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In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466 1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties...

'Fascinating...This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out aby the brain...Costa's work derives...

A classic of fantastic, fantasy, literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world.

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,...

Based on the first volume edition of 1837. Contains 43 original illustrations.

Neil Shubin shows, the one place where the universe, solar system and planet merge is inside your body. Exploring the smallest atomic structures...

KGI agent Donovan Kellys respite from a dangerous and taxing profession is complicated when he crosses paths with a desperate woman - on...

'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.' After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at...

Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis - All built empires they hoped would...

Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends...

200 magical poems to learn aby heart, from Hardy to Heaney, Pope to Plath, in an anthology which celebrates the age-old pleasure of reciting...

Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink....

'An adventure that takes us to the ends of the earth via the rich but often barren landscape of the human heart' - The Times Why was an...

This book is short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love...

Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable...

Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army - swollen aby 10,000 Immortal warriors - have come to subjugate the Greeks....

Helen's most personal case yet as she investigates the murder of a close friend found cocooned in plastic. It looks like it was a tragic...

On the Trail of the New World Order 'Brilliant, bold and beautifully told... A profound piece of political thinking' - Ben Judah, author...

Reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding things from stock-picking to wine-tasting, winning the lottery to road...

'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll żeby writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's...

From the bestselling author of "Physics of the Impossible", Michio Kaku's "Parallel Worlds" takes us to the frontiers of scientific knowledge...

This is updated edition of the authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy. Drawing upon first-hand sources and never-before-opened...

She can run Libby Hall needs to hide, to escape from everything for a while. Which is why the house swap is a godsend. The chance for Libby...

A epic continent and generation spanning love story, which sweeps from war-torn Europe to Thailand and back again. Will appeal to fans of...

New editions of 4 classic novels from the Nobel Prize winning Japanese literary master.

Set against Argentina's turbulent years following the collapse of the corrupt Peronist regime, this is the story of Juan Salvador the penguin,...

As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing',...

A lucid and intriguing study of freedom, providing an explanation of why it is a phenomenon intrisic to only one species: the human. Dennett...

The Foucault Reader

The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood...

A third helping of French country life from the writer of the }A Year In Provence{ and }Toujours Provence{, who goes in search of the finest...

'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New Statesman...

Career ladders and jobs for life are a thing of the past Today, we're living in a world of squiggly careers, where moving frequently and...

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal Quartet'A story is never an answer. A story...

'One of the most influential economists in the world' WiredEven before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers...

Robert Fagles' this latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, "The Aeneid"...

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.The...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010 They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions....

The fascinating story of Andrew Carnegie, the founder of Carnegie Steel.

Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that...

Margaret Hale is wrenched from her beloved rural idyll of Helstone and moved with her family to the industrial northern town of Milton,...

'Orthodoxy claims to be universal...' 'Since its first publication fifty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the profound story of the two men whose ideas changed the world. Daniel...

With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians...

'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Toibin, from the introductionDeath in Spring is a dark and dream-like...

When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North...

Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled aby bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives...

A straight talking and ear-opening guide to what music is and how exactly it works. Written żeby a composer with a PhD in physics who wrote...

When homicide commander Leonard Franks retires from the Met, he and his wife Ellie trade in London for the wide open spaces of Dartmoor....

This is the bestselling business classic on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth advice for making connections in the digital...

Intensely personal dissection of the process of falling and being in love.

From the award-winning author of "The Whisperers", Orlando Figes "Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia" is a dazzling history of...

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere'Brilliant,...

Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, 'Of Mice and Men' remains...

'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The Times 'This book is Richard Overy's...

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment...

Subtitled, }The Story Of The Deadliest Pandemic In History{. Looks at the 1918-19 influenza epidemic, which killed 100 million people worldwide....

"Book of Longing" is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since "Book of Mercy" was published nearly three decades...

'...a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...' Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famine. Introducing Little Black...

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village,...

Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for a perfect lover. But finding...

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris...

Subtitled, }Why The Earth Is Fighting Back & How We Can Still Save Humanity{. James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking,...

Nabokov's masterly "Collected Poems" span the decades of his career, from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed...

Jamie nás ve své nejnovější kuchařce učí, jak nakupovat a vařit chytře, abychom ušetřili. V době, kdy je většina lidí nucena šetřit, se...

The author transformed her family's health, finances, and relationships for the better żeby reducing their waste to an astonishing half...

Return to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's world of the Others--where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist,...

A fully revised and updated new edition of this accessible introduction to the beginnings of philosophy.

The addictive and feel-good enemies to lovers romance that will have you swooning... 'The most sidesplittingly funny, sexual tension-filled...

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' - Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout, comes Lucy aby the Sea, a novel featuring Lucy Barton,...

Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness...

This new translation includes an extensive introduction and notes that draw on a wealth of Rizal scholarship.

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings...

The first, fully annotated translation of all 358 fables.

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the...

An instant New York Times bestseller--from the award-winning author of the Graceling Realm series--an ambitious novel about grief, adventure,...

In this famously autobiographical work, Lawrence paints a portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and his desire for...

'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad...

Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the...

This foundational work on architecture in a new translation by Richard Schofield, now in a generously illustrated edition.

Its Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule...

'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven Pinker 'Bold, intriguing, profound' Jay...

Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character...Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly...

Rivers have opened frontiers, defined borders, supported trade, generated energy and fed billions. Most of our greatest cities stand on...

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained. The...

In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding...

THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR NICCI FRENCH 'Stunning - I loved it' Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of I Let You...

Gabriel Allon soll in Wien in einem Bombenanschlag ermitteln. Kaum dort angekommen sieht er in der Menge ein Gesicht, das ihm bekannt vorkommt...

The International BestsellerAnger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed...

Inspired żeby Anderson's Midwestern boyhood and his observations in early 20th-century Chicago, the loosely connected stories in "Winesburg,...

A 2019 NEWBERY HONOR BOOK"A gripping, nuanced story of the human cost of conflict appropriate for both children and adults."-Kirkus, starred...

This book is published as Big Little lies in Australia and the United States. Liane Moriarty, million copy selling author of The Husband's...

Swim, Bike, Run - The ultimate guide to triathlon aby Olympics heroes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee A Number One Bestseller. This is the...

The No 1 New York Times bestselling sequel to A Discovery of Witches The thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller A Discovery of...

An angry, funny, smart and contentious book that looks behind the friendly face of the well-meaning liberal, and turns our preconceptions...

One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019 One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019 Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize 'As enjoyable...

'The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilisations...

Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a...

\'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... Very much a book...

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece....

A heart-breaking story of love, identity and the fierce bond between siblings, evoking a Britain of the early 80s. Nine-year-old Leon and...

'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno. Introducing Little...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case,...

'Truly a marvellous collection... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the...

A new volume of unpublished and newly discovered stories, essays, letters and drawings from the author of "The Lottery".

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have...

\"What are the effects of decreasing social mobility$127 How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances$128 Why...

Morgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover

New-cover edition with introduction aby Susan Shillingshaw.

This title presents a demonstration of how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle problems from unusual angles...

Ken Segall put the 'i' in iPad. Now he explains why simplicity is the secret of Apple's success in "Insanely Simple". To Steve Jobs, Simplicity...

'Meet the new king of decluttering' - The Times'Take your spring cleaning to the next level with Goodbye, Things aby Fumio Sasaki' - Parade'There's...

Jamie Oliver takes you on the food adventure of a lifetime in Jamie's America. 'America - A country of many contrasts. For me, it presented...

Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithVirgil's...

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the upcoming major motion picture Queen of the Desert, directed...

This is perhaps the first really clear account of chaos and complexity: a guide for the perplexed, written by "the master of popular science...