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Sociology & Anthropology
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Inside Qatar : Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth€13.99
Just 75 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition.
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The World Before Us€13.99
How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules.
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In Love : A Memoir of Love and LossSpecial Price €19.99 Regular Price €21.99
In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand.
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The Authority Gap€13.99
Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it
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The Fairy Tellers€18.99
Filled with adventure, tragedy and real-world magic, this bewitching book uncovers the stranger lives behind the strangest of tales.
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Heaven and Hell : A History of the Afterlife€13.99
Where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from? As strange as it may seem to us now, there was a time when no one thought they would go to heaven or hell after they died. In fact, there is no mention of them in the Old Testament, and Jesus did not believe the souls of the departed were bound for either realm.
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The Last Tree on Easter Island€6.99
Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
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Exercised : The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health€13.99
The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing. In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes.
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The Anthropocene Reviewed€17.99
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity.
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Mortality€10.99
During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax.