Whether you are starting an actual school or just want to learn something new, September is a good time to start.
To help you out, we’ve compiled a selection of educational books. Get them for -30% off using code BookSmart at checkout!
Back to School
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6,00 €by Clive Ponting
Clive Ponting’s original and provocative history of human civilization. Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition.
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8,00 €by Henry Marsh
Reflecting on what forty years of handling the human brain has taught him, Marsh finds a different purpose in life as he approaches the end of his professional career and a fresh understanding of what matters to us all in the end.
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5,00 €by Richard McGregor
A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s–and the potential crisis that awaits them.
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9,00 €Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.
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6,00 €Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
by Patricia Hill Collins
Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that provided the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought and its canon.
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6,00 €by Michael Lewis
In this hilarious, fascinating, timely must-read, Michael Lewis reveals the true natures of the countries caught up in – and exacerbating – our boomerang economies.
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17,50 €
by Nick Hornby
In Nick Hornby’s completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could.
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3,00 €
– and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.
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7,00 €
by Jessica Bennett
Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime membership.
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7,00 €
by Angela Duckworth
Leaping past clichés such as ‘success is all about hard work’, Grit offers a fresh and motivating way to climb to heights far beyond what natural talent would predict.
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7,00 €
by Fearne Cotton
‘Happiness, you gorgeous. warm ray of sunshine. I love it when you spring up out of nowhere and take me by surprise and how you can make clouds part and corners of mouths lift..’
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7,00 €
by Ed Yong
I Contain Multitudes is the story of these extraordinary partnerships, between the creatures we are familiar with and those we are not. It reveals how we humans are disrupting these partnerships and how we might manipulate them for our own good. It will change both our view of nature and our sense of where we belong in it.
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7,00 €
by Michael Wood
In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain’s leading historians.
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8,00 €
by Nathaniel Philbrick
At once a literary companion and a page-turner that speaks to the same issues of class, race, and man’s relationship to nature that permeate the works of Melville
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6,00 €
by Hope Jahren
Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together.
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5,00 €
by Lindsay Miles
Less Stuff is a guide for people who find it difficult to declutter and who don’t want to see things go to waste. Step by step, you’ll explore finding your ‘enough’, learn how to let go of your old possessions without sending them to landfill, and eventually break the cycle of stuff.
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8,00 €
Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
by Victoria Moran, Adair Moran
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6,00 €
by Eckhart Tolle
#1 New York Times bestselling author Eckhart Tolle highlights the most inspiring and beautiful insights of A New Earth
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17,00 €
What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by Steven Pinker
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding – and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?
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10,00 €
by Tony Juniper
Published to coincide with a major BBC1 TV series, this book combines stunning images with ways you can help to save planet Earth for future generations.
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7,00 €
by Nedra Glover Tawwab
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself.
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by Keith Houston
From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance, Gutenberg, and Madison Avenue—Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation.
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6,00 €
by Mark Lynas
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of ‘High Tide’.
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8,00 €
by Safia Minney
Slow Fashion offers creatives, entrepreneurs, and ethical consumers alike a glimpse into the innovative world of the eco-concept store movement, sustainable design, and business that puts people, livelihoods and sustainability central to everything they do.
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by Demi Lovato
These are Demi’s words. Words she lives by and shares with the people she loves and total strangers alike. They are a powerful testament to a young woman standing up and fighting back.
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6,00 €
How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
by Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
“A mind-blowing tour along the path from sex and drugs to R&D.” – Financial Times
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5,00 €
How to discover what you want from life then make it happen
by Allan and Barbara Pease
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by Germaine Greer
A worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, The Female Eunuch is a landmark in the history of the women’s movement.
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5,00 €
by Charles Darwin
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world.
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8,00 €
by Elizabeth Kolbert
The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolbert’s book urgently compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
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6,00 €
by Malcolm Gladwell
Why did crime in New York drop in the mid-90s? Why is teenage smoking out of control? Why are television shows like Sesame Street good at teaching kids how to read?
