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Society & Social Sciences
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The Conspiracy Tourist : Travels Through a Strange World€26.99Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world, some famous, some rather less so. Conspiracy theories used to be fun, a bit of laugh.
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The Persuaders : Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age€12.99The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over.
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Irresistible : How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World€17.99Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up.
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The Big Fail : How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most€20.99From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.
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Technofeudalism : What Killed Capitalism€26.99In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun.
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The Identity Trap : A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time€29.99The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities.
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The Naked Neanderthal€23.99What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural traditions.
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Doppelganger : A Trip Into the Mirror World€20.99When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't.
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Mindfulness At Play : Parenting healthy, happy children with old wisdom and new science€17.99It introduces mindfulness and play-based training exercises and activities, as well as evidence-based mindfulness knowledge.
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Sacred Nature : How we can recover our bond with the natural world€12.99In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe - we must rekindle our spiritual bond with the natural world.