Sort by:
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
Author: Helen Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human...
The Origins of Creativity
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date 'Creativity is the unique...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Author: Stuart Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest...
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
Author: Christopher Tyerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
The Future of War: A History
Author: Sir Lawrence Freedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A new approach to ideas about war, from 'Britain's leading academic strategist' (Economist) Where should we look for...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Author: Mariana Mazzucato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 From one of the world's leading economists, a bestselling expose of the state's crucial role in sparking innovation and...
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
Author: Dan Sperber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exploration of human rationality from two ground-breaking thinkers Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Author: Todd Rose Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The End of Average draws on the very latest findings in the fields of psychology and sociology to show...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Author: Frank Trentmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. We...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
Author: Lee Smolin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
Author: Anthony Gottlieb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The definitive introduction to early Western philosophy, now fully revised and updated. Already a classic, this landmark account of...
The Descent of Man
Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,...
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
Author: Bruno Macaes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A bold and eye-opening account of the coming integration of Europe and Asia In this original and timely book,...
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any...
Coffeeland: A History
Author: Augustine Sedgewick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Thoroughly engrossing ... his literary gifts and prodigious research make for a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative...
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions Anatol Lieven's major...
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization
Author: Colin McEvedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York From Alexandria to York,...
The Celestial Hunter
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Steven Pinker's landmark defence of human nature Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by...
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History
Author: Norman Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
Author: David Pilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...
Augustus: The Biography
Author: Jochen Bleicken Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when...
The Assault On Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
Author: Michael V. Hayden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself,...
The Art of Flight
Author: Fredrik Sjoeberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition
Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
Another Kyoto
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An evocative, definitive work on Kyoto, the most beautiful city in Japan Another Kyoto is a matchless guide to...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now...
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
Author: Richard Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The sequel to the global phenomenon The Spirit Level, this book explores the impact of inequality on each of...
The Cold War: A World History
Author: Odd Arne Westad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan...
The Origins of the Second World War
Author: Professor A J P Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject...
What is Madness?
Author: Darian Leader Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What is Madness? is Darian Leader's probing study of madness, sanity, and everything in between What separates the sane...
Poor
Author: Caleb Femi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture...
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
Author: Jonathan Aldred Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A scathing examination of how, by making market efficiency our moral standard, we've come to believe that bad is...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Author: Richard McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
Hinduism: with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen
Author: K. M. Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Hinduism provides an invaluable introduction to its schools of thought and the very different ways in which it...
Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption
Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The last book by one of Britain's most prominent public intellectuals is a superbly insightful and moving exploration of...