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An illuminating reader's guide to Ulysses, with a new foreword by Colm T ibin, publishing to celebrate the centenary of the novel's first publication Ulysses is one of the foundational...

An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicist The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications...

A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain...

An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood...

Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....

A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy....

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live We are facing a...

The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers...

How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...

A witty, illustrated tour of the structures and patterns of mathematics from a math prodigy The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a...

A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature 'At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly- instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...'...

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...

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...

An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story...

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...

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...

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...

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 essential work outlining the origin and ongoing reality of global racism, from Britain's leading authority on Black Studies. The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the...

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...

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 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 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...

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 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,...

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...

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed...

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...

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 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...

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...

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?...

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....

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,...

'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...

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?...

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,...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...