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Tracks on the Ocean
A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel
2025 || Paperback || Dr Sara Caputo || Profile Books Ltd
A trailblazing history of how the marks left on maps tell the story of the world
Moneyland
Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back
2024 || Paperback || Oliver Bullough || Profile Books Ltd
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2019SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR an ECONOMIST Politics and Current Affairs book of the year and a DAILY MAIL and TIMES book of the year'You cannot understand power, wealth and poverty without knowing about Moneyland.'Simon Kuper, New Statesman2019: democracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why?Because in 1962, some bankers in London had an idea...
What's the Use?
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
2024 || Paperback || Professor Ian Stewart || Profile Books Ltd
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.
Abundance
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD: How We Build a Better Future
2026 || Paperback || Ezra Klein e.a. || Profile Books Ltd
Time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - by ditching scarcity politics and embracing visionary action to create an abundant future
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Ego is the Enemy
The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
2024 || Paperback || Ryan Holiday || Profile Books Ltd
A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
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Vermeer's Hat
The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Brook || Profile Books Ltd
Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.
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Pitch
How to Captivate and Convince Any Audience on the Planet
2025 || Paperback || Danny Fontaine || Profile Books Ltd
A game-changing guide to the art, science and joy of pitching
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Irresistible
How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
2024 || Paperback || Professor Joshua Paul Dale || Profile Books Ltd
The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world.
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Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
2024 || Paperback || Atul Gawande || Profile Books Ltd
Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
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Being Mortal
Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
2024 || Paperback || Atul Gawande || Profile Books Ltd
From the international bestselling author of Better, Complications and The Checklist Manifesto and Reith Lecturer 2014, a revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine.