In this accessible book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama considers such well-known Gospel passages as the Sermon on the Mount, the Healing of the Sick and the Resurrection. He offers fresh perspectives...więcej »
The Dalai Lama is one of the best-known religious leaders in the world, and one of the most respected. The Transformed Mind is a collection of talks he gave at a Tibetan Buddhist centre in Delhi du...więcej »
A huge international success, the Dalai Lama's books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Now, for the first time, this inspirational new book brings together the Dalai Lama's writings on all si...więcej »
Following on from the internationally bestselling The Art of Happiness, the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler bring us the inspiring The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World. This inspirational book bri...więcej »
Asteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse - why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should we take ...więcej »
Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of me...więcej »
"**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled f...więcej »
"**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined ve...więcej »
To be human is to wonder. The impulse to ask questions is hardwired into our DNA, and for three hundred millennia people have been searching for answers. In An Illustrated History of Science, Mary ...więcej »
Encountering the work of Alan Davie (1920-2014) at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1958, a young David Hockney (b.1937) was struck by Davie's landmark Abstract Expressionist paintings, which mirrored and ...więcej »
Visit your favourite buildings from around the world and discover something new with 40 spot-the-difference puzzles. Enjoy stunning shots of the world's favourite buildings in this phenomenal spot-...więcej »
The Map Tour is an exquisite collection of maps tracing the evolution of tourism from the late 1600s to the elite realms of the Grand Tour and then beyond the boundaries of the known world. Produce...więcej »
The American Dream: From Pop to present presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to key figures such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenb...więcej »
The ultimate non-technical guide to the fast-developing world of quantum computing Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better elec...więcej »
When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for...więcej »
"Three sisters.Three secrets.Three ways to fall . . .Forcibly seduced by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and King's favourite, doctor's daughter Hester was cast asi...więcej »
"Everyone thinks that Sadie Saunders is dead. Missing now for a week - there are whispers of murder.As the police flounder, five of Sadie's friends set off into the woods to find h...więcej »
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the storie...więcej »
"Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a ...więcej »
Weather moves and changes every day. It is temporary and yet we can study it, create forecasts and prepare for it - whether that's for sunny skies, heavy rain or blustery winds. In this book, you w...więcej »