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On Grand Strategy
Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory
Author: Leonard Susskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory. In the...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Author: Joshua Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The international bestseller on memory and how to master it Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used...
An Economic History of the English Garden
Author: Roderick Floud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today At least since the seventeenth...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition
Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's...
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Author: Jordan Ellenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Author: Pedro Domingos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And he...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The No.1 International Bestseller that has sold over 15,000 hardbacks and over 165,000 paperbacks (Vista) and counting From groundbreaking...
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain
Author: Stanislas Dehaene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An illuminating dive into the latest science of how we learn - and how we do it better than...
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
Author: Paul Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An astonishing new contribution to our ongoing quest for the secret of life itself When Darwin set out to...
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Author: Norman Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures...
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Author: Albert Costa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The definitive study of bilingualism from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet...
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Author: Christopher Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Author: Dr John Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation- how it came to be written, how its contents were...
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
Author: Helena Attlee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of citrus runs through the...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
Author: Anthony Aguirre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Author: Brene Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The sensational US bestseller that teaches us how to embrace vulnerability **Now on Netflix as The Call to Courage**...
Facebook: The Inside Story
Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Hot Milk
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author...
Our Kind of Traitor
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The classic Cold War thriller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time The Cold War is...
A Legacy of Spies
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this...
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new...
Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem
Author: Philip Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he(1)d seen everything on the streets of 1930(1)s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Of Love and Other Demons
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works...
The General in His Labyrinth
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first...
Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Imagine if...
The Monk of Mokha
Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild....
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
Kiss Kiss
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable, Roald Dahl. What could go wrong when a wife...
If I Had Your Face: 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING
Author: Frances Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South Korea If...
The Charisma Myth: How to Engage, Influence and Motivate People
Author: Olivia Fox Cabane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 How to engage, influence, motivate and succeed with people What if charisma could be taught?What you'll find here...
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Bill Bryson's classicMother Tongueis a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language....
Troublesome Words
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With Troublesome Words, bestselling writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of...
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' If I didn't define myself for...