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In this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life—a...

A research-backed framework to help you accomplish your most ambitious goals by honing and harnessing your most powerful yet underutilised resource: intuition. What sets the most successful people apart? While...

Provides a broad and entertaining overview of fear from evolution, to modern day challenges, and how clinicians treat trauma, anxiety, and PTSD today. About a third of the world population...

The Rise of Cybercrime and the Fight to Keep Us Safe In a world, where cyber threats evolve daily, the line between hacker and hero is thinner than you think....

What your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life Uncover the incredible truth of your dreaming brain with Sunday Times bestselling neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK...

From the bestselling author of Why We Swim comes a mind-expanding exploration of muscle that will change the way you think about how we move and why it matters. Cardiac, smooth, skeletal-these...

On Race, Space, and Time A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism. Why do some...

How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19 An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply...

The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications A practical and compassionate guide to repairing your relationship with sleep For the twenty-five million Americans who struggle with insomnia, each...

An amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda...

How Curiosity, Exploration and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life A groundbreaking new understanding of happiness to help us build a fuller, more authentic life. We all want a good...

What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied...

An Economy of Gifts and Abundance From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community'This book will...

New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma FROM THE AUTHOR OF RAGE BECOMES HER, A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR COMMUNAL RESILIENCE BASED ON IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE HISTORY, SOCIAL...

Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From - and the Science- Backed Method to Unravel Them For readers of Caste, Sapiens, and The Dawn of Everything, a page-turning deep-dive into how bias is learned-plus a...

The Surprising Science Of Human Goodness Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford psychologist Dr Jamil Zaki has the cure - a 'ray of light for dark days' (Adam Grant, #1 New...

How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science - and Address Humanity's Biggest Challenges An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicistThe...

Know and care for your body with this information-packed guide to gut health and wellbeingBecome body literate with Gut- An Owner's Guide, the next book in The Body Literacy Library, an enlightening...

The expert guide to a happier and healthier feline What does a cat need besides food, a comfortable home and access to veterinary care? Play! This practical guide from leading...

An expert in nutrition and the gut reveals what inflammation is, why it lies behind many modern diseases and what we can all do to help combat itInflammation has traditionally...

A Revolutionary Guide to Controlling Your Anxiety When it comes to fighting anxiety, you have more control than you think- the power is at the end of your fork. We're...

Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is...

Realizing a New Possibility in One Generation One of Inc.com's 6 New Leadership Books You Need to Read This Fall “Daring . . . This visionary guide calls for a...

The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the...

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize...

A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival Acclaimed neuroscientist and bestselling author, Rahul Jandial, provides an honest account of the valuable lessons we can learn from humanity at...

Drawing on centuries of history and science, a prize-winning journalist upends our assumptions about migration revealing it not to be the story of our time, but an ancient, essential response...

How the genetic era will change the world A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about...

Take a dive into the deep and discover what it is about water that seduces us, heals us and brings us together. Join writer and swimmer Bonnie Tsui as she...

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One Frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has had insider access to the unfolding pandemic, including exclusive...

In our small corner of the universe, we know how some matter behaves most of the time and what even less of it looks like, and we have some good...

Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day From the constant pull of technology to the 24-hour news cycle to the overwhelming demands of work, our ability...

What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the...

You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we...

How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is...

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon — a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us....

All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn't Call it That In This is How You Vagina, Dr. Nicole Williams presents readers with a much-needed resource on the history,...

A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on...

Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion On May 11, 1997, millions worldwide heard news of a stunning victory, as a machine defeated the defending world chess champion,...

Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All...

*Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 award winner, Syukuro Manabe was jointly awarded with Klaus Hasselmann "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems for the physical modelling of Earth's...

Practical immortality may be within our grasp, due to cutting-edge scientific research and amazing medical breakthroughs that are coming at an astonishing speed. In Chasing Life, prominent neurosurgeon and CNN...

Sexually transmitted diseases have been hidden players in our lives for the whole of human history, with roles in everything from World War II to the growth of the Internet...

How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From ItThe transformative guide to recognising, preventing and healing trauma by Dr Paul Conti, with a foreword by Lady Gaga.Do the work...

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos — and a call for a more just practice of science.In The Disordered Cosmos,...

Build a Better Brain at Any Age — As Seen in The Daily MailAn exciting new science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline.Throughout our lives, we are always looking...

Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown. Most people think of mathematics as a...

The story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science communicatorProfessor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her...

Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 AmericaAmericans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar...

Seeking help is hard. Dope Therapy makes it easier.For many people, there is fear and stigma associated with entering the therapy room. Maybe you've been told that going to therapy...