How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century.

\'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world\' Hannah DawsonWe have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism?

When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled the country\'s media, wrested control and wealth from the country\'s burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy.

\'An ambitious and masterly account of utopian protest in Europe ... Fast-paced, with an eye for telling detail and written with a light touch\' Robert GildeaIn post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world.

Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age.

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past?

A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year \'No one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written.\' - Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt Delete

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 this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of \"electricity of intelligence\" that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better with advanced science being done by machines who can solve problems humans can not.

China\'s economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world\'s second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world\'s steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa

A green paradise high above the city\'s rooftops is something so many people dream of, including those living in cities and searching for peace and quiet. Whether it\'s a communal garden for an entire building or an exclusive personal and private oasis, a colourful sea of flowers, home-grown vegetables or a pool, there are no limits when it comes to the imagination of amateur gardeners.

\'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,

What do we really know about immigration? Immigration is one of the most controversial issues these days.

The scuba-diving philosopher and bestselling author of Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean\'s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower-like worms, whose rooted bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life than anything recognisably animal.

Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error.

What would a fair and equal society look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.

\'A wonderfully clear and readable book . . . Gives a splendid overview of our Sun\'s planetary system, including its history and exploration\' Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is.

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate.

\'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book\' Peter Frankopan, Spectator\'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection\' Telegraph*The dramatic history of Europe\'s shape-shifting centre, from the author of The Habsburgs*Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings,

The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity\'s relationship with other animals - for the good of us all. \'The book that had the most impact on me\' JANE GOODALL\'Probably the single most influential document in the history of ... animal welfare\' GUARDIANIn 1975, Animal Liberation started a global movement when it uncovered the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories and showed