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1) Misbelief
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Thoughtful, moving and well-written' - Yuval Noah Harari
'An urgent examination of the human attraction to misinformation' - Daniel H. Pink
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth.
In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief' that...
2) Campeonas
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Español
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Solo en el transcurso de este siglo, el Perú ha visto a 16 mujeres en lo más alto del podio del deporte nacional. De a pocos, la presencia de las mujeres se ha vuelto constante en diversas competencias, incluso en aquellas que en el pasado eran consideradas "solo para hombres".
Campeonas. Peruanas que están cambiando las reglas del juego cuenta las historias de 12 mujeres que han marcado para siempre al deporte peruano, cuyos éxitos fueron reconocidos...
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the star of Netflix's The Duchess, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Your Face or Mine and host of All That Glitters
'A fearless origin story' Caitlin Moran
'Outrageously brilliant! I'm buying this for all my friends' Laura Whitmore
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'I've come to accept that being audacious is a gift I can't escape.'
People 'know' my on-stage comedy persona or my scripted ballsy characters and wrongly assume that at home, I must...
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This is Emily Bloom's journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard decisions. Her desire to know more thrusts her back into the history of science, as she traces the discoveries that impacted the modern state of pregnancy and motherhood....
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A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose poetry was at the heart of the American Revolution.
Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible,...
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Les pensées pourrîtes sont nées au fil du temps, de l'observation désespérée de nos contemporains persuadés d'être des génies, ce qui qui s'avère peu fréquent dans la réalité. Le premier risque que vous prenez en lisant ces pensées est de vous reconnaître et d'en rire jaune comme la couleur de vos yeux, un lendemain de nuit chaude.
Sachez-le, vous avez servi de modèle à la compréhension acide d'une vérité souvent ingrate. Mais...
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In 1922 Robert Allerton-described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago"-met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked...
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The grand inquisitor of The Weakest Link bares all in this humor-laced memoir.
The first woman in nearly half a century to host a prime-time game show and the highest-paid female journalist in British history, Anne Robinson warranted fan mail, death threats, unqualified admiration, and unabashed hatred. From pioneering journalist to overnight phenomenon, Robinson shares the events of her formative upbringing by a sensitive father and a driven, hardworking...
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'A moving and uplifting story of one woman's fight against the Nazis through her love of music. It will stay with you long after you've finished reading.' John Marrs, author of The One and The Marriage Act
Former Polish teenage piano prodigy Mosha Gebert is teaching when the Nazis come for her. They kill her student, but she is taken to Majdanek concentration camp. There, Commandant Josef Hanke spots her and recognises her as the pianist he fell...
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A searing essay collection that explores displacement and loss, creativity and change, institutional power, and progress.
Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate...
11) Inconceivable: Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning
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Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics. Inconceivable is a...
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A captivating memoir by the man behind so many beloved programs including Charlie' s Angels, Charmed, and Beverly Hills 90210.
No one else produced as many television programs as Aaron Spelling. And very few enjoyed such career longevity, with more than forty years in the business- from Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater in 1959 until his last hit shows, 7th Heaven and Charmed, aired in 2006. In this compelling memoir- ...
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In some ways, everything in our world seems out of control, but turmoil has been a part of the evolution of our nation since its founding. America has endured extremely dark periods in its history-the Revolution, World War II, and perhaps the darkest of all, the Civil War.
But in darkness, leaders emerge to shine a light of hope to guide people. During the American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant emerged to guide the nation to victory, then to the beginnings...
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***From the no.1 bestselling author***
'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades, and we all have to find within us the strength and resilience to get through and to find happiness and love in our futures, whatever life throws at us.'
Kate Garraway has had to learn how to adapt ever since her husband Derek began his fight against the devastating impact of Covid, a condition that has left him needing 24-hour care at home...
15) The Prisoner
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'A bleak and vivid account' BBC Radio 4
'I am haunted by the feeling that it is not me I'm writing about, but some other man who lived through it all. It is as though I was watching a film about him, reading a book on him. And here is that book'
Shocking, but laced with wry humour, Vladimir Pereverzin's extraordinary story is of an ordinary man whose comfortable life is upended. Refusing to give false testimony against Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky,...
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One of the greatest rock 'n' roll stories of the past 50 years recounted with warmth and wisdom' - Hot Press
Few musicians have lived a musical life as rich as the songwriter and producer Ian Broudie.
From recording the glorious uplifting psychedelic pop of his band The Lightning Seeds to producing bands like Echo & The Bunnymen and The Fall, Ian has journeyed from the energy and potential of the 1970s punk scene to the madness of '90s indie - and...
17) Karma
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THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS
'I went to a lot of trouble to create Boy George and then I went through a whole battle for years about not wanting to be him. But now I enjoy and embrace it in a way that I wasn't able to as a young person.... I'm finally learning to be George Alan O'Dowd from Eltham.'
Karma is the definitive autobiography from the incomparable Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello...
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"Thoroughly well-written, this is a believable portrait of a woman who did not seek publicity or a royal role but instead to support the love of her life, Prince Charles." -Library Journal (starred review)
In the first in-depth biography of Camilla-the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded"-esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman...
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Hachette Books
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2024.
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1 volume : illustrations (some color), plates ; 24 cm.
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"The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music. 'People tell me it's country music,' Terry Allen has joked, 'and I ask, 'Which country'?' For nearly sixty years, Allen's inimitable art has explored the borderlands of memory, crossing...
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It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a cure for that constant feeling of 'something wrong, something not quite right', a way of numbing anxiety and childhood trauma. He realised he was extraordinarily good at drinking and energetically threw himself into a life of pubs, parties and staying pissed, while also managing to become a...
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