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The Expectation Effect
People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.Lucky charms really do improve an athlete’s performance.Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still improve your health.Welcome to The Expectation Effect. David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge...- $ 420.00
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Madly, Deeply
Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard’s villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and...- $ 400.00
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If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...
In If I Could Tell You Just One Thing… some of the world’s most remarkable people share their most valuable pieces of wisdom. Is not only packed with great advice but is also enormously entertaining, brilliantly written and stunningly designed. From advice on work...- $ 600.00
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The Power of Regret
Everybody has regrets. They’re a fundamental part of our lives. In The Power of Regret, Pink explains how we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. Drawing on the largest sampling of attitudes...- $ 550.00
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Dreams From My Father
The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama recounts an emotional odyssey, retracing the migration of his mother’s family from Kansas to Hawai’i, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts...- $ 350.00
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The Memory Keeper
Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt – where they will starve to death. Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two commemorative...- $ 600.00
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The Defining Decade
Contemporary culture tells us the twenty-something years don’t matter. Clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay argues that this could not be further from the truth. The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twenty-something years with real-life stories to show us how work, relationships,...- $ 530.00
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The Gift
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.- $ 450.00
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The Heart of Things
Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words...- $ 350.00
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A Field Guide To Getting Lost
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit is a beautifully written exploration of how uncertainty and disorientation can lead to growth and discovery. Combining memoir, philosophy, and cultural history, Solnit reflects on moments of loss and transformation in her own life while...- $ 500.00
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Widow Basquiat
A lyrical and intimate memoir recounting the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Suzanne Mallouk and the renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s New York City, the narrative delves into Suzanne's life as a young Canadian runaway who becomes Basquiat's...- $ 400.00
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
An extraordinary journey into the inner world of artist and musician Nick Cave. Formed from over forty hours of candid conversations with journalist Sean O’Hagan, this book is less a traditional biography and more a profound meditation on a life lived through creativity, loss...- $ 400.00
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The Sick Bag Song
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory. It began life scribbled on airline sick bags during Cave’s 22-city journey around North America in 2014. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary epic.- $ 360.00
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None of the Above
Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them as a Black, mixed race, non-binary person. Some are deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or offensive, some celebratory; sentences that have impacted them for better and for worse; sentences that speak to the broader...- $ 360.00
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Doppelganger
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d...- $ 500.00
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Salt On Your Tongue
In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell...- $ 450.00
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The Trip to Echo Spring
Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men:...- $ 500.00
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To the Island of Tides
In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of - the fated island of Lindisfarne. Known by the Romans as Insula Medicata and famous for its monastery, it even survived Viking raids. Today the isle maintains its...- $ 500.00
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My First Summer in the Sierra
A celebration of Sierra from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane.In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California’s Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His...- $ 550.00
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Lost Woods
Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together previously unpublished work, essays, field journals, speeches, articles and letters to create a biography of Carson's thought: a deeply personal picture of her evolution...- $ 360.00
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Outpost
There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans, and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of...- $ 500.00
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Thin Places
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year Kerri's family were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb...- $ 600.00
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Belonging
Blending memoir, art, and nature writing, Belonging is Amanda Thomson’s deeply personal meditation on home, identity, and the landscapes that shape us. Rooted in the pinewoods of Abernethy and the northern reaches of Scotland, the book weaves reflections on family and language with a...- $ 420.00
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The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of...- $ 300.00
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our timeShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been...- $ 400.00
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Don't Believe Everything You Think
Expanded Edition: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering. This book reveals the root cause of psychological and emotional suffering—and how to liberate yourself from it. You’ll learn how to access a deeper sense of peace and clarity, empowering you to...- $ 440.00
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The Woman in Me
With over two million copies sold, The Woman in Me is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), and “radiant” (The New York Times). In June 2021, the world stopped to listen as Britney Spears spoke...- $ 600.00
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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
ctor and dancer Alyson Stoner offers a raw and unflinching memoir—spanning family violence, betrayal, eating disorders, and religious trauma. Though their story begins in Hollywood, its haunting relatability speaks to anyone navigating identity, privacy, and mental health in a digital age. Raised on sets...- $ 560.00
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The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. Unable to speak aloud, Naoki used an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct his thoughts, letter by letter. The result is a book that answers the questions so many have wanted to ask but never knew...- $ 400.00
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Look Me in the Eye
My Life with Asperger's. From an early age, John Robison struggled to connect with the world around him. As a teenager, his unusual behaviors earned him a reputation as a social misfit. It wasn’t until he was forty that Robison received a life-changing diagnosis:...- $ 280.00
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NeuroTribes
The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. What is autism—a lifelong disability, or a natural form of cognitive variation, even a kind of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and how we choose to understand autism will shape...- $ 370.00
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Unmasking Autism
Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. For every openly Autistic person, there are countless others who mask—suppressing their natural behaviors and adopting a neurotypical facade just to survive in a world that doesn't accommodate them. In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price draws from personal...- $ 500.00
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ADHD 2.0
New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction- from Childhood through Adulthood. Today, ADHD is widely recognized—but what’s often overlooked is its potential. Many high-achieving entrepreneurs, artists, and innovators credit ADHD as a source of their creativity, drive, and resilience. In ADHD 2.0, Hallowell...- $ 380.00
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The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron’s groundbreaking approach helps readers identify the blocks and inner barriers stifling their creativity, offering practical tools to unlock inspiration, purpose, and flow. At the heart of Cameron’s method are two core practices: The Morning Pages, a daily ritual of three pages of...- $ 450.00
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Too Much of Life
The Complete Crônicas In the rich banquet of Clarice Lispector’s work, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delectable canapés. “I’ve learned enough from taxi drivers to fill a book. They really get around. Maybe I know more about Antonioni, or maybe they know more...- $ 560.00
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Educated
Tara Westover grew up in the remote mountains of Idaho, the daughter of survivalists who shunned mainstream society. She was 17 the first time she entered a classroom. With no formal education and no one to protect her from a violent older brother, her...- $ 300.00
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Thinking in Pictures
My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition). First published in 1995, this groundbreaking book presents an unprecedented perspective: Temple Grandin writes as both a scientist and a person with autism, offering an insider’s view of a world rarely understood from within. In her vivid and...- $ 380.00
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
My Father Bleeds History. A searing and unforgettable work, Maus is often regarded as the greatest graphic novel ever created. Through stark, haunting imagery—depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats—Art Spiegelman recounts his father's harrowing experiences during the Holocaust. Blending memoir and history,...- $ 350.00
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The Year of Reading Dangerously
How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life. An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty two books—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our...- $ 500.00
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Lee Krasner
Long overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now recognized as a major figure in 20th-century art—a bold innovator whose work helped shape modernism. In Lee Krasner, acclaimed biographer Gail Levin offers a richly detailed and engrossing account of an artist...- $ 400.00
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
The definitive biography of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. In this deeply researched and compelling portrait, Arthur Lubow traces Arbus’s remarkable evolution—from a privileged but restless young woman to a groundbreaking artist whose intimate, unsettling photographs changed the course...- $ 400.00
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Walk Through Walls
In 2010, more than 750,000 people queued at Marina Abramović’s landmark MoMA retrospective, waiting for the chance to sit silently across from her in The Artist Is Present—an unprecedented durational performance that unfolded over 700 hours. This historic event, celebrating nearly five decades of...- $ 350.00
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Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
Spanning nearly the entire twentieth century—from women’s suffrage and the Great Depression to McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, and second-wave feminism—Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty tells the story of a woman who painted through every cultural shift and refused to conform...- $ 700.00
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Louise Bourgeois: An Intimate Portrait
Artist Biographies, Women in Art. Photographer Jean-François Jaussaud first met Louise Bourgeois in 1994 at her Brooklyn studio. Gaining her trust, however, was no simple matter—only after a probing interview into every detail of his life did she agree to a photo session. Their...- $ 850.00
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Marina Abramovic
Over the last fifty years, Marina Abramović has become one of the most acclaimed and influential figures in contemporary art, widely recognized as a pioneer of performance art. In fall 2023, the Royal Academy in London presents a landmark retrospective spanning her entire career—an...- $ 950.00
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Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places
Never before published, this deeply personal and self-curated collection of travel notes and sketches offers an intimate window into the mind of Marina Abramović, one of the most influential performance artists of our time. More than a simple record, it forms a visual and...- $ 900.00
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
In her acclaimed first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast turns her sharp wit and unmistakable style to one of life’s most difficult subjects: aging parents. Told through a blend of four-color cartoons, family photographs, documents, and a candid, often laugh-out-loud narrative, Chast’s memoir...- $ 350.00
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When I Grow Up
The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers. Based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies written by Eastern European Jewish teenagers on the eve of World War II—unearthed in 2017 from a church cellar in Lithuania—When I Grow Up brings to life...- $ 520.00
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
A Tyranny of Truth. Hannah Arendt—one of the twentieth century’s most profound political thinkers—remains a figure both celebrated and misunderstood. Best known for her seminal 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt offered a fierce defense of openness, freedom, and critical thought in political...- $ 520.00
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Einstein in Kafkaland
How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe. From 1911 to 1912, the city of Prague played host to two of the 20th century’s most enigmatic minds: Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka. Though they moved in different circles, the...- $ 550.00
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