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An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty...

All the facts and advice for anyone curious about feeling and doing better through a plant-focused diet What if there was a way of eating that may help us live...

An entirely new way to understand risk and master uncertainty in business, from the bestselling author of Team of Teams Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated...

The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...

A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurial Success from Harvard Professor, Tom Eisenmann The handbook for entrepreneurial success from Harvard University's Tom Eisenmann, PhD. Why do most startups fail? Eisenmann has focused...

The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in 2020 Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror...

A revelatory history that uncovers the modern foundations of the Islamic world. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 'An eye-opening, well-written and very timely book' Yuval Noah Harari 'The...

Once they were just them. Now they're forty-something and there's kids. Whose time is this? Phil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone...

Great Game On is the story of the remaking of the world order. Historically, China has sought its security by building dominant relationships with pliant states that accept its pre-eminence....

A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life- forty texts that can enrich...

Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the...

The Sins of the Sheikh tells the dark story of abduction, cover-ups, brutality and intimidation within the mysterious royal family of Dubai, ruled by the iron fist of its patriarch,...

The surprises, challenges and delight of parenting kids with additional needs Kate Jones and Mandy Hose have experienced the highs and lows of parenting - and they wouldn't change a...

The final book from one of Europe's cultural giants- an entertaining collection of essays about the modern world - from unbridled individualism to mobile phones Umberto Eco was an international...

A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not heard often enough 'My body and its place in the world...

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?' Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this...

For any artist, entrepreneur, or visionary who feels stuck, Seth Godin has a simple answer- commit to the practice. For any artist, entrepreneur, or visionary who feels stuck, Seth Godin...

A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the science of consciousness by exploring a single day in the life of the brain. Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that...

A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from...

Searing, haunting and timeless prose from one of England's greatest poets This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also...

A rich, strange anthology of the western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost '. . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet,...

A collection of letters by Burroughs detailing his experiments with the 'Yage' drug, and Ginsberg's responses as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky,...

Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote Readercontains much of his published work- his dazzling fiction, includingBreakfast at...

Reissue First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period....

The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The gripping story of the lure of...

A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's...

An essential book for our times- a thoughtful, cultured response to Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists. There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first...

'If there were a Nobel Prize for travel writing, Thubron should win it' - Daily Mail 'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' Observer This is the account of...

This the true story of a teacher and community leader, Mecak Ajang Alaak, who led twenty thousands Lost Boys to safety during the Second Sudanese Civil War. During the Second...

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time Wang Xiaobo made his name as a...

The epic story of one of the world's most enduring civilisations and empires. 'For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the...

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer...

A stylish, fashion-inspired edition of this classic tale, produced in partnership with the V&A This beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V...

A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the...

The first social history of Germany during the Second World War for over forty years WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war...

What would equality look like when it comes to gender and work? An updated edition of Annabel Crabb's acclaimed Quarterly Essay. When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her...

The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the...

Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political events, incorporating perspectives...

A charming, original guide to how maths can help us see through the chaos and complexity of our lives Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question...

Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate...

A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. You know...

The classic inspirational work on how to live a meaningful life from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 'The Dalai Lama is the most influential person in the world' Time In...

A landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on award-winning research, and recently discovered archival material. *A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of...

The second volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of a bygone age. Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the...

An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and...

Bill Bryson's hilarious return to live the American Dream. Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the...