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Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to…
From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the…
Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she tries to complain,…
It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that we are perfect, just far less violent than most animals, especially our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and their…
What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? From the coast of the Adriatic to the salt spray of Santa Barbara, the narrator of Topics of Conversation maps out her life…
An empowering new way to make decisions as a parent - take out the judgement, use the data.
We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national…
How ideas moved the world from post-war to pre-war once more.
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.
The definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War.
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.
'Subtle, compendious and rich ... an emotive and serious work of what you might call history on the distaff side' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ...This book is equally…
An international bestseller, the first climate book that doesn't leave the reader depressed: realistic and hopeful, witty and clarifying.
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.
How to understand and parent your toddler to ensure they grow up to be fulfilled adults
'For those who love Magritte and those who do not, Danchev's biography will come as a revelation' Literary Review'[A] monumental biography of the inimitable surrealist artist ... sure to be the definitive account of the extraordinary artist's life' Publishers…
The classic work by one of the founding fathers of consciousness research.
A major new history of post-war Europe.
For the first time, discover the stories of the heroic men and women the Nazis singled out for death in their plan to invade Britain.
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of Stoicism's greatest practitioners.
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil.
A complete training plan that allows anyone to achieve results that were once only available to elite athletes - devised by Michael Jordan's trainer Tim S. Grover.
What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the world upside down. Funded by a billionaire on a crusade to…
A leading academic exposes the historical and cultural contexts which allow political strongmen to thrive.
The most important book about the history and future of politics since The End of History.
This startling history of secret psychological operations traces the century-long rise of organised deception from the Russian Revolution to contemporary internet troll farms.
Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended?
* THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH *'This dazzlingly clever cosy crime novel completely trumps Richard Osman. A modern Agatha Christie' - SUNDAY TIMES'This is a case you're about to become obsessed with. A triumph' - ALEX NORTH'A daring debut...Hallett…