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The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet. If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is...

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.“A stirring,...

A Washington Post Most Anticipated Book for Fall • A Next Big Idea Club Must Read • One of Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2024 • One of UnTapped New York’s Best NYC Books of All Time • A Town &...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. "Searing and intimate... with masterly, white-hot reporting." – The New York Times. “The most important book in the lead up to this election.” – Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC. “As Dias and Lerer write, the...

Drawing from extensive research and told with journalistic verve, this compelling book from the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent unravels the events before and after the IRA’s attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and members of her...

'Eject! Eject!' When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the story. From the Sunday Times bestselling writer John Nichol, author of Spitfire, Lancaster and Tornado, comes a brilliant new book that reveals the...

A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year.“Enthralling.”―Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books.“This is a story not just about Pétain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of...

What do great enterprises have in common? What sort of person leads them? Where do the best new ideas come from? A single idea can help you find the next big thing, but it takes time to filter through hundreds of business books to find inspiration.With...

An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents an infinitely elastic formula for turning our toughest trials into our greatest triumphs.Since bestselling author Ryan Holiday introduced...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller.“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller. The inspiration for the HBO Original documentary Wild Wild Space, now streaming on Max. A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York...

Go deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan—but he was...

Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; Talleyrand held high office in five successive regimes from France's Ancient Regime, into the Revolution of 1789, Robespierre's Terror, Napoleon's epic wars, and on through...

DIARY OF A GENIUS stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dalí, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century's most...

Explore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary life. This new volume contains the Enchiridion and selected Discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus, who believed that moral philosophy should be a...

Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance. In On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman philosopher who wrote on the fleeting nature of existence...

The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph. “Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson did in The Splendid and the Vile.”―Kirkus...

Wellred edition featuring a new introduction providing the historical background to the Paris Commune, as well as Engels' 1891 introduction and articles by Lenin and Trotsky. "Working men's Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the...

The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's...

Benny Morris demolishes misconceptions and provides a comprehensive history of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948. This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account...