Social media, gaming and dating apps have usurped in-person interaction; handwriting is no longer prioritised in schools; and emotion is sooner expressed through likes and emojis than face-to-face conversations. With headphones in and eyes trained on... Zobraziť viac
In June 2024, thirty-one years after it was founded in a diner, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of videogame equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in... Zobraziť viac
VICTOIRE is about Mathilde Carré - codenamed 'La Chatte', the cat, then known as Agent Victoire - who was the exceptionally charismatic and daring founder of the 'Big Network'. This was the first Allied intelligence network in Occupied France... Zobraziť viac
The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, ... Zobraziť viac
The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to... Zobraziť viac
AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world... Zobraziť viac
Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good. The moment you believe freedom is given, it is gone. There is no freedom without solidarity; freedom for you means freedom for me. Zobraziť viac
How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer ... Zobraziť viac
room house of clay and straw with no running water. Breaking Through is her extraordinary memoir of how she achieved her dream of becoming a scientist, first in Hungary and then in the USA, and pursued her belief – despite so many telling her not to... Zobraziť viac
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before... Zobraziť viac
A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens: the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage, in fifty detective stories... Zobraziť viac
A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions... Zobraziť viac
In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. So what value, if any, can scripture hold for us today? And if our world no longer seems compatible with ... Zobraziť viac
Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard 'Authoritative and provocative... For its range and breadth, it is a tour de force and a must read' Evening Standard It could have been a very different story.... Zobraziť viac
The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, most of them women, made... Zobraziť viac
Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication - from neurons to nations... Zobraziť viac
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists... Zobraziť viac
In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the culture wars... Zobraziť viac
A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason.America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free... Zobraziť viac
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written... Zobraziť viac
