Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics... Zobraziť viac
The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to sit upon a pedestal. But this, of course, is a lie. Here, classicist Caroline Vout reaches beyond texts and galleries to expose Greek and... Zobraziť viac
A short, uplifting account of hope and healing by the author of Adventures in Human Being. Zobraziť viac
Lose yourself in this extraordinary account of how we navigate the world. Zobraziť viac
It's the summer solstice weekend, and 150,000 people descend on a farm in the northeast of England for an open-air music festival. At first, a spot of rain seems to be the only thing dampening the fun - until a mystery bug appears... Zobraziť viac
An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, Ayurvedic Man presents a visual history of some of the earliest medical... Zobraziť viac
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, ... Zobraziť viac
Sarah Chaney takes us on an eye-opening and surprising journey into the history of science, revisiting the studies, landmark experiments and tests that proliferated from the early 19th century to find answers to the question: what's normal? ... Zobraziť viac
An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next.What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to... Zobraziť viac
The Book of Human Emotions is a gleeful, thoughtful collection of 156 feelings, both rare and familiar. Each has its own story, and reveals the strange forces which shape our rich and varied internal worlds. In reading it, you'll discover feelings you... Zobraziť viac
The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19. Zobraziť viac
The world seems more connected than ever, and yet even before the world went into lockdown, loneliness was at epidemic levels. But what effect is it having on us, and how can we treat it - even at a distance? Murthy's prescient book reveals... Zobraziť viac
A celebration of neurodiversity - meet nine extraordinary people on the autism spectrum Zobraziť viac
It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? ... Zobraziť viac
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears... Zobraziť viac
A rallying cry for carers and the acts of love that hold families together, from bestselling novelist Kate Mosse. Zobraziť viac
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died... Zobraziť viac
How the brain helps us to understand and navigate space―and why, sometimes, it doesn’t work the way it should. Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world... Zobraziť viac
Plunge into this rich, surprising and stunningly designed A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and... Zobraziť viac
Here, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of 'only sluts do it' but 'virgins are frigid', to ladette culture, and the arrival of 'ironic' porn... Zobraziť viac
