\'An outstanding intellectual biography.\' Eugene Rogan In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a prince? Mikha’il Mishaqa’s lifelong search for truth starts here.

\'MASTERFUL\' Time Out\'REVELATORY\' Scotland on Sunday\'GLORIOUSLY READABLE\' Metro\'FASCINATING\' Independent \'EXCELLENT\' Telegraph\'ABSORBING\' GuardianWinner of the British Sports Book AwardsFootball Book of the YearThe fifteenth anniversary edition, fully revised and updated, of Jonathan Wilson\'s modern classic.In the modern classic, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world\'s

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought

\'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom\' Dr Rangan Chatterjee \'Enlightening and entertaining’ Helen Thorn \'Ditch all the other parenting books\' Matt Rudd \'Witty and informative\' Meik Wiking What do Vikings know about raising children? Turns out, quite a lot… After a decade of living in Denmark and raising a family there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic children

A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader\'It was just sex.\'It\'s a familiar claim. But is it really possible?The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it.

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the Free—not just for the people and their purported ideals

Turn your living space into an indoor oasis with the RHS\'s definitive guide to more than 330 house plant varieties. Take your house plant collection to the next level with RHS House Plant.

Acclaimed mathematician David Sumpter shows how we can deal with the chaos and complexity of our livesWhat is the best way to think about the world? How often do we consider how our own thinking might impact the way we approach our daily decisions?

For all of neuroscience\'s advances, we\'ve made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know.

In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies This ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. From an evolutionary perspective, if normal is defined as what most people have done for millions of years, then it\'s normal to

In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey\'s music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior.

A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE \'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology\' Richard Dawkins \'Crawls with curious facts\' Sunday Times We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of \'aliens\'

\'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century\' MATTHEW SYED Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network?

\'I want to press it on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool, any woman who thinks the most important gender battles are won, pretty much every man I know, and say, have you thought about this?\' Sophie McBain, New Statesman \'Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century\' - Amanda Marcotte Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration,

The material world is itself emptiness. Emptiness is itself the material world.

\'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world\' - The Times \'Entertaining . . . like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood\' - New Statesman What if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise or choose the time of our painless death? To find out, Jenny Kleeman has interviewed a sex robot, eaten

Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it.

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. \"I love Olly\'s work - and you will too!\" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly

\'One of our best-known living philosophers\' Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong.

The landmark self-help bestseller that has inspired and enhanced the lives of more than 30 million readers. In this updated edition, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Matt Furey, president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, the original 1960 text has been annotated and amplified to make Maxwell Maltz\'s message even more relevant for the contemporary reader.