A vivid and personal account of 21st-century banking excess from the heart of the financial maelstrom.

For seven years Tetsuya Ishikawa worked at the cutting edge of the world's foremost financial institutions. How I Caused the Credit Crunch is a story of what went wrong, and how and why it could happen. An incredible, roller-coaster insight into the money, lust and power behind the credit crunch.

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'A powerful memoir of his family's experience ... it is impossible not to be moved' - The Times

Isabel's World is the powerful story of Roy Richard Grinker's quest to care for his autistic daughter, Isabel, and to find out more about her puzzling disorder. Mixing fatherly love with scientific insight, he travels across countries and cultures, and in doing so pieces together a profound new outlook on autism.

'An amazing, enlightening read' - Waterstone's Books Quarterly

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Hugely respected Formula 1 journalist, Alan Henry, gives his personal pick of the 100 greatest drivers to have graced the sport.

From Fangio to Senna, Moss to Hamilton, The Top 100 F1 Drivers of All Time, fully updated and now in paperback, is the talking point for all fans of motor racing. Authoritative and controversial, how do the best drivers of all time rank against the only competition that counts: each other?

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Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons.

Jim Baggott's book is an epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding; a tale barely believable as fiction, which just happens to be historical fact.

Brand-new graphic guide to the world's most successful - and divisive - way of life

From the rise of banking and the founding of America, Introducing Capitalism charts the rise of capitalism to its role as the major economic, social and political force of the world today.

But capitalism's unstoppable reach can have calamitous consequences. This brand-new addition to the bestselling Introducing series provides the perfect entrance to this fascinating ideology.

Maryanne Wolf's fantastically well-reviewed exploration of the history and science of how human brains have learnt to read is now in paperback.

'Everything about Maryanne Wolf's book, which combines a healthy dose of lucid neuroscience with a dash of sensitive personal narrative, delights ... a beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

'An inspiring celebration of the science of reading.' P.D. Smith, Guardian