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The Happy Reader 19
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For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.
The concept of the magazine is simple: the first half is a lo
Anatomy of Comics Famous Originals of Narrative Ar..
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This fully-illustrated history of the world’s best comic strip art, including Hy Eisman’s The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, Charles Schultz’s Peanuts (1950), Peyo’s Smurfs (1958), Steve D
Sapiens
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Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have liv
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technolog
Nexus A Brief History of Information Networks from..
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The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens
Stories brought us together.
Books spread our ideas – and our mytho
Why We Sleep he New Science of Sleep and Dreams
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'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
TLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL
The Body Keeps the Score
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The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving awa
Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind
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INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?
One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari ch
Blue Machine
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FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT
'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'
Professor Alice Roberts
'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mec
The Power of Geography Ten Maps That Reveal the Fu..
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Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world
Stranger Things Worlds turned upside down
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When the first season of Stranger Things debuted on Netflix in the summer of 2016, the show struck a nerve with millions of viewers worldwide and received broad critical acclaim. The series has gone
Sapiens A brief history of humankind
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How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to t
Is It Ever Just Sex?
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‘It was just sex…’It’s a familiar claim. But it’s also an impossibility, as Darian Leader shows in this delightfully thought-provoking study.Our bodies aren’t just sticks that make fire when you rub
The Extinction of Experience Reclaiming Our Humani..
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Human experiences are disappearing.
Social media, gaming and dating apps have usurped in-person interaction; handwriting is no longer prioritised in schools; and emotion is sooner expressed throug
Careless People
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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to
Secrets of the Universe
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For anyone who has ever been fascinated by the night sky, this beautifully designed introduction to astronomy and its history reveals the compelling story of mankind's quest through the ages to unloc
The World of the Cold War 1945-1991
A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSR
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five c
The Art of Uncertainty How to Navigate Chance, Ign..
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We live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable. How should we deal with what we don’t know? And what role do chance, luck and coincidence play in our lives?
David Spiegelhalter has spent his c
The Battleship Scharnhorst
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The Kriegsmarine's Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, described either as a battleship or battlecruiser, and the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau. She was launched
Making Sense of Chaos
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We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating technology and global interconnection hold more promise – and more peril – than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that h
AI Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable
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Delving into the deeply enigmatic nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable explores the various reasons why the field is so challenging. Written by one
Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SAPIENS Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we’re going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed
Stań się czym jesteś
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"Stań się, czym jesteś" to zbiór pism Alana Wattsa dotyczących wyzwań, jakie stoją przed człowiekiem poszukującym swego prawdziwego „ja”. Tego rodzaju poszukiwania często odbywają się kosztem postrze
Phenomena An Infographic Guide to Almost Everythin..
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A vibrant infographics book designed to make facts accessible to all and to help us better understand the infinite richness of our world.
Astronomy, botany, the climate … From the wonder of firefl