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The Poet X
2018 || Paperback || Elizabeth Acevedo || HarperCollins Publishers
'I fell in love at slam poetry. This one will stay with you a long time.' – Angie Thomas, bestselling author of The Hate U Give 'This was the type of book where "I'll just do 50 pages" turned into finishing it in 2 reads. I felt very emotional, not just because the story and the words themselves were so beautiful but because I knew it was going to make so many teens who felt like no one cares about them or listens to them feel seen.' – Tomi Adeyemi, bestselling author of The Children of B...
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
2022 || Paperback || D. H. Lawrence || HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
The American Duchess
The Real Wallis Simpson
2024 || Paperback || Anna Pasternak || HarperCollins Publishers
‘Draws startling parallels with Meghan … Both were 34 when they met their princes, both are adored children of strong, single mothers, both have a pared-down style and an electric presence and both are evidently worshipped by their Royal partners.’ S Magazine
The Hellenistic World
1981 || Paperback || F. W. Walbank || HarperCollins Publishers
With the use of quotations, this book examines the political events in the Hellenistic world. It also describes the different social systems of the peoples under Greek rule, developments in literature, science and technology and the founding of religious movements.
The Shift
The Future of Work is Already Here
2014 || Paperback || Lynda Gratton || HarperCollins Publishers
Work: love it or hate it, it’s an all-consuming part of our society, it’s changing fast, and the impact on our working lives will be extraordinary. We are now facing a revolution in the way we work. Low carbon economies, new technology and globalisation are fundamentally transforming much of what we take for granted.
Middle managers are disappearing. The working week is collapsing. And now more than ever, our careers are governed by global forces.
Why will things change so quickly? What w...
Republic
2021 || Paperback || Plato || HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.
Smarter Than You Think:
How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
2014 || Paperback || Clive Thompson || HarperCollins Publishers
A brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, ‘Wired’ writer Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more not less intelligent as is so often claimed. Our lives have been changed utterly and irrevocably by the rise of the internet and it is only now that we can begin to analyse this extraordinary phenomenon.
The author argues that as we rely mor...
Bird Migration
2020 || Paperback || Ian Newton || HarperCollins Publishers
The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available. Migration is shown by many kinds of animals, including butterflies and other insects, mammals, marine turtles and fish, but in none is it as extensively developed as in birds.
The collective travel routes of birds span almost the entire globe...
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
1994 || Paperback || Doris Lessing || HarperCollins Publishers
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’. The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on their bountiful planet, its weather consistently nurturing, never harsh. They live long, purposeful, untroubled lives.
Then one day The Ice begins, and ice and snow cover the planet’s surface. Crops and animals die off, and the people must learn to ...
Italian Dictionary Complete and Unabridged / 4th edition
For Advanced Learners and Professionals
2020 || Hardcover || Collins Dictionaries || HarperCollins Publishers
The home of trusted Italian dictionaries for everyday language learning. Comprehensive and authoritative, this dictionary is the ideal Italian to English and English to Italian bilingual dictionary for advanced students of Italian and professionals. It has been revised and updated to cover all the latest changes in both languages, for example, the internet, computing and business.
With more than 255,000 words, meanings and phrases and 230,000 translations. Includes the latest vocabulary from ...