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A substantial biography of one of the scientists who first deciphered DNA.

Crick: A Mind in Motion

Matthew Cobb

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One of the core texts of the early Buddhist canon, this is an introduction to mindfulness and meditation with a weather eye to modern psychology and neuroscience. With the original Pali on f... read more

How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions ...

The Buddha

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Following her biographies of Kierkegaard and George Eliot, this is a series of six philosophical meditations on what it means to write about a person's life, whether the singularity of a lif... read more

Transcendence for Beginners

Clare Carlisle

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This powerful C8th century poem, written in the first person, teaches us how to reduce suffering by mastering ourselves and is one of the most important texts of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. A car... read more

How to Be Caring: An Ancient Guide to a Compassionate Life ...

Shantideva

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...is far from lost! Case studies in relationships, by the author of The Examined Life.

Love’s Labour

Stephen Grosz

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The dark age of the soul: a close look at the terrifying erosion of the spirit by techno-capitalism and its machinations, and a reminder of what makes us human.

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paul Kingsnorth

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The cognitive scientist explores the centrality of 'common knowledge' to all human interactions, from awkward first dates to the toppling of regimes. Highly illuminating.

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…

Steven Pinker

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A new translation of the Roman nobleman's writings and his turn toward Stoicism whilst he waited, unjustly accused, to die in prison. Could be useful at Christmas too.

How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship

Boethius

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His Do Not Call the Tortoise was an earlier gem. Here again GHJ pauses to wonder at the world around us, at the profligacy of existence. And at the inscrutability of woodlice. Be charmed by ... read more

Your Lowly Hedgehog Knows

Gareth Howell-Jones

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First edition, as new with a near-fine dust jacket - pristine other than a slight crumple at bottom of front cover.

English Hospitals, 1660-1948: A Survey of Their Architecture and Desig ...

Harriet Richardson

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Wittgenstein, the poet and painter David Jones, Simone Weil and others...

The World Within: Why Writers, Artists and Thinkers Retreat ...

Guy Stagg

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The appeal of simplistic answers and their concomitant narrow conformity: Zmigrod's analysis makes for compelling reading in our polarized times.

The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds ...

Leor Zmigrod

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A neurologist looks at role of the imagination (and as we know not everyone has one). The elephant absent from the room comes to mind.

The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination ...

Adam Zeman

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25 years after its first publication, Gladwell revisits The Tipping Point, looking particularly at how the idea applies to epidemics.

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise ...

Malcolm Gladwell

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From the intimate to the political, a practising psychoanalyst and professor of literary theory probes the difference between anger and aggression. Riveting reading.

All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World

Josh Cohen

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We did a podcast with the brilliant Clare for his previous book, Heavy Light. Here, he moves further from his own experience to look at how the system could work better. He is a joy to read.

Your Journey, Your Way: How to Make the Mental Health System Work For ...

Horatio Clare

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The author is a sociopathic psychologist. This is a remarkable account of her empathy-free adventures and how she came to terms with her personality.

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

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Freud is the primary focus here, but we also encounter Klimt, Schiele, Herzl, Empress Sisi and many others in this fine account of the new understanding of the mind that arose from Vienna at... read more

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind ...

Frank Tallis

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Or The Dangers of the Smart-Phone... but actually, Haidt's analysis is sound and helpful, rather than recklessly alarmist.

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing ...

Jonathan Haidt

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Quietism perhaps, rather than the silence of things not being talked about: the art of listening, of stilling the interior babble. By the writer, painter and traveller who set up the Travel ... read more

The Lost Art of Silence: Reconnecting to the Power and Beauty of Quiet ...

Sarah Anderson

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Phillips dances from end to end of the see-saw of renunciation: he's always a joy to read.

On Giving Up

Adam Phillips

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From crisis to recuperation: AdB's compassionate guide to mental well-being.

A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life ...

Alain de Botton

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Innovative and original approach to architecture and urban planning that takes account of the economic as well as the human cost of awful building and proposes a very different solution.

Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World ...

Thomas Heatherwick

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Vaccine scepticism has a long history; human ingenuity too.

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations ...

Simon Schama

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An important, well-researched history of the National Health Service that has no particular political axe to grind. The author is an Oxford academic.

Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best Loved Institution ...

Andrew Seaton

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Funny, honest, poignant: another memoir by the author of This Is Going to Hurt.

Undoctored

Adam Kay

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A signifcant new book from thePulitzer-winning author of The Gene: An Intimate History.

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human ...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The subject is, of course, SARS-CoV-2, aka Covid-19; draws on interviews with a hundred scientists.

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus ...

David Quammen

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The professor-king of the microbiome.

Food For Life: The New Science of Eating Well

Tim Spector

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A new translation of Seneca's 'On The Shortness of Life', with the Latin on facing pages and an introduction. One of three niftily pocket-sized classical guides to life.

How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely ...

Seneca

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Fortitude and patience: Cicero's text in Latin and in English translation, with a commentary. One of three niftily pocket-sized philosophical guides from Princeton.

How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Selections from the man who threatened to bite scoundrels; with the Greek on facing pages and an introduction. One of three niftily pocket-sized classical guides to life from Princeton.

How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism ...

Diogenes

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The retired neurosurgeon (and bestselling author of Do No Harm) becomes a patient when he is diagnosed with cancer.

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

Henry Marsh

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A literary and psychoanalytical first cousin to the Bombay Laughing Club: a book about laughter and the unconscious, with philosophy, poetry, memoir and the tragi-comedy of clowns thrown in ... read more

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Nuar Alsadir

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Where Tillyard's brilliant The Elizabethan World Picture looked outwards, this looks inwards. A deeply fascinating and empathetic study.

The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty ...

Helen Hackett

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An account of other forms of intelligence, from Greek oracles to octopuses, and the opportunities offered by technology.

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

James Bridle

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