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The Wings That Bind (deluxe Edition) [Bok / Inbunden]

<b>Marking the fortieth anniversary of <i>Please</i>, the duo's first album release, <i>Pet Shop Boys Volume</i> presents their entire visual output to date in a contemporary literary format.</b><br/><br/> Pet Shop Boys - Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe - are the most successful duo in the history of pop music. Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, they have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, including No. 1 hits such as 'West End girls', 'It's a sin', and 'Always on my mind', and platinum-selling albums <i>Please</i>, <i>Actually</i>, and <i>Very</i>.<br/><br/> Uniquely spanning the worlds of music, art, film, theatre, design, and fashion, Pet Shop Boys have forged an identity as unforgettable as their sound. From the seminal graphic design of their record sleeves to their groundbreaking videos and innovative stage shows, they have set the bar for the visual presentation of pop.<br/><br/> Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the release of their first album in 1986, <i>Pet Shop Boys Volume</i> is the definitive retrospective of the duo's career. Expanding upon <i>Pet Shop Boys Catalogue</i>, published two decades ago, it presents their entire visual output to date, year by year. Sleeve artworks and packaging, stills from every video, film, and performance, stage sets and costume designs, photoshoots, publications, and even Christmas cards all feature, as does every collaboration with luminaries including Mark Farrow, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Parr, Bruce Weber, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Derek Jarman, Scott King, Zaha Hadid, Tom Scutt, and Es Devlin.<br/><br/> Concise commentaries by Chris Heath and Philip Hoare provide illuminating insights into the genesis of each project. Hoare's original introduction is accompanied by a new introduction from Libby Sellers who considers the importance of Pet Shop Boys within the history of design, while a new foreword by Jeremy Deller reflects on the enduring impact of their music and image.<br/><br/> With a jacket designed by Farrow and a new conversation between Heath, Tennant, and Lowe, <i>Pet Shop Boys Volume</i> is a visual feast and a sumptuous tribute to four decades of creative innovation.

<b>'A truly fascinating must-read' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of <i>Unwell Women</i><br/>Winner of the Popular Science Award from the British Psychological Society<br/>A Book of the Year in the <i>Daily Telegraph </i>and <i>New Scientist</i></b><br/><br/><b>The history of autism is male. It is time for women and girls to enter the spotlight.</b><br/><br/>For decades, our understanding of autism has been based on stereotypes of 'socially awkward' men and boys. But this isn't because autism doesn't affect women; it is because the system built to identify it has completely failed them. This blind spot has left generations of women and girls misunderstood and misdiagnosed.<br/><br/>In <i>The Lost Girls of Autism</i>, leading neuroscientist Gina Rippon challenges this biased view of autism and explores the female autistic experience. She reveals how girls on the spectrum learn to 'hide in plain sight' by camouflaging to fit in. Drawing on decades of research and powerful first-person accounts, Rippon shows how the female autistic brain is 'differently different' and urges us to give these lost girls their rightful place on the spectrum.

The Sea Spinner [Bok / Inbunden]

<strong>'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' <em>OBSERVER</em></strong> <br/><br/> <strong>'Reads like a thriller'<em> THE SUN</em></strong> <br/><br/> <strong>The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.</strong> <br/><br/>For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and wall, tank traps, minefields, watchtowers and men with dogs, stretched for 4,300 miles from the Arctic to the Black Sea. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the conflict would be fought in the psychological sphere. It was a battle for hearts, minds and intellects. <br/><br/>No one understood this more clearly than George Minden, the head of a covert intelligence operation known as the 'CIA books programme', which aimed to win the Cold War with literature. <br/><br/>From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden's global CIA 'book club' would infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc, written by a vast and eclectic list of authors, including Hannah Arendt and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell and Agatha Christie. Volumes were smuggled on trucks and aboard yachts, dropped from balloons, and hidden in the luggage of hundreds of thousands of individual travellers. Once inside Soviet bloc, each book would circulate secretly among dozens of like-minded readers, quietly turning them into dissidents. Latterly, underground print shops began to reproduce the books, too. By the late 1980s, illicit literature in Poland was so pervasive that the system of communist censorship broke down, and the Iron Curtain soon followed. <br/><br/>Charlie English tells this true story of spycraft, smuggling and secret printing operations for the first time, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who risked their lives to stand up to the intellectual strait-jacket Stalin created. People like Miroslaw Chojecki, an underground Polish publisher who endured beatings, force-feeding and exile in service of this mission. And Minden, the CIA's mastermind, who didn't waver in his belief that truth, culture, and diversity of thought could help free the 'captive nations' of Eastern Europe. This is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free.

<b>Your boss asked you for a chat, and you just knew you were going to be fired</b><br/><i>You didn't sleep all weekend, and you weren't fired</i><br/><br/><b>Someone answered your message with a thumbs-up emoji and you just knew they hated you</b>.<br/><i>So you stopped talking to them, they eventually stopped texting, and now you miss them like crazy</i><br/><br/><b>Someone went for a bathroom break mid-film, and you just knew it's because they think your taste in films is terrible</b><br/><i>You were so upset you missed the rest of the film, and they left early</i><br/><br/>Rejection is physically painful for you. Even the most minor criticism stings. And why wouldn't it? By the time you were 12, you'd received 20,000 negative messages about yourself, your brain and your unique ADHD way of living life.<br/><br/><i>20,000.</i><br/><br/>Alex Partridge knows how it feels to live with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), the state of emotional dysregulation experienced by almost everyone with ADHD. Throughout his journey from successful entrepreneur to neurodiversity campaigner and host of the hugely successful ADHD Chatter, Alex has been haunted by the fear of rejection, labelled 'over-sensitive', and fought constantly against the desire to people-please and protect himself from emotional harm.<br/><br/>In <i>Why Does Everybody Hate Me?</i> Alex draws on his own experience of RSD, and shares how it's coloured every aspect of his life, from his days as founder of the global social media content brands UniLad and LadBible, to his adult relationships, his mental health struggles and his terrible imposter syndrome. He'll use the insights he's gained from the world's top experts on ADHD to share with you some simple steps to regaining your boundaries, your confidence and your self-belief.<br/><br/>You are not 'too sensitive' - nor are you broken. You were always enough.

<b>The instant <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller<br/>No. 1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<br/><br/>'How else to put this? Bloody hell'<i> The Guardian</i><br/>'Devastating . . . Funny . . . Highly enjoyable' <i>The Times</i><br/>'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' <i>Financial Times</i><br/><br/>'Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it's the one about him' Marina Hyde</b><br/><br/>Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different.<br/><br/>From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, <i>Careless People</i> exposes both the personal and political fallout when boundless power and a rotten culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative, Wynn-Williams rubs shoulders with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and world leaders, revealing what really goes on among the global elite - and the consequences this has for all of us.<br/><br/>Candid and entertaining, this is an intimate memoir set amid powerful forces. As all our lives are upended by technology and those who control it, <i>Careless People</i> will change how you see the world.<br/><br/><b>'A <i>Bridget Jones's Diary</i>-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' <i>The Times</i><br/>'Darkly funny and genuinely shocking: an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world' <i>The New York Times</i></b>