HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato\'s Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.

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

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

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \'Extremely important and brilliant work... [Hersey] is a revolution.\' - Glennon Doyle, activist and bestselling author of Untamed, Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior\'Essential...Rest is a necessary step in reclaiming our power to resist systemic oppression.\' - Ibram X. Kendi, activist, professor and bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist\'This book will

The latest edition of the bestselling guide to running a successful gallery, told from the expert perspective of art-world insiders What makes an art gallery successful? How do galleries ensure their marketing is right?

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world?

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before\'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down\' Observer\'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story\' Sunday Times*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021**WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE

Now in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich\'s A Little History of the World, a lively journey through the story of language With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert

THE INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN HARDBACK\'A superb survey of planetary politics\'The Sunday TimesSpy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions.

\'Thrilling, provocative and mind-expanding\' Mail on Sunday \'Masterful and illuminating\' DAVID EAGLEMAN

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?

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 world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways-from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity-geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip.

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.

Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking \'What happened to you?\' rather than \'What\'s wrong with you?\'. Through wide-ranging and often deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood - both good and

A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia\'s complex past, present, and future. For Wade Davis, Colombia was the first country that captured his heart and gave him license to be free.

\'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year\' BILL BRYSON The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing.

\'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success\' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our so

\'Women so empowered are dangerous\' Written with a \'black woman\'s anger\' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as \'other\'. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases

Lonely Planet explores over 30 customs around death, grief and rebirth in cultures and communities around the world and highlights some of the lessons we can all learn from them. With first-person narratives, local people tell the stories of their culture\'s customs in their own voices.