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To The City [Bok / Häftad]

<p><strong> 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' </strong>ANN NAPOLITANO</p> <p> <strong>'A master of prose'</strong> <em>WASHINGTON POST</em> </p> <p>'<strong>One of my favourite writers' </strong>ROXANE GAY</p> <p><strong>'Spectacular' </strong>JOANNE SEFTON</p> <p><strong>'I didn't want it to end'</strong> SARA SHERIDAN</p> <p> <strong>A breathtaking historical novel following the incredible construction of the Panama Canal and casting light on the unsung people who lived and laboured in its shadow - by acclaimed author Cristina Henriquez.</strong> </p> <p>It is said that the Canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built.</p> <p>Ada Bunting, a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados, arrives alone in Panama as a stowaway alongside thousands of other West Indians seeking work in the grand building project of the Canal. Francisco, a local fisherman, resents the foreign nations clamouring for a slice of his country, but nothing is more upsetting for him than his son Omar's decision to work as a digger. For Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection and independence. Scientist John Oswald has come from further afield. He has journeyed to Panama in pursuit of one goal: eliminating malaria. But everything hangs in the balance as his wife Marian falls ill herself.</p> <p>When John witnesses an act of bravery and compassion from Ada one day, he hires her on the spot as a caregiver for his wife. This fateful decision sets in motion a sweeping tale of ambition, loyalty, and sacrifice.</p> <p>Breathtaking and impossible to put down, <em>The Great Divide</em> explores the lives of the labourers, fishmongers, journalists, protesters, doctors and soothsayers who lived alongside the construction of the Canal - those rarely acknowledged by history even as they carved out its course.</p> <p><strong>'Henriquez writes gorgeously, creating indelible characters whom you'll never want to leave</strong>' Justin Torres, author of <em>Blackouts</em></p> <p><strong>'A masterful weaving together of different lives... I can't stop thinking about it'</strong> Hester Musson, author of <em>The Beholders</em></p> <p>'<strong>Henriquez writes beautifully ... Stunning</strong>' Haleh Agar, author of <em>Out of Touch</em></p>

<strong>One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. </strong> <p>Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and behaviours of others - just as others use it change yours.</p> <p>We have been perfecting our influence for millions of years, but in the last 20 years digital technologies have revolutionised how influence works. We are now connected to old school friends and niche interest groups - but unwittingly also to organised criminals, terrorists and hostile states who infiltrate our societies. The course of history is being shaped: elections have been hijacked, lies spread about pandemics and the rapidly heating climate, and information has become as important as bullets and bombs to winning wars. More than ever, influence has become the crucial currency for commercial and political gain: If you don't understand it, you will likely become its victim.</p> <p>Written by a former government behavioural scientist working at the cutting edge of this field, <em>Influence</em> is a groundbreaking guide to the chaotic and murky world we live in. Through examining five key factors we are taken on a tour from the past to our real-world present, to build a picture of the major role influence plays in everyday life.</p> <p><em>Influence</em> provides a simple personal plan illustrating how you can use influence to achieve your goals - whether gaining that promotion, getting your friends to a music festival, or your children to eat their greens. But by understanding the nature of influence, you will also see how it is changing in the information age, enabling dangerous adversaries to gain power, leaving our societies in peril. Most importantly, by using the tools of influence you will be empowered to play your part in protecting us - it will be down to you and everyone you know.</p> <p><em>Influence</em> is a fascinating guide to how you can help by understanding it, using it and resisting it.</p>

Nuclear War [Bok / Pocket]

An African History Of Africa [Bok / Pocket]

<p><b>THE INSTANT <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b></p><p><br/><b>In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.</b><br/><br/><b>'A wonderful book'</b> Rory Stewart<br/><b>'Nuanced and deeply researched'</b> <i>Financial Times</i><br/><b>'Not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times'</b> Peter Frankopan<br/>_____________________________________________________<br/><br/>The British empire was built on slavery, but it also pioneered abolition.<br/>It spread democracy, but it also seeded geopolitical instability.<br/>It devastated nature but it also gave birth to modern notions of environmentalism.<br/>In this urgent sequel to <i>Empireland</i>, award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain to the wider world.<br/><br/>Travelling across outposts of the former empire from Barbados and Mauritius to India and Nigeria and beyond, Sanghera puts to bed the conventional balance-sheet view of imperial history where the good is merely weighed up against the bad. In <i>Empireworld</i>, Sanghera instead seeks out nuance to reveal how contradictory forces of the British empire have shaped our world and what they mean for our place within it today.<br/>_____________________________________________________<br/><br/><b>'An absolute masterpiece'</b> James O'Brien<br/><b>'Puts Sanghera in the firmament of great imperial historians'</b> Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, <i>i </i><br/><b>'Profoundly moving'</b> Elizabeth Day<br/></p>

<p>At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks.<br/><br/>Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse. The historical Faust, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Trithemius and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are all fascinating characters, closely linked to monarchs, artists and soldiers and sitting at the heart of any definition of why the Renaissance was a time of such restless innovation. The study of the stars, architecture, warfare, even medicine: all of these and more were revolutionized in some way by the experiments and tricks of these extraordinary individuals.<br/><br/>No book does a better job of allowing us to understand the ways that magic, religion and science were once so intertwined and often so hard to tell apart.</p>