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From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports , a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose in people's lives all over the world. Featuring never-before-heard stories about Tom Brady, Simone...

One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and behaviours of others - just as others use it...

Author: Maureen CallahanFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 520g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The No1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024''A searing expose' Glamour'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave power' - Observ...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established it as Chri...

"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little BighornTrue...

Author: Jim DeFedeFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 272The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in C...

'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition. Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusia...

Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life-and the love-you deserve. Few things in the world have a more profound effect on your life than the parents who raised you. When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emot...

The history of British gambling is a history that stretches back nearly one thousand years, reaching into some of the nation's most fabled periods. It's now an industry worth billions of pounds. Investigative journalist and Guardian correspondent Rob Davies surveys the development of the gambling in...

Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs organizations of talent, science of breakthroughs, politics of insight, individuals of their futures and communities of justice. So what real-world ste...

"Winning, cheeky, and illuminating..What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The Washington Post "Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction." - Esqui...

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review , Vanity Fair , Goodreads , Jezebel , Christian Science Moni...

Formed in 1921 to provide welfare to soldiers returning from the First World War, the Royal British Legion is today the UK's leading military charity. In May 2021 the Legion celebrates its centenary. We Are the Legion is the first book to look at the whole hundred years, telling the extraordinary st...

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeologyTwo strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeolo...

Author: Venita DimosFormat: HardbackNumber of Pages: 32Mini and Milo help children gain much-needed skills such as conflict management and resilience skills. Story-led, with humour and heart, this series follows the adventures of Mini and Milo as they navigate friendship and all its ups and downs, s...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMESThis is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.The Clotilda docked...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for wha...

Author: Nathan FilerFormat: HardbackNumber of Pages: 256Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it - and how we treat people living with it - is at the core of how we understand mental health. But w...

Author: Alexandra AikhenvaldFormat: HardbackNumber of Pages: 192Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't co...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER! 'Essential reading' Guardian 'A joyful read' Sunday Times 'Disarmingly honest' Daily Mirror 'Bravely revealing' Bernardine Evaristo 'Filled with relatable insights' Daily Mail 'Funny, moving, helpful and true' Sathnam Sanghera 'A generous...

With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by...

Part memoir, part sociological study, IS MONOGAMY DEAD? highlights the huge disparities in how people define a 'relationship' and what constitutes 'cheating'. Rosie draws on her own experience and interviews with dozens of people, gay and straight, male and female, to discover that, even if we think...

'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition. Lavishly detailed' FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusi...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please if you have a question about this title.Author: Jeffrey SachsFormat: PaperbackNumber of...