Peter Englund || Vintage UK

A Telegraph Best History Book of 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVORAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs. At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could win the war; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose. In between came el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa lan...