Why the Dutch are Different - A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the acclaimed guide to travel in Holl
Why the Dutch are Different - A Journey into the Hidden...
A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR Stranded at Schiphol airp...

The Secrets of Sand - A Journey into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand
The Secrets of Sand - A Journey into the Amazing Micros...
From the beach to the moon—explore the incredible hidden wo...

The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats - A Journey into the Feline Heart
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats - A Journey into the F...
Provocative psychoanalyst Masson delves deep into the secret...

The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Wh...
New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobelreturns with a c...

The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Wh...
`A biographical orrery – intricate, complex and fascinating...

The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia: The Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia: The Giffo...
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia: The Gifford Le...

Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantin...
The acclaimed travel writer’s youthful journey – as an 18-...

Journey Across the Hidden Islands
Journey Across the Hidden Islands
The traditional EmperorÂ’s Journey is meant to be uneventful...

A Journey Through The Universe - A traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown
A Journey Through The Universe - A traveler's guide fro...
ThereÂ’s a whole universe out thereÂ…Imagine you had a space...

Rocketo Volume 1: The Journey To The Hidden Sea
Rocketo Volume 1: The Journey To The Hidden Sea
The adventures of Rocketo Garrison take place in a mythical ...

Rocketo Volume 1: The Journey To The Hidden Sea
Rocketo Volume 1: The Journey To The Hidden Sea
The adventures of Rocketo Garrison take place in a mythical ...

Proof of Heaven - A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Proof of Heaven - A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Aft...
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF A NEUROSURGEONÂ...

The Book of She - Your Heroine's Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power
The Book of She - Your Heroine's Journey into the Heart...
Follow Your Heroine s Journey to Reclaim Feminine Power and ...

How to Write Like Tolstoy - A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
How to Write Like Tolstoy - A Journey into the Minds of...
A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules ...

Why The Dutch Are Different - A Journey Into The Hidden Heart Of

The End of the Day - shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year 2017

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR 2017***‘Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache’ Sunday Times’Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive” Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4’Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful’ Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.Charlie meets everyone – but only once. Som...

Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart - The Real-life Initiation of an Everyday Shaman

‘Shaman’, meaning ‘intermediary between spirit and the natural world’, has become a much overused word in the West. It’s not a job title one can give oneself, and in indigenous societies, a shaman is usually born to this role. Ya’Acov Darling Khan is one of the few westerners who have been acknowledged as shamans by indigenous elders or teachers. After being hit by lightning, Ya’Acov took...

Listening to Country - A journey to the heart of what it means to belong

Shortlisted for both The Age Book of the Year and The Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Award ’This big land, Australia. It’s big enough for everyone!’ calls Annie Karrakayn across the pre-dawn campfire to the other Law women stirring from the perfect quiet of a still, desert night. ‘Strong Dreamin’ ‘ she whispers. So begins the intimate diary of Ros Moriarty, a white woman mar...

Proof of Heaven - A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“My experience showed me that the death of the body and brain is not the end of consciousness… What happened to me while I was in a coma is the most important story I will ever tell. But it’s a tricky story to tell because it is so foreign to ordinary understanding.“When prominent US neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander goes into a coma after contracting a severe brain infection, his doctors tell hi...

How Emotions Are Made - The Secret Life of the Brain

By the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin’ Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness ’Fascinating . . . a thought-provoking journey into emotion science’ The Wall Street Journal ’This meticulous, well-researched, and deeply thought out book provides information about our emotions – what they are, where they come from, why we have them. For anyone who has str...

The Geography of Genius - A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“An intellectual odyssey, a traveler’s 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 ...

Into the Woods - A Five-ACT Journey Into Story

With examples ranging from The Godfather to True Detective, Mad Men to Macbeth, and fairy tales to Forbrydelsen (The Killing), Yorke utilizes Shakespearean five-act structure as a key to analyzing all storytelling in all narrative forms, from film and television to theatre and novel-writing—a big step from the usual three-act approach Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story is destined to s...

The Hidden Lives of Learners

The Hidden Lives of Learners takes the reader deep into the hitherto undiscovered world of the learner. It explores the three worlds which together shape a student’s learning – the public world of the teacher, the highly influential world of peers, and the student’s own private world and experiences. What becomes clear is that just because a teacher is teaching, does not mean students are learn...

Cherub Complete Collection Books 1-12 - The Recruit; The Dealer; Maximum Security; The Killing; Divine Madness; Man vs. ...

An undercover teen agent discovers the ups and downs of espionage in all twelve books of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action”—now available together in a collectible paperback boxed set! CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented—and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist. It is a tough job, but these agents have ...

Cure - A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body

A rigorous, sceptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mindÂ’s extraordinary ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partnerÂ’s voice? If so, then youÂ’ve experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your...

The Yoga of Jesus - Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels

In “The Yoga of Jesus” a selection of material from his highly praised two volume work, “The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You”, this concise book confirms that Jesus, like the ancient sages and masters of the East, not only knew the principles of yoga but taught this universal science of God-realisation to his disciples. Yogananda, who is widely recognised as ...

The Invention of Russia - The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and gave his people freedom. The demise of the Soviet Union offered hope that Russia would become a ‘normal’, ‘civilized’ country, embracing Western values of democracy and the free market. Thirty years later, Russia emerged as a corporate state, overcome by imperial nati...

Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can’t? If an item is “free” it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn’t be? How do our expectations influence our a...

The Legend of Zelda - Tri Force Heroes Standard Edition Guide

From the team that worked on past the visual style of the critically acclaimed The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds game comes a new adventure. In this journey, three players team up – each as Link- to cooperatively make their way through the inventive dungeons and fight numerous bosses – Solve the puzzles: proven strategies on how to solve every puzzle – Detailed walkthrough: learn the b...

The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

`A biographical orrery – intricate, complex and fascinating’ The Observer#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobelreturns with a captivating, little-known true storyof women in science In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each nig...

Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gate...

The acclaimed travel writer’s youthful journey – as an 18-year-old – across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author’s exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to...

The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

In The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships: Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as ‘fairness’ and ‘freedom’ mean such different things to different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another viewpoint? Why do we come to blows ...

From the Holy Mountain - A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu (`one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years’ – Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns (`the best travel book I have ever read’ – George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the ...

Beyond the Sky - You and the Universe

So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really-itÂ’s sort of a TERRIBLE idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth. We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, read books, NOT get poisoned or crushed to death when we go outside-itÂ’s lovely right where we are.) Not convinced? GOOD! People have been dreaming about space travel for centuries-thereÂ’s something amazing ab...

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore - A Story of American Rage

“An impressionistic and often disturbing account of the 2016 presidential race . . . This book reveals the incremental nature of public displays of hatred, growing from harsh chants and bumper stickers to, say, an open and unmasked gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville . . . [His] dispatches are bracing.” -The Washington Post Named a Best Book of 2017 by The Coil When he agree...

The Education of Kevin Powell - A Boy's Journey into Manhood

In the spirit of Piri ThomasÂ’s Down These Mean Streets and Maya AngelouÂ’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, writer and activist Kevin PowellÂ’s memoir vividly recounts the poverty of his youth and his struggles to overcome a legacy of anger, violence, and self-hatred. When Kevin Powell was three, he discovered the volatile nature of his world: a place of pain, poverty, violence, rats, roaches...