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A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar\'s criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the covert sixteen-month manhunt that was led by US Special Forces and intelligence services. With unprecedented access to important players - including Colombian president Cisar Gaviria and the incorruptible head of the special police unit that pursued Escobar, Colonel Hugo Martinez - as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar\'s intercepted phone conversations, Bowden has produced a gripping narrative that is a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world. Σελίδες: 400, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Behind the scenes of the private world at the heart of royalty, as revealed by a distinguished royal commentator. This is the real story of what goes on inside the royal palaces, as witnessed by members of the royal staff and household past and present. Buckingham Palace is effectively an independent kingdom with its own rules and customs, now explained by Brian Hoey. Hundreds of anecdotes reveal the conditions in which the staff live and work and also their relationship with the Royals they serve. How does one get a job as personal footman to the Queen? Why does Prince Charles still have to send a note to her Page of the Backstairs requesting a meeting with his mother? How much do members of the household earn? Why does the Queen hate men in three-piece suits? Why are the Queen’s bedsheets six inches longer than Prince Philip’s? Why do her maids have to vacuum walking backwards? Why doesn’t the Queen allow square ice-cubes to be put in her drinks? Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 11.1x11.1cm

‘Funny, emotional and deeply inspiring, this is perfect for anyone wanting to break out of their comfort zone’ HeatWhat would happen if a shy introvert lived as an out-and-out extrovert for one year? Jessica Pan is about to find out… *When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in the familiar Jess-shaped crease on her sofa, she couldn\'t help but wonder what life might have looked like if she had been a little more open to new experiences and new people, a little less attached to going home instead of going to the pub.So, she made a vow: to push herself to live the life of an extrovert for a year. She wrote a list: improv, a solo holiday and... talking to strangers on the tube. She regretted it instantly. Sorry I\'m Late, I Didn\'t Want to Come follows Jess\'s hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting, reporting back from the frontlines for all the introverts out there. But is life actually better or easier for the extroverts? Or is it the nightmare Jess always thought it would be?*‘In a world of self-care and nights in, this book will inspire and remind you to do some things that scare you every so often.’ Emma Gannon ‘Tender, courageous and extremely funny, this book will make us all braver.’ Daisy Buchanan‘A chronicle of Pan’s hilarious and painful year of being an extrovert.’ Stylist Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A Radio 4 Book of the Week WINNER OF THE CAROL R. EMBER BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC ANTHROPOLGY SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE From fire walking to funerals, the hidden science of the rituals that give life meaning Ritual is perhaps the oldest, and certainly the most enigmatic, thread in human culture. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society: from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remained a mystery until now. Today, a fearless new generation of anthropologists is venturing into this shadowy realm. Armed with cutting-edge technology and drawing on discoveries from a huge range of disciplines, they emerge with a powerful new perspective on our place in the world. Join the pathfinding scientist Dimitris Xygalatas on a tour of human culture at its strangest. In coronations, in silent prayer, in fire-walks and in all the bewildering variety of humanity\'s ritual life, Xygalatas reveals the deep and subtle mechanisms that bind us together. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0118, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

\'Part Ozymandias, part Succession\' - Financial Times\'A tour de force\' - GuardianA Financial Times Book of the Year 2023The inside story of the rise and fall of the Barclay brothers, secretive business titans and one-time owners of the Ritz and the Daily TelegraphBorn poor, the Barclay brothers were enigmatic twins who built one of the biggest fortunes in Britain together from scratch and spent six decades at the epicentre of business, media and politics. Their empire, said to be worth £7bn at its height, included Littlewoods, the Ritz Hotel, the Daily Telegraph and the channel island of Brecqhou. They were major advocates for Brexit and well-connected with influential politicians including Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.And yet despite their fortune and influence, their fiercely guarded desire for privacy has meant that their story has remained largely unknown - until a very public family dispute pitched Barclay against Barclay in the High Court.In You May Never See Us Again, journalist Jane Martinson unravels the fascinating story of these once inseparable billionaire brothers. Through their lives she offers compelling insights into post-war Britain, from the conditions that enabled their way of doing business to thrive, through to the tightly enmeshed webs of influence between capitalism, politics and the media that shape Britain today. Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0114, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'Boisterous and uncompromising ... An important argument\' The Times Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved, prejudice rapidly dying out. Mission accomplished, right? Wrong, argues Gareth Roberts. Homophobia is making a major comeback under the guise of the ideology of ‘gender identity’. The enforcers of this new creed insist that attraction to people of the same sex is ‘hateful’. They argue that effeminate men and butch women can’t just be gay, but must ‘really’ be trans. Worse, this ideology has colonised the gay rights movement, capturing institutions like Stonewall and the gay press completely. Anyone who disagrees risks professional suicide. So what happened to the funny, grown-up culture, truth-telling and knowing irony of many gay men? How and why was the older gay rights activism, which gifted such progress to homosexual people, hijacked? In this passionate, witty polemic, Gareth Roberts answers these questions and argues that we need a new gay liberation movement. Σελίδες: 224, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023 \'Passionate, clever, and often very funny\' Marina Hyde\'A wonderful meditation on populism, nationalism, politics and truth\' Rory StewartWe live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, inflation, strikes. Prime Ministers come and go but politics stays divided and toxic. It is tempting to switch off the news, tune out and hope things will get back to normal. Except, this is the new normal, and our democracy can only work if enough people stay engaged without getting enraged. But how?To answer that question, award-winning journalist Rafael Behr takes the reader on a personal journey from despair at the state of politics to hope that there is a better way of doing things, with insights drawn from three decades as a political commentator and foreign correspondent. Σελίδες: 416, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND BRIE LARSON. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America’s broken justice system, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men this figure rises to one in 3. And Death Row is disproportionately black, too. Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die for the murder of a white woman — a crime he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality, and legal brinkmanship — and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer’s coming of age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, Just Mercy is an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'This is a book for our time\' The House Magazine \'A must-read for anyone trying to understand race, racism and social mobility in Britain today\' Munira Mirza, CEO Civic Future \'As a black Briton with Caribbean heritage, this book spoke to my heart\' Katharine Birbalsingh How did the Windrush generation become so prosperous? Why are Nigerians achieving so highly in the education system? Why does Hollywood rush to cast Black British actors? And why are so many Jamaicans winning Olympic gold? And what lessons are there from these success stories for young black people in low-income communities? In this truthful and often surprising book, Tony Sewell weaves together memoir and argument to explore the drivers of black success. He traces black people’s hard-won achievements back to their source: family, religion, education, hard work, discipline and the property market. He argues in favour of rejecting victimhood and low expectations and embracing high ambitions, drawing on a range of interviews and stories to offer a more exciting, sometimes visionary new view of black life in Britain today. Black Success is essential reading not only for black Britons who are fed up with a narrative that denies them agency and responsibility, but also for anyone who wants a balanced perspective on race relations in Britain today. Five Star Reader Reviews ‘Inspiring, uplifting and excellently written’ ‘The recipe for success … A call to the Black British community to focus on where we want to go’ ‘Essential reading … It gets five well-earned stars from me. Σελίδες: 288, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Emerson Whitney writes, \"Really, I can\'t explain myself without making a mess.\" What follows is that mess-electrifying, gorgeous, defiant. At Heaven\'s center, Whitney seeks to understand his relationship to his mother and grandmother, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant, psychedelic prose-all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and C. Riley Snorton-to engage transness and the breathing, morphing nature of selfhood. An expansive examination of what makes us up, Heaven wonders what role our childhood plays in who we are. Can we escape the discussion of causality? Is the story of our body just ours? With extraordinary emotional force, Whitney sways between theory and memory in order to explore these brazen questions and write this unforgettable book. Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'A phenomenal insight... a fascinating read. I couldn\'t put it down\' Jackie Malton, author of The Real Prime Suspect\'A fascinating insight into the world of missing persons... a must-read\' David Berridge, author of Inside ParkhurstEvery 90 seconds in the UK, a missing person is reported to the police.A pioneer in the field with experience spanning four decades, Charlie Hedges\' job is to work out the best way to find them. What\'s going on in their life? When were they last seen?Have they chosen to go missing or is someone else involved?With no two cases ever the same, Charlie has been involved in some of the most high-profile reports during his career with the police and as a consultant in missing cases. From the evil of abductions and trafficking to the tragic accidents of the vulnerable, Charlie has dedicated his life to developing the ways we help not just the missing, but the families and loved ones left behind.Unique and fascinating, Missing tells Charlie\'s untold story of finding those who desperately need to be found and the cases that will never leave him. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0730, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

\'Illuminating.\' New Statesman\'Ditum\'s prose is never overwrought, and she treats pop culture with a rare seriousness. She is right to do so. The women who came of age in the noughties are entering middle age, with all the agency that brings... Ditum\'s reframing of an era, suggests that the uproar over (Russell) Brand may have been just the beginning of a reckoning.\' Financial Times\'Ditum gets the tone right: critically engaged, well-researched, colourful without seeming exploitative... a serious book of reportage.... For readers interested in real celebrity journalism.\' Irish Times\'Furious and funny.\' Guardian - BOOKS OF THE YEAR\'(A) pageturning exploration of a time when new technology and old misogyny collided and the concept of privacy collapsed.\' Daily MirrorBritney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna, Jen. Nine iconic women whose fame in the early internet years of the century came at a price. In Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties, journalist Sarah Ditum describes how each of the women changed \'celebrity\' forever, despite often falling victim to it, during what we now view as one of the most hostile eras in which to be female.Through Paris\' ambivalent relationship with her blogger namesake Perez Hilton; to Britney\'s paternalistic governors; Jen\'s attempts to control her career and image; and Janet\'s betrayal at the Superbowl, these celebrities of The Noughties were presented with the riches of early social media and market opportunity, as long as they abided by the new rules of engagement. Some of these high-profile women were hypersexualised and \'upskirted\' by the press; some were shamed by their advertising sponsors; others were contracted by shady management companies and industry figures such as Harvey Weinstein and R Kelly. Together they illuminate the culture of the early twenty-first century. Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties is a wild ride through the millennial years. Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1015, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

With an introduction from RuPaul\'s Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society, determined to live authentically, despite the attentions of the police. These girls were unstoppable, fearless and fabulous, but their very existence was deemed a criminal threat to society.When a secret cache of their letters was discovered in 2014, these individuals were given a voice for the first time. The letters reveal personal triumphs and tragedies, and a fascinating world that has rarely been documented.Expertly weaving social, political and cultural history, Craig Olsen illuminates the lives and loves of our exceptional LGBTQ+ forebears.P.S. Burn This Letter Please is the ground-breaking result: a deeply moving encounter with a generation of survivors, and a necessary account of how modern drag culture was born. Σελίδες: 224, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0723, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

A DOROTHY KOOMSON BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR\'Such a beautiful read, like chatting to a friend over a cuppa. This is the intimate, insightful read that I didn\'t know I needed. Just brilliant.\' Dorothy KoomsonNana Darkoa Sekyiamah spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. In this book, she brings together their extraordinary stories, whilst also chronicling her own journey towards sexual freedom.From finding queer community in Egypt to living a polyamorous life in Senegal to understanding the intersectionality of religion and pleasure in Cameroon, their necessary narratives are individual and illuminating. This stunning collection provides crucial insight into our quest for sexual power and offers all women inspirational examples to live a truly liberated life.\'Touching, joyful, defiant – and honest.\' Economist, Books of the Year 2021\'Fascinating.\' Bernadine Evaristo\'Honest and moving. A vital treasure.\' Bolu Babalola, author of Love in Colour\'Stunning. Essential read! I couldn\'t put it down.\' Nicole Dennis-Benn, bestselling author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun\'Leaves you feeling deliciously empowered.\' Lola Shoneyin, author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi\'s Wives\'Boundary-breaking, fascinating and deeply affirming.\' Otegha Uwagba, author of Little Black Book Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0426, Διαστάσεις: 12.4x12.4cm

Alice could be anyone - she could be someone you know, or someone you love - and Alice is in trouble ...Being fifteen is hard, but Alice seems fine. She babysits the neighbour\'s kids. She is doing well at school. Someday she\'d even like to get married and raise a family of her own. Then she is invited to a party, a special party where the drinks are spiked with LSD and Alice is never the same again. This tragic and extraordinary true-life story shows the devastating effect that drug-abuse can have. But the big difference between Alice and a lot of other kids on drugs is that Alice kept a diary . . . Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'This is a moving memoir about how recipes are formed by migration, love and loss, even within a single family\' - Bee Wilson, author of The Secret of Cooking \'A fascinating book. ‘’Food of the road’: through memory, history, recipes — and love — a family, and an era’s, complex story is movingly traced\' - Judith Flanders, author of Rites of Passage A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration. As a child, Or Rosenboim’s knowledge of her family history was based on the food her grandmothers cooked for her – round kneidlach balls in hot chicken broth, cinnamon-scented noodle kugel, deep-pink stuffed quinces and herby green rice with a squeeze of lemon juice. It was only after reading their recipe books once they had both died that she began to understand their complicated past.Taking us from Samarkand and Riga to the Middle East, Air and Love is a deeply human retelling of some of the major moments of the twentieth century, and a family story of migration and belonging, suffused with recipes of the food made along the way. Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

The International Bestselling MemoirWill You Care If I Die? is an unforgettable memoir about social class, race, friendship and unexpected love, and a blazingly topical exploration of social polarization and the rise of the far right.\'A raw, intimate story of trust and betrayal\' – A. L. Kennedy, The Guardian\'It\'s heartbreaking. It\'s scary. It\'s beautiful\' – Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called OveIn Sweden, where children murder children and where gun violence is the worst in Europe, Nicolas Lunabba\'s job as a social organizer with Malmö\'s underclass requires firm boundaries and emotional detachment. But all that changes when he meets Elijah – an unruly teenage boy of mixed heritage whose perilous future reminds Nicolas of his own troubled and violent past.Allowing Elijah into his home and then into his heart, Nicolas crosses one of his own red lines. With the odds stacked against them, and completely unprepared for the journey he and Elijah now set off on together, can Nicolas keep Elijah safe from harm and steer him towards a better future?Written as a letter to Elijah, Will You Care If I Die? tells Nicolas and Elijah’s story – and asks us to reimagine what it means to care for one another in an uncaring world.Translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch Σελίδες: 336, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved beyond them. What kind of new, fresh thinking does this new era demand? Eagleton concludes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously again - not so that it can hand the West its legitimation, but so that it can seek to make sense of the grand narratives in which it is now embroiled. Σελίδες: 240, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever.Before long, Martha is on the way to leading the normal life she has so long dreamt of. She makes friends, begins to put the misery of her past behind her and even experiences her first taste of love.For her, love is a powerful feeling. She has never experienced real affection before and is now plunged into the complex world of love between a man and a woman. The intense emotion consumes her, for this is a forbidden love that can never be requited. After all, Ralph Fitzgerald is a priest, and he will never break his vow of chastity. This love brings heartbreaking consequences and changes the direction of Martha\'s life for ever . . . Σελίδες: 448, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Discover how to connect with fairies, accept their guidance to your inner self and restore your unity with the natural world. Fairies are benign spirits who can speak to you, if you can reawaken your childhood self and recapture the sense of awe and wonder that we lose as adults. Only then can you approach the fairy realm and become the friend of fairy folk. This is a complete guide to finding and meeting fairies, explaining the most favourable days and times for meeting the fairies, the tests you will experience, the most likely places to search and the best way to win the goodwill of these elemental beings. Once our feelings are attuned, we can again learn the fairy lore of magic and herbal medicine and use these skills to restore the world. With a wealth of colour illustrations of Victorian fairy paintings, this book will show you the way back to fairyland. Σελίδες: 64, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1201, Διαστάσεις: 12.2x12.2cm

Fast-paced and eye-opening, Undercover Copper is an exciting account of life as a covert investigator by Danni Brooke.For over a decade, Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in the Met’s elite unit. Whether she was infiltrating organized crime gangs or disrupting drug supply lines, Danni played the innocent Essex girl, fooling even the most suspicious villains, using her quick wits to keep her out of trouble.Danni was so successful at taking down criminals that she was seconded to forces around the country. She loved the job, but the pressures of her work – and trying to balance the long hours with being a mother – were to take a toll on her personal life.In her honest, warm and gripping memoir, Danni tells the story of her time undercover – and reveals why she left the police, how she found a new career (and love) on Channel 4’s Hunted, and why the thrill of covert work has seen her turn her talents to tracking down cyber criminals.What readers are saying about Danni Brooke\'s unputdownable life story:\'Absolutely brilliant read. I just love real life stories of police and being written by a female this was great!\'\'I\'ve enjoyed a lot of UK undercover/ MI5 audiobooks – and this one is right up there\'\'There are only a few good books out there on the subject of undercover policing and this is one of them\'\'Loved every minute of this book. Fascinating and gripping stories from her time as an undercover cop in a male dominated environment\'\'There are some laugh out loud bits, shocking bits, sad parts and things to think . . . What a thrilling, full life Danni has led and still so young\'Previously published as The Girl for the Job Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0910, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICS\'No memoir like it\' Independent\'Travis Alabanza writes with such generosity and ease even the most provocative suggestions start to seem obvious . . . Profound and funny\' SHON FAYE\'Will challenge, empower and move your soul\' Glamour\'Lucid and glorious\' YRSA DALEY-WARDIn 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 issues raised by a world that insists that gender must be a binary.Through these seven phrases, Travis Alabanza turns a mirror back on society, giving us reason to question the very framework in which we live and the ways we treat each other. Σελίδες: 224, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

WINNER OF THE BIOGRAPHERS\' CLUB SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE\'Full of love, wisdom and yearning\' Kit de WaalA coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks.The adult world is seen through Osman\'s eyes as a child: his own devout migrant Muslim patriarchal community, with its divide between the world of men and women, living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities. Alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the Birmingham of Osman\'s childhood to the banks of the river Kabul and the river Indus, and, eventually, to the London of his teenage years.Osman weaves in and out of these worlds, struggling with the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, as he is forced to realise it is no longer possible to exist in the spaces in between. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man\'s world. Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women aren\'t around. As Ned, she joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed to infiltrate a monastery and a men\'s therapy group. At once thought-provoking and pure fun to read, Self-Made Man is a sympathetic and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism. Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty\' NEW STATESMAN \'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal\' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN \'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules\' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago\'s history, from the 1970s to today.\'Sexuality is power\' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine\'s triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields.But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Angela Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered. Σελίδες: 192, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0613, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

What does it mean to be trans? Non-Binary? Gender Expansive?What parts of gender come from society? What parts come from within?How much is biology, and how much is socialization?Part of the Really Strange series, this science-based graphic medicine comic addresses these questions and more, revealing the inherent messiness of gender identity and sex. A mysterious amalgam of biology and society, inherently sensed, yet societally-defined, the complexity of gender is revealed through examining neuroscience, biology, hormones, mental health, behaviour and how much of gender comes from society.Exploring theories, thinkers, terminology, history and gender cultures around the world and across different religions, this easy-to-understand and engaging book will help you to question perceived norms and engage critically with your own gender identity. Get ready to break down the binary B.S. and celebrate gender in all its messy glory! Σελίδες: 40, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1019, Διαστάσεις: 16.8x16.8cm

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time._______________\'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand her impulses. It left me much changed\' - Lena Dunham\'I read these pages, breathless with recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling it like it is\' - Dani Shapiro\'Emily Ratajkowski\'s first essay collection needs to be read by everyone [...] both page-turning and moving as hell\' - Amy Schumer\'A slow, complicated indictment of a profession and the people who propel it [...] it will deliver a more nuanced and introspective rendering of her interior than those who come to it with those surface interests might expect\' - Vogue\'Dazzling\' - Observer\'Ratajkowski brings nuanced insight to questions about empowerment versus commodification of women\'s bodies and sexuality. Blending cultural criticism and personal stories, My Body is smart and powerful\' - Time Magazine\'Raw, nuanced and beautifully written. A moving and enlightening experience to join a woman openly exploring such deep parts of her physical self via the written word. A truly impressive debut\' - Emma Gannon\'Excellent [...] Ratajkowski writes with curiosity, intellect and acute awareness\' - Harper\'s Bazaar\'Superb [...] it feels revolutionary\' - Telegraph\'I admire and envy her artistry\' - Guardian_______________Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture\'s commodification of women is the subject of this book.My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men\'s treatment of women and women\'s rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski\'s life while investigating the culture\'s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women\'s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the grey area between consent and abuse.Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage and intelligence. Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0913, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

A Financial Times Business BOOK OF THE YEARAN INSIDE LOOK AT THE HORIZON POST OFFICE SCANDAL\'Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more fun than a book about failure has any right to be.\' - Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit An accidental overdose in a state-of-the-art hospital.The Starbucks publicity stunt that spectacularly backfired.The mix-up at the 2017 Oscars ceremony.As technology rapidly advances, it brings with it an explosion of complexity that can trip us up. Meltdown uses real-life examples to reveal how errors in thinking, perception, and design lie behind both our everyday mistakes and our most terrifying disasters. It reveals how a five-minute exercise can prevent billion-dollar catastrophes, why teams with fewer experts are better at managing risk, and why diversity is one of our best safeguards against failure. This eye-opening book will change the way you see our complex world - and your place within it.\'Essential reading\' Martin Ford, bestselling author of Rise of the Robots Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

The scalpel goes down. The gown is discarded. The chatter stops. Heads turn expectantly. \'Well, Doc, what happened? Have we got a murder on our hands?\'For more than 30 years, bodies have been Dr Marie Cassidy\'s business. The lucky ones have died peacefully in their own beds, surrounded by loved ones. But that\'s not always the case.In her international bestseller, Marie invites us into the world of forensic pathology and her remarkable personal journey, from working-class Glasgow to being Ireland\'s head pathologist for nearly 15 years.Involved in the most high-profile cases in the country, Marie shares the intricate processes central to solving modern crime, inviting you to go beyond the tape.Follow her onto the scene of the crime and walk in her footprints - but don\'t touch anything. Remember, every contact leaves a trace . . . Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0109, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Adam the Thames Torso, the London bombings, the Night Stalker and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko... The solving of all these cases can be linked to one man: Ray Fysh, a Charlton Athletic fan from Woolwich, a natural raconteur and also one of the finest forensic detectives the country has ever seen.Ray began work for the Met Police in the 1970s when forensic investigation was seen as little more than a geeky side show, only in existence to confirm or eliminate evidence. But by the mid 90s Ray and his team had made huge progress in their field, contributing to the UK becoming a world-leading innovator in forensic techniques, with Ray himself being named as Special Adviser to the Forensic Science Service. As the SA, Ray worked alongside Senior Investigating Officers from day one of a case, directing his team to identify forensic opportunities and harvest case-cracking clues.As Ray looks back over his career at the cases he worked on, the reader is given unparalleled insight into the highs and lows of an astonishing career, the historic classist snobbery of the Met and the stunning realities of crime and forensics Σελίδες: 336, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Winner of the Jhalak PrizeWinner of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing \'A revelation\' Owen Jones\'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe\'s relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical\' Afua Hirsch A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 \'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning.\'Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story. Σελίδες: 416, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself\' Hilary MantelA Guardian reader\'s Best Book of 2018 \"There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims... Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class ... why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?\"Returning to Reims is a breathtaking account of one man\'s return to the town where he grew up after an absence of thirty years. It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of family, memory, identity and time lost. But it is also a sociologist\'s view of what itmeans to grow up working class and then leave that class; of inequality and shifting political allegiances in an increasingly divided nation. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times.\'I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life\' Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy\'A book about self-invention and belonging\' Colm Toibin Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But life remains extremely tough for fourteen-year-old Helen. Along with caring for her younger siblings and suffering terrible hardships she is also battling with her parents to persuade them to allow her to earn her own living. Helen is desperate to lead her own life after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling. Written with an unflinching eye, Helen’s account of her continuing struggles against severe malnutrition and dirt (she has her first bath in four years) and, above all, the selfish demands of her parents, is deeply shocking. But Helen’s fortitude and her ability to find humour in the most harrowing of situations make this make this a story of amazing courage and perseverance. Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly\' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE\'A brilliant book\' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell KabulOne of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living.Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, film-makers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3,000-year-old city. And as NATO troops begin to withdraw from the country, Khan watches the cycle of transformation begin again.**Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2021****Winner of the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction 2020**\'Powerfully evocative\' Kapka Kassabova\'A wonderful journey\' Atiq Rahimi\'Khan illuminates Kabul\'s life-affirming humanity\' TLS Σελίδες: 288, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

In this urgent yet optimistic new work, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai provides a unique perspective on the fate of Africa. Informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy, The Challenge for Africa celebrates the enduring potential of the human spirit, and reminds us that change is always possible. Σελίδες: 336, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'I like listening to people who know things that I don\'t,\' Gareth Southgate told me. \'That\'s how you learn.\' Former Olympian and best-selling author Matthew Syed is one of the advisors Gareth Southgate engaged from outside football in order to find new ways of working as a team. In Rebel Ideas, discover how Southgate \'the man with the plan\' replaced 50 years of hurt with two major tournament semi-finals in three years.\' Matthew Syed\'s phenomenal book will change the way you think about success - for ever. \'Syed is a superb storyteller. I couldn\'t put the book down, and I learned so much. A stunning achievement\' Tim Harford, author of The Undercover EconomistRebel Ideas examines the power of \'cognitive diversity\' - the ability to think differently about the world around us.It explains how to harness our unique perspectives, pool our collective intelligence and tackle the greatest challenges of our age - from climate change to terrorism. It draws on a dazzling range of case studies, including the catastrophic failings of the CIA before 9/11, a fatal communication breakdown on top of Mount Everest and a moving tale of deradicalisation in America\'s Deep South.Rebel Ideas will strengthen any team or organisation, but has dozens of individual applications, too: from the art of reinvention to the remarkable benefits of personalised nutrition. It shows us how to become more creative, how to collaborate in a world becoming more interconnected, and how to break free of echo chambers that surround us all.\'A gripping read, full of intelligence and perspective\' James Dyson\'Will change the way you think about success and even about life\' Judy Murray\'A master of the genre\' The Times Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0624, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm