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<b>'A truly fascinating must-read' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of <i>Unwell Women</i><br/>Winner of the Popular Science Award from the British Psychological Society<br/>A Book of the Year in the <i>Daily Telegraph </i>and <i>New Scientist</i></b><br/><br/><b>The history of autism is male. It is time for women and girls to enter the spotlight.</b><br/><br/>For decades, our understanding of autism has been based on stereotypes of 'socially awkward' men and boys. But this isn't because autism doesn't affect women; it is because the system built to identify it has completely failed them. This blind spot has left generations of women and girls misunderstood and misdiagnosed.<br/><br/>In <i>The Lost Girls of Autism</i>, leading neuroscientist Gina Rippon challenges this biased view of autism and explores the female autistic experience. She reveals how girls on the spectrum learn to 'hide in plain sight' by camouflaging to fit in. Drawing on decades of research and powerful first-person accounts, Rippon shows how the female autistic brain is 'differently different' and urges us to give these lost girls their rightful place on the spectrum.

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<b>Ringo Starr's eventful and remarkable life laid bare in a first-of-its-kind mosaic biography of one of the greatest musicians of all time.</b><br/><br/> Often overshadowed by his former bandmates, Starr's remarkable story is no less compelling. 'Ringo: A Fab Life' highlights a life so jaw-droppingly eventful that one is left wondering how he also had time to become one of the best musicians on the planet.<br/><br/> Through an episodic, mosaic format critically acclaimed author Tom Doyle takes readers through the ride of a lifetime, from Starr's brushes with death as a child bought up in poverty, through to dizzying heights of fame and success with The Beatles and beyond. By examining pivotal moments, anecdotes and cautionary tales, we see Starr soar as part of the biggest band in the world - and then try and cope with life outside of it: a film career, misadventures with friends, children's TV narrator, furniture designer, marriage to a Bond girl, before eventually finding peace and sobriety as one of the elder statesmen of rock.<br/><br/> So much more than another Beatles related biography, we follow Starr's career far beyond the rose-tinted sixties, through the various addictions and career left turns in the seventies and eighties, before reaching the 1990's, his legacy and reputation intact.<br/><br/> The life of Richard Starkey is long overdue a proper inspection and this book - with exclusive new interviews conducted by Doyle with, amongst others, Starr himself - provides a never-before-seen level of detail that will delight hardcore fans and curious readers alike.<br/><br/><i>Ringo: A Fab Life</i> - hilarious, moving, insightful and constantly surprising - is the definitive account of one of the greatest living musicians and the uncontested best drummer in The Beatles.

<b>The instant <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller<br/>No. 1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<br/><br/>'How else to put this? Bloody hell'<i> The Guardian</i><br/>'Devastating . . . Funny . . . Highly enjoyable' <i>The Times</i><br/>'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' <i>Financial Times</i><br/><br/>'Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it's the one about him' Marina Hyde</b><br/><br/>Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different.<br/><br/>From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, <i>Careless People</i> exposes both the personal and political fallout when boundless power and a rotten culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative, Wynn-Williams rubs shoulders with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and world leaders, revealing what really goes on among the global elite - and the consequences this has for all of us.<br/><br/>Candid and entertaining, this is an intimate memoir set amid powerful forces. As all our lives are upended by technology and those who control it, <i>Careless People</i> will change how you see the world.<br/><br/><b>'A <i>Bridget Jones's Diary</i>-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' <i>The Times</i><br/>'Darkly funny and genuinely shocking: an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world' <i>The New York Times</i></b>

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'Playful and deeply serious ... shows how exploring equality in maths may help the real world' NEW SCIENTIST 'Eugenia Cheng has humour, grace and a natural gift' DANIEL LEVITIN 'Clear, clever and friendly...even at her most whimsical, she is rigorous and insightful' ALEX BELLOS At first glance, the concept of equality in maths seems unambiguous. When we see the equality sign, we think of 'solving for x' or balancing two sides of an equation or maybe even the many famous equations that make use of this elegant, innocuous symbol. But between those parallel lines lies a mathematical playground of choice and abstraction, leading to far greater insight than you could have dreamed. As it turns out, sameness and difference, equality and inequality, are not nearly as straightforward as they seem. Unequal explores the rich and rewarding interplay between sameness and difference, from numbers to manifolds to category theory and beyond in a glorious celebration of mathematics that will change the way you look at maths - and the world around you - forever.

<b>'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' </b><b><i>Financial Times</i></b><br/><br/><b>What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension.<br/></b><br/>Syeda X left the holy city of Banaras (now Varanasi) for Delhi with her young family in the aftermath of riots and communal violence in the early '90s. In Delhi, she settled into the life of a poor migrant, juggling multiple jobs a day - from sewing soccer balls and removing the stems from raisins, to shelling almonds sold in bulk to multinationals and assisting in illegal abortions. Syeda has held over 50 different jobs in 30 years, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took a day off, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant.<br/><br/>We meet an unforgettable cast of characters: a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast; a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination; a Hindu nationalist 'cow vigilante' whose sister elopes with Syeda's son; and policemen who delight in beating up young Muslim men.<br/><br/>Written with empathy and deep insight, <i>The Many Lives of Syeda X </i>is a portal to a harsh, hidden world. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in new India.