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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEARShortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 ’Easily the most important book to be published this century. I find it hard to take any …
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 ’A thrilling deep-dive through our evolutionary past, and a witty and learned commentary on why we are the way we are – and what wisdom we’ve lost along the way’ Cal Flynn, author of Islands of Abandonment ’A wild ride: brave, outrageous, hilarious,…
Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to just five does a great disservice to the sensory experience, Sensational argues. In fact, we could have as many as fifty-three – and they could explain such mysteries as why we kiss, in…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Projektledning
A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams.
Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? How can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently? This updated edition of the international bestseller distils into a single volume the fifty best decision-making models used on MBA courses, and elsewhere, that will help you tackle…
’THE PUZZLE SENSATION OF THE YEAR!’ – JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of THE TWYFORD CODE ’I’M COMPLETELY OBSESSED’ – OLIVIA BLACKE, author of A FATAL GROOVE * The ’utterly addictive’ murderous puzzle book for armchair detectives everywhere * From G. T. Karber,…
’Ward’s most complex and brilliant book yet’ – GUARDIAN ’A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession’ – DAILY EXPRESS Writers are monsters. We eat everything we see… In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
This serial memoir follows Charlotte over the course of several years as she falls in and out of love, muses on the nature of sex work and the value of beauty, discovers hidden emotional complexities and contemplates leaving her profession. Growing out of a series of confessional letters sent by the author to a small…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist who became Iceland’s first billionaire: by his 40th birthday he had assets of around $4 billion. Among them was investment in Iceland’s oldest bank, Landsbanki – but in the 2008 financial meltdown, Landsbanki crashed, taking Bjorgolfsson with it.…
Idiocy is all around us, whether it’s the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don’t know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge? Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest…
’The first, last, best, and only scientific guide to learning in the classroom’ Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness In this revolutionary guide to learning, Professor Dan Willingham helps you study more efficiently and effectively, shrug away exam stress and make…
*** FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE APPEAL *** ’Agatha Christie for the 21st century’ – THE TIMES ’The queen of tricksy crime’ – SUNDAY TIMES Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now… The students of Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course have been…
How do you make your way in a fast-changing world? Why do we have less and less time? Why are some people unfaithful? Who governs the world? This book is about change – from the small and seemingly insignificant transitions in our day-to-day lives, to the big and almost incomprehensible shifts in human history.…
Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious – like an ocean – to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lines all the time, but don’t stop to consider them. In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson presents 30 such unseen boundaries, intriguing and…
Becoming a parent is a lifelong commitment filled with meaning and purpose. And it’s far from easy. You can experience moments of heroic compassion and humiliating failure even within the same day. But you aren’t alone. Throughout history, others have confronted the same challenges. The Daily Dad provides…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Perhaps you find yourself mired in indecision and uncertainty? (Would it be reassuring to give this a name: aboulomania?)Our phobias and manias are contradictory and multiple: deeply intimate, yet forged by the times we live in – the commonest form of anxiety…
There’s so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to our robot overlords. But Junaid Mubeen isn’t ready to throw in the towel just yet. As far as he is concerned, we have the creative edge over machines, because of a remarkable system…
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2023 Every detail is sharply placed … a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth’ The New York Times ’Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in space’ Bobby Palmer Kevin is a thirty-something homebody, happily committed to his…
Kategorier: Föroreningar och miljöhot Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Klimatförändringar Miljön
A carbon neutral future is possible – we have the technology to transform the global economy and guard against the worst effects of climate change. So how do we get to net zero? In Possible, entrepreneur and climate tech consultant Chris Goodall tackles sixteen challenges that we must overcome in making a just…
Thomas Brogan is a serial killer. With a trail of bodies in his wake and the police hot on his heels, it seems like Thomas has nowhere left to hide. That is until he breaks into an abandoned house at the end of a terrace on a quiet street. And when he climbs up into the loft, he realises that he can drop down into all…
Legendary author of The Artist’s Way Julia Cameron has pioneered the field of creative recovery, inspiring millions of people around the world to discover their true creative selves. Now in Write for Life, the ’Queen of Creativity’ speaks directly to writers – it is an openhearted invitation to…
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH A FAST COMPANY TOP SUMMER PICK ’Well-written, cogent and useful manual’ – David Allen, author of Getting Things Done ’Forte’s ideas really work.’ – Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing…
**From THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES comes even more MURDLE – the ’utterly addictive’ murderous puzzle book for armchair detectives everywhere** ’THE PUZZLE SENSATION OF THE YEAR!’ – JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of THE TWYFORD CODE ’I’M COMPLETELY…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor’s Pick* ’Terrific’ SARAH DUNANT ’Lively and intriguing … You’ll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL ’Highlights a rich tapestry of female…
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
’The queen of tricksy crime. Every page is a joy’ – SUNDAY TIMES’Brilliant – a heartwarming mystery not to be missed’ – OBSERVER’Wonderful. Ingenious and wholly satisfying’ – BRIAN MCGILLOWAYForty years ago, Steven Smith found a…
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human – from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker’s…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes by the likes of Michelangelo and Titian, a vibrant literary scene of beauty tips emerged – fuelling debates about cosmetics and adornment, with ’solutions’ to…
’Shockingly real, twisty and dark’ – INDEPENDENT ’Tense, thrilling and darkly comedic’ – HEAT ’The feminist update to Rosemary’s Baby we all needed’ – ANDREA BARTZ I wanted this baby so badly. But she may be the death of me… Anna Alcott is desperate to…
*** THE NEW MYSTERY PHENOMENON FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE APPEAL AND THE TWYFORD CODE *** ’An astonishing piece of work. Hallett is playing a different ball game to the rest of us’ – IAN MOORE ’A work of true genius, masterfully plotted’ – SARAH J. HARRIS ’Hallett has…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Management: ledarskap och motivation
Nothing stays the same. The only constant we now face is change, and the demand for those who can grasp its opportunities has never been greater. Organisations today must learn to continuously adapt – and adapt faster than their competition. It is this that will drive them forward and it is this that is the…
If we do what is right, everything else will follow: happiness, success, meaning, reputation, love. This is central to Stoic wisdom. The path isn’t always easy, but it is essential, and the alternative – taking the easy route – leads only to cowardice and folly. In the third book in his bestselling…
’A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects – filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance’ Rory Stewart Rogerson is an original – eloquent and always fascinating’ William Dalrymple At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy…
A devastating, darkly comic story of a woman’s slide into depression and institutionalisation from a master of razor-edged literary humour.
It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny – an…
’Julia Cameron invented the way people renovate the creative soul’ – New York Times The Artist’s Way has uncovered the potential of millions of people. International bestselling author Julia Cameron uses her experience and world-renowned techniques as a creativity coach to challenge her readers…
Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället
It’s been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces – perhaps the driving force – of world history: fear of God, of famine, war, disease, poverty,…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
This is a pocket-sized compendium of the world’s most useful tests – and a vital tool for anyone seeking to understand themselves and others. From leadership style to personality type, from IQ to EQ to MBTI, this little book provides the tools to analyse every trait you need to thrive. The bestselling…