The world is moving towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. But building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires digging more mines.

A brilliantly original exploration of humanitys intimate relationship with technology, from the emergence of our species to the advent of AI and beyond.

A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historianThe Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure.

You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there\'s another side to Bill Gates.

\'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.

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths Mathematics shapes almost everything we do.

\'Some days I love my body, some days I hate my body, but every day I respect my body.\'What does it really feel like when you respect your body? For many of us, a neutral approach to our physical self, based on compassion and acceptance, requires a revolutionary shift in how we think about ourselves.

A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification -- and the lives that are altered in the process. The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don\'t realize just how threatening it is.

We are all descended from migrants. Humans are, in in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal.

**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR** \'Essential and definitive\' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN\'S PEOPLE We are in a new era.

Much has been written about the challenges tech presents to equality and democracy. But we can either criticize big data and automation or steer it to do better.

\'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight\' Steven Pinker \'Bold, intriguing, profound\' Jay Elwes, Spectator Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory: because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then patterns.

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.

The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Economists are widely reviled and their influence derided by the general public.

The No.1 New York Times Bestseller \'Reminds us that the mind is the greatest mystery in the universe\' Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian, Books of the Year Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? Join Michael Pollan on a journey to the frontiers of the human mind.

Award-winning cook Anna Jones blazes the trail again for how we all want to cook now: quick, sustainably and stylishly. In this exciting new collection of over 200 simple recipes, Anna Jones limits the pans and simplifies the ingredients for all-in-one dinners that keep things fast and easy.

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.

Well-behaved women don\'t make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism\'s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights.

\'What\'s the central aim? To make vegetables delicious, to make them irresistible, to come up with a whole bunch of recipes that are easy, family-friendly, and just make it that much easier to put a load of veg into your diet every single day.\' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Hugh\'s River Cottage Veg Every Day! became the UK\'s best-selling vegetable cookbook, persuading us through sheer temptation

A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature   What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from?