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The bizarre tale of death, life, and a legacy of phenomenal success. They were the world's best-selling singles. They garnered awards, credibility, and commercial and creative acclaim. Then they cut four of those songs, erased themselves from song history, and burned their last million...

50th Anniversary Edition - With a new introduction by the author. Here is the Naked Ape at his most virtuous - in love, at work, in war. Meet man as he is: a close ape relative, stripped of his outer appearance, courting, making love,...

Brief Seduction (The Robert Greene Collection) by Robert Greene

Is your phone the first thing you touch when you wake up? And the last thing you see before you go to sleep? Do you find hours passing while you scroll through your social media feeds? In short, are you addicted to your phone?...

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Doudna invented a game-changing invention: an easy-to-use tool that could edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, this tool has opened up new horizons of medical miracles and ethical...

Amazon's trillion-dollar success is the envy of everyone, but it's within everyone's reach. What drove them to achieve this record growth? It's their management system, and it can do the same for you, regardless of your business type or level. Learning it is very...

A #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal audiobook exclusive: Featuring candid conversations with the author, narrated by Mia Lux and Alexis Bank. Jim Kwik, the world's #1 intelligence coach, is the author of the owner's manual for mental development and...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth and death of a pair of jeans, exposing gaps in global supply chains and our relationships with each other, ourselves, and the planet. Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. You probably bought them on Amazon...

Amazon is the business story of the decade. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creating machines in history. Like a giant squid, Amazon is slamming its tentacles into one industry after another, and in the...

My best friend during my pregnancy' Mariella Frostrup With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You're Expecting is read by 93 percent of women who read pregnancy books and was named one of the "most influential books of the past 25...

Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee In difficult times, what children really need is hope. With that in mind, bestselling author Catherine Rundell wrote to some of the children's book authors and illustrators whose work she loves most: "I asked them to write something...

The Essential Guide to Consistent Returns from the Indian Stock Market, by Saurabh Mukherjea, bestselling author of *Coffee Can Investing* and *Unusual Billionaires*. Over the past few years, Indians have increasingly realized that their savings, mostly invested in physical assets such as real estate...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society Science Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing Times Science Book of the Year The Guardian's Best Political Book of the Year A Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller *Revised and updated edition with a new...

From a Black, lesbian woman who broke into the youth club in Silicon Valley comes an empowering guide to finding your voice, making your way wherever you want to be, and achieving your dreams. In 2015, Arlan Hamilton was living on food stamps and...

Wise and comprehensive "Quick and easy to read...very valuable" "It is an engaging guide...and written with the same flair as his previous bestseller, *Afghantsi*." "An academic and easily readable journey through the past thousand years of Russian history... To understand this tormented nation, there...

Amazon's Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 "Essential reading" - The Guardian "Sharp and intelligent with moments of stunning candor" - i-Newspaper "Makes a powerful case" - Ms. Hill "Revealing and beautifully written" - David Harewood ________ Before Jeffrey Boakye became a Black teacher, he...

Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year "Wonderfully motivating... will teach you how to see around corners." - Tim Harford "A glorification of cognitive agility and imaginative flexibility" - Economist "Captivating...it will change the way you think." Marisa King, Professor at the Yale...

In "Success Habits," Napoleon Hill outlines his Success Principles, a set of core principles and beliefs that form the foundation for life-changing success. Hill, the legendary author of the best-selling classic "Think and Grow Rich," is immortalized for his contributions to the field of...

A shocking, heartbreaking, and deeply funny account of the struggles of living with mental illness, told by a powerful new comedic voice. When Michelle Thomas suffered her first bout of major depression six years ago, she read, watched, and listened to everything she could...

A New Scientist Best Book of 2021. A finalist for the Best Sports Performance Book of 2022 award. Did you know that walking improves your cognitive skills? That strengthening your core reduces anxiety? And that gentle stretching combats a wide range of mental and...

Brought to you by Penguin. The classic best-selling business book on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth advice for building relationships in the digital world. Want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder of success? Relationships expert Keith Ferrazzi says the secret...

Nominated for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction Nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing The Ministry of Truth documents the life of George Orwell in 1984, one of the most influential books of the 20th century, a work of increasing importance in...

'Smart, accessible and captivating' - Robin Ince 'A fascinating exploration of how we learn what matter really is' - Sean Carroll 'A delightfully fresh and accessible approach to one of science's greatest endeavours' - Graham Farmelo 'It shows not just what we know, but...

More than six million readers worldwide have improved their lives by reading The Magic of Thinking Big. First published in 1959, David J. Schwartz's classic teachings remain as powerful today. Practical, inspiring, and deeply engaging, this book will not only inspire you but also...

Urgent reading... Karl Popper for the 21st century Robert Phillips, former CEO of Edelman Europe, Middle East and Africa and author of Trust Me, PR is Dead. "Heffernan... a master storyteller. Uncharted... is wise and engagingly human." Tim Harford, Financial Times How can we...

2020 Financial Times, Economist, and New Statesman Book of the Year: “The most important nonfiction book of the year” by David Hare. In the years before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America...

A comprehensive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius, and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture. The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791 and culminated twelve years later in the proclamation of the...

We live in a time of unprecedented transformation, where technology and so-called progress have made us richer but also more uncertain than ever. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family, and money, yet no political party, whether left or right, offers...

China's story is exceptionally rich and dramatic. Now, Michael Wood, one of Britain's foremost historians, brings it all together in a single volume, A History of China, an essential book for anyone who wants to understand its growing role in the world today. China...

In 1916, in the midst of World War I, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; François Georges-Picot was a bitter diplomat. The deal they struck, designed to ease the tensions that threatened...

From Stephen R. Covey, the late, legendary author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, offers a new set of rules for achieving a happy, fulfilling life, filled with greatness. Many of us struggle. We experience chronic problems, dissatisfaction, and disappointment. Although we...

This book assesses the contradictory nature of modern Saudi Arabia, explaining the clash between contemporary technology and a powerful religious establishment rooted in ancient traditions, exploring events in recent history that have led to current conflicts. From the bestselling author of "The Kingdom."

The award-winning television adventurer and travel writer recounts a captivating account of his 5,000-mile expedition around the Arabian Peninsula, from Iraq to Lebanon. Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, in Leveson Wood's Arabia, he recounts...

Finalist for the 2018 Audi Award for Autobiography/Memoir and Excellence in Marketing. “In the past, for reasons I’m trying to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be cautious in public, as if I were on a wire with no net. Now, I let...

In Jared Diamond's follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *Guns, Germs, and Steel*, the author explores how climate change, population explosions, and political discord are setting the stage for civilization's collapse. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices have...

The comprehensive biography of the transformative world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev took over the leadership of the Soviet Union in 1985, it was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and...

A portrait of a man who inspired millions around the world with his experiences in prison and presidency of South Africa.

The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker writer Evan Osnos - Financial Times, Guardian, and Daily Express Book of the Year "An easy-to-read primer" The Guardian "Biden overcame unimaginable adversity, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially...

Brought to you by Penguin Books. “Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world.” - J.K. Rowling "I Am Malala" tells the remarkable true story of a girl who knew she wanted to change the world—and did. Growing up in...

Brought to you by Penguin Books. The best-selling book of all time. British Book Awards, Audiobook of the Year. Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Winner of the 2020 Audi Award for Biography/Memoir. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir...

A Sunday Times bestseller and an international bestseller - a sweeping reappraisal of world history in the light of the economic and political renaissance of the resurgent East. Sunday Times "Brilliant" - "Hugely entertaining... Hugely ambitious, enormously detailed, utterly gripping" - The Times. For...

'Skillfully mapping a new world order' Evening Standard 'Francoban is a fascinating guide to uncharted territory' The Times The New Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan's follow-up to The Book of Contract, The Silk Roads - takes a fresh look at the web of relationships...

A masterful analysis by a leading political scientist of economic, social, and political trends over the past century, showing how we moved from an individualistic “I” society to a more collective “we” society, and then back again, and how we can learn from that...

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the dot-com bubble to the subprime mortgage meltdown, our lives are governed by frenzied cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are quickly forgotten. In this unique collection of essays,...

Putting Things First is a revolutionary guide to managing your time by learning how to balance your life. Traditional time management suggests that working harder, smarter, and faster will help you take control of your life, and that greater control will bring peace and...

Some people can make money, others can't. It's a thought that makes William Leith wake up in a sweat. He doesn't know why he's anxious. After all, money isn't real. We made it, humans made it. It's our masterpiece. But the desire for it...

A fascinating and intriguing book about a captivating idea that should influence the way every thinker thinks about the world around them. - Michael Lewis. In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyzes the "tipping point," that magical moment when ideas,...

“A powerful and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal’s interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.” —Yuval Noah Harari, author of *Sapiens*. *Revolution* is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the received wisdom about today’s rise of...

Now discover the hidden stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first authorized history of GCHQ. For 100 years, GCHQ – Government Communications Headquarters – has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and the British secret state. Renowned for...