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Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order.
The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe.
Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a shocking graphic interpretation of this controversial classic.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling…
The best-selling team behind Charcuterie deepens our understanding of an ancient craft.
An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century.
From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.
With the much-anticipated follow-up to his "Olympian landmark of modern gothic literature" (Harlan Ellison), Leslie Klinger completes his tour-de-force annotation of H.P. Lovecraft's canon of weird fiction.
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it was pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?In the tradition of…
A new collection of very short stories selected by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro.
An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
Rex Ogle's story of starting Year 7 on the free lunch programme is timely, heart-breaking and true.
The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past.
The "indispensable" guide (Forbes) returns in this extensively revised and expanded edition.
Mama's Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it-from dogs "adopting" the injuries…
The Nobel Prize-winning economist, in partnership with a leading progressive European think tank, presents a bold new economic platform to restore prosperity in Europe.
Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes…
This slim primer distills Sharma's decades of experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash. A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, 10 Rules is…
"This is the book I wanted as a child and didn't have, the book I'd have liked both to give to my children and to keep for myself, the book I shall give my grandchildren." -A. S. Byatt, from the introduction to The Annotated Brothers Grimm
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Louisa May Alcott illuminates the world of Little Women and its author.
Eight gleefully macabre vignettes by an award- winning comics artist, as delightful as they are deadly.
Cause for international celebration-the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades.
The four classic novels of Sherlock Holmes, heavily illustrated and annotated with extensive scholarly commentary, in an attractive and elegant slipcase.
A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-the tax system.
Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry's quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.
"People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." - Rebecca Solnit
A biography of one of America's most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.
In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realisation: their rapidly industrialising and globalising societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle…