Society & Essays

Moshik Temkin Paperback 320 pages Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and beco...

Ruchir Sharma Hardback 384 pages A radical examination by a leading financial analyst, commentator and investor of the ills of capitalism and how they can be fixedWhat went wrong with capitalism?...

Walter Isaacson Paperback 688 pages Epic feats. Epic failures. An epic story. Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the plan...

Phil Elwood Paperback The man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now pulling back the curtain: a bridge-burning, riotous confession by a top PR operative who exposes the secrets o...

Mark Bowden Paperback 320 pages Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighbourhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by 'The Wire.' Drug de...

Ray Kurzweil Paperback 672 pages In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the ...

Patricia Evangelista Hardback 448 pages My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't...

Geoff White Hardback 288 pages For as long as people have been stealing money, there has been an industry ready to wash it. But what happened when our economy went digital? How does the global u...

Maggie Nelson Hardback 352 pages Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes ...

Jean Menzies Paperback 96 pages For a period in time that gave us Sappho and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is more complicated that at...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...

Kayla Ihrig Paperback 248 pages You don't need to sacrifice your career to travel the world. Join the 35 million digital nomads who are living, working and exploring to the fullest. With this bo...

Paul Oyer Paperback 216 pages An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sor...

Kai-Fu Lee , Chen Qiufan Paperback 480 pages How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within tw...

Stephen Wildish Hardback 192 pages Apocalypse.... Now?Prepare for every possible end of days with this essential survival guide. Covering crucial survival skills, the ideal Plan A and Plan B, ...

Mariana Mazzucato - Rosie Collington Paperback 368 pages There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must ...

Charles Duhigg Paperback Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giv...

Roxane Gay Paperback 336 pages 'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is pro...

Hannah Ritchie Paperback We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children. ...

Hardback Paul Caruana Galizia When Paul Caruana Galizia was at work in London, his eldest brother called to say their mother Daphne had just been assassinated. That day, he returned to their nati...

Carmen Maria Machado & J Robert Lennon 256 pages Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the worl...

Serhii Plokhy Paperback 416 pages Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times On 24 February 2022, Ru...

Harrison Akins Softback 360 pages After two decades and trillions of dollars, the United States' fight against terrorism has achieved mixed results. Despite the vast resources and attention expen...

Rebecca Solnit Paperback / softback 144 pages A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Reb...