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We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world’s leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it’s an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope…
The new interactive puzzle book from the creator of the bestselling cult phenomenon Journal 29The Cypher Files is an utterly unique reading experience. In this brain-bending interactive game, you’ll solve puzzles on every page, and obtain keys to move forward by submitting answers online. To solve each puzzle,…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
RULE #1: DON’T WATCH THE BALL
Yes, football is about stars, goals and glory. But it’s also about the intense calculations and movements being made by the twenty-one other players on the pitch. It’s about the ticking clock, and the bellowing fans, and their impact on player psychology. It’s about…
’He is an amazing talent, one of the best around’ Pep GuardiolaFootball’s most prolific and controversial goalscorer has nothing left to prove on the pitch. There is only one Zlatan. In the decade since his megaselling memoir I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he has played at Paris Saint-Germain (2012-2016),…
Wren Beaumont is a model student. Kind, clever and beautiful, she is loved by everyone at Lancaster Prep.
Everyone but brooding campus bad boy Crew Lancaster. Son of the family who own the school, Crew’s life seems easy – but with an overbearing father and high expectations, it’s anything but. Which…
The New York Times #1 Bestseller ’Millions of young women look to Marie Forleo as their inspiration for empowerment and achievement’ Oprah Winfrey’This book delivers a knockout punch to whatever is holding you back’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild Do you ever have trouble finishing what you…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Discover the epic adventure of legendary viking Geirmund Hel-hide in this new novel set in the world of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Mid-9th century. The Viking attacks and invasions are shattering England’s kingdoms. Born into a royal lineage of Norwegian kings, Geirmund Hel-hide sets out for…
What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk and bestselling author Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily lives, we can reconnect with our five senses and live in a more peaceful, positive way. When we focus on our…
One love story. An ending you will never forget . . . Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway. Two…
’The ultimate traveller guilty pleasure, offering a look inside some of the most compelling cabins around the world’ Lonely Planet Initially created by a group of friends as an online scrapbook, Cabin Porn became a phenomenon following the publication of the first volume of photographs of hand-made homes…
’More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall…
Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic – the idea that we have a connection with the universe – has developed a bad reputation.
It has been with us for millennia – from the curses and charms of ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish magic,…
A new edition of Keri Smith’s bestseller, with updated material
Think of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist’s Artist’s Way — the book for those who’ve always wanted to draw outside the lines but were afraid to do it.
For anyone who’s ever wished to, but had trouble starting,…
’A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac’ Washington Post’It’s true; Marxists just wanna have fun… a revolutionary bestseller’ GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto ’Che’ Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their…
Kategorier: Konst
THE BESTSELLING SWEDISH PHENOMENONWhat looks good and why?Design consultant Frida Ramstedt runs Scandinavia’s leading interior design blog. In this book she distils the secrets of successful interior design and styling to help you create a home that works best for your space, taste and lifestyle. Filled with…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
What do you do when you’re living on the streets and on your period? What does it feel like to have a poo after you’ve given birth? How do we learn to love our bodies again after they’ve been abused? And, how do you know if you’ve ever reallyorgasmed? We all have questions about our bodies but…
’Is it the world that’s busy, or my mind?’ The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and…
When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules.
Dr Jeff Rediger, a world-leading Harvard psychiatrist, has spent the last fifteen years studying thousands of individuals from around the world, examining the stories behind…
How do highly-successful people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates get so much done? The answer is time blocking; a time-management method that Cal Newport, productivity expert and bestselling author of Digital Minimalism, has been using for fifteen years. For the first time, this game-changing system has been captured…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020’As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read’ Tom HollandThe ’Viking Age’ is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The ’Viking Age’ is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, the…
The complete lyrics from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O’Hagan
From Nick Cave’s writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry’s Dream, DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! and Ghosteen,…
They know something you don’t know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by mathematicians and what can everyone else learn from them?
Their advantage can be reduced to a small number of equations. Ten of them. And, surprisingly, it isn’t…
The new book from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of TimeOne idea, more than any other, has transformed our understanding of the fabric of the universe: the quantum. Now Carlo Rovelli illuminates its mysteries. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering…
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics
Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair?
The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
What if being lucky wasn’t just chance but a skill you could master? Learn to identify and act on serendipity to lead a more joyful, purposeful, and successful life! ’A wise, exciting and life-changing book’ Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive
Modern life is full of chance encounters, changing…
Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of London Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER’S DESKThe chant of ’Azadi!’ – Urdu for ’Freedom!’ – is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir…
The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to…
Best friends share everything. Or do they?
When Lydia starts an online business, her closest friend Georgia wants to help. So she sets up a fake Twitter account to pose as a potential customer. But then Lydia begins to confide in her new online buddy. Georgia knows she should confess the truth, but she just…
Step into Stephen Fry’s richly colourful world of magic, mayhem, monsters and maniacal gods in MYTHOS: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses.
In Stephen Fry’s vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from…
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinead O’Connor’s voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on American television.…
This is the ”Penguin English Library Edition” of ”The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases” by Arthur Conan Doyle. ’He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson…He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of…
’The most compelling biography I have read in years . . .
There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research . . .
makes the story seem a cliffhanger even though we know what is coming’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times’In his utterly…