Big companies are using maths to take from the poor and give to the rich. Maths professor Noah Giansiracusa shows how you can beat the system using simple hacks anyone can learn.'See what the algorithms are trying to hide from you, and even better,...

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender-based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream-systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has...

This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts...

This book completely changed how I see myself growing older. It's not just about adding years to your life - it's about making those years incredible. A must-have guide to living longer and better!'and - MEL ROBBINSA prominent US gerontologist's practical, science-based guide to...

THE FINAL INSTALLMENT IN THE STOIC VIRTUES SERIES FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING SENSATIONWisdom depends on curiosity. It demands humility. It requires a willingness to learn from the past in order to overcome the obstacles of the present - and we need it more...

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder'sand Sophie's Worldand has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home...

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Philosophy

Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state that obliterated linguistic diversity. This centralisation...

Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the national philosopher of Pakistan, is among the world's great poets and thinkers. His poetic creations are famous, but his prose writings have been buried in old journals and are no longer available to us. Even in pre-partition India, they were...

Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.Inand Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us...

Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad' Blake MorrisonWritten in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, theand Meditationsand of Marcus...

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.GREAT IDEAS....

There have been many political philosophies published throughout the time of literate man, but few have made such an impact in so few words as Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. This eminently quotable treatise on the nature of rulers is unsettling in that it does...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedyand “Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war...

The unputdownable new thriller and Richard andamp; Judy Book Club Pick from theand Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand Everyone Here is Lying. I inhaled this book in less than 48 hoursand . . .and What Have You Done?and exceeded all expectations.' LIZ NUGENT, bestselling...

The Philosophy Bookand answers the most profound questions we all have. It is your visual guide to the fundamental nature of existence, society, and how we think.Discover what it means to be free, whether science can predict the future, or how language shapes our...

More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, "Fallout "painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA's errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of...

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis...

From the formerand New York Timesand Asia correspondent and author ofand China's Second Continent,and an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China...

Professor Hawking was a brilliant theoretical physicist, an influential author and thinker and a great popular communicator. Throughout his career he was asked questions by business leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, academics and the general public on a broad range of subjects, from the origins of...

What Would Freud Do?and uses the key ideas of more than 80 psychological thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.Ever wondered what a great therapist like Freud or Jung would have to say about your horrible boss, your phone-checking...

Stephanie Kelton shows how misguided this question really is by using the bold ideas of modern monetary theory (MMT), the radically different approach to using our resources to maximize our potential as a society. Everything that we've been led to believe about deficits and...

'A stunner ... If you haven't got this book in your house, I don't know why' Chris Evans'A startling wake-up call . . . Writing with the vim of a Bill Bryson and the technical knowledge of a scientist, Steele gives us a chance...

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity? Your family? In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash,...

Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth.' The Dalai LamaInand The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh brings his gift of clear and poetic expression to an explanation of the Four Noble Truths, the...

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The...

Drawing upon the character of Sisyphus from the Greek Mythology, Camus beautifully constructs his theory of absurd , one of the greatest works of Existentialism. Sisyphus was condemned by gods to eternally push a boulder atop a mountain and subsequently see it roll down...

A classic look at man's search for certainty from the acclaimed expert on Eastern philosophyIn this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy.and The Wisdom...

Freud's seminal volume of 20th-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher'We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama digging their fingers into the soil of our predicament'and The New York TimesLiberalism - the comparatively mild-mannered sibling to the more ardent camps of nationalism and socialism -...

KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' A.N. WilsonIn this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, it is not enough to change our behaviour: we need to learn to think and feel differently about the natural world -...

Immerse yourself in the distant past with this epic poem from the Persian tradition. Penned more than one thousand years ago by the famed poet Ferdowsi,and The Shahnamehand weaves history and myth into a lyrical, action-packed work of art that you won't be able...

Why do we fall in love - and why do we break up? Written in the style of a novel, this genre-defying book charts the relationship of a man and a woman from the first kiss to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak, illuminating...

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children. The God Delusion is a brilliantly argued, fascinating polemic that will be required reading for anyone interested in this most emotional...

Do we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the universe think?Physicists are great at complicated research, but they are less good at telling us why it matters. In this entertaining and groundbreaking book,...

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing...

Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling...

John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . . A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time' Nigel Warburton,and Five BooksWhy has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are...

Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades.‘Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece’ Sunday TimesIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram...

From two times number one Sunday Times bestselling author, James Smith, comes HOW TO BE CONFIDENT - the third instalment in James' no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your decision-making and change your life.Now, more than ever, we are so often lost...

Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, andand Waldenand is without doubt his most influential book.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These...

An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they...

No understanding of Chinese civilization is possible without a grasp of Taoism, the philosophy that has shaped not just Chinese spirituality but also art, science and politics. And it was in theand Tao Te Ching, written around 300BC, that the fundamental beliefs of Taoism...

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor (161-180 CE) who was also an accomplished philosopher; the sole Roman emperor with this dual disposition. His philosophy is the exemplar of Stoic philosophy and his timeless writing in Meditations provides a handbook for the modern day Stoic. The Meditations of Marcus...

 The Ritual Effect and sticks with you'CHARLES DUHIGG'One of my very favourite behavioural scientists' ANGELA DUCKWORTH'An eye-opening window into why we swear by certain routines - and how we can build more enriching ones' ADAM GRANTThe ground-breaking and inspiring guide to turning everyday habits...

The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well' Chinua Achebe Only a poet with an...

*Anand Observerand Book of the Year*'One of the most gripping accounts... of the Nazis' rise to power. It contains many lessons for the world now.' -and John Kampfner, bestselling author ofand Why The Germans Do It Better'Outstanding... This is history at its very best.'and...

"The Black Friendand is THE book everyone needs to read right now... Read it, absorb it, and be changed because of it. -Angie Thomas, author ofand The Hate U GiveSpeaking directly to the reader, Frederick Joseph offers powerful reflections on his own experiences with...