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The Countries of the World in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the modern world and every country in it. For each of the...
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why did the Allies attack on D-Day?- How did the Allies pick Normandy as a target?- What was...
An illuminating exploration of early Southern African hunters and herders. In First People, archaeologist Andrew Smith examines what we know about Southern Africa's early people,...
Countries with smaller governments grow faster. Tobacco taxes are the best way to cut smoking. Government regulation discourages entrepreneurship.Award-winning investigative journalist Tom Bergin digs into...
You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right...
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity.Even if you stick to the whole...
World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's businessbible is given a complete update for 2019. Do you waste too much time on your phone? Scroll throughTwitter or...
'Genuinely empowering' Daisy Buchanan'An invaluable guide to surviving professional life' Viv Groskop'Comforting during these uncertain times' Yomi AdegokeAward-winning journalist and editor-in-chief Cate Sevilla has survived...
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Basically, choice theory helps its users avoid confrontation and ask pertinent questions. It sees conscious or unconscious desire for external control as the main problem...
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. In the...
Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how...
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'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of...
A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to enrich the soul, to...
Once teeming with plants and animals, our ocean is no longer in good shape. It's warming up and becoming a dumping ground for plastic rubbish....
In this stylish follow-up to 'Lift-the-Flap Biggest, Fastest, Tallest', readers can find out what the strongest, deadliest, fiercest, cleverest, hottest, coldest, smelliest and weirdest things...
'The whizz-kid making maths supercool. . .A brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation - starting with...
From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive...