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...and Forgive Them Their Debts

An epic journey through the economies of ancient civilizations, and how they managed debt versus social instability. Shocking historical truths about ...

By Michael Hudson

History

#MakeoverMonday

Explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations #MakeoverMonday offers inspiration and a giant dose of perspecti...

By Andy Kriebel, Eva Murray

Business & Economics

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. How can we protect ourselves from nu...

By Yuval Noah Harari

History

22 Days in May

22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coali...

By David Laws

Political Science

22 Ideas About The Future

A blend of near-future speculative fiction and non-fiction commentary from leading experts in the fields of health, community, retail, and money.

By Benjamin Greenway, Stephen Oram

Technology & Engineering

101 Ways to Win an Election

In politics there are no prizes For second place. Luckily, seasoned campaign professionals Mark Pack and Edward Maxfield have distilled successful ele...

By Mark Pack, Edward Maxfield

Political Science

A City on Mars

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars...

By Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

Science

A Closed and Common Orbit

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD. WINNER OF THE 2017 PRIX JULIA-VERLANGER. 'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent'...

By Becky Chambers

Fiction

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, Volume I (1/3) by Marcus Jastrow This dictionary is an ab...

By Marcus Jastrow

History

A Line in the Sand

A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East. In 1916, in the middle of t...

By James Barr

History

A Policy for British Agriculture

By Lord Addison of Stallingborough

Political Science

A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis

"This book provides a wise and engaging how-to guide that meets the central challenge of policy analysis: combining scientific evidence and social goa...

By Eugene Bardach, Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science

A Role for Artists in Troubled Times

Five impassioned erudite essays: the imperative of art as the current political/cultural climate suffocates consciousness, the personal odyssey of the...

By Robert Golden

Art

A Theory of Everyone

A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society. Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” f...

By Michael Muthukrishna

History

A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

Nobel Laureate in medicine Gerald Edelman and brain researcher Giulio Tononi draw on their cutting-edge research to show precisely how the brain creat...

By Gerald M. Edelman, Giulio Tononi

Psychology & Medicine

A Year in the Life

By Lucy Leonelli

Geography

ABC's of Anarchy

"This isn't a book about anarchism ... This is a book about anarchy, living a life without masters. So, the following pages are full of examples of ap...

By Brian Heagney

Political Science

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Now a New York Times bestseller! If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger...

By Lindsay C. Gibson

Psychology & Medicine

Advices & Queries

Advices and queries designed to challenge and inspire Australian Quakers in their personal lives and in their life as a religious community.

By Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia

Religion

Agenda for the Future

By Derek Bates

Political Science

Alastair, Illustrator of Decadence

By Alastair, Victor Arwas

Biography & Autobiography

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.

By Brian Christian, Griffiths

Technology & Engineering

All Out War: the Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class

Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must read' NICK ROBINSON Politics was turned upside down during 2016. This book by Sunday...

By Tim Shipman

History

All the Pretty Horses

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitz...

By Cormac McCarthy

Fiction

Alt. Culture

An a-z of 90s youth culture of America.

By Nathaniel Wice, Steven Daly

Technology & Engineering

American Nations

• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relev...

By Colin Woodard

History

American Technological Sublime

American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Elect...

By David E. Nye

Technology & Engineering

Ammonite

Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the m...

By Nicola Griffith

Fiction

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Reproduction of the original: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

By Adam Smith

Business & Economics

An Introduction to Network Weaving

This practical guide is useful for individuals or groups interested in gaining basic skills to improve the effectiveness of their networks. 150 pages....

By June Holley

Political Science

An Introduction to Service Design

A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging fiel...

By Lara Penin

Design & System theory

Anarchic Agreements: How to Build Durable Groups and Coalitions

A new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the revolution, answering the practical qu...

By Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard, Thomas Swann, Seeds for Change

Political Science

Anarchism

This zine is a reprint of an article written in the 1970s by anarcha-feminist Peggy Kornegger. The essay is an introduction to Anarcha-feminism with a...

By Peggy Kornegger

Political Science

Anarchy & Alcohol

"'Hold it right there--I can see the sneer on your face: Are these anarchists so uptight that they would even denounce the only fun aspect of anarchis...

By Crimethinc

Social Science

And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that c...

By Yanis Varoufakis

Business & Economics

Are We There Yet?

Digital transformation across the public sector has stalled. After over 25 years of considerable time, money, and effort at national, state, and local...

By Martin Stewart-Weeks, Simon Cooper

Technology & Engineering

Australasian Political Studies 1997

By Australasian Political Studies Association. Conference

Political Science

Being Nobody, Going Nowhere

In this lucid classic, beloved teacher Ayya Khema introduces the reader to the essence of the Buddhist path. She addresses the how and why of meditati...

By Khema

Religion

Ben and Me

By Robert Lawson

Fiction

Betraying Ambition

By Diego Agulló

Philosophy

Biometric State

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most ...

By Keith Breckenridge

Technology & Engineering

Bitch

A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I re...

By Lucy Cooke

Social Science

Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2024

Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2024 offers comprehensive coverage of the skills and knowledge required of future police officers, from pr...

By Dominic Wood, Sarah Bradshaw, Tara Dickens, Julian Parker-McLeod, Christina Davis

Law

Bletchley park

By Bletchley Park Trust

Games & Lifestyle

Bletchley Park Brainteasers

Bestselling Bletchley Park Brainteasers continues to delight hundreds of thousands of devoted puzzlers with its fiendish puzzles, riddles and enigmas....

By Sinclair McKay

Games & Lifestyle

Brave New World

Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel. Borrowing from The Tempest , Huxley imagines a genetically-engineered future where life is pain-fr...

By Aldous Huxley

Fiction

Brexit and Beyond

Brexit will have significant consequences for the country, for Europe, and for global order. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused o...

By Benjamin Martill, Uta Staiger

Political Science

Brit(ish)

From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth...

By Afua Hirsch

Social Science

British Politics For Dummies

Your updated and revised guide to British politics So, you want to be knowledgeable about British politics but don't know where to start? You've come ...

By Julian Knight, Michael Pattison

Political Science

British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown

The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minister...

By Robert Pearce, Graham Goodlad

History

Building Evolutionary Architectures

The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the p...

By Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua

Technology & Engineering

Bury the Chains

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world’s leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-win...

By Adam Hochschild

History

Capitalist Realism

An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

By Mark Fisher

Political Science

Captive State

Monbiot documents the end of representative government in Britain. The state is no longer the initiator of policy but an increasingly helpless bystand...

By George Monbiot

Business & Economics

Cartoon Guide to Statistics

If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviat...

By Larry Gonick

Mathematics

Classified

Use your advantage to fight for social change with this resource guide for people with class privilege who are tired of cover-ups and ready to figure ...

By Karen Pittelman, Resource Generation

Social Science

Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

"Sober, lucid and often wise." —Nature The Internet is powerful, but it is not safe. As "smart" devices proliferate the risks will get worse, unless w...

By Bruce Schneier

Technology & Engineering

Cloudmoney: Efectivo, tarjetas, criptomonedas y la lucha por nuestras carteras / Cloudmoney. Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets

¿Quién se beneficia de una sociedad sin efectivo? ¿Es el fin del dinero físico el fin de la verdadera privacidad? ¿El monopolio de las criptomonedas e...

By Brett Scott

Business & Economics

Club Law Manual

This book is an invaluable guide for all those associated with or advising members' clubs. Divided into six parts: Licensing; Gambling; Fundraising; H...

By Kerry Barker, Henry Stevens

Law

Clues

How do solutions develop? This question leads de Shazer to a provocative discussion of all the solution-related things that client and therapist do du...

By Steve De Shazer

Psychology & Medicine

Code

"Code counters the common belief that cyberspace cannot be controlled or censored. To the contrary, under the influence of commerce, cyberspace is bec...

By Lawrence Lessig

Business & Economics

Collected Maxims and Other Reflections

Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses...

By Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld

Art

Combining

In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable...

By Nora Bateson

Philosophy

Common Knowledge?

With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. ...

By Dariusz Jemielniak

Business & Economics

Common Sense for the 21st Century

"What can we do to avert catastrophe and avoid extinction? The political class won't save us. According to Roger Hallam, real change comes from ordina...

By Roger Hallam

Political Science

Consciousness and the Brain

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can tra...

By Stanislas Dehaene

Science

Corruptible

Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others' - Adam Grant 'Passionate, insightful, and...

By Brian Klaas

Political Science

Cost-benefit analysis

By Richard Layard

Design & System theory

Coup D'etat

By Edward Luttwak

Social Science

Creating a Life Together

Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on ...

By Diana Leafe Christian

Games & Lifestyle

Cryptonomicon

A gripping and page-turning thriller that explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the twentieth century. From the author of the thre...

By Neal Stephenson

Fiction

Curation

A terrific and important book . . . it's a great, fresh take on how the 21st century is transforming the way we select everything from food to music' ...

By Michael Bhaskar

Technology & Engineering

Cybernetic Revolutionaries

A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics...

By Eden Medina

Technology & Engineering

Cybersecurity For Dummies

Protect your business and family against cyber attacks Cybersecurity is the protection against the unauthorized or criminal use of electronic data and...

By Joseph Steinberg

Technology & Engineering

Dancing With Elves

By John Gall, John Gall, MD, FAAP

Education

Dark Data

"Data describe and represent the world. However, no matter how big they may be, data sets don't - indeed cannot - capture everything. Data are measure...

By David J. Hand

Technology & Engineering

Data for the People

A long-time chief data scientist at Amazon shows how open data can make everyone, not just corporations, richer Every time we Google something, Facebo...

By Andreas Weigend

Science

Data Smart

Data Science gets thrown around in the press like it'smagic. Major retailers are predicting everything from when theircustomers are pregnant to when t...

By John W. Foreman

Business & Economics

Demanding the Impossible

A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions ...

By Peter Marshall

Political Science

Democracy for Realists

Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the h...

By Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels

Political Science

Democracy Hacked

Technology has fractured democracy, and now there’s no going back. All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleash...

By Martin Moore

Political Science

Democracy in America

One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqu...

By Alexis Tocqueville

Political Science

Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss it When It's Gone

Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy's name we see a raft of policie...

By Astra Taylor

Political Science

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

A bizarre mix of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story offers an unforgettable depiction of a lunatic civil servant. Includes ...

By Nikolai Gogol

Fiction

Dice Games Properly Explained

This book explains almost 150 games and variations.

By Reiner Knizia

Games & Lifestyle

Digital Dominance

Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks st...

By Martin Moore, Damian Tambini

Technology & Engineering

Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery

The book is a guide to building a digital institution. This updated and expanded second edition explains how a growing band of reformers in businesses...

By Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken

Business & Economics

digitalSTS

New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realities Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information...

By Janet Vertesi, David Ribes

Science

DIY for Witches

Witches and wizards begin your magical journey! Welcome to the world of witchcraft! When you practice magic, you must surround yourself with essential...

By Marine Nina Denis, Flora Denis

Games & Lifestyle

Dog Eat Dog

By Liam Liwanag Burke

Social Science

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Alienarium 5

Gonzalez-Foerster works experimentally. Engaging with the exhibition as a medium, her spatial inventions and investigations probe the notion of displa...

By Enrique Vila-Matas, Paul B. Preciado

Art

Don't Think of an Elephant!

Don't Think of An Elephant is the antidote to decades of conservative strategising and the right's stranglehold on political dialogue. More specifical...

By George Lakoff

Psychology & Medicine

Dreamers of Decadence

Many of these artists - Moreau; Toorop, the brilliant half-Balinese, half-Dutch painter and draftsman; the French Odilon Redon, the great master of Sy...

By Philippe Jullian

Art

Dreams From My Father

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man a...

By Barack Obama

Biography & Autobiography

Economics For Dummies

Grasp the history, principles, theories, and terminology of economics with this updated bestseller Since the initial publication of Economics For Dumm...

By Sean Masaki Flynn

Business & Economics

Elegant Parenting

General Systemantics Press of Ann Arbor is proud to announce its newest title: ELEGANT PARENTING: STRATEGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Tired of sa...

By Beth Gall, John Gall

Games & Lifestyle

Emotions Revealed

You'll never look at people in quite the same way again. EMOTIONS REVEALED is a tour de force' Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of BLINK 'A fascin...

By Paul Ekman

Psychology & Medicine

End State

A GUARDIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'End State is absolutely superb. If you're looking for a book that is honest about the problems of the future bu...

By James Plunkett

Business & Economics

Essential Public Affairs for Journalists

Essential Public Affairs for Journalists' is a practical introduction to all aspects of central and local government. It provides journalism students ...

By James Morrison

Political Science

Exponential

The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year 'Enticing' Sunday Times | 'Engaging' Financial Times | 'Essential' Reid Hoffman ___ As technology accel...

By Azeem Azhar

Technology & Engineering

Expurgating the Classics

In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in an...

By Stephen Harrison, Christopher Stray

Art

Factfulness

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill ...

By Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling

Science

Fake Law

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A powerful polemic' Sunday Times 'A compelling, eye-opening read' Daily Express – Did an illegal immigrant avoid ...

By The Secret Barrister

Law

Family and Kinship in East London

First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green...

By Michael Young, Peter Wilmott

Social Science

Feminism in Turkey in the 1980's

By Meltem Ahiska

Social Science

Forget Shorter Showers

By Derrick Jensen

Political Science

Forward from Liberalism

By Stephen Spender

Political Science

Foundations of Chemical Biology

This book introduces the fundamental chemistry of the molecules that are essential to all cells, covering amino acids and sugar phosphate derivatives,...

By Christopher M. Dobson, Juliet A. Gerrard, Andrew J. Pratt

Science

Freedom Evolves

Dennett shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only on...

By Daniel C. Dennett

Philosophy

Freedom of Mind

Hassan became a member of a cult while in college. After being deprogrammed, he became a leading educator and activist against mind control and destru...

By Steven Hassan

Psychology & Medicine

From Newspeak to Cyberspeak

In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science an...

By Slava Gerovitch

History

Future Babble

In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1908, it was pr...

By Dan Gardner

Social Science

Future Politics

Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great polit...

By Jamie Susskind

Political Science

Galapagos: A Novel

The ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder wryly observes the decline of the human race as reflected by a group of shipwreck survivors, including a biolog...

By Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

GDP

How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to change Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's...

By Diane Coyle

Business & Economics

General Intellects

What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellec...

By McKenzie Wark

Philosophy

General Systemantics

By John Gall

Design & System theory

Genius Makers

This colourful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective . . . Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the ques...

By Cade Metz

Technology & Engineering

Geographies of Digital Exclusion

Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. Now that over half of...

By Mark Graham, Martin Dittus

Social Science

Get Rich or Lie Trying

Compelling.' Reni Eddo-Lodge A 'must-read book for 2022', as picked by Stylist More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's eas...

By Symeon Brown

Technology & Engineering

Getting (More Of) What You Want

Most of us worry that we're not very good negotiators - too quick to concede or too abrupt in our approach. But negotiation is present in almost every...

By Margaret A. Neale, Thomas Z. Lys

Business & Economics

Ghosts of My Life

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. F...

By Mark Fisher

Social Science

Godel, Escher, Bach

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development ...

By Douglas R. Hofstadter

Science

Good Services

A practical book for practitioners and non-practitioners alike interested in better service delivery, this book is the definitive new guide to designi...

By Lou Downe

Education

Governance: A Very Short Introduction

The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change an...

By Mark Bevir

Political Science

Ground Control

Britain's streets have been transformed by the construction of new property - but it's owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched ...

By Anna Minton

Political Science

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for delivering better software faster. TDD is based on a simple idea: Write tests for yo...

By Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce

Technology & Engineering

Hacking Diversity

"We regularly read and hear exhortations for women to take up positions in STEM. The call comes from both government and private corporate circles, an...

By Christina Dunbar-Hester

Technology & Engineering

Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations

Data-science investigations have brought journalism into the 21st century, and—guided by The Intercept’s infosec expert Micah Lee— this book is your b...

By Micah Lee

Technology & Engineering

Handbook on the Politics of Regulation

Political science has leap-frogged law, economics, and sociology to become the dominant discipline contributing to regulatory studies. David Levi-Faur...

By David Levi-Faur

Law

Hegemony How-To

A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and i...

By Jonathan Smucker

Political Science

Heritable Human Genome Editing

Heritable human genome editing - making changes to the genetic material of eggs, sperm, or any cells that lead to their development, including the cel...

By The Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing

Psychology & Medicine

Hidden Order

Basic elements - Adaptive agents - Echoing emergence - Simulating echo - Toward theory.

By John Henry Holland

Mathematics

Hit By a Low-Flying Goose

By John Gall, Carol Gall

Education

Horrible Histories Special: Wales (newspaper edition)

Readers can discover all the foul facts about WALES, including why Druids split humans in half, how the Normans outwitted the Welsh with a lump of ham...

By Terry Deary

History

House of Bush, House of Saud

Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the Hous...

By Craig Unger

Political Science

How I Wish I'd Taught Maths

Brought to an American audience for the first time, How I Wish I'd Taught Maths is the story of an experienced and successful math teacher's journey i...

By Craig Barton

Mathematics

How the Mind Works

A prominent cognitive scientist and author of The Language Instinct explains how the brain evolved to store and use information, allowing our ancestor...

By Steven Pinker

Science

How To

Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTAN...

By Randall Munroe

Science

How to Actually Change Your Mind

Human intelligence is a superweapon: an amazing capacity that has single-handedly put humans in a dominant position on Earth. When human intelligence ...

By Eliezer Yudkowsky

Psychology & Medicine

How To Be Right

The voice of reason in a world that won’t shut up. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Parliamentary Book Awards Every day, James O’Brien listen...

By James O'Brien

Political Science

How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps

Events have spiralled since the first edition of How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps. The junior doctors' strike, the Conservative victory in th...

By Youssef El-Gingihy

Political Science

How to Give Up Plastic

We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 ...

By Will McCallum

Political Science

How to Invent Everything

"What would you do if you had a time machine that took you hundreds or thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? C...

By Ryan North

History

How to Resist

"This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism."' -- Brian Eno "This book is for people who are angry with the ways thin...

By Matthew Bolton

Political Science

How to Save the World For Free

“Just what we need to get the job done” - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Are you worried about the effects of climate change on our environment? Want to ...

By Natalie Fee

Science

How to Slay a Dragon

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today's Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia's prisons on politically motivated charg...

By Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Geography

How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Keep calm – but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit – except that it will be deeply damag...

By Nick Clegg

Political Science

How We Went Off-Grid -

Council Minutes, correspondence and submissions, expert evidence from Ecologists and Energy consultants; Architect's drawings; 2016 Management plan an...

By Matthew Watkinson, Charis Watkinson

Games & Lifestyle

Human Smoke

A study of the decades leading up to World War II profiles the world leaders, politicians, business people, and others whose personal politics and ide...

By Nicholson Baker

History

Humans as a Service

Is crowdsourcing the future of work? This book offers a lively and critical account of the gig economy: its promises and realities, what is at stake, ...

By Jeremias Prassl

Business & Economics

I Don't Think So

I didn't plan to get divorced. I didn't plan to lose custody of my son. I didn't plan to destroy my life. No one does. My life was hijacked, and I liv...

By Melanie Mitchell, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Ogi School of Science and Engineering Melanie Mitchell, Cda, Bgs

Psychology & Medicine

I Don't Want to Talk About It

A bestseller for over 20 years, I Don’t Want to Talk About It is a groundbreaking and hopeful guide to understanding and destigmatizing male depressio...

By Terrence Real

Psychology & Medicine

I'm No Slut

"Personal accounts of queer sex, abuse, slut-shaming, mental health, and rape culture." The zine features copy and pasted text with colour collage and...

By Jack William

Biography & Autobiography

Impro

Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commission...

By Keith Johnstone

Art

In Order To Live

I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when ...

By Yeonmi Park

Biography & Autobiography

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of ...

By John Gribbin

Science

In the Beginning

As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, the Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature. In...

By Karen Armstrong

Religion

Inadequate Equilibria

When should you think that you may be able to do something unusually well?If you're trying to advance a scientific field - or start the next Facebook ...

By Eliezer Yudkowsky

Design & System theory

Industrial Society and Its Future: Unabomber Manifesto

Industrial Society and Its Future, widely called the Unabomber Manifesto, is a essay by Ted Kaczynski contending that the Industrial Revolution began ...

By Theodore John Kaczynski

Political Science

Information is Beautiful

Miscellaneous facts and ideas are interconnected and represented in a visual format, a "visual miscellaneum," which represents "a series of experiment...

By David McCandless

Design & System theory

Insurgent Empire

Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and...

By Priyamvada Gopal

History

Internal Communication Strategy

Getting internal communication right starts with having a clear strategy. Internal Communication Strategy is your all-in-one guide to designing, devel...

By Rachel Miller

Business & Economics

Inventing the Future

Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant...

By Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams

Political Science

It's Complicated

Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconcept...

By Danah Boyd

Social Science

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much as this one. It was very difficult rea...

By James Acaster

Biography & Autobiography

Jews Don’t Count

How identity politics failed one particular identity. ‘A must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do’ SA...

By David Baddiel

Social Science

Julia

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "a fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own" The Guardian London, chief cit...

By Sandra Newman

Fiction

Justice as Fairness

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became...

By John Rawls

Philosophy

Kindred

From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-trav...

By Octavia E. Butler

Fiction

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty ...

By Tom Burgis

Social Science

Knowledge Games

Are games the knowledge-producers of the future? Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universit...

By Karen Schrier

Education

Le gourmet solitaire

On ne sait presque rien de lui. Il travaille dans le commerce, mais ce n'est pas un homme pressé ; il aime les femmes, mais préfère vivre seul ; c'est...

By Jirō Taniguchi, Masayuki Kusumi

Comics & Graphic Novels

Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

"Ideally suited to a one-year graduate course, this textbook is also a useful reference for researchers. Readers are introduced to the subject through...

By Steven Weinberg

Science

Left to Our Own Devices

"The Digital Hustle When we met in the middle of a rare snowstorm in Washington, DC, in January, Charlie was bundled up against the cold in his Carhar...

By Julia Ticona

Business & Economics

Legal Aid Manual

By Osgoode Hall Law School. Community and Legal Aid Services Program

Law

Legal Systems Very Different from Ours

This book looks at thirteen different legal systems, ranging from Imperial China to modern Amish: how they worked, what problems they faced, how they ...

By Peter Leeson, David Skarbek, David Friedman

Law

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire

This provocative book examines the teachings of political theorist Leo Strauss and the ways in which they have been appropriated, or misappropriated, ...

By Anne Norton

Political Science

Letter to My Mother

By Georges Simenon

Biography & Autobiography

Life After the Third Reich

In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin. But what was it like to live in Germany ...

By Paul Roland

History

Light From Uncommon Stars

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San ...

By Ryka Aoki

Fiction

List und Tücke der Systeme

By John Gall

Design & System theory

Living Together

I loved it! Brilliantly written, probing and necessary' PANDORA SYKES 'Skinner goes in search of a different way of life . . . a sensitive and colourf...

By Mim Skinner

Social Science

Machine Translation

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players i...

By Thierry Poibeau

Technology & Engineering

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

“A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledge th...

By Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson

Business & Economics

Map and Territory

When human brains try to do things, they can run into some very strange problems. Self-deception, confirmation bias, magical thinking-it sometimes see...

By Eliezer Yudkowsky

Design & System theory

Markets, Minds, and Money

Free markets made US universities world leaders in research. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that in the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurial uni...

By Miguel Urquiola

Education

Marx at the Arcade

More people are playing video games than ever before, and yet much of the work of their production remains obscured to us. Deploying a Marxist approac...

By Jamie Woodcock

Games & Lifestyle

Masa y poder

He aquí una obra capital y totalmente original de investigación de los fenómenos sociales. Situándose a mitad de camino entre el ensayo y la narrativa...

By Elías Canetti

Philosophy

Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid is the ultimate guide for friends, families, schools, work, colleagues, carers and individuals; to help themselves and others ...

By EMMA. HAMMETT

Psychology & Medicine

Microeconomics For Dummies

Your no-nonsense guide to microeconomics The study of microeconomics isn't for the faint of heart. Fortunately, Microeconomics For Dummies is here to ...

By Lynne Pepall, Peter Antonioni, Manzur Rashid

Business & Economics

Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour

As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and...

By Tinti Peter, Tuesday Reitano

Social Science

Militant Modernism

Militant Modernism is a defence against Modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film and architecture - especially architecture — and pursues...

By Owen Hatherley

Philosophy

Mining of Massive Datasets

Written by leading authorities in database and Web technologies, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. The popularity o...

By Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman

Technology & Engineering

Misbehaving

RICHARD H. THALER: WINNER OF THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award ECONOM...

By Richard H. Thaler

Business & Economics

Mismatch

How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all. Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn...

By Kat Holmes

Technology & Engineering

Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel...

By Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman

Social Science

Moral Mazes

This updated edition of a classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how...

By Robert Jackall

Business & Economics

Multiplied

This book is for anyone that creates, delivers or supports public policy and services. It's about what the public sector, and everyone working with th...

By Ben Holliday

Political Science

Nazi Women of the Third Reich

• Four months pregnant, Vera Wohlauf, wife of a serving SS officer, took sadistic pleasure in rounding up victims for Treblinka. • Like creatures from...

By Paul Roland

History

Networks Without a Cause

With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the conseque...

By Geert Lovink

Social Science

Never Split the Difference

THE HUGE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. 'Ri...

By Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

Business & Economics

New Power

By JEREMY. TIMMS HEIMANS (HENRY.), Henry Timms

Political Science

Nineteen eighty-four

This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world h...

By George Orwell

Fiction

No Is Not Enough

**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller** 'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy 'As accessible as it is brillian...

By Naomi Klein

Political Science

No Local

Can making things smaller make the world a better place? No Local takes a critical look at localism, an ideology that says small businesses, ethical s...

By Greg Sharzer

Political Science

No More Prisons

A truly remarkable collection of activist writings across all topics and perspectives, all while recounting a personal evolution from idealistic urban...

By William Upski Wimsatt

Political Science

Not Quite White

Neither here, nor there; neither one, nor the other. What does it feel like to be an indescribable shade somewhere in between? Can you even exist in a...

By Laila Woozeer

Biography & Autobiography

Notes from the Underground

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fiction

Off the Grid

A look inside the subculture of off-grid living, taking readers across the ideological spectrum and across America Written by a leading authority on l...

By Nick Rosen

Social Science

Ogilvy on Advertising

A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business." Told with...

By David Ogilvy

Social Science

On War

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses ev...

By Carl von Clausewitz

Science

Open Borders

An Economist “Our Books of the Year” Selection Economist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfi...

By Bryan Caplan

Comics & Graphic Novels

Open Democracy

To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the I...

By Hélène Landemore

Philosophy

Open Government

In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations an...

By Daniel Lathrop, Laurel Ruma

Political Science

Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

Suitable for advanced undergraduate or graduate business, economics, and financial engineering courses in derivatives, options and futures, or risk ma...

By John Hull

Business & Economics

Parautopia

By Анатолий Васильев, З. K. Абдуллаева

Art

Peace, Reform and Liberation

Drawing on the most recent scholarly research, this book sets out how the Liberal Party was formed in the mid-19th century.

By Robert Ingham, Duncan Brack

Political Science

Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction

An introduction to Pentecostalism that traces the religious movement's history throughout the twentieth century, discussing its origins, spread across...

By William K. Kay

Religion

People and Places

This unique atlas uses the 2011 Census data, alongside more recent data sources, to identify national and local trends and provide up-to-date analysis...

By Daniel Dorling, Dorling, Danny, Thomas, Bethan

Geography

Perilous Question

The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed. Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evok...

By Antonia Fraser

History

Personnel Selection

Clear and accessible, Personnel Selection will continue tobe the guide that students and professionals alike turn to forpractical advice in this compl...

By Mark Cook

Psychology & Medicine

Platformland: an Anatomy Next-Generati

The aim of most public sector digitization programmes is the status quo, delivered more cheaply. Rather than saving the public from bureaucracy, digit...

By POPE

Technology & Engineering

Plato

"Julia Annas provides an incisive exploration of the many-sided and elusive genius whose wide-ranging, bold, and influential ideas continue to challen...

By Julia Annas

Biography & Autobiography

Plato: 'The Republic'

First published in 2000, this translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the ...

By Plato

Philosophy

Pocket World In Figures 2022

The 2022 edition of this annual bestseller has been completely revised and updated, with new features including the origins and destinations of migran...

By The Economist

Education

Poor Economics

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of ho...

By Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Business & Economics

Postmortems

Legendary game designer and author of the classic "A Theory of Fun for Game Design," Raph Koster is back with his first volume of selected essays. "Po...

By Raph Koster

Design & System theory

Poverty

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her important and widely acclaimed intervention on the top...

By Ruth Lister

Political Science

Power to the People

"This path-breaking study is about how ordinary people are gaining the means to be extraordinarily lethal. States are also concentrating their technol...

By Audrey Kurth Cronin

History

Power to the Public

“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”—Barack Obama A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness t...

By Tara Dawson McGuinness, Hana Schank

Law

Primed

Primed reveals the five underlying candidate narratives for winning a party’s nomination to stand in a general election.In fiction, the idea that ther...

By Benedict Pringle

Political Science

Privacy is Power

An Economist Book of the Year Every minute of every day, our data is harvested and exploited… It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy....

By Carissa Veliz

Social Science

Psychology

This adaptation of this acclaimed psychololgy text has been thoroughly restructured and rewritten to meet the needs of a European audience. Features i...

By Neil R. Carlson, William Buskist, G. Neil Martin

Psychology & Medicine

Public Service Reform-- But Not As We Know It

By Hilary Wainwright, Matthew Little

Political Science

Quaker Faith and Practice

By Quaker Home Service

Religion

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

By Mao Ce-tung

History

Radical

WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle wou...

By David Platt

Political Science

Radical Help

How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This excitin...

By Hilary Cottam

History

Radical Technologies

A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But a...

By Adam Greenfield

Social Science

Radicals

From the creator of hit podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen ______________________________ 'Thoughtful and intelligent' Observer 'Inside the anti-politica...

By Jamie Bartlett

Political Science

Rationality and Power

"It's like the story of Little Town," an influential actor says in Rationality and Power when choosing a metaphor to describe how he manipulated ratio...

By Bent Flyvbjerg

Political Science

Real World Research

Real World Research provides a clear route-map of the various steps needed to carry out a piece of applied research to a high professional standard. I...

By Colin Robson, Kieran McCartan

Psychology & Medicine

RealWorld Evaluation

This book helps practicing evaluators design and conduct competent evaluation studies, while explicitly considering resource and data constraints. The...

By Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh, Linda Mabry

Social Science

Rebooting AI

Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a truly robust artif...

By Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis

Technology & Engineering

Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents

In this sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers powerful tools to help y...

By Lindsay C. Gibson

Psychology & Medicine

Red Tory

Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exha...

By Phillip Blond

Political Science

Risk

Every day we hear about terrorism, war and apocalypse. But the real risk of these events happening to us is about as likely as winning the lottery. Da...

By Dan Gardner

Social Science

Robert's Rules of Order

Since 1876, Robert's Rules of Order has gone through 10 editions and sold nearly 5,000,000 copies. It remains the last word on the proper conduct of m...

By Henry M. Robert

Law

Robin Murray

By Robin Murray [edited by Michael Rustin]

Political Science

Rockonomics

An entertaining guide to economics by a former adviser to Barack Obama that uses the lessons of the music business to explain what is happening in the...

By Alan Krueger

Business & Economics

Rule of Experts

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By Timothy Mitchell

Business & Economics

Rules

A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set ...

By Lorraine Daston

History

Rules for Revolutionaries

Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the...

By Becky Bond, Zack Exley

Political Science

Saving Capitalism

From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that hel...

By Robert B. Reich

Business & Economics

Science Studies

The first comprehensive survey of the nascent field of "science studies" Thrust into the public eye by the contentious "Science Wars"—played out most ...

By David J. Hess

Education

Seeing Like a State

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Ha...

By James C. Scott

Political Science

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Enterprises have made amazing advances by taking advantage of data about their business to provide predictions and understanding of their customers, m...

By James Hendler, Fabien Gandon, Dean Allemang

Technology & Engineering

Service Design for Business

A practical approach to better customer experience through service design Service Design for Business helps you transform your customer's experience a...

By Ben Reason, Lavrans Løvlie, Melvin Brand Flu

Business & Economics

Sharks

Over the past two years, Conor Woodman has travelled the globe on the trail of the world's most profitable, most unpleasant criminals. In Sharks, Cono...

By Conor Woodman

Social Science

Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games

The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming” and creator of Civilization, featuring his rules of go...

By Sid Meier

Biography & Autobiography

Silent Coup

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet inste...

By Claire Provost, Matt Kennard

Business & Economics

Simulations in the Political Science Classroom

This book is premised on the assumption that games and simulations provide welcome alternatives and supplements to traditional lectures and class disc...

By Mark Harvey, James Fielder, Ryan Gibb

Political Science

Skin Deep

As a spy for a fey intelligence agency, Laura Blackstone uses her magical abilities to create disguises that are skin deep. But when Laura's worlds co...

By Mark Del Franco

Fiction

Skin Deep

A doctor places an advertisement for a woman to talk with, and a topless dancer answers it. They proceed to meet regularly in a hotel, she covered hea...

By Diana Wagman

Fiction

Social Network Analysis

Covers methods for the analysis of social networks and applies them to examples.

By Stanley Wasserman

Social Science

Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon

Solar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.2 billion in 2004 but down from $171 billion in 2017 as unit...

By Jenny Chase

Business & Economics

Solve For Happy

He explains how even in the face of the unthinkable, happiness is still possible' – Stylist Solve for Happy is the equation for happiness. A startling...

By Mo Gawdat

Psychology & Medicine

Śrī Īśopaniṣad

Wire and bead jewelry is one of the hottest subjects in.jewelry-making today, and this book comes from two of the best-known teachers in the field, Ja...

By A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Religion

Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics

‘The bible for The Independent Group and many others’ Nick Robinson, Today Programme Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves poli...

By Philip Collins

Political Science

Statistical Tables for Biological Agricultural and Medical Research

By Fisher R. A.

Design & System theory

Statistics: An Introduction: Teach Yourself

Do you need to gain confidence with handling numbers and formulae? Do you want a clear, step-by-step guide to the key concepts and principles of stati...

By Alan Graham

Mathematics

Stopping the Far Right

By Fred Grindrod, Mark Rusling

Political Science

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATES In this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humou...

By Richard P Feynman

Biography & Autobiography

Survival of the Richest

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a de...

By Douglas Rushkoff

Social Science

Systematics

By John Gall, R. O. Blechman

Design & System theory

Talking About a Revolution

Yassmin Abdel-Magied brings her characteristic warmth, clarity and inquisitive nature to the concept of 'the private and public self' and 'systems and...

By Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Social Science

Tate Modern Guide

By Jane Burton, Tate Modern (Gallery)

Art

Teaching Community

Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and...

By Bell Hooks

Education

Team of Teams

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Share of the Task and Leaders, a manual for leaders looking to make their teams more adaptable, agile...

By Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

Business & Economics

Technics and Time, 2

Technics and Time 2: Disorientation continues Stiegler's interrogation of prosthetic and ortho-thetic memory in light of the crisis that arises when s...

By Bernard Stiegler

Philosophy

Terms and Conditions

Master satirist tackles the contract everyone agrees to but no one reads “Mischievous, pastiche-heavy artist Robert Sikoryak...upped the difficulty le...

By R. Sikoryak

Comics & Graphic Novels

The 21st Century Economy

With recent economic turmoil monopolizing the headlines, it has become more important than ever to understand fundamental economic terms and concepts.

By Randy Charles Epping

History

The 48 Laws of Power

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gainin...

By Robert Greene

Psychology & Medicine

The Age of Migration

Now with more balanced coverage of Western and non-Western regions, this leading text has been revised and updated with the latest theories, policy in...

By Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller

Political Science

The Anomeric Effect and Related Stereoelectronic Effects at Oxygen

By A. J. Kirby

Science

The Art of Looking Sideways

A primer in visual intelligence and an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination is comprised of an inexhaustibl...

By Alan Fletcher

Design & System theory

The Art of War

Widely regarded as "The Oldest Military Treatise in the World," this landmark work covers principles of strategy, tactics, maneuvering, communication,...

By Sun Tzu

History

The Asylum World

By John Jakes

Fiction

The Beginning of Infinity

Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, delivers a bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of kno...

By David Deutsch

Mathematics

The Big Conservation Lie

The Big Conservation Lie' is a wake up call focused on a field that has been 'front and centre' of many people's hearts and minds in recent years; The...

By John Mbaria

Social Science

The Book of Tells

Introduces the reader to the fascinating concept of "tells"--Body movements that communicate your commitment to a conversation and your underlying att...

By Peter Collett

Social Science

The Book of Why

A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' Thi...

By Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

Philosophy

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A wonderful book' Richard Osman 'So clear and true ... Helpful for all relationships in life' Nigella Lawson 'A fascin...

By Philippa Perry

Psychology & Medicine

The British Dream

In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of postwar immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with...

By David Goodhart

Political Science

The Change Book

How do you make your way in a world that is changing at an unprecedented rate? Why do we have less and less time? Why are some people unfaithful? How ...

By Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler

Business & Economics

The Circle

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega A thrilling and compulsively addictive novel about our obsession with the i...

By Dave Eggers

Fiction

The Coddling of the American Mind

Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial Times The New York Times bestseller What doesn't kill...

By Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff

Education

The Coffinmaker's Garden

The stunning new thriller featuring Ash Henderson from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Not to be missed.

By Stuart MacBride

Fiction

The Cold Start Problem

A true Silicon Valley insider' Wired Why do some products take off? And what can we learn from them? The hardest part of launching a product is gettin...

By Andrew Chen

Technology & Engineering

The College Administrator’s Survival Guide

Late one afternoon, as you are organizing your new office as department chair, one of the senior members of the department drops by. He affably inform...

By C. K. Gunsalus

Education

The Complete Writings of Thucydides

By Thucydides

History

The Critical Mass in Collective Action

The problem of collective action is that each group member wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the ...

By Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver

Philosophy

The Dawn of Everything

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 'Pa...

By David Graeber, David Wengrow

History

The Decision Book

Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? How can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently? This updated ed...

By Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler

Business & Economics

The Democracy Project

The Democracy Project is an exploration of anti-capitalist dissent and new political ideas from David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years a...

By David Graeber

Political Science

The Design of Everyday Things

Identifies the principles of good design, explains how many everyday appliances and machines fall short, and discusses design trends of the future

By Donald A. Norman

Business & Economics

The Dictator's Handbook

A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest. As featured o...

By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

Political Science

The Domains of Identity

“The Domains of Identity” defines sixteen simple and comprehensive categories of interactions which cause personally identifiable information to be st...

By Kaliya Young

Social Science

The Drowned World

When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine...

By J. G. Ballard

Fiction

The Engines of Cognition

By LessWrong

Design & System theory

The Essential Academic Dean

The role of an academic dean is extremely complex, involving budgeting, community relations, personnel decisions, managing a large enterprise, masteri...

By Jeffrey L. Buller

Business & Economics

The Establishment

THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER 'Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'Captures a collective sense of anger an...

By Owen Jones

Political Science

The Ethical Algorithm

Algorithms have made our lives more efficient and entertaining--but not without a significant cost. Can we design a better future, one in which societ...

By Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth

Business & Economics

The Fall of Public Man

THE FALL OF PUBLIC MAN is a book in the great tradition of sociological scholarship. Sennett writes first of the tension between the public and privat...

By Richard Sennett

History

The Fourth Revolution

In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge ask: what is the state actually for? Their remarkable book describes the three great...

By Adrian Wooldridge, John Micklethwait

Political Science

The Future of Food (WIRED guides)

With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be ac...

By Matthew Reynolds, WIRED

Business & Economics

The Future of Love

"The future of relationships is moving us toward the vaulting awareness of who we really are as human beings, something we have managed to avoid for a...

By Daphne Rose Kingma

Psychology & Medicine

The Future of the Professions

With a new preface outlining the most recent critical developments, this updated edtion of The Future of the Professions predicts how technology will ...

By Richard Susskind, Richard Süsskind, Daniel Susskind

Technology & Engineering

The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

This is the definitive edition of R.A. Fisher's classic work--probably the best known book in evolutionary biology after Darwin's Origin of Species. T...

By Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Mathematics

The Ghost Map

In Ghost Map Steven Johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes – anaesthetis...

By Steven Johnson

History

The Goal

"Based on the business novel, The Goal: A process of ongoing improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox."

By Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Comics & Graphic Novels

The Good Book

Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-rel...

By A C Grayling

Religion

The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook

This third edition of the UK's best-selling filmmaker's bible, builds upon the most successful features of the previous books. Including illustrations...

By Chris Jones, Genevieve Jolliffe

Art

The Hologram

A radical new approach to health and caregiving in the age of COVID-19.

By Cassie Thornton

Political Science

The Imagination Chamber: Philip Pullman's breathtaking return to the world of His Dark Materials

Master storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the world of Lyra and Will, Mrs Coulter and Lee Scoresby, Pantalaimon and Iorek Byrnison, in this must-ha...

By Philip Pullman

Fiction

The Internet Con

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity "An essential read for anyone that...

By Cory Doctorow

Political Science

The Internet Revolution

By Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron

Technology & Engineering

The Invisible Hook

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early e...

By Peter Leeson

Business & Economics

The Little Black Book of Data and Democracy

How much data does Facebook really have on me? What is a cookie on the Internet? Is my Amazon Alexa listening to me? Why can’t I seem to stop scrollin...

By Kyle Taylor

Political Science

The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery

House plants are having a moment. Inexpensive to purchase, easy to care for and a statement in any space they inhabit, growing these plants is virtual...

By Emma Sibley

Games & Lifestyle

The Long Depression

Setting out from an unapologetic Marxist perspective, The Long Depression argues that the global economy remains in the throes of a depression. Making...

By Michael Roberts

Business & Economics

The Man Versus the State

By Herbert Spencer

Political Science

The Modern Judge

Sir Mark Hadley's aim in this book is to be frank rather than scholarly about judging. The trial judge is in a very different position to the appellat...

By Mark Hedley

Law

The Museum of Broken Relationships

What to do with the fragments of a love affair? A postcard from a childhood sweetheart. A wedding dress in a jar. Barbed wire. Silicone breast implant...

By Olinka Vistica, Drazen Grubisic

Psychology & Medicine

The Music of Life

"Drawing on his experiences in his research on the heartbeat, and on evolutionary biology, development, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, and Chinese...

By Denis Noble

Psychology & Medicine

The New Power University

In a changing world, what is the social purpose of higher education? Combining a critique of contemporary universities, a manifesto for the future and...

By Jonathan Grant

Education

The No-Code Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Okay so AI has been in the news lately. Some rich tech billionaire says AI (or deep learning?) is going to take all the jobs and we are going to be po...

By Hyun-Jeong Yoo

Technology & Engineering

The Onion Girl

Charles de Lint's stunning new novel of magic and danger in the modern world.

By Charles de Lint

Fiction

The Open Revolution

Forget everything you think you know about the digital age. It's not about privacy, surveillance, AI or blockchain-it's about ownership. Because, in a...

By Rufus Pollock

Technology & Engineering

The Orange Balloon Dog

Within forty-eight hours in the fall of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby’s and Christie’s New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on contemporary art. N...

By Don Thompson

Art

The Outsider

Now an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn! Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller ...

By Stephen King

Fiction

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI

This interdisciplinary and international handbook captures and shapes much needed reflection on normative frameworks for the production, application, ...

By Markus Dirk Dubber, Frank Pasquale, Sunit Das

Business & Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Governance

The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. T...

By David Levi-Faur

Political Science

The Perfection of Yoga

The point of yoga, he explains in the Bhagavad-gita―the central and foundational text of all Vedic wisdom―Krishna concisely explains the actual essenc...

By Prabhupada A C Bhaktivedanta Swami

Philosophy

The Persian Expedition

In "The Persian Expedition", Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt...

By Xenophon

Biography & Autobiography

The Plot Against America

He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive' Guard...

By Philip Roth

Fiction

The Poetics of Space

A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosop...

By Gaston Bachelard

Philosophy

The Political Brain

The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew W...

By Drew Westen

Political Science

The Politics of the Judiciary

By J.A.G. Griffith

Law

The Politics of Violence

The Politics of Violence develops an interdisciplinary feminist perspective grounded in original ethnographic research on everyday forms of violence i...

By Mo Hume

Political Science

The Poor Had No Lawyers

New and Updated Edition Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any...

By Andy Wightman

History

The Post-war History of the British Working Class

By Allen Hutt

Political Science

The Power of Geography

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up ...

By Tim Marshall

Political Science

The Power of the Dog

From the New York Times bestselling author, here is the first novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series—an action-filled look at the drug trade t...

By Don Winslow

Fiction

The Power Threat Meaning Framework

The Power Threat Meaning Framework is a new perspective on why people sometimes experience a whole range of forms of distress, confusion, fear, despai...

By Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle

Psychology & Medicine

The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance

By Simone Collins, Malcolm Collins

Political Science

The Premonition

Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt st...

By Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction

The Price of Inequality

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem...

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Business & Economics

The Primacy Effect

It is acknowledged that good communications skills is one of the keys to personal and business success today. Our reputations, jobs and promotions hav...

By Michael Shea

Social Science

The Private Eye

Digital web comic compiled. Contains 10 issues plus a "Making of" special.

By Brian K. Vaughan

Comics & Graphic Novels

The Puzzle of Prison Order

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in...

By David Skarbek

Political Science

The Puzzler's Dilemma

"From mathematics to word puzzles, from logic to lateral thinking, veteran puzzle maker Derrick Niederman delights in tackling the trickiest brainteas...

By Derrick Niederman

Games & Lifestyle

The Qur'an

The Quran is the sacred text of Islam. For Muslims, it is the word of the one God. The Quran was revealed to the last prophet Muḥammad (محمد) from the...

By Allah Allah (God)

Religion

The Reason for God

As the pastor of an inner-city church in New York City, Timothy Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced ‘doubts’ sceptics bring to hi...

By Timothy Keller

Religion

The Rocket Propelled Grenade

Osprey's new Weapon series provides a highly-detailed yet affordable overview of the development, use, and impact of small arms throughout history - f...

By Gordon L. Rottman

History

The Romantic Economist

Since economies are dynamic processes driven by creativity, social norms, and emotions as well as rational calculation, why do economists largely stud...

By Richard Bronk

Business & Economics

The Second Sex

Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most exten...

By Simone de Beauvoir

Social Science

The Secret of Our Success

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own ...

By Joseph Henrich

Psychology & Medicine

The Secret Societies Bible

This fascinating book is an essential illustrated reference guide to secret societies and cults from every culture and time. From the Freemasons to th...

By Joel Levy

History

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

An Instant National Bestseller • One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2022 • An NPR Book We Loved in 2022 • Named a Best Fiction Book of 2...

By Shehan Karunatilaka

Fiction

The Spirit Level

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedis...

By Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson

Social Science

The Square and the Tower

The New York Times bestseller 'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt What if everything we thought we knew...

By Niall Ferguson

Business & Economics

The State

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define,...

By Bob Jessop

Political Science

The Storyteller

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and phi...

By Walter Benjamin

Fiction

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

This is Jürgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It w...

By Jurgen Habermas

Philosophy

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“One of the most influential books of the 20th century,” the landmark study in the history of science with a new introduction by philosopher Ian Hacki...

By Thomas S. Kuhn

Science

The Structured Crowd

By John Rowan

Psychology & Medicine

The Technology Trap

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, Carl Benedikt Frey offers a sweeping account of the history of technological pro...

By Carl Benedikt Frey

Business & Economics

The Trial of Julian Assange

The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future. I...

By Nils Melzer

Political Science

The Truth

NO MORE GAMES. IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH. Neil Strauss made a name for himself advocating freedom, sex and opportunity as the author of The Game. Then h...

By Neil Strauss

Biography & Autobiography

The Tyranny of Merit

A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular ph...

By Michael J. Sandel

Political Science

The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #2

Nine years after parting ways, the estranged members of the Umbrella Academy have gathered for the funeral of their guardian and mentor. But their reu...

By Gerard Way

Comics & Graphic Novels

The Underground and Education

By Mike P. Smith

Education

The Uninhabitable Earth

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon...

By David Wallace-Wells

Science

The Utopia of Rules

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where do...

By David Graeber

Political Science

The World Atlas of Mysteries

By Francis Hitching

Geography

Thinking in Bets

A Wall Street Journal bestseller, now in paperback. Poker champion turned decision strategist Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncer...

By Annie Duke

Business & Economics

Thinking, Fast and Slow

One of the most influential books of the 21st century: the ground-breaking psychology classic - over 10 million copies sold - that changed the way we ...

By Daniel Kahneman

Psychology & Medicine

This Is an Uprising

There is a craft to uprising -- and this craft can change the world From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spri...

By Mark Engler, Paul Engler

Political Science

This Is Not A Drill

Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we ...

By Extinction Rebellion

Science

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately...

By Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction

Trad Climbing +

A guide for newcomers showing the various vays to get into trad climbing, the important differences between climbing indoors and outside, plus an intr...

By Adrian Berry, John Arran

Games & Lifestyle

Training Missionaries

Missionaries must know God, be able to relate well to other people, understand and engage with another culture, and be able to use the Bible in a way ...

By Evelyn Hibbert, Richard Hibbert

Religion

Travels in India

After graduating from university, I travelled around India for the best part of 15 months. This book is a collection of essays produced from those tra...

By Awais Hussain

Geography

Twelve Tomorrows 2013

A diverse collection of science fiction authors, characters, and stories, featuring contributions by Neal Stephenson, Paul McAuley, Peter Wat, Brian A...

By Technology Review

Fiction

Under the Axe of Fascism

By Gaetano Salvemini

Business & Economics

Understanding Institutional Diversity

The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inq...

By Elinor Ostrom

Political Science

Understanding Jurisprudence

Understanding Jurisprudence provides an illuminating and engaging introduction to the central questions of legal theory. It is the perfect starting po...

By Raymond Wacks, Raymond (Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory University of Hong Kong)

Law

Understanding Living Systems

Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny and evolution. Genes do not control life.

By Raymond Noble, Denis Noble

Science

Understanding Public Policy

The fully revised second edition of this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to theories of public policy and policymaking. The policy proces...

By Paul Cairney

Political Science

Unleashing Demons

As David Cameron's director of Politics and communications, Craig Oliver was in the room at every key moment during the EU referendum - the biggest po...

By Craig Oliver

Political Science

Watching the English

Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who pu...

By Kate Fox

Social Science

Water: Read it yourself with Ladybird Level 4

Everyone needs water for drinking, washing and many other things. Learn all about the water cycle, water pollution and how to clean the sea. Read it y...

By Ladybird

Education

Waypoints

By Philip Cohen

Political Science

We Will Not Cancel Us

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. “Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much te...

By adrienne maree brown

Social Science

What If?

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Milli...

By Randall Munroe

Fiction

What is Eugenics?

By Leonard Darwin

History

What Technology Wants

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision of technology as a living force that can expand our individual pote...

By Kevin Kelly

Technology & Engineering

What We Owe The Future

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on ‘ethical living’ I’ve ever read.'...

By William MacAskill

Philosophy

What's Your Bias?

By Lee De-Wit

Political Science

Where Do Numbers Come From?

Why do we need the real numbers? How should we construct them? These questions arose in the nineteenth century, along with the ideas and techniques ne...

By T. W. Körner

Mathematics

Where Is My Flying Car?

From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abun...

By J. Storrs Hall

Technology & Engineering

Who Can You Trust?

Nominated for the Business Book Awards 'Embracing Change' category ----- If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to bus...

By Rachel Botsman

Technology & Engineering

Who Gets What--and why

A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities -- both mundane and life-changing -- in which money may pla...

By Alvin E. Roth

Business & Economics

Why Fonts Matter

Discover the incredible power of fonts - how they influence your decisions, alter your perceptions, stir your emotions and change how you understand t...

By Sarah Hyndman

Design & System theory

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a n...

By Reni Eddo-Lodge

Political Science

Why You Should be a Trade Unionist

Why every worker should join a union In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joi...

By Len McCluskey

Political Science

Wild Dog Dreaming

We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Debor...

By Deborah Bird Rose

Art

Wiser

"We've all been involved in group decisions--and they're hard. And they often turn out badly. Why? Many blame bad decisions on 'groupthink' without a ...

By Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie

Business & Economics

Work Rules!

Google receives over 1,500,000 unique applications for jobs every year. This book shows you why. * How to learn from your best employees - and your wo...

By Laszlo Bock

Psychology & Medicine

Working as a Security Officer

By Andy Walker, Sharon Porter

Education

Yes to Europe!

On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As i...

By Robert Saunders

History

You Are Not A Gadget

What if, by devaluing individuals, we are deadening creativity, endlessly rehashing past culture, risking weaker design in engineering and science, lo...

By Jaron Lanier

Technology & Engineering

You Will Win The Future

Shane is a college drop out and indie game savant-when his team discovers the founders preparing for a crack up of civilization, they rebel. You Will ...

By Arthur Smid

Fiction

Reorganise: 15 stories of workers fighting back in digital age

In only a decade, the labour market has changed beyond all recognition - from zero-hour contracts to platform monopolies. As capitalism has re-created...

By Julian Knight, Michael Pattison

Political Science

Society of the Query Reader

Looking up something online is one of the most common applications of the web. Whether with a laptop or smartphone, we search the web from wherever we...

By René König, Miriam Rasch

Technology & Engineering

Red pepper August 2023: Power in unions

Political Science

The Oxford Handbook of public policy

Political Science

The Editors

By Stephen Harrison

Fiction

All the Libraries in London: READER

In London, 120 libraries have closed in the last 10 years. Across the UK, at least 350 public libraries have closed. Meanwhile, university, health, an...

By Ruth Beale, Simon Elvins

Geography

RTFM v2: Red Team Field Manual

By Ben Clark, Nick Downer

Technology & Engineering

The Fate of the Russian Revolution

By Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, C L R James, Al Glotzer, Joseph Carter, Leon Trotsky

History

Free Movement and Beyond: Agenda Setting for Brexit Britain

By Kate Hudson

Political Science

Mining of Massive Datasets: Second Edition

By Jure Leskovec, Anad Rajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman

Technology & Engineering

Psychology: The Science of Behaviour

By Neil R Carlson, William Buskist, G Neil Martin

Psychology & Medicine

The Lunar Men

By Jenny Uglow

History

For a Future Made By Us All

Political Science

Prisoners of Geography

By Tim Marshall

Geography

The Orange Book

Political Science

Oresteian trilogy

By Aeschylus

History

The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader

Art

Gravity

Business & Economics

Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21 Century

By Anthony Sampson

Political Science

21st Century Economy: A Beginners Guide

By Randy Charles Epping

Business & Economics

In The House In the Dark Of The Woods

By Laird Hunt

Fiction

The complete works of Lao Tzu

By Tao Teh Ching, Hua Hu Ching

History

Building High Performace Agile Teams

Business & Economics

People's Republic of Walmart

By Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski

Political Science

Preschool in Three Cultures

By Joseph J. Tobin, David T. H. Wu, Dana H. Davidson

Education

What's Your Bias?

By Lee De-Wit

Political Science

Signals (Yellow)

Business & Economics

The Politicos Guide to the 2015 General Election

Political Science

Sex, Lies & The Ballot Box

Political Science

Sistemantica: Los Sistemas Traen Problemas

By John Gall

Design & System theory

It's Complicated: The social lives of networked teens

By Danah Boyd

Social Science

Machine Platform Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

By Andrew McAffee, Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology & Engineering

RAFT 2035: Roadmap to Abundance Flourishing and Transcendance by 2035

By David W. Wood

Political Science

Commentland: A Decade of UK Comment & Opinion 2009-2019

Political Science

The Mom Test

By Rob Fitzpatrick

Business & Economics

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

By Jeff Sutherland

Business & Economics

The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

By Gene Kim

Business & Economics

Ammonite

By Nicola Griffith

Fiction

Real World Evaluation: Second Edition

Science

Designing the invisible: An introduction to Service Design

By Lara Penin

Design & System theory

People and Places: A 21st-century atlas of the UK

By ['Danny Dorling', 'Bethan Thomas']'

Geography

Cover story: A history in 100 postcards

History

Complexity: A Guided Tour

By Melanie Mitchell

Design & System theory

Better without AI

By David Chapman

Technology & Engineering

Roman Civilization Sourcebook II: The Empire

By Naphtali Lewis, Meyer Reinhold

History

Door Ways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance

By Bekki Perriman

Social Science

Who if not us?: A four-step guide to empower Europe and our Generation

Political Science

80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good

By Benjamin Todd

Business & Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Regulation

Law

This is Service Design Thinking

By Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider

Design & System theory

I'm A Slut

By Jack William

Biography & Autobiography

Human Smoke: The beginnings of World War II; The end of Civilisation

By Nicholson Baker

History

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By The Secret Barrister

Law

Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

By Lucy Bernholz, Helene Landmore, Rob Reich

Political Science

Blueprints for the unknown

Art

Signals (purple)

Business & Economics

A Research Agenda for the Global Priorities Insitute

Political Science

Twenty Years of Ideas

By Ralph Scott, David Goodhart

Political Science

Robert's Rules of Order: 11th Edition

By Henry M. Robert III, Daniel H. Honemann, Thomas J. Balch

Design & System theory

Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia

By Peter Lang

Art

International Affairs

Political Science

A New Generational Contract

Political Science

The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology

Psychology & Medicine

55 Short stories from the New Yorker

Fiction

Empire

Art

Redesigning ways to work

By Butt-Jones & Brewer

Business & Economics

The Little Book of Brexit Logic: Recipies for Disaster

By SKZCartoons

Political Science

CEF Trade Catalogue

Technology & Engineering

The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays

History

Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychodelic Consciousness

Psychology & Medicine

Science, Technology, & Human Values

Science

Letters from prison: On societal freedom

Political Science

Take Us to a Better Place

Fiction

101 more ways Big Brother is watching you

Political Science

I. Know my rights.

Political Science

Doing Democracy Better: How can information and discourse in election and referendum campaigns in the UK be improved?

By Alan Renwick, Michela Palese

Political Science

Urban Communal Living in Britain

Games & Lifestyle

Curriculum in a Changing World: 50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion

Political Science

Operator Handbook: Search.Copy.Paste.L33t;)

Technology & Engineering

We@lthology: Why some countries and people are rich and how the others can catch up faster

By Amir Anzur

Business & Economics

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

By James P. Carse

Design & System theory

Political Studies: Volume 69

Political Science

The Dean's Mentor: Leadership Advice and Problem-Solving Strategies

Education

How to MozFest: Arrive with an Idea

Technology & Engineering

Vegetal Matrix

By Patricia Dominguez

Art

Quakers: Advices & queries

Religion

Movement powers

Political Science

The fourth group

Political Science

Global Media Literacy Summit

Technology & Engineering

CryptoPartyLDN the definitive guide

Technology & Engineering

Six: social Innovation Exchange

Political Science

Political studies review

Political Science

Signals (pink)

Business & Economics

Ambition Betraying

Psychology & Medicine

Consent or coercion: An introduction to Anarchism

Political Science

Its getting very late

Art

Anarchy & Alcohol: Wasted indeed - how the fiends came to be civilised

Social Science

Teritory is not map

Design & System theory

Femzine

Political Science

DIY or DIE

Games & Lifestyle

At Daggers Drawn: with the existent, its defenders, and its false critics

Political Science

International Feminist Networking and Solidarity

Political Science

Urban guide to living sustainably

Games & Lifestyle

Skin Deep

Social Science

Dog Eat Dog: A Game of Imperialism And Assimilation in The Pacific Islands

By Liam Liwanag Burke

History

Tate: AUG SEP 23

Art

Queers Read This

Political Science

The Public Services: Water Supply

History

Science in the age of AI

Science

Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage

Art

Category Theory for Programmers

Casimir's note: I didn't find it very useful but it has a lot of cute pictures so its impossible to tell if its a bad book.

By Bartosz Milewski

Mathematics

Sadly, Porn

Casimir's note: I opened it on a random page just now and the first line said "In other words, Scrooge has no unconscious". I think I'll leave it at t...

By Edward Teach

Social Science

The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide :How to use your new computer

By Gareth Halfacree

Technology & Engineering

The The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

Casimir's note: Some people allege that the practices presented in this book can lead to bad outcomes. Always apply harm reduction practices when medi...

By Culadasa (John Yates)

Religion

A Little Book on the Human Shadow

Casimir's note: All time favorite, high reccomendation.

By Robert Bly

Philosophy

Everything to Play For: How Video Games Are Changing the World

By Marijam Did

Social Science

Street-Level Bureaucracy

Street-Level Bureaucracy is an insightful study of how public service workers, in effect, function as policy decision makers, as they wield their cons...

By Michael Lipsky

Business & Economics

A Primer in Social Choice Theory

This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. Written as a primer suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduates, this text will ac...

By Wulf Gaertner

Business & Economics