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How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World's Happiest
'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS 'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee 'A well researched study injected...
Our Final Hour
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A scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Martin Rees now warns that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise--and that...
Megatrends Asia: The Eight Asian Megatrends That are Changing the
While the attention of the West has been fixed on the USSR and Eastern Europe, a quieter, cumulative revolution has been taking place in Asia which may have even more...
The Future Book: 50 Ways to Future-Proof Your Work and Life
"The future" plays a dominant role in everybody's lives. But for many, it is a blur and mystery, a wall of fog in which we struggle to see beyond what...
The World to Come: from Christian Past to Global Future
In Lloyd Geering's most controversial book so far, he examines the world at the end of the twentieth century, with the wisdom of a man who has lived through much...
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future
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A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a...
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
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Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be...
Battlers and Billionaires: The Updated Story of Inequality in
Unpacking inequality in Australia by renowned economist and MP Andrew Leigh Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more...
Searching for Certainty: What Science Can Know About the Future
This comprehensive overview of the prediction game takes readers on a journey through the worlds of probability, chance and chaos, and investigates developmental biology, modern warfare, weather and climate prediction,...
The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future
New thinking for a new world. *Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which...
There's a Future: Visions for a Better World
The book presents eighteen essays that explore the future from very different perspectives, grouped under five overarching themes: Fundamentals, Science and Technology, The Environment, Global Society, and People. The final...
2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition: How
Will technology change what it means to be human You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Smart Predictions
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Smart Predictions
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more...
Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes
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The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
The world's leading expert on the human settlement of Mars explains what Martian societies will look like - very soon! Within a few years, humans will be able to voyage...
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
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...
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
In his bestselling books The Cult of the Amateur and The Internet is not the Answer, Andrew Keen exposed the cultural and social dangers posed by internet technology. What was...
Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia
Size discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death
A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients,...
The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism'
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus...
A Liveable Future is Possible
A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel,
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in space Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth....
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author presents his radical and subversive answer 'A landmark work' Brian Eno Imagine a world...
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop the false equivalencies Interrogate whiteness Interrogate capitalism Denounce the white Saviour...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About
A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white...
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' - David Sexton, The Evening Standard The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale,...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and (SIGNED)
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more needed than ever'...
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery...
Megatech: Technology in 2050
Technology moves fast - so where will it have taken us by 2050? How will it affect the way we live? And how far are we willing to let it...
See Inside the Future
A lift-the-flap book to imagine what the world will be like by the end of the 21st century Join futurologist Tom Cheesewright on a tour of our world, decades into...
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, lunches with work...
How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World's Happiest
'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A well researched study injected with humour...
Unleashed
THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has...
See Inside the Future
A lift-the-flap book to imagine what the world will be like by the end of the 21st century Join futurologist Tom Cheesewright on a tour of our world, decades into...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Danny Sriskandarajah learned the value of citizenship at a young age as the child of Tamil migrants who moved from Sri Lanka to Australia. Arriving in the UK as the...
Betoota's Australia 2020
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Unleashed
THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has...
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days...
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like...
Wartime for the Chocolate Girls
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Wartime for the Chocolate Girls
Author: Annie Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 April 1941. Almost losing her life in a bomb blast while serving in the Women's Volunteer Service has made Ann Gilby...