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The Disease of Boredom: From Ancient Philosophy to Modern Psychology

Boredom visits all of us at some point. Sometimes it is fleeting. Other times it is deep, lasting, o...

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On the Mark: A History of Punctuation from Ancient Egypt to the Emoticon

The first global history of punctuation tells the story of the marks that give voice to the written...

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Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Make a Difference?

We often read history as the biographies of ‘great men’ who shaped the world. But are leaders, which...

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On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy

What can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in daring not to know?With cla...

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Rex Juba: 15 Glimpses of an African King

In 46 BC, at just two years old, a young North African prince named Juba was paraded through the str...

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The Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom

A modern bestiary with an ancient heart: meet twelve emblematic animals and restore your relationshi...

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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success (Updated With a New Afterword)

PRAISE FOR ADAM GRANT'One of my favourite thinkers' MALCOLM GLADWELL'One of the great social scienti...

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The Cultural Tutor: A Modern Guide to History, Art and Philosophy in 49 Short Chapters

'The Cultural Tutor is dedicated to a cosmopolitan view of culture. It writes about ev...

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Once upon a Time There Was Truth or, Why We Need Fairy Tales

Essays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy ta...

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Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life

'Always compulsive . . . [an] extraordinary portrait' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, SPECTATOR'Chatty yet coo...

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The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition

During his lifetime, Benjamin Disraeli, the late-Victorian Conservative Prime Minister (and popular...

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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

A devastating critique of the forces propelling us beyond critical temperature limits, by the bestse...

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50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know

Master the biology ideas that shape our living world.In a series of 50 accessible essays, JV Chamary...

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A History of the Sky in 300 Infographics

For thousands of years, humans have looked to the sky to make sense of the world. Long before astron...

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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965

Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate...