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For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an...

The Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of...

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. Winner of the Cross Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the...

In The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe - known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for his work in jungles...

Discover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official...

In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony,...

Of all the decisions a new parent makes, choosing that special name is the most significant and the most rewarding.

A new...

From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval...

Phillips... , Taylor...

What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world?

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and...

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and...

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously...

Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of...

Why do some countries succeed while others fail? What causes boom or bust? The World Trade Editor of the FT explains how the...

Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives...

James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire...

A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane.

Out at the eastern edge of...

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

The restoration of democracy...

London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city

Encircling London...

Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs

Hackney, That Rose-Red...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading...

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today...

'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell

Published shortly after...

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

English Food reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane...

'A reference bible... inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - Daily Mail Jane Grigson's...