Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction..A New York Times bestseller..Foreword by Oliver Sacks..What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a natur..
A hilarious, cheeky and revealing new astrology book for the gifting market which guides readers through the star signs to help them find their perfect match.
Have you ever been ensnared by a Sco..
Fame didn't actually make me happy. I was an insecure twenty-year-old and being famous made things worse back then. It was an era all about the way you looked and I still don't know how I squeezed thr..
Vanessa Kisuule is a big Michael Jackson fan. This fixation once gave her great joy, but now it keeps her up at night. In her bracingly honest, energetic and lively book she explores the fall-out from..
'For most of my lifetime, half of my own continent had been chilled by a Cold War and concealed behind an Iron Curtain. Now there was the prospect of being able to travel through once-forbidden lands;..
It is human nature to look to the past when seeking inspiration for the future - particularly in art. Unlike other genres which can typically be attributed to a specific time period or style, folk art..
We all want to be happy. This goal drives everything that we do. Why, then, are so many of us so unhappy? It's not your fault. You have been told a lie: that achieving your own success will make you h..
The New Oxford Style Manual brings together the new editions of two essential reference works in a single volume. Combining New Hart's Rules with the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, thi..
This book showcases different types of products and industrial designs for the household and personal use, introducing projects from all over the world. The main task for modern product designers is ..
New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the ma..
'Women's work' has historically been relegated to the domestic - absent from galleries and discussions of 'art'. From cross-stitching and quilts to baskets and decorative ceramics, women have spent ce..
Come to New York as a visitor, but experience it as a local, with the definitive guide to New York
If you're a first time visitor or familiar already, this guide will help you uncover an authenti..
(Edition revised in 2023), MICHELIN National Map New Zealand will give you an overall picture of your journey thanks to its clear and accurate mapping scale 1/600,000. Our National Map Series will h..
This is an up-to-date resource written with the aim of improving the literacy of dyslexic students. The authors are experienced university teachers and researchers with expertise in literacy. In putti..
The purpose of this book is to examine the foreign policy of Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand Government between 2020 and early 2023 when the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with an evolving and often tumul..
When you look up at the stars in the night sky it can be easy to think of them as lights glowing on a large dark ceiling. Can you identify the brightest stars and planets? Do you know which constellat..
The drama of New Zealand's changeable weather. Are the events we are seeing due to our changing climate?
A compelling, informative and highly illustrated series of investigations into the differe..
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and wor..
From well-known portraits of Monaco's "beautiful people" to rarely seen landscapes, this collection of images documents two decades of Helmut Newton's love affair with the sun-kissed world of the Fren..
A comprehensive, physiology-based guide to peakperformance for active women approaching or experiencing menopause-from the author ofRoar, renowned exercise and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims
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The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.
For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. ..
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world
From renowned historian and #1 Sunda..
Nga Kuaha: Voices and Visions in Maori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Maori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. ..
Otherworldly Portraits in an Age of Rising Sea Levels
SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, Nick Brandt's ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impac..
'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY
In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, h..
Horseshoe crabs and hibernating squirrels. Jet-lagged pilots and space station astronauts. Night owls and early birds. All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly and yearly cycles of plane..
A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky.
Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful companion to the night sky from Astronomy experts Collins..
Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights.
In anothe..
The bestselling authors of the First Forty Days encourage mothers-to-be to care for themselves-and not just their babies-during pregnancyThere is so much noise surrounding pregnancy and birth. There a..
Chris Burwell charts one man's career in aviation from joining the RAF in 1969 aged 18, to having responsibility for training pilots for the world's major airlines nearly 50 years later. After traini..
The New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues cu..
David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana and Oasis, Pete Doherty and Phil Collins, Prince and Motoerhead - the internationally acclaimed and renowned music photographer Paul Bergen has seen all the ..
Groundbreaking international bestseller to help you understand and challenge the destructive behaviours of your multifaceted mind.
'Innovative and transformational' - Gabor Mate
'Changed my lif..
The perfect gift for dog lovers worldwide! Dogs are Man's Best Friend but that wonderful relationship can be tested when that sweet but naughty mutt misbehaves behind the owner's back. This imaginat..
From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs and str..
No Future Without Forgiveness is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood and coming of age in the apartheid era in South Africa. He examines ..
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generatio..
Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 70,000 Jews previously shot to death in the forest. Trapped in almost unimaginable horror, a..
How do you build the most dynamic, disruptive business on earth? This is the Netflix founder's radical blueprint.
*** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year..
No Worries is a 12-week anxiety and self care journal that will help you process what's on your mind and gently re-frame your thoughts, so you can manage your worries before they start to spiral out o..
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic value..
One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is..
The Sunday Times bestseller
'A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding' Sunday Times
Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise.
'Noise may be the most important book I've read i..
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live
We are facing a species emergency. With every de..
Nonlinear Pedagogy is a powerful paradigm for understanding human movement and for designing effective teaching, coaching and training programmes in sport, exercise and physical education (PE). It add..