Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind almost no objects, images, ruins. They created no empires. This title explores t
Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energ
An account of the last months of the life of President John F. Kennedy weaves together his public and private life and addresses the tantalizing mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when
The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. This title allows us to understand the personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi. Drawing on many sources loca
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in
Guides us through the critical eras and events in the development of science. This book offers a tribute to humanity's intellectual curiosity. It features profiles of philosophers, scientists, and thi
Tells the story of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but re
In our individualistic world, is shame an outdated, moralising concept - or is it something that we can rediscover and use in a new way? What can we gain from redefining shame to help solve the social
Worshipped as gods, feared as demonic servants, seen as both wild opportunists and beloved companions, cats often seem as unfathomable, enigmatic and magical to us today as they did in ancient times.
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us ab
Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In this book, the author takes us on a surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance
Looks at the shape of society in the digital age, of the direction in which the 21st Century may take us. From urging us to drop outdated ideas of the internet to showing how to design more humane and
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal
"A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures This is how Emmanuel Carráere, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, chameleon, de
On Liberty is the story of today's threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights, from Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the advocacy group Liberty
From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists Hans Ul
Luiz Eduardo Soares does for Rio what Suketu Mehta's Maximum City did for Bombay. A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleido
Teaches the skills you need to do physics yourself. This title introduces all the key concepts, from classical mechanics to general relativity to quantum theory.
Why, it asks, did Sweden experience a fall in suicides during its banking crisis? What triggered a mosquito-borne epidemic in California in 2007? What caused 10 million Russian men to 'disappear' in t
Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking new book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the definin
