– 'Fascinating.... Wonderfully exhilarating.' Mail on SundayAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.What is it ...
– Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the ...
– 'A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.' Carlo Rovelli Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell ...
Told through case studies and medical history, this is an enlightening, in-depth book on the fascinating science behind pain and the complexities of its treatment, by one of the leading doctors in this area. – Pain is a universal human ...
– Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you were told – or why we lie at all? – ...
– "An exquisitely moving novel of sorrow, love, and the miracle of human connections." Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire – One warm night Oliver Loving joins his classmates at the annual school dance, hoping for a glimpse of the girl ...
– No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O’Rourke brings his ...
Působivý psychologický thriller současného nizozemského autora. Rodinná tajemství a skryté vášně vyplouvají na povrch během společné večeře v elegantní restauraci. ...
V roce 1862 potkává vychovatelka Mary matematika jménem Charles Dodgson, kterého si oblíbí. Jenže on jednoho dne začne vyprávět podivný příběh o Alence v říši divů... ...