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The Daily Stoic

Beautifully packaged daily doses of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is the Way.

Help Wanted

Clock in for a night shift - and for a moving multi-perspective novel about an exploited workforce that will be a major event in American letters

Wisdom Takes Work

The final installment in the New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues series: the essential, life-changing and hard-won virtue of wisdom.

Sanctuary

The Gun, the Ship and the Pen

'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when you arrive you wonder that you never did it before' - David

Inner Sense

'Science writing at its absolute best' Guy Claxton, author of Intelligence in the FleshInteroception is one of our most important - and most mysterious - senses. It's how our bodies tell our brains what we're feeling - when we're hungry, when we're cold, how we should respond to stress and panic. In Inner Sense, Caroline Williams uncovers a field that's poised to revolutionise health, and

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo - our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are. Alan Watts, key thinker of Western Zen Buddhism, explains how to reconsider our relationship with the world. We are in urgent need of a sense of our own existence, which is in accord with the physical facts and which overcomes our feeling of

A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France

We need to Talk about Kevin

Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to te

Concise 48 Laws of Power

Suitable for those with an interest in conquest, self-defense, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, this book teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world.

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.

Concise Art of Seduction

A guide to the art of seduction.

Do Dice Play God

Professor Ian Stewart explores the development and limits of the mathematics that tame uncertainty.

Concise Mastery

Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. This title builds on the strategies outlined in The 48 Laws of Power to provide a practical gui

How Are We Going to Explain This : Our Future on a Hot Earth

An international bestseller, the first climate book that doesn't leave the reader depressed: realistic and hopeful, witty and clarifying.

The Goodness Paradox

Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation special: the nature of our violence.

How Bad are Bananas

How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition updates all the figures (from data centres to hosting

The Concise Laws of Human Nature

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the concise edition of the definitive book on decoding the behaviour of the people around you.

Ego is the Enemy

A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.

SPQR

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire.