Philip Marlowe, the original hard-boiled private eye, returns to walk the mean streets of the American underworld again in these three classic novels. In The Lady in the Lake a business tycoon sets...
The Laffer Curve relates increasing tax rates to rising, then falling, tax revenues. Its existence and values are crucial to a measure of the limits on the ability for particular countries to raise...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design i...
Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel ...
'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigati...
"I was 9 years old when I had my first spiritual awakening, my first taste of the language of silence, says spiritual teacher and best-selling author Swami Dhyan Giten in this books. This created a...
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a re...
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.As the gang...
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America, the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict parallels older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of th...
You must keep it a secret or they're going to come back. I know that they will! The secret that I'm about to tell you no one has ever heard not even my parents. It happened so long ago now but my g...
Susy longs for a wedding ring. Freddie says only if the Thursday Ritual finally ends. Can Susy stop the mayhem to become the new lady of Lodge Castle?
This comedy of errors will have readers laughi...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne morning, Anders wakes to...
Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft.When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls in...
Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is the approach to business that's being adopted around the world.It is changing the way companies...
'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...'Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, ...
Never a dull moment with this book. Life in the former British Colonies often conjures up scenes of an easy life, sipping pink gins on sun drenched verandas. Life was hard for many who ventured out...
This book tells the story of the life and achievements of Sir John Forbes - Royal Physician, Medical Journalist and first translator of Laennec, the remarkable French inventor of the stethoscope.