'Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit of thou..
A story of friendship, history and redemption on a remote Norwegian island
We are all in need of lights to follow.
One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote No..
This majestically illustrated and deeply insightful guide explores 100 of the most spiritually significant places throughout the world, seeking to understand what it is that defines these sites. Spiri..
Love plants? Appreciate design? Want to combine the best of the two in your home?
The Plant Society Design Handbook brings together essential know-how for incorporating the ethereal magic of plants..
'A riveting read that skips along at pace. Illuminating and concerning, it lifts the lid on the tawdry world of Westminster powerbroking' Tim Shipman, The Times
The explosive behind-the-scenes ac..
Learn how to understand the skies with this comprehensive pocket guide to cloudspotting. Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variabi..
This pocket-size version ofUniversal Principles of UXfeatures the concepts and guidelinesincluded in the original version in a handy, condensedtake-along format. Richly illustrated and easy to navigat..
A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces.
'A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music' Rolf Hind,..
DK's bestselling series now fully revised and updated
Is it right to depose an unjust ruler? Is democracy really the best form of government? And can war ever be justified?
Explaining the ke..
What exactly is contemporary war art in the West today? This book considers the place of contemporary war art in the 2020s, a whole generation after 9/11 and long past the 'War on Terror'.
Explor..
Taking a broad definition of design and drawing on the shared histories and legacies of settler colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, The Politics of Design offers a wide-ra..
Featuring 300 cards of iconic pop culture moments from the beginning of the century to now, players must arrange each event in chronological order to win.
From movie releases to music videos, fas..
After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also pop..
A comprehensive introduction to the styles and techniques of portrait photography.
Through simple projects on subjects such as 'Making Self-Portraits' and 'Capturing Personal Moments' as well as..
The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
The illuminated manusc..
'Warm, honest and full of inspiring tips, Florence's story shows us that pottery has the power to soothe the heart and heal the mind.' JULIA SAMUEL
'An honest and redemptive story about the..
All organizations have a culture, whether they acknowledge it or not, and whether it's helping or hindering them. Get it right, and culture can be a positive force for good. Get it wrong, and culture ..
'Every page of this book is fascinating, glorious, and profound. This is one of the great frontiers of science for our age'
Daniel M. Davis, author of The Beautiful Cure and The Secret Body
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An acclaimed psycholinguist reveals how language shapes our brain - and moulds the way we look at the world
Why should we learn more than one language?
Can it change the way we think?
Does it..
New in Penguin paperback, this bestseller explores why certain brief experiences can jolt, elevate and change us, and show how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our own life and wor..
The bestselling self-help book of its generation - which has sold millions of copies worldwide. Eckhart Tolle demonstrates how to live a healthier and happier life by living in the present moment.
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Discover the transformative power of words and conversations in The Power of Words, the profound and inspiring international bestseller by renowned neuroscientist Mariano Sigman.
We have hundreds..
This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvellously the Pre-Raphaelites' focus on the natural world intersected with the Victorian passion for all things botanical. Short-lived ..
The most comprehensive, up-to-date, visual guide to pregnancy on the global market
Just discovered you're pregnant? Feeling a little bit overwhelmed?
The Pregnancy Encyclopedia is here for ..
What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not capitalist profiteering from the energy transition, but that saving the planet is not profitable enough..
* $2-3,000 to save the life of a child in Africa
* GBP15,180 to hire a hitman
* $368,901 to pay the average ransom demand
We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creatin..
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography, recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure
First published in 1960, The Prime of Life of..
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief trea..
An inspiring guide to embracing your mortality and living a fulfilled life
* Shares the author's inner adventure to face aging, illness, and death, along with hard-won wisdom on the art of restin..
Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, a..
DK's best-selling guide to the history of psychology - now fully revised and updated
How do our minds influence the way we behave? How do our bodies and minds work together? Do we have free will?..
Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
Money - investing, personal finance, and busine..
From the host of award-winning podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold comes The Psychology of Secrets, a bizarre, surprising and thrilling deep dive into the psychology of secrecy.
We all keep secr..
The Sunday Times bestseller
'I found myself laughing like the proverbial loon for page after page' Will Self
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What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insan..
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media
Take a step through the looking-glass to a strange land,..
When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of..
The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action...
A completely redesigned and updated edition of The Queen's Dolls' House, to include new photography and discoveries made during the recent conservation of the Dolls' House.
The Queen's Dolls' Hou..
A fascinating exploration of the Divided Woman, the key to understanding why women cannot take a hero's journey. Every woman battles being a Divided Woman, whether she is a stay-at-home mom or a high-..
Beginning with early trailblazers like Different from the Others, Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema's greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock's Rope and cult classic Th..
A fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist's 90th birthday in December 2022.
Quentin Blake is an artist who has charm..
What would be your ideal job if money didn't matter? How far would you go for a promotion? When did you last stand up for what you believe in? What are you afraid of?
In this unique handbook to l..
This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate - one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influe..
The first trivia book from the team behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, investigating the provenance of historical objects, real and metaphorical, with intelligence and humour.
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A quest for the secrets of happy, healthy whole-life running, and how runners can keep enjoying their sport, whatever their age
'In The Race Against Time, Askwith touches upon something larger th..
A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think about growing older.
A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, ..
Athlete. Icon. Activist. This is a powerful account of a woman's journey to run free.
Banned from the sport she loved because she was labelled 'different', Olympic and World Champion Caster Semen..
In this transformative book, Nicola Rollock, one of our pre-eminent experts on racial justice, offers a vital exploration of the lived experience of racism
Miles, a successful lawyer, is mistaken..
A chunky sticker book with thousands of individual letters that can be turned into uniquely idiosyncratic messages or decorations of all kinds.
Everyone loves the cool graphic look of the class..
Scattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our time. You've probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a ..
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?
The green-t..