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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? Naomi Klein, internationally acclaimed journalist, activist and bestselling author, shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can make things better. 'No Is Not Enough' reveals, among other things, how Trump's election was not a peaceful transition, but a corporate takeover, one using deliberate...
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Publisher
Belknap
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. These notebooks, transcribed and presented in their entirety, offer unprecedented insight into Frost's complex and often highly contradictory thinking about poetics, politics, education, psychology, and religion.
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great businesses achieve long-lasting success. He finds that building long-term value and healthy, enduring growth - that playing the infinite game - is the only thing that matters to your business.
9) Unfaithful
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Welcome to your new obsession? A FATAL attraction? Rachel Reeves has it all. The perfect family, a rich husband, and a gorgeous home. But when her only child flies the nest, Rachel feels lost - and succumbs to a mind-blowing one-night stand. With a DEADLY twist?Instantly regretting her infidelity, Rachel cuts ties with Chris. But he won?t let her go that easily. She erases him from her life - until a text changes everything. And an UNFORGETTABLE end?Someone...
10) Dead to her
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When Marcie met Jason Maddox, she couldn't believe her luck. Becoming Jason's second wife catapulted her into the elite world of high society. But underneath the polite, old money manners, she knows she'll always be an outsider, and her hard-won life hangs by a thread. Then Jason's widowed boss brings back a new wife from his trip to London. Young, beautiful, reckless - nobody can take their eyes off Keisha. Including Jason. Marcie refuses to be replaced...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just four percent of CEOs in the S&P 500. Even worse, that percentage has barely budged in a decade. That's where The Influence Effect comes in. Based on recent research by the authors of the New York Times bestseller Break Your Own Rules, this book begins with the premise that when it comes to political savvy, what works for men at work won't work for women. Packed with the authors'...
13) Snow country
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fine and profoundly intelligent novel' ELIZABETH DAY 'A yearning, wistful, lovelorn novel, intent on exploring the price of being human' Sunday Times 'Faulks on his best form' Telegraph 'Fascinating . . . impeccably researched . . . At the heart of this rich, dark story, however, is not politics but psychology . . . Faulks's committed fans will be left looking forward to the next instalment of this thought-provoking trilogy'...
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Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views...
15) Psychogeography
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Language
English
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The very best of Will Self's columns for the 'Independent' on the oddities of place, with Ralph Steadman's trademark illustrations.
16) Deadly Cross
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Series
Alex Cross volume 28
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English
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A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross ? When two prominent figures in Washington, DC are found murdered, lying half naked in a car, the shocking double homicide dominates tabloid headlines. Kay Willingham was a glamourous socialite and ex-wife of the US vice president. Randall Christopher was a high school principal with political ambitions, as well as a wife and family. Alex Cross knew both victims well. Especially...
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Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. In an era of unprecedented change and polarizing politics, his frank and refreshing message about...
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Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Ever struggled to say 'no' to an expensive dinner with friends? Found yourself unable to ask for a payrise even though you deserved it? Got stuck in an overdraft and felt too ashamed to tell anyone? From friendships, to ambitions, to mental health, money plays a huge role in our lives and relationships, yet we're often too polite or embarrassed to talk about it. But in an age of pay-gap exposš and growing inequality, conversations about money are...
19) Autopsy
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The legendary Patricia Cornwell is back with her No.1 bestselling, groundbreaking series following Kay ScarpettaKay Scarpetta is back, and this time she?s right in the path of danger?World-renowned forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta and her husband Benton, a psychologist with the US Secret Service, have returned to Virginia. They are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that?s been torn by civil and political unrest.Just...
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English
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In this thought-provoking and moving collection of fourteen essays, gal-dem's writers use raw material from their teenage years - diaries, poems and chat histories - to explore growing up. gal-dem have been described by the Guardian as "the agents of change we need", and these essays essays tackle important subjects including race, gender, mental health and activism, making this essential reading for any young person.
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