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On Freedom
2025 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
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The Extinction of Experience
Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
2025 || Hardcover || Christine Rosen || Vintage Publishing
The Extinction of Experience explores the way a broad range of technologies, from the microwave to the sophisticated computer simulator, now influence our everyday choices—what we eat, how we educate our children, how we get to and from work, and how we spend our leisure time.
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The World After Gaza
2025 || Hardcover || Pankaj Mishra || Vintage Publishing
The Book-Makers
A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
2025 || Paperback || Adam Smyth || Vintage Publishing
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Sacred Nature
How we can recover our bond with the natural world
2024 || Paperback || Karen Armstrong || Vintage Publishing
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A Rumor of War
2024 || Paperback || Philip Caputo || Vintage Publishing
In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. This book tells his story.
The Second Sex
2015 || Paperback || Simone de Beauvoir || Vintage Publishing
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social ...
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When Breath Becomes Air
The ultimate moving life-and-death story
2024 || Paperback || Paul Kalanithi || Vintage Publishing
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death?
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Dickens
Abridged
2024 || Paperback || Peter Ackroyd || Vintage Publishing
This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as complicated (and unconventional) as any modern writer's.