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'With clarity and compassion, DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as a practice not...

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas...

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can...

A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history

In this major retelling of...

Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in...

The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums

In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery....

An inspiring and practical guide to achieving bold ambitions

Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments,...

From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity

Farming is the...

A mind-bending exploration of non-human intelligence, and how it holds the keys to our continuing life on earth

What does it...

One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics transforms the way we...

A funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and why the smallest people have the answers to the biggest questions

'Anyone can...

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the...

We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are...

A finely spun history of clothes and where they come from

Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these...

Near the river Klaralven, snug in the dense forest landscape of northern Varmland, lies the secluded village of Osebol. It is a...

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in...

An essential guide to navigating our data-driven world, from the renowned psychologist and author of Risk Savvy

Is more data...

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to...

What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?

In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading...

In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a...

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin...

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent...

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French...

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds.
For as long as we've studied the mind,...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cycles of racial violence in America

Barack...

London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down,...

The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it

In the summer of 1964, a reclusive...

Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six...