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Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are...

Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the...

Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy,...

Your new business went online yesterday and you've got a marketing budget of zero. How are you supposed to create a movement around your...

The Battle of Dybbol, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy...

In his new book, Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles...

Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics...

If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes...

A scathing and well-informed critique of the financial industry by leading economist John Kay

Ruby Tandoh's radical manifesto takes the guilt out of eating and puts the pleasure back in.

TV tie-in to the major TV series starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi. How can you help mankind, when they won't help themselves?...

The internationally acclaimed book defining the revolutionary theory of logotherapy. "One of the outstanding contributions to psychological...

An essential masterpiece of jazz history aby renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword żeby Richard Williams

A novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. It explores the deep prejudice of the American South...

It's the middle of summer. On Cornish sea-fronts, happy children grip melting ice-creams. In the south of France, sunlight filters through...

Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a savage indictment of the intolerable...

A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle by a Nobel Laureate, this tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn...

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse aby the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria...

It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done....

SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. It explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant...

London, 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along...

It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm...

Max Ehrmann was not afraid to express his thoughts about the evils and scandals he saw around him, and in his quest for contentment he turned...

An exploration into the history and future of mankind's relationship with the Moon. For some, it is a future on which mankind has turned...

Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power,...

Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the...

Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius...

The instant #1 New York Times bestselling mystery and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick that’s captivated more than a million readers about...

A bold and controversial rethinking of the role of war in human history and how it will shape our future, sure to provoke debate, from the...

This book is the winner of the World Book Day - Books to Talk About Prize 2008. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2005. Winner of...

First collected żeby his devoted family and colleagues as a 75th birthday present, The Unpublished David Ogilvy collects a career's worth...

A monumental, sweeping journey from the ancient roots of neurology to the most astonishing recent research, which Henry Marsh (Admissions)...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An urgent call to arms for each and all of us.' Matthew McConaughey'A clear and inspiring guide for how...

This title presents a dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering...

Fake news has become real news. A malicious online rumour costs a company millions; politically motivated stories are planted to influence...

The second volume of the bestselling festive crime collection, following on from Murder under the Christmas Tree

A gleeful, thoughtful collection of 156 feelings, both rare and familiar. Each has its own story, and reveals the strange forces which shape...

The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing...

'Powerful [and] intelligent' - Fareed Zakaria, CNN'Superbly researched and written' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington PostAmerica's political...

A Financial Times Business Book of the Month"A brilliant set of leadership tools that will help you succeed whatever your goal" - Sir Clive...

In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis:...

'A brilliant book packed with powerful insights from the world's most successful investors' Tony Robbins'A profound, eloquent, and much-needed...

In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International...

Today now recognised as possibly Reich's most important and pioneering work, this book summarises the development of his medical and scientific...

The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real. Actually this vast place - the...

Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience...

Trade paperback. An account of the Durrell family's time living in Corfu, famously depicted in Gerald Durrell's "Corfu Trilogy" and "My...

This investigation of the first five years of the AIDS epidemic examines the roles of the federal government, public health authorities,...

A unique approach to climate change that recalls W. G. Sebald

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change...

A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short stories. Critically acclaimed,...

A reissue of this classic business bestseller, ranked in a poll by Bloomsbury Publishing as 'the greatest business book of all time'.

Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had...

Beautifully illustrated, this lifts the veil on the captivating story of fashion in WWII, where the demands of industrial production and...

A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of a bookshop through the political drama of Algeria's turbulent twentieth century of...

Why the Spanish speak so fast, the Dutch are gender-benders and it's hard to add up in Breton

In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how...

From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves...

Die Entstehung der politischen Ordnung von der Vorzeit bis zur Französischen Revolution von einem der führenden Intellektuellen unserer...

IT WAS THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME: PROTECT HERBefore Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect...

The latest New York Times Bestseller from Stoic sensation Ryan Holiday - now in paperback

'I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking...'It's the summer of '48 in the city of Angels and there's heat on the...

What happens when our language is no longer fit for purpose, and how we can change the discourse

Suitable for those who want to know what the next four decades hold in store, this title charts the rise and fall of fertility rates across...

Explores why smart people are encouraged to act stupidly at work, for example, the institutional blindness in the financial services which...

Republished alongside the paperbacks of "Seibo There Below" and "War & War" in a stunning redesigned look. Trade Paperback.

This was a classic study, written in Germany between 1930 and 1933, and subsequently banned by the Nazis. An important work.

It doesn't matter if you're a caveman, a time traveller or a regular person. Sooner or later, someone's going to break your heart. The sketches...

We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities....

The major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

From the man who brought you Born to Run: a radical new approach to fitnes. Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill and into nature,...

It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that we...

Including a new introduction on the British response to the Ukraine crisis - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the scandalous reality...

It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language,...

A strong contender for the major literary prizes, this period novel is the story of a wartime lesbian relationship that develops between...

Sharing the mindset and approach of his company, Brass Check, the bestselling author and marketing strategist, Ryan Holiday reveals how...

In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what...

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations...

Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical...

A satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange$88 What's stopping us from having...

An inspirational guide to self-empowerment, based on the advice of Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli, amongst others....

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. This is a stunning redesigned paperback edition of one of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's finest...

The follow-up to global bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There (the Amazon.com no.1 bestseller for 2007 on Leading People) addresses...

Whether you're new to the field or a seasoned executive, this book will give you a firm grasp on what it takes to make an organization perform....

Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students,...

'Scintillating... Thought-provoking... One of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' - Andrew Rawnsley, Observer...

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Today, zero lies...

At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing żeby about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920...

Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on...

A Profile Business Classic edition of one of the most important and critically acclaimed books on strategy ever written

Includes material on the market crisis. This book presents models where the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be...

Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo...

Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who...

A new century, new threats to love...Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism...

Offers the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018Brilliantly inventive...

Subtitled, }What Your Stuff Says About You{. Provides a fascinating insight into what, if anything, your possessions say about you. Full...

A companion to Wilcock's bestseller "The Hidden Science of Lost Civilisations", in this new book he draws on history, astrology and new...

One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will...

In The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, partner at the Silicon Valley-based firm IDEO, developer of hundreds of innovative products from the...

David Wilcock reveals that the earth is on the front lines of a battle that has been raging between positive and negative extraterrestrials...

Innovation is the lifeblood of every company - the fuel that keeps an organisation going in a tough marketplace. But aby its very nature...

The stunning new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial

The first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain's greatest cult musician, with an introduction żeby Jonathan Coe

The debut novel by the bestselling author of THE ESSEX SERPENT One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. He shuts...

When companies suffer a dramatic or catastrophic drop in their share price, it is the investors who lose their shirts and employees their...

All over the world there are fantastic ruins and objects which cannot yet be explained aby conventional theories. Erich von Daniken's book,...

Subtitled, }Seeing Through A World Of Numbers{. A painless introduction to the maths of the real world by the team who created and present...

It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night,...

The author of the international best seller Born to Run takes in a neglected donkey and aims to rehabilitate it. But when he learns of the...

It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity...

The winner of the UK's Business Book of the Year Award for 2021, this is a groundbreaking exposé of the myths behind startup success and...

Subtitled, "Why Some Of The Brightest People Can't Read & How They Can Learn". The kanon work on dyslexia, revised and updated with additional...

Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described...

The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood

Beginning in the early 19th century, and ending with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Margaret MacMillan uncovers the political and...

This new edition updates all the data and introduces many areas that have become part of modern life. Berners-Lee explores each area and...

In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid GBP1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it...