Quick view Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Dr.Kelly Weinersmith Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of the transformative technologies… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Moral AI And How We Get There by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer Now: €31.25 MSRP: Was: Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in o… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linde Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Fake news. Alternative facts. Conspiracy theories.Misinformation is one of the defining problems of our age, and despite what we may think, we are all susceptible. So how and why does misinformation spread? And, more importantly, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent.Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost every… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view We All Go into the Dark by Francisco Garcia Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Gl… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Starborn: How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.One of our species' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself - yet in the glow of today's artificial lighting, we h… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Funny Thing Happened On The Way by Nancy Spain Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos. Nancy Spain was one of t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and island… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Connemara: Listening to the Wind by Tim Robinson Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant liv… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Eyewitness to War and Peace by Eamonn Mallie Now: €19.99 MSRP: Was: In this gripping memoir, Eamonn Mallie takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life as a journalist in Northern Ireland. From the frontlines of the Troubles to the corridors of power, Mallie’s fearless reporting and unrel… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Remembering Peasants by Patrick Joyce Now: €29.99 MSRP: Was: A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future. Caught between t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the explor… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view American Mother by Colum McCann & Diane Foley Now: €16.50 MSRP: €18.75 Was: The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years sin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Hundred to One by Pat Sheedy Now: €18.99 MSRP: Was: At the age of 12, Pat Sheedy placed his first 10p bet and concocted his first scam. This marked the beginning of his descent into a compulsive gambling addiction that would lead to close to one hundred criminal convictions, over a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Hermit by Jade Angeles Fitton Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks before, he leaves a dent in the wall and her life unravelled. Numbed from years in a destructive, abusive relationship, she faces an uncertain future and complete… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Elixir: A Voyage into Alchemy by Kapka Kassabova Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place. Over severa… Add to Cart The item has been added