What If We Stopped Pretending?
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.
Economics of specific sectors
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco’s Startup Scene
‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit
‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino
‘This is essential reading’ Stylist
I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
The very best journalism from one of Britain’s most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma.
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age.
Sonic Boom: Napster, P2P and the Battle for the Future of Music
The first book to tell the inside story of the battle for control over the future of music and how technology is ripping up the traditional rules of business.
Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
An elegant demolition of the supermarket miracle, this book charts the impact that supermarkets have had on every aspect of our lives and culture.
Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, And How We Can Fix It
‘Bad Science’ hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.
Mark Steel’s In Town
On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley. So later, during the show, I mentioned this, asking the audience ‘Is that your rival town?’ And the room went chillingly quiet, until one woman called out with understated menace, ‘Keighley is a sink of evil.’
Everyday and Sunday
‘What we like most is to produce foods ourselves from start to finish – from farm to table, the Riverford way. Food should tell a story and, because we know what it is, we can tell you.’
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood: Enhanced edition
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world’s leading prize for popular science writing.
This enhanced e-book version contains twelve animations created by graphic design students from the world renowned Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Enhanced Edition): Enhanced edition
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world’s leading prize for popular science writing.
This enhanced e-book version contains twelve animations created by graphic design students from the world renowned Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world’s leading prize for popular science writing.
IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It
We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world’s leading experts on economic globalization, tackles Third World Debt as a problem which must be resolved if we are ever to see global stability.
Stuff Matters: Genius, Risk and the Secret of Capitalism
A counter-blast to the bashing of capitalism and a fresh and bold re-evaluation of the fundamentals that turn genius into hard currency.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011.
Life is on the up.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves: Unabridged edition
Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better.