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  • Mrs Orwell

    by Tony Cox ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    ‘So what you want, in a nutshell, George, is a mistress, housekeeper, nurse, literary executor and mother for Richard?’Based on actual events, Mrs Orwell is the story of the marriage and literary partnership of George Orwell and Sonia Brownell. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Risk

    Edited by Layla Skinns, Michael Scott, Tony Cox ...
    Series Book 24 - Darwin College Lectures
    Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. In this book, prominent and eminent speakers from fields as diverse as statistics to classics, neuroscience to criminology, politics to astronomy, as well as speakers embedded in the media and in government, have put their ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

    by Toby Ord ...
    In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times).**Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late.Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Risk

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on the sciences and humanities to explore and explain the many kinds of risk. Using simple ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Behavioural Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michelle Baddeley ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions that work well for us as individuals. Economists also assume that we're doing the very best we can possibly do - not only for today, but over our whole lifetimes too. But increasingly the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Penelope Fitzgerald

    A Life

    by Hermione Lee ...
    Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Are We All Scientific Experts Now?

    by Harry Collins ...
    Series series New Human Frontiers
    To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science’s pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the safety of the MMR vaccine, have dented our confidence in science.In this provocative new book Harry ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Dirk Bogarde

    The authorised biography

    by John Coldstream ...
    'Biographies only tend to be definitive until the next one comes along, but there's no danger of Coldstream's erudite, moving analysis ever being superseded' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY.As an actor Dirk Bogarde was a Rank contract artist and matinee idol who became a giant of the intellectual cinema, working on films such as Death in Venice, The Servant and Providence. Fiercely protective of his privacy ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Why We Disagree About Climate Change

    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Ingenious Mr. Pyke

    Inventor, Fugitive, Spy

    by Henry Hemming ...
    The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare foreverIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds -- to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Economyths

    How the Science of Complex Systems is Transforming Economic Thought

    by David Orrell ...
    From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, "Economyths" reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction was for an eleven per cent gain. But by the end of the year, the Standard and Poor's 500 index - a key ... Read more

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  • George Orwell: A Life in Letters

    by George Orwell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, his opinions on bayonets, and on the chaining of German prisoners display his magnificent ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD