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Who Cares Wins

Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human consumption has caused the extinction of countless species and neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a polarization of mainstream politics. The climate crisis demands action. Your planet needs you! Can we shop our way out of a crisis? Will technology save the day? What does it mean to be a citizen and not a

Rationality

Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot explain how we're so smart: how we discovered the laws of nature, transformed the planet, and

The Man Who Died Twice

THE SECOND GRIPPING NOVEL IN THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN PRE-ORDER NOW Title and cover to be revealed soon!

How Civil Wars Start

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. This is a new phenomenon.With the exception of a handful of cases - the American and English civil wars, the French Revolution -

Baby Touch: Vehicles: a black-and-white book

Youll Be the Death of Me

Peppa Pig: Where’s Peppa

Join the hunt to find Peppa in this new hide-and-seek lift-the-flap story!Peppa is playing hide-and-seek at Granny and Grandpa Pig's house. Where is she hiding? In Mummy Pig's old bedroom . .. or outside in the shed? Read the story and lift the flaps to find out!Peppa fans will love searching for Peppa by lifting the chunky flaps on every page. Who else will they discover along the way?

The Hawthorne Legacy

Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Inheritance Games perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson. The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions - including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to

The Kissing Booth 3: One Last Time

The Hoodie Girl

A gorgeous story of first love by Wattpad mega-star Yuen Wright. If you love The Kissing Booth and Holly Bourne, then you will love The Hoodie Girl!Wren hides behind her hoodie at school. But when the handsome, popular Asher notices her, she realizes she might not want to be invisible after all...Wren Martin plans to keep a low profile to finish her time at Eastview High School. But when she gets

Shutdown

From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us nowWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock

The Upper World

''I couldn''t put this book down'' - Academy Award winner Daniel KaluuyaSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR FUTUREWOULD YOU TAKE IT? Esso is running out of time and into trouble. After he is accidentally caught up in a gang war, he is haunted by a vision of a bullet fired in an alleyway with devastating consequences. A generation later, fifteen-year-old football prodigy

Oh William!

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her

An Idea Can Go Extinct

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans,

A Warning from the Golden Toad

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery's A Warning from the Golden Toad tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged.As life on Earth

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses at climate rallies around the world audiences at the UN, the World Economic Forum, and the British Parliament. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged.As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered

The Clan of One-Breasted Women

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. With honesty, passion and heart, Terry Tempest Williams's essays explore the impact of nuclear testing, the vital importance of environmental legislation, and the guiding spirit of conservation. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged.As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary

The Most Dammed Country in the World

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged.As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around

This Cant Be Happening

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In the galvanising speeches and essays brought together in This Can't Be Happening, George Monbiot calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged.As life on Earth

The Lyrics

A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past,