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

Everything economic from Keynes to The Invisible Hand explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute.Keynesian Economics, Free Market Capitalism, Monetarism, Game Theory and the Invisible Hand. Sure, you know what they mean. That is, you’ve certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these economic theories to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your financial kno…

Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences (PAPERBACK)

A vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles increasingly defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. That’s the reason, we’re told, that there are so few women in science…

Fighting Fantasy: Armies of Death (PAPERBACK)

One of Fighting Fantasy’s most innovative titles now in a brand-new editionCan YOU defeat the nightmare army of the undead?Agglax the Shadow Demon is amassing an army of undead warriors to conquer Allansia. Having survived the perils of Deathtrap Dungeon you set off from Fang with over two hundred veteran soldiers to fight his army. But the Shadow Demon is not of this world and special power…

Fighting Fantasy: Curse of The Mummy (PAPERBACK)

Bestselling Fighting Fantasy title returns in brand-new edition!Helping an eccentric archaeologist unearth an ancient tomb in the Desert of Skulls seems like an easy task for a heroic adventurer like YOU. But when that tomb turns out to belong to Akharis – a legendary rules from a previous age – and when you discover some of his followers are trying to return the evil pharaoh to life, …

Fighting Fantasy: Forest of Doom (PAPERBACK)

A classic Fighting Fantasy title in a brand-new editionThe legendary Hammer of Stonebridge lies in pieces, lost inside the tangled depths of Darkwood Forest. Without it, peaceful Stonebridge is unprotected against its ancient doom.Monstrous creatures lurk within Darkwood Forest, yet you must step foot into its deadly domain. But first you must find Yaztromo, the master mage, whose magic may help p…

Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (PAPERBACK)

There are few times that science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg shows how you stay up there – but that’s only the beginning. Inflight Science explains the ever-changing view, whether it’s crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes easy-to-do experiments, from showing how a wing provides lift to calculating t…

Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Novel (PAPERBACK)

INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising Roland BarthesRoland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, their i…

Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France’s most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting …

Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th centuryJacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminated it with literary styles of writing. Derrida’s philosophy is a puzzling array of oblique, …

Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that makes the world go roundEconomics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as ‘the science of scarcity’ but these days economics is everywhere, and it’s never been more popular – as bestselling books such as Freakonomics attest.But what is economics really all about? What do the great economists think, and…

Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

  INTRODUCING guide to the hugely influential German thinkerGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of the greatest thinkers of all time. No other philosopher has had such a profound impact on the ideas and political events of the 20th century.Hegel's influential writings on philosophy, politics, history and art are parts of a larger systematic whole. They are also among the most difficult in t…

Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Illustrated INTRODUCING guide to the pre-eminent philosopher of the EnlightenmentImmanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant?s attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant’s relentless systematic formalism made him a controversial figure in the history of the…

Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, a cynical philosophy of 'the end…

Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalystBorn in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of infantile development. Although she was a devoted Freudian, many of her ideas were seen within the psychoanalytic movement as highly controversial, and this…

Introducing Political Philosophy: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thoughtPhilosophers have always asked fundamental and disturbing questions about politics. Plato and Aristotle debated the merits of democracy. The origins of society, the state and government authority were issues addressed by Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and many other philosophers.Introducing Political Philosophy explains the central concep…

Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

INTRODUCING guide to the history and theory of still controversial ‘speaking cure’The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant stream of anti-Freud literature, little is known about contemporary psychoanalysis. Introducing …

Introducing Rousseau: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all‘I am like no one else in the whole world ...’ Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s defiant Confessions – an autobiography of astounding psychological insight.Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, a philosopher who firmly denied being one, Rousseau was the first to ask: ?…

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy’s most famous characters.Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of the Second World War in 1945 and his death in 1980, Sartre was certainly the most famous French writer, as well as one of the best-known livin…

Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales From a Year in Literature (PAPERBACK)

Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval – the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries.In this absorbing companion to literature’s rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends John Sutherland and Stephen Fender turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising an…

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

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 Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 1998, the…

Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe (PAPERBACK)

The enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insight transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts.Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains in this eye-opening new book, Pythagoras had much the same idea – but 2,500 years ea…

Slaughter On a Snowy Morn: A Tale of Murder, Corruption and The Death Penalty Case That Shocked America (PAPERBACK)

Sing Sing Prison, New York, July 1916. Charles Frederick Stielow, a 37-year-old farmhand with the mind of an infant, is just minutes away from the electric chair for a double murder he didn’t commit...With a vengeful legal system baying for blood, his situation looks hopeless. Eight blocks away, Stielow's wife sobs helplessly in her hotel room, certain she will never see her husband alive ag…

Socrates Vs. Jesus: The Struggle for the Meaning of Life (HARDBACK)

In this intellectual broadside, iconoclastic popular sociologist Steve Fuller reclaims Jesus as a philosophical thinker – and one who really puts his money where his mouth is…Socrates and Jesus are among Western culture’s most iconic figures. They are even offered as exemplars of what it means to be human. Both are notable for their forthright views on the extent of moral obliga…

Tales of War: Great Stories From Military History for Every Day of The Year (PAPERBACK)

A powerful collection of historical stories of military endeavour for every day of the year, from the Romans to the bloody twentieth century.From Julius Caesar’s victory at the Battle of Zela in 47 BC to the first V2 rockets falling on London, Tales of War is a unique tour of the many faces of armed conflict – the camaraderie, bravery and sacrifice as well as bloodshed and the waste of…

The Best Views From the Boundary: Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews (PAPERBACK)

The greatest lunchtime interviews from the much-loved cricketing institution that is BBC Radio’s Test Match SpecialViews from the Boundary – the Saturday lunchtime interview – has always been a highlight of the BBC’s Test Match Special, a programme with a special place in the heart of every English cricket fan.The well-known Interviewees are from all walks of life and unite…

The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and The Untold Story of The Cold War's Arms Race (HARDBACK)

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 examin…

The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including My Own) (Ebook: EPUB)

A groundbreaking and very personal insight into modern sexuality. Now available as EPUB, PDF and on Amazon Kindle. Losing our virginity … it happens to all of us. How did it happen for you? What do other people think and feel about it? In February 2007, Kate Monro went on a mission to find out. She decided to ask as many people as possible - how did you lose your virginity? Men and wome…

The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including My Own) (PAPERBACK)

A groundbreaking and very personal insight into modern sexuality.Losing our virginity … it happens to all of us. How did it happen for you? What do other people think and feel about it? In February 2007, Kate Monro went on a mission to find out. She decided to ask as many people as possible - how did you lose your virginity? Men and women, old and young, gay, straight, Christian and Muslim;…

The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and Intelligence is Wrong (PAPERBACK)

A controversial, dazzling look at the new science of genetics and human potential.The Genius in All of Us argues that talent – for piano playing, sprinting, designing computers, you name it – is not a thing we’re gifted from birth and coded in our genes, but a process – a lifelong project. The genetic legacy for which we thank our parents is not what holds us back – i…

The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry (PAPERBACK)

An extraordinary memoir – told through a hand-sewn tapestry – of a very ordinary English lifeAs the clock struck midnight on 31 December 1999, Jean Baggott vowed that from that point on her life would be devoted to the  happiness of ‘the girl on the wall’ – a  1948 photograph taken of Jean when she was eleven, recreated in needlework. Reflecting on her hopes…

The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of our Most Valuable Asset (PAPERBACK)

How do we account for what makes us happy?Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness – precisely – will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I really going to feel happy about the career that I picked? How can we decide not only which choice is better for us, but how much it’s better for us? The result of new, unique research, The Happiness Equation brings to…

The World's Greatest Idea: The Fifty Greatest Ideas That Have Changed Humanity (PAPERBACK)

An exploration of mankind’s greatest-ever ideas, from the author of the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever?Where would humanity be now without fire, vaccinations, farming … or wine? A great idea is one that has changed the path of human civilisation. But which is the greatest of them all? John Farndon, author of the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever?, has set out …