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1913
The Year before the Storm
2024 || Paperback || Florian Illies || Profile Books Ltd
From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war.
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The World in Conflict
Understanding the world's troublespots
2024 || Paperback || John Andrews || Profile Books Ltd
A brand new look at global conflict from top Economist correspondent John Andrews.
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Babel
Around the World in Twenty Languages
2024 || Paperback || Gaston Dorren || Profile Books Ltd
A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand?
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Ego is the Enemy
The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
2024 || Paperback || Ryan Holiday || Profile Books Ltd
A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
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Sea Fever
A Seaside Companion: from buoys and bowlines to selkies and setting sail
2024 || Paperback || Meg Clothier e.a. || Profile Books Ltd
Everything you need to know about the sea and shore, from high tides to half-hitches.
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Irresistible
How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
2024 || Paperback || Professor Joshua Paul Dale || Profile Books Ltd
The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world.
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Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
2024 || Paperback || Atul Gawande || Profile Books Ltd
Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
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Being Mortal
Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
2024 || Paperback || Atul Gawande || Profile Books Ltd
From the international bestselling author of Better, Complications and The Checklist Manifesto and Reith Lecturer 2014, a revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine.
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Building a Second Brain
A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
2024 || Paperback || Tiago Forte || Profile Books Ltd
Find order, creativity and productivity with this revolutionary system
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Seriously Curious
109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down
2024 || Paperback || Tom Standage || Profile Books Ltd
Following up 2016's hit Go Figure, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist.