Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail and Magpie
‘Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure’ Stylist
‘A beautiful timely and humane book’ Alain de Botton
Biography: philosophy and social sciences
What it Means to be Human: A philosophical memoir
What is the role of fate in our lives?
Why should we avoid repeating patterns?
And how can we identify our purpose?
Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.
Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir: Unabridged edition
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex
The untold story of Wilhelm Reich and the dawn of the sexual revolution. An illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.
Grand Pursuit: The Story of the People Who Made Modern Economics
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today’s financial mess.
Karl Marx
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.
Grand Pursuit: A Story of Economic Genius
Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate.
Karl Marx
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.
The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots’ Invention of the Modern World
‘Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.’ Irvine Welsh, Guardian
A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world.
Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
When Christopher Ross put on a hi-visibility vest and joined London Underground as a station assistant, he discovered a Plato’s cave of reflection and human comedy, populated by streakers, buskers, onanists and angry commuters. A meditation on life, a philosophical enquiry into human nature and a profoundly funny dissection of urban madness.