30-Second Psychology: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Psychology Theories, Each Explained in Half a Minute (HARDBACK)

The key ideas in Psychology explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute.Pavlov’s Dogs, Psychoanalysis, Milgram’s Obedience Study, and Beck’s Cognitive Therapy? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you’ve certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these psychology theories to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge?30-Second Psychology t…

Ball of Confusion: Puzzles, Problems and Perplexing Posers (HARDBACK)

Fun maths teasers and brain-bending puzzles from TV boffin Johnny Ball, from his slot of the same name on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 show. Think of your house number (as long as it’s got two digits). Double it. Add 5. Multiply by 50. Add your age. Add the number of days in the year, 365. Subtract 615 and check the result. The first digits are your house number, the last two are your age. But …

Ball of Confusion: Puzzles, Problems and Perplexing Posers (PDF)

Fun maths teasers and brain-bending puzzles from TV boffin Johnny Ball, from his slot of the same name on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 show. Think of your house number (as long as it’s got two digits). Double it. Add 5. Multiply by 50. Add your age. Add the number of days in the year, 365. Subtract 615 and check the result. The first digits are your house number, the last two are your age.…

For Whom The Bell Tolls (HARDBACK)

    Martin Bell OBE has been many things – an icon of BBC war reporting, Britain’s first independent MP for 50 years, a UNICEF ambassador, and ‘the man in the white suit’ – a tireless campaigner for honesty and accountability in politics.But as For Whom the Bell Tolls reveals, he’s also a poet of light verse, and here Bell’s poems continue his …

Hergé: The Genius of Tintin (HARDBACK)

A comprehensive and enjoyable new biography of the man who created Tintin.Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, is widely regarded as the greatest twentieth-century master of the European bande dessinée. His Tintin books have sold well over 200 million copies worldwide. Drawing from private archives, exclusive interviews and thousands of hours of research, Raphaël Taylor both tel…

Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the crucial British philosopher and political activist.Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He co-authored the infamous Principia Mathematica, the most difficult book ever written on the logic of mathematics. A pioneer in logical analysis, he was a resolute empiricist who tackled many puzzles - how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what t…

Introducing Child Psychology - A Practical Guide (PAPERBACK)

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to how children think and grow.Child Psychology is a branch of developmental psychology, which is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.Child psychologists examine how children’s brains work even before they are born, through to the beginning of adulthood. They may explore question…

Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the seminal linguist and irrepressible critic of right-wing America.Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a 'universal grammar', a theory of principles common to all languages. Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children learn them are remarkably similar. Chomsky'…

Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - A Practical Guide (PAPERBACK)

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to the massively popular therapy.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, commonly known as CBT, has roots stretching back as far as the ancient Greeks.It is a talking cure – a branch of therapy widely regarded as effective in curing or at least alleviating the symptoms of a wide range of disorders from anorexia to post-traumatic stress disorder.INTRODUCING CBT – A…

Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to Genetics by bestselling science writer Steve Jones.Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code - written in three thousand million letters of DNA - of what makes a human being.Introducing Genetics takes us from the early work …

Introducing Kafka: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the great twentieth-century author.'What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.' Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a 'glass wall'. Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hil…

Introducing Mathematics: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the greatest creation of human intelligence.What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people? Mathematics is the greatest creation of human intelligence. It affects us all. We depend on it in our daily lives, and yet many of the tools of mathematics, such as geometry, algebra and trigonometry, are descended from ancient or non-Western civilizations.I…

Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) - A Practical Guide (PAPERBACK)

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to the therapy designed to help people have better, fuller and richer lives – as well as work far more effectively.Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is an approach to psychotherapy and organisational change, which, though sometimes controversial, has built up a huge following among a wide range of people keen to live fuller, more successful and more rewarding l…

Introducing Philosophy of Science: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the theory behind science.Our world is inconceivable without science. Its discoveries benefit us - antibiotics, computers, space travel, gene-mapping - and reveal the secrets of human evolution, the cosmos and our place in it. Science also threatens us with the risks of nuclear holocaust, eugenics and the pollution of our ecosystem. How do we reconcile the advantages o…

Introducing Psychology of Success - A Practical Guide (PAPERBACK)

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to getting what you want in life.What is it about entrepreneurs, industry-leaders, medal-winning athletes or in-demand freelancers that makes them successful over a long period of time? What secrets about how their brains work could the rest of us benefit from knowing to improve our careers, wherever we may work?Occupational Psychologist Alison Price explores both ho…

Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

A brand-new INTRODUCING title on the ‘world’s most dangerous philosopher’.Slavoj Zizek is one of those rare philosophers writing today whose fame exceeds academia and who is widely known publicly. Zizek’s work and writings revolve around several interrelated areas. His earlier work is very much involved in elucidating Lacanian psychoanalysis through examples from American c…

Introducing Sport Psychology - A Practical Guide (PAPERBACK)

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to optimizing your mind for sport.Sport Psychology is the study of the psychological factors that affect participation and performance in sports. It deals with increasing performance by managing emotions and minimizing the psychological effects of injury and poor performance. Some of the most important skills taught are goal setting, relaxation, visualization, self-t…

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to Britain’s first female and, probably, most divisive prime minister, and the thinking that guided her.Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990 and in that time presided over the most radical shift in British society since the end of the Second World War. From the privatisation of major industries such as British Telecom, and the righ…

Introducing Trait Emotional Intelligence - A Practical Guide (PAPERBACK)

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to effectively understanding oneself and others.Emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions. Increasingly, it is seen that people who have a higher level of emotional intelligence do better at work in all sorts of fields, and in relationships, fr…

Join The Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform The World (PAPERBACK)

  This is the story of a new kind of social revolution which has transformed the lives of millions. It has drawn oppressed Indian women out of misery and passivity, persuaded teenagers to demand safe sex and to rebel against smoking, and prompted minority students to excel in university subjects where even well-prepared students were failing. It has helped cure tuberculosis, given soldiers …

Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century (PAPERBACK)

A thrilling account of an utterly brilliant and utterly eccentric Russian mathematician which sheds a rare light on the unique burden of genius.In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles.The Poincaré conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000…

The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science (PAPERBACK)

Wizard Books presents a brilliantly illustrated book of experiments which will really get kids thinking about science – though they might get your kitchen messy too!Einstein, Galileo, Newton ... and YOU!PARACHUTE an egg from an upstairs window!DISTILL DNA from a half-eaten banana!SPARK lightning in your mouth!Here are fifty awesome experiments that demonstrate the principles behind the great…

The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race (PAPERBACK)

A hugely revered, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the dying days of the Cold War – and the dangerous legacy of the nuclear arms the USSR left behind.The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the…

The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance (HARDBACK)

At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still don't even know all of the questions.How is it that, despite each cell in your body carrying…

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (HARDBACK)

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces?The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth’s Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words.It’s an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of …

The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance (Ebook: EPUB)

Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. A world-famous biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behaviour. Rather than being ruled by fixed laws, nature is essentially habitual.All human beings draw upon a colle…

The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance (Ebook: PDF)

Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. A world-famous biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behaviour. Rather than being ruled by fixed laws, nature is essentially habitual.All human beings draw upon a colle…

The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (PAPERBACK)

Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. A world-famous biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behaviour. Rather than being ruled by fixed laws, nature is essentially habitual.All human beings draw upon a collective …

Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and The Story of Life on Earth (PAPERBACK)

The first book on the hunt for evolution’s ‘missing links’ over the last three decades – and what palaeontologists’ findings mean for our place on earth.Darwin’s theory was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of ‘transitional fossils’ was hotly…