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An ethnobiologist's view of evolution, from the primordial soup to machine intelligence: he sees human culture as part of rather than ancillary to evolution.

Life Story: From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond

Jonathan Loh

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Reframes our understanding of the history of the world's most dangerous weapon - not as one colossal achievement but rather a series of small, misguided steps. Precise and illuminating.

85 Seconds to Midnight: A Physicist’s Argument Against Rearmamen ...

Carlo Rovelli

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From the prehistoric to the present: a lively account by an art historian and former director of Christie's.

Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture

Jo Baring

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Contributors - from six continents - include famous names such as Han Kang, Haruki Murakami, Olga Tokarcuk, Salman Rushdie and Colm Toibin; there are many new, non-canonical voices amongst t... read more

The Penguin Book of the International Short Story

John Freeman

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The author of Islands of Abandonment goes in search of wildernesses around the world - often but not always remote.

The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

Cal Flyn

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Argues dismayingly that the Anthropocene is really the 'Mortecene': the common denominator in all cultural and social progress being the spread of violence and the profitability of killing.

The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World ...

Clifton Crais

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One of the great historians of the Cold War looks at lessons that we could usefully learn fron the late C19th and early C20th.

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History ...

Odd Arne Westad

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Historic as well as contemporary work from all over the world, with a particular interest in their cultural narratives. Large format, wonderfully illustrated and scholarly.

Threads of Time: A Cultural Journey: Textiles from Around the World ...

Daniel Brewster

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33 years after publication of her huge bestseller Wild Swans, JC picks up where she left off... in 1978, leaving Chengdu as a student bound for London. 'It was like landing on Mars...' What ... read more

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Jung Chang

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From Carlos the Jackal and Baader-Meinhof to the Iranian Revolution and Israel's Raid on Entebbe in which the commander Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Benjamin) was killed. Burke, an eminent war... read more

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s ...

Jason Burke

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An erudite account of Islam from the end of the C19th to the present day: the effect of European imperialism and the shift from subjection to agency.

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

Faisal Devji

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Undoing our preconceptions about the world's dominant economic system, Beckert proposes a novel argument for how capitalism is as much a product of merchant societies in the Far East and Glo... read more

Capitalism: A Global History

Sven Beckert

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A memoir by the inventor of the internet - a man who gave it away to all of us for free and will no doubt be canonised one day, if we survive as a species.

This is For Everyone

Tim Berners-Lee

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As the old world dies and the new world struggles to be born, da Empoli assembles a rogues' gallery of the tyrants, tech bros and billionaires constructing our present dystopia. Acerbic yet ... read more

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billi ...

Giuliano da Empoli

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Prof Cheshire has had a good rummage in the overlooked and extensive map library at UCL and has found cartographic treasure.

The Library of Lost Maps

James Cheshire

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Kuper has attended every World Cup since 1990. He shares his experiences of the global spectacle from a pleasingly anthropological perspective.

World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments ...

Simon Kuper

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...and in the darkness the cheese-binder extraordinaire...!

One Cheese to Rule Them All: In search of the world’s 100 best c ...

Carlos Yescas

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Eloquently addresses the brave lifeboat crews and volunteers who help the refugees in the small boats crisis. This short book began ‘with a feeling of deep disquiet’ following a perio... read more

We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain

Horatio Clare

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The wonders of the deep, by a national treasure and his long-term collaborator. Illustrated.

Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Sir David Attenborough

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Historically informed, socially and environmentally alert, Kaplan is a great contemporary commentator on geopolitics.

Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis

Robert D Kaplan

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Few people have better earned the right to be listened to than Roth, having witnessed the fallout of practically every horror of the last thirty years: Rwanda, Myanmar, Kuwait, Ukraine... As... read more

Righting Wrongs: Three Decades Leading Human Rights Watch ...

Kenneth Roth

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A magnificent work by a preeminent scholar of Buddhism, this ranges from ancient India to the contemporary 'Western gaze'.

Buddhism: A Journey through History

Donald S Lopez Jr

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A zestful exegesis - drawing on the latest scholarship and archaeology - of India's central role in global trade in the ancient and early medieval world, and how this co-existed with the tra... read more

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World ...

William Dalrymple

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What is freedom and how do we achieve it? The acclaimed historian of the C20th travels The Road to Unfreedom in reverse: freedom understood as the freedom to do and to be, rather than freedo... read more

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

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From Ireland to Japan, shrine to cathedral, desert to forest...

Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World

Yolanda Zappaterra

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Ten civilisations: the Vikings and the Mongols, Benin, Kamakura, Minoa or Ayutthaya and others. For ages 6-9.

Rise and Fall: Great empires that shaped the world

Peter Allen

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A magnificent, global social history of pop music, by the producer once at the forefront of world music.

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music ...

Joe Boyd

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Images of indigenous peoples throughout the world.

Jimmy Nelson: Humanity

Jimmy Nelson

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

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A deeply personal social history. From ancient Greece to 70s' New York, from Diogenes to her father, Eberstadt explores how people have used their bodies to challenge the world around them.

Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant

Fernanda Eberstadt

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Contacts and connections as the drivers of cultural change: the West was built on far more than the values of ancient Greece and Rome, as per the Victorian paradigm. Erudite and compelling.

How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History

Josephine Quinn

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The harnessing of globalisation and technological innovation by the few. From the author of the bestselling Kleptopia.

Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth

Tom Burgis

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How, whether made on tally sticks or via electronic portal, systems of debt and credit have been a driving force in the development of states from Pisa in the C12th to the Bolshevik Revoluti... read more

Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World ...

Paolo Zannoni

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A large-format, lavishly illustrated book on 16 voyages of discovery that took place between 1714 and 1854 by the famous (Lap?rouse, Bougainville et Dumont d'Urville) and the less so (La Ba... read more

Daring French Explorations: Trailblazing Adventures around the World ...

Hubert Sagnieres

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Bazaars in Tabriz, laxatives in Venice, sheep growing on trees and other marvels: an intrepid journey into the medieval mind and its furnishings, based on travellers accounts from Iceland to... read more

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes ...

Anthony Bale

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A surprising story of obsession, necessity, invention and adventure. One could really turn the title around for ice has preserved human history as few other mediums have.

A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice

Max Leonard

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