The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, most of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions about race, sexuality, gender and the nature of human diversity.
With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough and over 250 breathtaking images, including stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spectacular footage, Seven Worlds, One Planet is a stunning exploration of the planet, and the worlds within it, that we call
A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began teaching.
'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' Carl Jung
The story of mankind's struggle to measure time - and the stunning timepieces that have changed the way we do so.
A practical relationship book that promises to help you find and keep love by understanding the science of adult attachment.
The primary architects of the response to the 2008 financial crisis offer a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are now.
This financial guidebook combines time-tested, expert advice with fresh insights into how money works today and how you can earn, spend and invest your way towards living your best life.
Surveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every move with the goal of predicting and controlling your behaviour. Under surveillance capitalism you are not the customer or even the produc
A concise volume of Karl Marx's most famous works introduced by Professor Hugh Griffiths
200 key ideas, movements and feminists explained in an instant.
200 futuristic concepts, technologies and their consequences, explained in an instant.
The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold
All 195 countries illustrated and explained in an instant
An approachable and helpfully illustrated introduction to our earliest relatives - the first sapiens and their relatives, origins, characteristics, and earliest migrations.
From the best-selling author of The Illustrated Herbiary comes a lushly illustrated guide to the symbolism of the animal kingdom, with beguiling profiles of 36 mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects, along with oracle cards, rituals, and reflections to sha
