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Amsterdam 750 Years: A fascinating history of the city – Koen Kleijn
Amsterdam 750 Years tells the city’s history as it has never been told befo...
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Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures – Lizzie Wade
The history of humanity is one of devastating, once-in-a-thousand-year events...
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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future – Dan Wang
From an indispensable voice on China comes a riveting, first-hand account of ...
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today – Naomi Alderman
What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this er...
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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution – Cat Bohannon
How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is se...
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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse – Luke Kemp
A radical retelling of human history through collapse – from the dawn o...
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Indignity: A Life Reimagined – Lea Ypi
An imaginative investigation into historical injustice, dignity and truth ...
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Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane
From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-sh...
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Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2026
Lonely Planet’s annual bestselling guide to travel returns with the 25 ...
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Moral AI : And How We Get There – Jana Schaich Borg
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ...
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessa...
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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy – Mary Roach
The body is the most complex machine in the world, but what happens when the ...
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
The anniversary edition of the international phenomenon
‘One of ...
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History – Vanessa Taylor
Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives.
We h...
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Speed: How it Explains the World – Vaclav Smil
Prepare to view the world through a new lens – SPEED – a groundbreaking e...
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity – Tim Wu
Today’s dominant tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth an...
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