Allen Lane (161 kníh )
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Benjamin Moser SontagThe definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism...
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Malcolm Gladwell Talking to StrangersIn July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? ...
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Thomas L. Friedman Thank You For Being Late ENFrom the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying. In…
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John Bradshaw The Animals Among UsWhy do humans love animals? The bestselling author of In Defence of Dogs and Cat Sense gives us the answers. Keeping pets is expensive, time-consuming, and seemingly irrational - so why do so many of us have an animal in our lives? Modern-day pet-keeping has been justified for many reasons, from the potential therapeutic role pets can play, to their appealing 'cuteness'. But pet-keeping is much more than just a…
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Donald Sassoon The Anxious TriumphThe long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians. Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system ...
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Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature ENThis riveting, myth-destroying book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest that this is an almost obscene claim to be making. And wasn't the twentieth century the most devastatingly brutal in history? Extraordinarily,…
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Richard Overy The Birth of the RAF 1918A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding. The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright ...
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Bessel van der Kolk The Body Keeps the ScoreAllen Lane: A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma does not just happen to other people - it happens to us, our friends and family and our neighbours. While humans are able to rebound from relentless wars, family violence and manmade disasters, experiences like these inevitably leave traces: on our minds, our emotions and even…
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Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie The Book of WhyA pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world...
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David Abulafia The Boundless SeaFrom the award-winning author of The Great Sea, a magnificent new global history of the oceans and of humankind's relationship with the sea. For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade...
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Donald D. Hoffman The Case Against RealityA groundbreaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two. Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no we see what we need ...
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Slavoj Žižek The Courage of Hopelessness ENIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite…
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Paul Broks The Darker the Night, the Brighter the StarsWhen celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks' wife died of cancer, he found himself plunged into the world of the bereaved. As he experienced the pain, alienation and suffering that make us human, his clinician-self seemed to watch on with keen interest.
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Bruno Macaes The Dawn of EurasiaIn this original and timely book, Bruno Maçães argues that the best word for the emerging global order is 'Eurasian', and shows why we need to begin thinking on a super-continental scale. While China and Russia have been quicker ...
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Paul Davies The Demon in the MachineWhen Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question...
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Joseph Stiglitz The Euro ENSolidarity and prosperity fostered by economic integration: this principle has underpinned the European project from the start, and the establishment of a common currency was supposed to be its most audacious and tangible achievement. Since 2008, however, the European Union has ricocheted between stagnation and crisis. The inability of the eurozone to match the recovery in the USA and UK has exposed its governing…
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Orlando Figes The EuropeansFrom the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer,...
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Michael Lewis The Fifth RiskThe phenomenal new book from the international bestselling author of The Big Short'The election happened ... And then there was radio silence.'The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that d
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Alexander Watson The FortressIn the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a scale previously unimaginable. On both the Western and Eastern fronts elaborate war plans lay in ruins and had been discarded in favour of desperate ...
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Paul Collier The Future of CapitalismFrom world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities
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Michio Kaku The Future of HumanityHuman civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity: whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in rich, accessible detail how humanity might gradually develop a…
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Michio Kaku The Future of the Mind ENRecording memories, mind reading, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis - no longer are these feats of the mind solely the province of overheated science fiction. As Michio Kaku reveals, not only are they possible, but with the latest advances in brain science and recent astonishing breakthroughs in technology, they already exist. In The Future of the Mind, the New York Times-bestselling…
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Joseph E. Stiglitz The Great Divide ENA singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and economic uncertainty, Joseph E. Stiglitz has for years offered trenchant analysis of our greatest economic problems. The Great Divide gathers his most provocative reflections to date on the subject of inequality, probing for answers to the greatest threat to American prosperity and explaining the role it has played in the country's ongoing malaise.…
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Mark Synnott The Impossible ClimbIf you loved watching Free Solo, you'll be enthralled by Mark Synnott's deeply reported, insider perspective on Alex Honnold's impossible climb. One slip, one false move, one missed toehold and you're dead...