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Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy
Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
2024 || Paperback || Dr Stephen P. Kershaw || Little, Brown Book Group
The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian empire. Kershaw tells the story of the three epic battles - Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis - that saved democracy, without which the history of Europe and the West would have been radically different.
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The Crying Book
2024 || Paperback || Heather Christle || Little, Brown Book Group
Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific, cultural, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of motherhood.
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition)
Surviving Auschwitz
2023 || Paperback || Primo Levi || Little, Brown Book Group
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose... One of the greatest human testaments of the era' Philip Roth'Levi's voice is es...
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering
2025 || Paperback || Malcolm Gladwell || Little, Brown Book Group
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light
'Addictive... fascinating and provocative' Guardian
'Gladwell is a great storyteller with a contagious sense of curiosity' The Economist
What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do elite universities care so m...
Mindfulness
A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
2011 || Paperback || Prof Mark Williams || Little, Brown Book Group
THE LIFE-CHANGING BESTSELLER - OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD'A deeply compassionate guide to self-care - simple and profound' Sir Kenneth Branagh'If you want to free yourself from anxiety and stress, and feel truly at ease with yourself, then read this book' Ruby WaxAuthoritative, beautifully written and much-loved by its readers, Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world has become a word-of-mouth bestseller and global phenomenon. It reveals a set of simple yet powerf...
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The Bottle Factory Outing
50th Anniversary Edition
2023 || Paperback || Beryl Bainbridge || Little, Brown Book Group
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by the ObserverWith a new introduction by Amanda CraigFreda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London. When a works outing materialises it offers promise for Freda, but terror for Brenda. Unexpected passions run high on the chilly day of liberty and their lives are never the same again.
Beryl Bainbridge dazzles readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious...
The Story of a Heart
'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney
2025 || Paperback || Rachel Clarke || Little, Brown Book Group
Rachel Clarke follows the journey of a human heart - and narrates one of the most miraculous developments in 20th century medicine - as she describes the saving of a nine-year-old boy
Tribes
We need you to lead us
2008 || Paperback || Seth Godin || Little, Brown Book Group
n this fascinating book, Seth Godin argues that now, for the first time, everyone has an opportunity to start a movement - to bring together a tribe of like-minded people and do amazing things. There are tribes everywhere, all of them hungry for connection, meaning and change. And yet, too many people ignore the opportunity to lead, because they are "sheepwalking" their way through their lives and work, too afraid to question whether their compliance is doing them (or their company) any good.
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The Silkworm
Cormoran Strike Book 2
2024 || Paperback || Robert Galbraith || Little, Brown Book Group
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would r...
Introduction to Research Methods / 5th edition
A Practical Guide for Anyone Undertaking a Research Project
2019 || Paperback || Dr Catherine Dawson || Little, Brown Book Group
Introduction to Research Methods contains everything from developing an initial idea into a proposal, through to analysing data and reporting results. Whether you have to undertake a project as part of your coursework, or as part of your employment, or simply because you are fascinated by something you have observed and want to find out more, this book offers you advice on how to turn your ideas into a workable project.
Specifically it will show you how to:
*Choose your research methods
*Choo...