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Why are some nations more prosperous than others? This book sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. It explains why the world…
An irreverent but informative primer on what makes the world go round. For children aged 7+.
Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman. He 'brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can' ALAN WARNER
THE #1 BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON - NOW WITH A NEW PREFACE You have never read a book like this before--a book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever. In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered.…
Lonely Planet's Cape Town & the Garden Route is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Soak in the view from the summit of Table Mountain, take a boat to Robben Island, and explore the beaches,…
This collection is a look through the microscope at the real fundamentals of our buildings, revealing the essential design techniques used by any architect, anywhere, anytime. Conceived by Rem Koolhaas and made with the Harvard Graduate School of Design,…
Admirers of Russian literature claim that the 'Slavic soul' of writers such as Chekhov or Tolstoy can't be fully appreciated in translation. For the less ambitious, the language will bring you closer to deciphering the 'riddle wrapped in a mystery insidea
Lonely Planet's South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Fill your days with beaches and wineries in Cape Town, spot wildlife galore in Kruger National Park,…
The cross-over you never saw coming: BATMAN/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, now in a deluxe edition, complete with scripts, variant covers and other behind the scenes materials! Join the Bat and some teenage turtles as they try to save their cities from…
Two of the most popular culture franchises of all time go toe to shell when Batman teams up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the highly anticipated second volume of this epic crossover event, BATMAN/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II!
A book of hilarious and fascinating answers to the most famous questions posed in pop songs, using data, facts and science.
Advice, tips, thoughts and ruminations for artists at every stage of their life and career
Whether at home or at school, morning or night, we all eat food. This book provides a wonderful insight to every aspect of food from farming to cooking, nutrition to tasting. Find out what colour carrots used to be, what the last meal served on the Titanic…
All the grief, grit, and unassailable dignity of the civil rights movement are evoked in this illustrated edition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, with photographs by Steve Schapiro. Together, Baldwin's frank account of the black experience and…
Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared.…
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale…
Meet Rudolph Michael Schindler, the Austrian-born architect who combined Cubism, the International Style, and Californian Modernism into "space architecture." Unnoticed for decades, his structures are today hailed as landmarks of the Modernist…
'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday TimesThe Sixties, for many, was a time of new ideas, freedom, and renewed hope - from the civil rights movement to Woodstock. But towards the end of 1969 and the start of…
Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989, this original and wide-ranging study places the transformation of Eastern Europe in a global context, providing new perspectives on the relationship between globalisation and the collapse…
An exploration of the relationship between Marxist theory and Artificial Intelligence.
The Dark Knight and the heroes in a half shell reunite! The team behind the smash-hit crossover series brings Batman and Robin to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles New York to fight the menace Bane! But will Donatello s attempt to fix things create an…
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'GuardianSammy's had a bad week. Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not.
From the momentus invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today - this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history, the forms and materials…
