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  • Guns, Germs and Steel
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    Guns, Germs and Steel

    Diamond, Jared

    A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. Read this...
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  • World Until Yesterday
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    World Until Yesterday

    Diamond, Jared

    The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs...
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  • Mine!
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    Mine!

    Heller, Michael

    'A delicious book.' - Jared Diamond Who controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their laptop? Who owns your favourite football player? And why do...
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  • Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings
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    Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings

    Diamond, Jared

    From the bestselling author of Guns, Germs and Steel, an exploration of the influence of leaders in politics, business, sport and religion We often read history as the biographies of 'great men' who...
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  • On Deep History and the Brain
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    On Deep History and the Brain

    Daniel Lord Smail

    When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a...
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  • Eight Eurocentric Historians
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    Eight Eurocentric Historians

    Blaut, J.M.

    This volume examines and critiques the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Building upon the foundations laid in his...
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  • Rise and Decline of Civilizations
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    Rise and Decline of Civilizations

    Shalom Salomon Wald

    Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared...
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    Swing Kings

    Jared Diamond

    "The best baseball book I’ve read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation."  — Ben Reiter • "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball...
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  • Guns, Germs and Steel
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    Guns, Germs and Steel

    'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years; now with a new afterword to mark the 20th...
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  • Collapse
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    Collapse

    Diamond, Jared

    The No.1 International Bestseller that has sold over 15,000 hardbacks and over 165,000 paperbacks (Vista) and counting From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary...
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  • Work, Sex and Power
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    Work, Sex and Power

    Willie Thompson

    The forces that shape our history are always contentious. Seen through the popularity of authors from Jared Diamond to Eric Hobsbawm, people's fascination with what drives the actions of the human...
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  • Historians Debate the Rise of the West Historians Debate the Rise of the West
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    Historians Debate the Rise of the West

    Jonathan Daly

    How and why did Europe rise to world pre-eminence? Providing an overview of this central historical conundrum of modern times, Historians Debate the Rise of the West enables students to grasp major...
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  • Silent but Deadly Silent but Deadly
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    Silent but Deadly

    Kirsten Bell

    An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to life's little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust? Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are...
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  • Historians Debate the Rise of the West
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    Historians Debate the Rise of the West

    Jonathan Daly

    How and why did Europe rise to world pre-eminence? Providing an overview of this central historical conundrum of modern times, Historians Debate the Rise of the West enables students to grasp major...
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  • Folkbiology
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    Folkbiology

    The term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world-how they perceive, categorize, and reason about living kinds. The study of folkbiology not only sheds light on...
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  • The Mechanics of Changing the World The Mechanics of Changing the World
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    The Mechanics of Changing the World

    John Macgregor

    'I have nominated this book as my Book of the Year. I read over 30 books a year in the course of my work, so this it is in a good field.'Prof Guy Standing, author of The Precariat'A formidable effort...
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  • Deforestation and Reforestation in Nambia Deforestation and Reforestation in Nambia
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    Deforestation and Reforestation in Nambia

    Emmanuel Kreike

    Colonial rule, the capitalist market, and population growth contributed to dramatic environmental changes in twentieth-century north-central Namibia. Moreover, as discussed in Jared Diamond’s...
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  • Dust
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    Dust

    Jay Owens

    'Superb' Telegraph'Marvellous' New York Review of Books 'Brilliant' Sunday Times'Eye-opening . . . impressive' Guardian'Powerful' Nature __________Dust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane...
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  • Wildlife Issues in a Changing World
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    Wildlife Issues in a Changing World

    James Sanderson

    Students of conservation encounter some of the most complex issues on our planet. The resolution of existing problems become more complex when humans create further stresses on the natural balance...
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  • Power and Progress
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    Power and Progress

    Simon Johnson

    WINNERS OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICSLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZEA...
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  • A Farewell to Alms
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    A Farewell to Alms

    Gregory Clark

    Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at...
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  • John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire
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    John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire

    Heacox, Kim

    Now in paperback! A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor,...
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  • The Seneca Effect The Seneca Effect
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    The Seneca Effect

    Ugo Bardi

    The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the...
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  • Living with Our Genes
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    Living with Our Genes

    "A lucid, thought-provoking account of the case for 'nature' as a determinant of personality."-Peter D. Kramer, Author ofListening to ProzacandShould You Leave?Nowhere is the nature-nurture...
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  • Earth Days Earth Days
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    Earth Days

    William Dritschilo

    Earth Days details the events of the revolution in ecology initiated by the publication of Silent Spring from the perspective of someone involved in its events. It is a book having to do with ideas...
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  • Let My People Go Surfing
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    Let My People Go Surfing

    As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, to Southern California with little English and less money. Today his company, Patagonia, earns more than $600 million a...
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  • Maror
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    Maror

    Tidhar, Lavie

    A GUARDIAN AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'Spectacular... fascinating... astonishing... A literary triumph.' Jake Arnott, Guardian How do you build a nation? It takes statesmen and soldiers,...
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  • Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
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    Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions

    Ed Zwick

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER“This funny, insightful, and deliciously dishy memoir” (Town & Country) from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last...
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  • The Secret History of Sharks
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    The Secret History of Sharks

    John Long

    'Will keep you on the edge of your seat from its first page to its last page' -Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelFrom ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites,...
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    The Secret History of Sharks

    John Long

    'Will keep you on the edge of your seat from its first page to its last page' -Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelFrom ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites,...
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  • Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
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    Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions

    Ed Zwick

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER “This funny, insightful, and deliciously dishy memoir” (Town & Country) from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last...
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  • Galileo's Middle Finger
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    Galileo's Middle Finger

    Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and The World until Yesterday "Alice Dreger would win a prize for this year's most gripping novel, except for one thing- her stories are true, and this...
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  • Codebreaking
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    Codebreaking

    Elonka Dunin

    'The best book on codebreaking I have read', SIR DERMOT TURING 'Brings back the joy I felt when I first read about these things as a kid', PHIL ZIMMERMANN 'This is at last the single book on...
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  • Hung Like An Argentine Duck
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    Hung Like An Argentine Duck

    John Long

    We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? The history of sex is as old as life itself-and as complicated and mysterious. And despite...
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  • The Five Million Year Odyssey
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    The Five Million Year Odyssey

    Peter Bellwood

    The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a...
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