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From the man who brought you Born to Run: a radical new approach to fitness
An entertaining miscellany of logical curiosities - from anecdotes and proofs to puzzles and puns - found outside the classroom.
A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from one of America's most celebrated poets.
An in-depth look at the explosion of fandom, and how fans are transforming the future of business.
Globalisation was once the vision of the future; not any more. How we make things is changing, and with it the world order.
Based on a series of letters Warren Buffet wrote at an early age to his small but growing group of partners, these are easy-to-follow ground rules from the world's most successful investor.
The cult novel adored by feminists and fashionistas alike, now in paperback.
Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science.
China's War of Resistance against Japan, as WWII is known in China, was never about the defeat of Japan alone. China was also at war with itself. Between 1937 and 1949, a vicious revolutionary war between Nationalists and Communists, divided by radically…
In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language…
A literary quiz full of quotes that will challenge, cheer and enlighten book buffs.
Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals how a classic work - a Perennial Seller - is made and marketed.
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' -- Naomi Klein, Author of No Logo, the Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No is Not EnoughThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital…
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A…
At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20 million Russians had died. And by 1950, a third of the…
Want to know what's next for the human race? Step into Jim Al-Khalili's time machine ...
Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep. A miss-timed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved…
A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
A new cover edition of this classic business bestseller, ranked in a poll by Bloomsbury Publishing as 'the greatest business book of all time'.
Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters…
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…
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon SchamaOscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world…
In 2016, one of the giants of modern journalism fell: Gawker Media, infamous for saying what other outlets wouldn't say, was sued for publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape, lost the case and went bust. After countless other lawsuits it seemed that Gawker…
