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How to Hide an Empire
A Short History of the Greater United States
2020 || Paperback || Daniel Immerwahr || Vintage Publishing
'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and oceans either side.
Nothing could be further from the truth. This is the story of the United States outside the United States – from nineteenth-century conquests l...
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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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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.
Waiting for the Barbarians
2004 || Paperback || J.M. Coetzee || Vintage Publishing
Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is.
To Kill a Mockingbird
60th Anniversary Edition
2024 || Paperback || Harper Lee || Vintage Publishing
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.
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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.
The Singularity is Nearer
When We Merge with AI
2025 || Paperback || Ray Kurzweil || Vintage Publishing
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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.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2020 || Paperback || Jane Jacobs || Vintage Publishing
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment.
Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-c...
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Nexus
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
2024 || Hardcover || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage Publishing