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The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps...

From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other

For the...

In Feral, George Monbiot, one of the world's most celebrated radical thinkers offers a riveting tale of possibility and travel in...

Self-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to...

When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the...

Pearson English Active Readers present stories carefully written and graded across five levels for teachers of English who want...

After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end....

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded...

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable...

The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth...

As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it...

Butman... , Targett...

In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us...

Humanity’s embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange – whether it’s goods, ideas or...

Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.

The puzzles of...

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and...

We’ve decided by consensus that consensus is good. In this essential book, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle...

A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.

In public estimation, sloths have...

Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion...

The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s...

Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it...

Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of...

Pain is a universal human experience, but we understand very little about the mechanics behind it. We hurt ourselves, we feel...

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering...

'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic...

New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely...

Busting the Diabetes Myth provides an effective and evidence-based approach to guide people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes...

From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed ‘the most daring and delightful novelist of his...