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A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent...

A New York Times Notable Book.As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they...

From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read.BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our...

The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times.Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in...

*WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023*The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer...

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety.It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his...

Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award."What a fun escape! Reminds me of math books I read when I was coming of age." —Neil deGrasse TysonAn "exhilarating" (Steven Strogatz) tour through the fundamental mathematical...

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories. "A book to make you love math." —Financial Times Mathematics shapes almost everything...

An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat • "[Gary] Taubes’s meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon“A must for...

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose...

In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the second, she vanished with her 129-strong crew...

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins...

Sitting at the delightful cross-section of smart and accessible, Same As Ever takes a massive topic (things that stay the same) and condenses it into a remarkable simplicity. If you loved the out-of-the-box thinking of The Psychology of Money,...

Don’t let the daunting title scare you off. Greene is essentially magic when it comes to making big subjects approachable. In Laws of Human Nature, he pulls from some of the most influential people in history to outline why people do what they do...

At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal...

Considered to be the Business Bible, this book will teach you all the ways of getting ahead and staying there. Greene draws on the likes of Machiavelli and Sun Tzu to help you conquer your goals.Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this...

A gifted historian with an eye for the unexpected connection, Peter Frankopan’s new work is a wholly unique and provocative lesson in the intertwined dependencies of nature and humans throughout history, highlighting in vivid relief why climate...

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. Policies that serve the interests of the...