A sweeping, hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion, when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia.
THE INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN HARDBACK'A superb survey of planetary politics'The Sunday TimesSpy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetime.This isn't science fiction.It's astropolitics. Space is already central to our lives on Earth, from communication and military strategy to international relations.
Knižka, ktorá vás zachráni, keď budete po pôrode držať v náručí svoje bábätko. Nejedna z vás si vtedy pomyslí, že tieto užitočné a praktické rady by bolo dobré vedieť už pred pôrodom. Majte ju preto prichystanú skôr, než bábätko príde na svet. Dojčenie nie je samozrejmé, automatické ani intuitívne konanie.
Why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career?
The official tie-in to the final instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchiseFew places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creating challenges for the wildlife we share it with. We have entered a new age, and we must look at the splendour of the natural world through a different lens.
This is a brilliant young prize-winning American journalist, a staff writer for the New Yorker, asking important and subversive questions about the evolution, application and development of psychiatry. We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it?
'White Holes edifies, excites, and even transforms me' Maggie NelsonA mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsLet us journey into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe.
'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda ... His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work' Yanis VaroufakisTime has always been political. Throughout history, how we use our time has been defined and controlled by the powerful, and today is no exception.
Your health has a mind of its own. When it comes to setting and achieving your goals, how you think influences what you do.
A monkey who trades stuff. That's us.Throughout economic history, barter has been man's faithful companion.And ingenuity her capital, with which she has shaped the economic system.
In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikoetter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports.
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'A warm, optimistic, urgent call for change' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland'Breathe is a breath of fresh air, offering an antidote to cynicism and demonstrating the power of a politics that aims to bring people together in the search for solutions.
This first book on Kim Jong-uns powerful sister, tipped to be his successor, is a readable, jaw-dropping insight into a secretive and dangerous dynasty.
How do scientists study the entire universe?How can we make sense of its vast, intricate workings?'I was enlightened, amazed, and profoundly impressed' Philip Pullman, author of His Dark MaterialsWe are part of an incredible chain of events stretching 13.8 billion years into the past and even further into the future. But what does that future hold?
