From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat - an illuminating, ground-breaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of one of the icons of twentieth-century America. Frank Lloyd Wright has... Zobraziť viac
What comes first: the character of the times, or the characters who give it theirs? The Strangest End charts the trajectories of the characters who fell from power in the bloody breakdown of Europe's old order between 1917 and 1924, and those who for... Zobraziť viac
In this propulsive investigation, two prize-winning journalists reveal the reality... Zobraziť viac
Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices - co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and... Zobraziť viac
This riveting new history tells the story of Britain's journey from imperial power to a nation divided.After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated... Zobraziť viac
How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary... Zobraziť viac
Not so long ago the internet was a new and alien concept. Today, the world would collapse without it. Today, cryptocurrency is a new and little-used concept. Tomorrow, will the world collapse without it? We sit at the cusp of a revolution in ... Zobraziť viac
The first full investigation, based on exceptional access to underground and alternative political movements, of the revolution that will reshape our world in the coming decades... Zobraziť viac
The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans. But it is these connections that maintain nature’s finely balanced equilibrium... Zobraziť viac
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the shared values that will see us into the future. Known for bringing a voice to the voiceless, Senator Kamala Harris is committed to speaking the ... Zobraziť viac
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was... Zobraziť viac
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer and 'high-tech genius' (Sunday Times) who first alerted us... Zobraziť viac
In a centuries-old tradition, farmers in northwestern Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the down of nesting eider ducks. High inside a vast cave in Borneo, men perched atop rickety ladders collect swiftlets’ nests, ... Zobraziť viac
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of... Zobraziť viac
In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing... Zobraziť viac
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, asking: can we save nature in time? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment... Zobraziť viac
Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the atmosphere... Zobraziť viac
Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive... Zobraziť viac
A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music... Zobraziť viac
For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion and division of Po Zobraziť viac
