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Quit
£14.99Quit
Learn when to grit, and when to quit. We are often told that the secret to success is hard work, determination, and hours of practice. But in a fast-changing world, what if the really crucial skill is knowing when to stick at something and when to change track and walk away? Quit makes the under-appreciated case for quitting and also shows you how to get really good at it. Drawing on stories from elite athletes to Everest climbers, comedians to musicians, Annie Duke (who left a successful poker career) explains why learning to quit well is often crucial to success. She provides clear strategies for working out when to cut your losses from a business product that isn’t working, a relationship turned toxic, or a career that won’t take you where you want to go.
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How to Be a Girl
£10.99How to Be a Girl
‘Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl.’ When Marlo Mack’s three year old says these words, she’s not surprised – but she’s completely unprepared. Marlo gave birth to a beautiful baby boy – M – and brushed his pleas for pink clothes and dresses aside as a young child’s playful experimentation with gender. But when her son begs to be put back in her tummy because he came out wrong, she knows she must listen more closely. ‘How to Be a Girl’ is a raw and unflinching memoir of a mother grappling with her child’s transition. Always wanting to support M, Marlo – whose podcast of the same name has over 1.3 million downloads – finds her liberal values surprisingly challenged, and as she learns more about gender and its varied expressions, she questions what being a girl – or a boy, or something else entirely – really means.
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The Weaponisation of Everything
£10.99The Weaponisation of Everything
An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged-and how to adapt to this new reality
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Who Are We Now?
£10.99Who Are We Now?
A riveting narrative account of an England poised on the brink of enormous change from one of our finest journalists and writers.
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Black Ghost of Empire
£10.99Black Ghost of Empire
To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts our society today, we must look at the unfinished way it ended. We celebrate the abolition of slavery – in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra reveals how during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were in fact dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths the uncomfortable truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slave owners, not the enslaved, in vast sums that were only paid off in 2015. In Jamaica, Black people were freed only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself.
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Secrets of the Sprakkar
£12.99Secrets of the Sprakkar
Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman – but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women’s experience there so positive? Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland, examines her adopted homeland’s attitude toward women – the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement.
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Fans
£20.00Fans
From the acclaimed science writer and author of Wayfinding, a journey into the world of superfans and an exploration of the psychology of fandom.
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On our best behaviour
£16.99On our best behaviour
Elise Loehnen looks at the ways in which women have been penned by the fake morality of the sins, and how we find ourselves complicit in denying ourselves a full existence for fear of crossing some sort of line – of wanting too much, being too much, falsely equating ‘self-control’ with goodness. In this process of self-betrayal, she finds, we have also betrayed each other. A bold and daring denouncement of that which has been used to condemn ‘badly behaving’ women, ‘On Our Best Behaviour’ asks: what does it mean to be ‘good’, particularly as a woman, in today’s world? And if a sin is something that holds us separate from wholeness or experiencing our own full humanity, what should these sins look like today?
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Is this OK?
£16.99Is this OK?
An extraordinarily honest, outrageously funny account of growing up as a millennial woman in the era of the early internet – from bad MSN boyfriends, to the tyranny of Instagram mumfluencers.
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Abolish the monarchy
£16.99Abolish the monarchy
It’s wrong in principle and it doesn’t work in practice. (And no, it’s not good for tourism.) But it doesn’t have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud to have the mother of parliaments, a shining beacon of democracy and an example to other nations. But there’s an elephant in the room. At the heart of power is a single family. They weren’t elected but they live off the public purse. They aren’t accountable to anyone, and yet between them they are privy to more government secrets than many cabinet ministers. Apparently he is guardian of our constitution – but we’re also told he wouldn’t dream of interfering in politics. If you accept the monarchy, you must accept the moral compromise that comes with it, from its erosion of the principle of equality to the secret interference in our laws. But the good news is that we don’t have to accept it. True democracy is within our reach.
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Brown Girl Like Me
£9.99Brown Girl Like Me
An essential, empowering and groundbreaking toolkit and call-to-arms, giving Asian women the tools and support they need to step into the multiplicity of their cultural, religious and political experiences.
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Gentle guidance
£14.99Gentle guidance
Parents, teachers, carers – whatever our role in a child’s life, we all want them to thrive. There are many moments of joy in our relationships with our children: but what about those times we’re faced with defiance, disruption and seemingly endless cycles of negativity? Miserable for the child and exhausting for those around them – and almost all completely avoidable. From everyday frustrations to more extreme manifestations, these behaviours may present differently but they are all rooted in one common thread: a need for emotional safety. When a child feels secure and truly heard, their behaviour is transformed. Marie Gentles draws on her decades of expertise supporting children across the behavioural spectrum, along with their parents and teachers, to show us how to establish positive relationships that bring out the best in our children.
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