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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The bestselling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'God Equation' This is the story of a quest- to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated...
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SHORTLISTED...
Adventures in Time: The Second World War
Travel back to a world at war, with the thrilling children's history series 'Everything was ready. The air was thick with excitement. This was D-Day . . . Prepare to...
Adventures in Time: Alexander the Great
Join Alexander the Great on a journey to the end of the world, in the third book in a thrilling new children's history series 'His mind was clear. It was...
Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Journey back to the world of the Tudors, with the celebrated children's history series 'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...'...
Eight Days in May: How Germany's War Ended
A gripping history of Germany's 'zero hour', the eight days between Hitler's death and the war's end 1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final...
Thank You for Arguing: What Cicero, Shakespeare and the Simpsons Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
Your ultimate guide to the art of winning arguments in a brand new edition THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Your ultimate guide to the art of winning arguments, in a...
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
An acclaimed historian of ideas shows how capitalist extremists profit from the collapse of the democratic nation Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork...
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island...
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than...
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
A breath-taking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food...
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
Two hundred years of modern science and culture, told through one family history In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in...
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
The thrilling history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, that would shape the great wars to come Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870,...
The Collected Schizophrenias
The phenomenal New York Times bestselling account of mental illness that remakes the nature of memoir 'I've inherited a love of a writing and a talent for the visual arts...
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
The bestselling, no-holds-barred expose of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran...
Accomplishment: How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things
An inspiring and practical guide to achieving bold ambitions from a world-renowned expert With a wealth of both professional experience as government advisor and from his own journey overcoming a...
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our...
Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings
We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to our success as thinking...
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
An evocative exploration of the origins and impact of one of our most intimate and essential possessions Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool- through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi...
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
A reissue of Niall Ferguson's bestselling book with a major new chapter on the first ten years of the Financial Crisis Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you...
Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism
A myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a pioneering evolutionary biologist Why do so many diets lead to more weight gain? Do more active people have faster metabolisms?...
Index, A History of the
A story of ambition, obsession and alphabetical order Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up....
The New Breed: How to Think About Robots
A bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcher The robots are here. They make our cars,...
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy
'Weaves together the biographies and the developing thought of the four philosophers with great bravura and wit' (Sunday Telegraph) The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to...
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?...
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925
A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence brings Townshend's acclaimed Irish trilogy to a close In the aftermath of the horrors of the Irish Famine, the grim,...
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the process What does it take...
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
The new bestseller that shows why everything we thought we knew about history was wrong 'The most brilliant historian of his generation' The Times Most history is hierarchical- it's about...
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
The hilarious and universally lauded memoir of life as the daughter of a gun-toting, all-American Catholic priest When the expense of a medical procedure forces the 30-year-old Patricia to move...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin
An astonishingly wide-ranging history of Russian nationalism from a pre-eminent scholar of Eastern Europe In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world...
Antwerp: The Glory Years
This rich history of Antwerp in the sixteenth century was a Times Book of the Year and R4 Book of the Week A rich history of Antwerp from the author...
Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere
An exclusive look inside the beautiful handmade homes featured on the hugely popular Cabin Porn blog Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in...
Flash Boys
The Master of the Big Story is back If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is...
Penguin Dictionary of Science: Fourth Edition
The Penguin Dictionary of Science covers all the important topics in this key subject area including chemistry, physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, human anatomy and physiology, mathematics, astronomy and computing....
Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism
A unique and moving memoir from the maverick former Canon of St Paul's Cathedral It was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London....
Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
How to design your life for happiness - by thinking less and doing more As a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, Dolan conducts original research...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines
A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
The definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great...
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction
An ingenious exploration of the meaning of literature, from one of Italy's most beloved writers 'If the world is increasingly senseless, all we can do is try to give it...
The Yellow Dog: Inspector Maigret #5
A gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, part of the new Maigret series 'There was an exaggerated humility about her. And yet he sensed, beneath that image, glints...
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien: Inspector Maigret #3
A new translation of this haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, part of the Maigret series A first ink drawing showed a...
Collected Poems
A landmark collection of verse from one of the twentieth century's supreme writers These masterly poems span the decades of Nabokov's career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short,...
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
A new anthology of 100 years of artists', film makers' and architects' manifestos In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony...
The Imitation of Christ
A new translation of one of the best-loved and most important books of Christianity, by the Very Revd. Robert Jeffery One of the most influential and well-loved books of Christianity,...