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'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams'This is a book I will come back to again and again' Nichola RaihaniHow game theory -...
A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the...
An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times). To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the...
As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to negotiating this pivotal...
Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to reshape nature for our purposes - so much so it seems we may be in...
A candid and practical guide to the new frontier of brain customizationDozens of books promise to improve your brain function with a gimmick. Lifestyle changes, microdosing, electromagnetic stimulation: just one weird...
A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his timeJohnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the...
Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy itHumans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of...
In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday.In movies, books, and...
The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homelandIn the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico....
An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory...
The “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) story of how military technology has transformed the worldThe history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE'Magnificent . . . Important and hugely readable' William Dalrymple, Financial Times'A wildly ambitious and entertainingly lurid history' James Barr, The Times'Highly readable . . . Baer's fine book gives a panoramic and...
The New York Times bestselling author ofThe Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is...
'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English...
In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of "electricity of intelligence" that is altering every...
"With a fine combination of humor, compassion and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of life.”-Daniel Kahneman, Nobel award-winning author of Thinking, Fast and SlowA top expert...
With “groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience” (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is in and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health...
From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly threat to our health and well being. Yet most of us live or work in...
'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the...
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