John Murray (75 kníh )
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How to Be HumanDid you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to you, ...
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George Soros In Defence of Open SocietyGeorge Soros is among the world's most prominent public figures. He is one of the history's most successful investors and his philanthropy, led by the Open Society Foundations, has donated over $14 billion to promote democracy and human ...
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Luke Jennings Killing Eve - No TomorrowThe basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. SUNDAY TIMES Thriller of the Month. In a hotel room in Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call...
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Mattias Ribbing, Per Sundin Maths UnwrappedWhy do so many of us struggle to remember the maths we were taught at school? The answer is that we can successfully memorise things for a short period but we only retain those memories long term if we understand them...
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Lloyd Jones Mister Pip ENYou cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. Bougainville, 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's last day of school as, quietly, war is…
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Graham Lawton New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything ENIntroduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your keyboard is laid out in QWERTY (it's not to make it easier to type) or whether the…
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Oisín Fagan NobberAn ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling summer of 1348, using the advantage of the plague which has collapsed society to buy up large swathes of property and land. They come upon Nobber, a tiny...
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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big DataMarkets have long been acknowledged to be a superior mechanism for managing resources but until the advent of big data, they largely functioned better in theory than in practice. Now, as ideal markets are within reach because of ...
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Ronen Bergman Rise and Kill FirstFrom the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, the instinct to take every measure to defend the Jewish people has been hardwired into Israel's DNA. This is the riveting inside account of the targeted assassinations that have ...
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Alan Krueger RockonomicsAlan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and the forces shaping ...
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Jean Kwok Searching for Sylvie LeeIt begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother - and then vanishes. Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family...
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Olly Richards Short Stories in English for BeginnersShort Stories in English for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework ...
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Olly Richards Short Stories in English for Intermediate LearnersAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of English. Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from ...
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Olly Richards, Richard Simcott Short Stories in French for BeginnersShort Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European ...
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Alex Rawlings, Olly Richards Short Stories in German for BeginnersShort Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European ...
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Olly Richards Short Stories in Italian for BeginnersAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners...
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Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings Short Stories in Russian for BeginnersShort Stories in Russian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European ...
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Olly Richards Short Stories in Spanish for BeginnersAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give ...
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Kathy M. Eisenhardt, Donald Sull Simple Rules ENLife gets more complicated every day. Whether you're struggling with information overload, attempting to act effectively with limited resources or trying to change bad habits - all you need is Simple Rules. Donald Sull and Kathleen Eisenhardt have spent the last decade working with businesses around the world, and have developed a set of highly effective, tried-and-tested rules to help tackle complex problems,…
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Andrew Michael Hurley Starve AcreThe worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place...
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Joanne Lipman That's What She SaidWomen spend their working lives adapting to an environment set up for men, by men: from altering the way they speak to changing the clothes they wear to power posing. But still the gender gap persists...