This handsome gift edition presents Friedrich Nietzsche\'s extraordinary work, Ecce Homo, featuring a luxurious, gold-embossed cover design, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers.Ecce Homo is Nietzsche\'s last great work, a fascinating and bizarre text which traces the development of his own philosophy and the thinkers who influenced him along the way. Both shocking and revealing, Ecce Homo is

\'An enthralling guide one of the world\'s great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul. A book that is as informative as it is enjoyable\'PETER FRANKOPANWalking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country\'s history,

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

Here\'s how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes... We start with Romulus, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly tedious list of battles and generals and consuls, before emerging into the political stab-fest of the late Republic. From there, it runs through all the emperors, occasionally mentioning a wife or mother to show how bad things get when women get out

Are we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled \'snowflakes\'? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children\'s futures?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Crack the code to your future dreams Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has been leading the charge to get girls interested in technology and coding.

Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it developing?

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND \'It\'s a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering\' New Statesman \'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded\' The Guardian Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities

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.

Society is full of would-be \'change agents\'-campaigners, government officials, enlightened business people, engaged intellectuals-set on improving public services, reforming laws and regulations, guaranteeing human rights, achieving a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, and greater recognition for any number of issues. Drawing on many first-hand examples and numerous new case studies and interviews

What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit.

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world. Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold explanatory graphics The World War II Book explores the causes, key events, and lasting consequences of the Second World War.

\'An indispensable book for these times\' - Big Issue \'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU\'s structures and operating methods\' - Financial Times For most of us today, \'Europe\' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the EU remains a black box, closed to public understanding.

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\'

\'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford\' BILL BRYSON \'Entertaining . . . A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet often overlooked inventions that have changed the way we live\' The Times \'Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration\' MALCOLM GLADWELL \'Harford is a fine, perceptive writer, and an effortless explainer of tricky

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We\'ve survived and thrived because we\'ve never stopped moving... In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future.

\'Powerful [and] intelligent\' - Fareed Zakaria, CNN \'Superbly researched and written\' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post America\'s political system isn\'t broken. The truth is scarier: it\'s working exactly as designed.

French photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire. The subjects of these unlikely photographs are incidental to the purpose of Google Street View - captured by serendipity, rather than design, they are accorded a common vernacular.

The history of feminism told through its most prominent advocates, including a diverse range of international names and faces. The Periodic Table of Feminism is an empowering, engaging and informed look at the feminist movement through the international figures who have shaped it, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Caitlin Moran by way of Simone de Beauvoir and Oprah.

\"A Scheherazade for our time.\" -- Daily Telegraph What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage?