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The Brain
The Story of You
2016 || Paperback || David Eagleman || Canongate Books
'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.'Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you.
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Amateur
A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity
2024 || Paperback || Thomas Page McBee || Canongate Books
An exploration of modern masculinity by the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
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Under The Skin
2017 || Paperback || Michel Faber || Canongate Books
One of Michel Faber's best-loved novels, this is an utterly compulsive and mysterious masterpiece
Drive
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2018 || Paperback || Daniel H. Pink || Canongate Books
A book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H.
Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new...
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
2024 || Hardcover || Mark Hodkinson || Canongate Books
This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens
Feeding the Machine
the Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
2024 || Paperback || James Muldoon e.a. || Canongate Books
The first book to tell the stories of the army of underpaid and exploited workers powering artificial intelligence, Feeding the Machine tells the story of a global technology through the eyes of the people who produce it.
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often ap...
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
2024 || Paperback || Mark Hodkinson || Canongate Books
This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens
maandag verzonden
Between Britain
Walking the History of England and Scotland
2024 || Hardcover || Alistair Moffat || Canongate Books
A walking tour of the border region where England and Scotland meet by the award-winning Scottish writer, meditating on the conflict and union of their relationship through history and in the future