Philosophy
How to Be a Husband: Unabridged edition
The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.*
*Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader’s own risk.
How to Be a Husband
The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.*
*Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader’s own risk.
How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence
A startling investigation of what it means to be human.
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.
Karl Marx
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry (Text Only)
This new ebook from the author of ‘The Music of the Primes’ combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry.
Farther Away
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of ‘Freedom’ and ‘The Corrections’.
The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things
Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way – their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe…
The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
One on One
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.
What Makes Women Happy
With her inimitable wit and insight, Fay Weldon offers her wisdom on the subject of female happiness and how to achieve it.