Gordon (Emeritus Professor and Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester) Campbell
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh ...
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The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright f ...
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What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious ...
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The book considers the importance of plants in Tolkien's conception of Middle-earth. It develops the theme that Middle-earth is our own world - and will awaken ...
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according t ...
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What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching ...
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How did the start-up dating app, CLikD, quickly rise to become an award-winning competitor to Tinder and Bumble? How should organizations incorporate social med ...
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Calculus is the key to much of modern science and engineering. It is the mathematical method for the analysis of things that change, and since in the natural wo ...
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The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stag ...
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The 40th anniversary edition of the million copy international bestseller, with a new epilogue from the author.As relevant and influential today as when it was ...
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An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Sc ...
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Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific w ...
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'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered into High Valyrian. And die they do - in prodigious numbers; in imaginat ...
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Dr. Jerry (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Toner
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The TimesTour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerr ...
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brou ...
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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the ...
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David (Professor of Genetics, Professor of Genetics, Harvard University) Reich
The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genom ...
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Best Books of 2022: Financial Times Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022: De Tijd Shortlisted for Financial Times Best Business Book of the YearThe most sweeping acco ...
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Čínska štúdia je najvýznamnejšou knihou o výžive a zdraví, aká bola spracovaná za ostatných osemdesiat rokov. Ponúka prekvapivé pohľady na stravovanie, dlhodobé ...
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Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret ...
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Mark (Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Political Economy, Brown University) Blyth
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless ...
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Daniel (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Exeter) Ogden
An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through historyHow did the dragon get its wings? Everyone in the modern West has a clear idea ...
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