'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' The Times, Book of the Week'Magnificent' GuardianEn...więcej »
In 1944, on Lubang Island in the Philippines, with Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer. So began Onoda's long campaign, during which h...więcej »
What came before the Big Bang, and what exists outside of the universe it created?Until recently, scientists could only guess at what lay past the edge of spacetime. But as pioneering t...więcej »
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across...więcej »
How do we talk to our children about racism?How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? Ho...więcej »
Cloudmoney take us to the frontlines of a war for our wallets that is also about our freedom: it is a captivating tour of the world of money that also asks the most important questions about our fu...więcej »
'Essential and definitive' - CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, a...więcej »
A landmark account of our journey from the dawn of human existence to the present - with vital lessons for our future.What are the keys to human progress? In the last two hundred years,...więcej »
'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentie...więcej »
We need to rethink the conversation around mental health.Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of what it actually is has yet to...więcej »
'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' ObserverThe definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musi...więcej »
Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christen...więcej »
We were doing it more and more, anyway. Mindfulness and meditation are all the rage. Wellness tourism, yoga breaks, meditation apps, and spiritual boot camps have been booming - entry-level to hard...więcej »
We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. What would happen if we did?We are using up the planet at almost double th...więcej »
Through the sweeping, extraordinary story of his own and his father's lives, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 years.<...więcej »
In A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when he became prime minister in 1940. Yet he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambition would cloud his politi...więcej »
Welcome to a revolution in the science of you.Recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the experience of being human in the coming centu...więcej »
In The Janus Point renowned physicist Julian Barbour presents a major new solution to one of the most profound questions in physics - what is time? - with ground-breaking implications for the origi...więcej »
A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.Throughout history, there has been a lively crossover between show bu...więcej »