Lean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called 'lean thinking' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow...

Already on the bookshelves of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, Life 3.0 is a timely and accessible interrogation of the technology that seems poised to either elevate or destroy us. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction...

Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of...

Building on the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the second part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Frodo and...

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Sauron, the...

What of the Dark Fariy, Maleficent? Why does she curse the princess to fall into an eternal sleep? Many tales have tried to explain her motives. Here is one account, pulled from those passed down through the ages. It is a story of love and betrayal,...

Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein is an astonishing journey through the mind, and secrets of how our memory really works. Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys...

How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials...

Through a narrative that alternates hysterical humour with profoundly touching drama, The Rosie Project introduces Don Tillman, obsessively organized yet perennially unlucky in love.   The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a...

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic...

Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel.Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.1967: Ye Wenjie...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and...

Chosen as one of Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club!Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary...

A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. The stunning, internationally bestselling sequel to Caraval After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett...

Returning to the island of Trisda and the seductive game that has tested the Dragna sisters to their limits, Finale delivers a breath-taking conclusion to Garber’s bestselling Caraval series.   Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author...

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores...

WINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016An International Bestseller / A Guardian Summer Read / An Amazon Best Book of the Month / A Goodreads Best Book of...

Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection."One of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post."Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."-Library Journal (Best...

Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and fantasizes about the day that she too will get a love confession that will send her heart a-flutter. Yet when a male classmate confesses his feelings for her... she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu...

(Available after 3-20 days)Anime coming July 2020! You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Reeling from a bad breakup, Kazuya rents the beautiful, polite Chizuru for a date. But rock bottom might be so much lower than he thought! Chizuru is much...