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McKinsey earns billions advising almost every major corporation as well as countless governments, including Britain’s, the USA’s and China’s. It boasts of its ability to maximise efficiency while making the world a better place. Its millionaire partners and network of alumni go on to top jobs in…
From the author of the powerful, prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Breathless is the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its…
.it wasn’t a human being I killed, it was a principle!’A troubled young man commits the perfect crime – the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss.
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid’s Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before.
”Everything Handmaids wear…
’Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.’
Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel – a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and…
eanette is adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God’s elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves.
A visionary description of what a new physics – one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain – might look like. It is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is.
In this illuminating book Penrose provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: mysterier och övernaturligt Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
The definitive biography of one contemporary culture’s most iconic and mysterious figures – musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artistIn 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle – the Plantagenet queens broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill.
Beginning with the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine whose marriage to Henry II…
Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn’t know that…
When Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his family, they suffer the shame of penury and migration layered on Kurdish statelessness. Agri Ismail’s electrifying debut novel follows the lives of Rafiq’s three children and their…
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley’s enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic…
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet – who escapes from teaching at a girls’ school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and women of…
Autumn 1929 – a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The child remembers nothing of these events and at home, nobody ever speaks of them again.
Decades later, Laura Cumming delves into the mystery surrounding her …
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.
Haruki Murakami’s books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know…
Social media is supposed to bring us together – but it is tearing us apart The evidence suggests it’s making us sadder, angrier, less empathetic, more fearful, more isolated and more tribal.
Jaron Lanier is the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the…
Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory.’An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectual world’ Observer
From the turbulence of the weather to the complicated rythmns of the human heart,…
Kategorier: Medicin och omvårdnad
A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right…
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?
We all have a random collection of the things that made us – photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of…
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her…
’Bursting with vitality and variety, it’s a tour-de-force’ Sunday TimesMicah Mortimer isn’t the most polished person you’ll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly. He measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning…
If you loved BBC4’s Hemingway, If you loved BBC4’s Hemingway, enjoy Ernest Hemingway’s most decadent novel. Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home.
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This is not a romance, but it is about love…
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013
Sheila’s twenties were going to plan.
She got married.She hosted parties.A theatre asked her to write a play.
Then she realised that she didn’t know how to write a play. That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party. And that…
This is Colette’s famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.
Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Cheri – a playboy half her age.…
A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the author
Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in…
VOLUME TWO OF TWO
A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction’s boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from all over the globe
’The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.’ Forty years ago, William Gibson wrote…
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YOU CAN’T SAVE YOUR KIDS. BUT CAN YOU STOP THEM?
’A pretty much flawless thriller…terrific characters are subtly and mercilessly pushed along by a plot as propulsive as it is constantly surprising.’ LEE CHILD
It’s…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West; by supporting the far right in Europe, invading Ukraine in 2014, and waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the creation…
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can…
Including ’The Hill We Climb,’ the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this luminous poetry collection by Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman…