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Before the Big Bang
Our Origins in the Multiverse
2024 || Paperback || Laura Mersini-Houghton || Vintage Publishing
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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
2024 || Paperback || Simone de Beauvoir || Vintage Publishing
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal.
Not the End of the World
Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Ritchie || Vintage Publishing
'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD'Eye-opening and essential' BILL GATES‘I find it hard to express how much I love this book’ RUTGER BREGMAN'The climate and environmental crisis now has its Hans Rosling' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS'An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet – read it' TIM SPECTORFeeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve themWe are bombarded by doom...
Determined
Life Without Free Will
2024 || Paperback || Robert M Sapolsky || Vintage Publishing
One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.
‘One of the best scientist-writers of our time’ OLIVER SACKS
What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environmen...
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On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
History does not repeat, but it does instruct. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. This book deals with this topic.
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On Tyranny Graphic Edition
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
2024 || Hardcover || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
A graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, the New York Times bestselling guide to protect democracy and resist modern-day authoritarianism. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism.
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The Noonday Demon
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Solomon || Vintage Publishing
WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHORLike Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression.
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A Crack in Creation
The New Power to Control Evolution
2024 || Paperback || Jennifer Doudna e.a. || Vintage Publishing
Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), explains its discovery, describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use. 'Urgent, riveting and endlessly fascinating, this book is destined to become an instant classic.
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Letters to Camondo
‘Immerses you in another age’ Financial Times
2024 || Hardcover || Edmund de Waal || Vintage Publishing
I know your street rather well. Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Edmund de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers to the family story.
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The Book Forger
The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world
2024 || Hardcover || Joseph Hone || Vintage Publishing