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How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World’s Game

How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects,...

Author: Nick Greene
ISBN: 9781419777172
Format: Hardback
$44.99

From the author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius, a brilliant deconstruction of the most popular sport in...  Read More >>

Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis

Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech...

Author: Dr Ben Jones
ISBN: 9780349021201
Format: Hardback
$55.00

BRITAIN IS BEING TRANSFORMED. IT IS UNFREE. AND IT IS GETTING WORSE.  Read More >>

1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World

1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the...

Author: Liaquat Ahamed
ISBN: 9781529155853
Format: Hardback
$69.99

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global...  Read More >>

Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives

Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it...

Author: Darby Saxbe
ISBN: 9781847928801
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A groundbreaking exploration of how fatherhood transforms men's...  Read More >>

The Butterfly Season: On Beginnings, Endings, and the Life in Between

The Butterfly Season: On Beginnings, Endings, and the...

Author: Lea Korsgaard ,  Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
ISBN: 9780241810521
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A bestselling phenomenon in the author's native Denmark - a story of home, of endings and beginnings, of rebirth...  Read More >>

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: My Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: My Fugitive Family...

Author: Zayd Ayers Dohrn
ISBN: 9781784745783
Format: Hardback
$65.00

The son of the FBI's most wanted woman tells the electrifying story of a childhood on the run and a half-century...  Read More >>

No Fair Maidens: A wild journey with the lost goddesses of Britain

No Fair Maidens: A wild journey with the lost goddesses...

Author: Kim Willis
ISBN: 9781529947847
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Journeying through the oldest mythologies of Great Britain, No Fair Maidens brings magical heroines to the fore,...  Read More >>

My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond

My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and...

Author: Hugh Ryan
ISBN: 9781645030577
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A powerful and hilarious personal history that tells the true story of the queer ’90s and how it transformed queer...  Read More >>

Just Plain Filthy: The Story Behind Book Banning's Trial of the Century

Just Plain Filthy: The Story Behind Book Banning's Trial...

Author: Anthony Aycock (North Carolina General Assembly)
ISBN: 9798216196471
Format: Hardback
$57.00

With the threat to intellectual freedom increasing around the country, this book takes a look at the first ever...  Read More >>

Someone Must Know: The Search for Missing People and Lost Identities

Someone Must Know: The Search for Missing People and...

Author: Dave Grimstead
ISBN: 9781847928542
Format: Hardback
$65.00

The enthralling insight of We Are Bellingcat meets the human drama and compassion of The Devil You Know- this is...  Read More >>

Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain

Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban...

Author: Caroline Knowles
ISBN: 9781805265627
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Ghost neighbourhoods, trainless railways, empty offices-a bottom-up look at China's footprint in British cities....  Read More >>

Craft and War: Makers, Users, and Craft Practices since the 19th Century

Craft and War: Makers, Users, and Craft Practices since...

Author: Jennifer Way (University of North Texas, USA) ,  Heather Smith (Independent Curator, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350345485
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Explores the relationship between craft and war, examining craft fabrication, practices, objects, makers and users...  Read More >>

Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species

Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our...

Author: Elizabeth Dunn ,  Jiaying Zhao
ISBN: 9781805463610
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An invitation to reimagine climate action not as a burden, but as an opportunity to build a brighter future - without...  Read More >>

Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West

Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi...

Author: Madhushree Ghosh (author)
ISBN: 9798881842673
Format: Hardback
$50.00

Blends memoir and history to explore the role of Punjabi food in fostering community and identity among South Asian...  Read More >>

Houdini of the Sea: Charles Lightoller’s Great Escapes

Houdini of the Sea: Charles Lightoller’s Great Escapes...

Author: Brian Izzard
ISBN: 9781837051731
Format: Hardback
$57.99

The unbelievable true story of a boy who went to sea at 13, became a war hero in both world wars, and survived four...  Read More >>

Women and Polish Cinema: Reclaiming the Frame

Women and Polish Cinema: Reclaiming the Frame

Author: Malgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland) ,  Elzbieta Ostrowska (University of Lódz, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350532106
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An in-depth exploration of the vital, yet often overlooked, contributions of women across Polish film history.  Read More >>

The Cultural Shaping of Emotion

The Cultural Shaping of Emotion

Author: Jozefien De Leersnyder (KU Leuven, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781108487986
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This book explores the cultural logic of emotion, examining how it emerges and affects multicultural societies....  Read More >>

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Author: Elizabeth Wilson (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350399730
Format: Hardback
$130.00

While tracing the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity, Elizabeth Wilson...  Read More >>

Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis

Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis...

Author: Christopher Breward (National Galleries of Scotland, UK)
ISBN: 9781350400283
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in England’s capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural...  Read More >>

Dress and Morality

Dress and Morality

Author: Aileen Ribeiro (The Courtauld Institute of Art and The University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350400566
Format: Hardback
$130.00

In this sharp and humorous look at the outright risqué, as well as the grotesquely exaggerated or repulsive, Ribeiro...  Read More >>

Nefarious Reflections: On Narcissism and Crime

Nefarious Reflections: On Narcissism and Crime

Author: Mark S. Davis
ISBN: 9781108478403
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The world has long been fascinated with narcissism; a personality style associated with a sense of superiority,...  Read More >>

Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources

Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future...

Author: Randall S. Abate
ISBN: 9781009777629
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Abate identifies the common vulnerabilities of the voiceless-future generations, wildlife, and natural resources-and...  Read More >>

Maneuver is Dead: Land Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

Maneuver is Dead: Land Warfare in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Lt Col Amos C. Fox
ISBN: 9781350530850
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examines the limitations of maneuver warfare in modern land wars as technology changes the 21st century battlefield....  Read More >>

Lump in My Throat: What Cancer Taught Me about Communication

Lump in My Throat: What Cancer Taught Me about Communication...

Author: Michael Handford (Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9781009631396
Format: Hardback
$64.69

Part memoir, part guide, this powerful book is a must-read for anyone navigating the emotional and practical challenges...  Read More >>

Reimagining Art History with Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Limitations and Pioneering New Paths for Innovation

Reimagining Art History with Artificial Intelligence:...

Author: Leda Cempellin ,  Melissa Geiger
ISBN: 9783032216847
Format: Hardback
$336.35

mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"">This anthology examines how AI and Art History intersect across research, museums,...  Read More >>

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