Martin Luther - The Man Who Rediscovered God and Change...
On All Hallows Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luth...
The Trump Prophecies - The Astonishing True Story of th...
In November of 2016, the world witnessed the impossible. Nea...
I Am Malala - How One Girl Stood Up for Education and C...
Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the w...
The Undoing Project - A Friendship that Changed the Wor...
There are geniuses who work on their own. Together, we are...
The Man Who Ate Everything - And Other Gastronomic Feat...
Winner of the Julia Child Book Award. A James Beard Book Awa...
The Tyrannicide Brief - The Story of the Man who sent C...
Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen t...
The Undoing Project - A Friendship that Changed the Wor...
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG ...
I Am Malala - How One Girl Stood Up for Education and C...
First published in hardcover in August 2014 by Little, Bro...
Little Heroes - Courageous People Who Changed the World...
Age range 2 5 From the intrepid efforts of Susan B. Anth...
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World
Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children...
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World - Gift ...
Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children...
50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World - A celebrat...
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50...
Trailblazers - 33 Women In Science Who Changed The Worl...
Florence Nightingale. Sally Ride. Ada Lovelace. These names ...
Martin Luther - The Man Who Rediscovered God And Changed The Worl
The Man Who Climbs Trees
A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance Helen Macdonald A great read incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective Chris Packham (A) delightful, endlessly fascinating book Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEK This is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, who has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the ...
Outsiders - Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf and their famous novels.We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. Outsider, outlaw, outcast: a womans reputation was her security a...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
The Hating Game - 'Warm, witty and wise' The Daily Mail
Warm, witty and wise. The Daily MailThe next Sophie Kinsella. BustleCharming, self-deprecating, quick-witted and funny. The New York Times I made a mistake when I first met Joshua: I smiled at him. My best sunny smile with all my teeth, my eyes sparkling with stupid optimism. His eyes scanned me from the top of my head to the soles of my shoes. Then he looked away out the window. H...
The Undoing Project - A Friendship that Changed the World
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think
What a story it is Sunday Times Youll love it
full of surprises and no small degree of tragedy Tim Harford In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in eve...
The Hating Game - 'Warm, witty and wise' The Daily Mail
Charming, self-deprecating, quick-witted and funny. The New York Times The next Sophie Kinsella. Bustle Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman sit across from each other every day . . . and they hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. HATE. Lucy cant understand Joshuas joyless, uptight approach to his job and refusal to smile. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucys overly ...
The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones - An anthology of the best writing about the greatest rock `n' roll band in the w...
A bumper collection of writing in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the greatest rock n roll band in the world, from John Pidgeons first encounter with The Rolling Stones at the The Ricky Tick Club in 1963 and Norman Joplings seminal article in the New Record Mirror that same year, to Please Allow Me to Correct a Few Things, a 2010 interview with Bill Wyman....
Bold - How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world-and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it. -President Bill Clinton A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting toda...
Lillian Armfield - How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face ...
An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman Australias first female detective LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydneys organised crime underbelly. Special Constable Lillian Armfield was policing Sydneys mean streets during some of the most dramatic years of crime in the city. By the late 1920s, eastern Sydney was the heartland...
The Snoopy Treasures - An Illustrated Celebration of the World Famous Beagle
Although its not the great American novel written atop his doghouse, this book is pure Snoopy. The heart of the long-running, beloved comic strip Peanuts, Snoopy is an instantly recognizable character around the world. The pages in this comprehensive volume cover Snoopys inspiration, first appearances, and his evolution into the lovable character from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm were ...
The Citizen Journalist's Photography Handbook - Shooting the World As it Happens
With dramatic and exciting stories, Carlos Miller reveals the secrets behind successful citizen journalism.Whether youre planning a publicity blitz for your cause, youre interested in the down-and-dirty practices of the police, or just want to be prepared for the moment youre the first on the scene, this book has everything youll need to know to take newsworthy pictures and get them in...
Maps That Changed The World
A stunning compilation of the most important, dramatic, beautiful and inspirational maps. An ancient Chinese proverb suggests, They are wise parents who give their children roots and wings and a map. Maps That Changed the World features some of the worlds most famous maps, stretching back to a time when cartography was in its infancy and the edge of the world was a barrier to explora...
The Road to Serfdom - Text and Documents - the Definitive Edition
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944 when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program The Roa...
Creating the Impossible - A 90-Day Program to Get Your Dreams Out of Your Head and Into the World
Creating the Impossible reveals a surprising yet practical alternative to traditional approaches to goal-setting, productivity, creativity, and project management. Perfect for solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, artists, work teams, leaders, and anyone who has ever dreamed an impossible dream but given up before they ever really got started. Readers will learn the simple principles behind exponential ...
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff Lucy Mangan, Stylist Books of the Year An eye-opener
The more I think about this, the higher I esteem it Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Books of the Year Winner of the British Book Design an...
The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses
The perfect collectors item a beautiful facsimile edition of A. B. Banjo Patersons classic ballads, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. The Man From Snowy River, published in 1917 while Banjo Paterson was on active duty in the Middle East, includes his arguably most famous ballad. Some of the verses, as a note from Pat...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing horse sense is based o...
The Geography of Genius - A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
An intellectual odyssey, a travelers diary, and a comic novel all rolled into one. Smart, original, and utterly delightful. -Daniel Gilbert, Harvard professor and bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness A charming mix of history and wisdom cloaked as a rollicking travelogue. -Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Steve Jobs Travel the world with Eric Weiner, the New York Times ...
Photos That Changed the World
Now available in an updated and revised edition, Photos that Changed the World gathers together images of pivotal moments in world history in one stunning volume. In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents nearly one hundred of historys most memorable photographs from the Wright Brothers first flight to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech to Nels...