Third Millennium Thinking
Out now: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? How can we navigate the next uncomfortable discussion with family members who follow completely different...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Think Like a Vegan
According to the latest figures, the number of vegans in the UK has more than quadrupled since 2014, now representing over 1 per cent of the total population. With the rise in plant-based foods and cruelty-free products showing no sign of stopping, Think Like a Vegan explores how vegan ethics can be applied to every area of our daily lives....Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Zen of Business
Discover your perfect balance with a combination of ancient Eastern wisdom and timeless business advice In The Zen of Business: Ancient Wisdom to Help Modern Leaders Lead with Intention, Clarity, and Purpose, transformational speaker and leadership expert Keith Roberts delivers an exhilarating guide to personal growth and professional success that incorporates ancient Buddhist wisdom, including the principles of karma, the...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
They Call It Love
They Call It Love is an examination of the work we call "love", who performs it, how it is organised, and how we might re-organise it. Through understanding love as emotional reproduction, Alva Gotby makes clear that our emotional lives are inherently political. How do you know someone cares for you? Think about the small gestures of love – all...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
They Call It Love
Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function. They Call It Love investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labour, how it is organised, and how it...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Truth Detective
From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion, and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it like one, with every day critical thinking. In The Truth Detective, journalist and competitive poker player Alex O'Brien shows how we can survive and make better life decisions using the rules of the game. In a world full of...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Story is in Our Bones
It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build Earth-centred communities for all. These pages summon from our bones our commitment to defend this living Earth. Active Hope The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice analyses,...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Romantic Conception of Life
"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J....Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Real Work
Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: how did the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Power of Different
The Power of Different is an illuminating and uplifting examination of the link between brain differences and aptitude. Psychologist and bestselling author Gail Saltz presents the latest scientific research and profiles famous geniuses and lay individuals who have been diagnosed with all manner of brain 'problems'—including learning disabilities, ADD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. Saltz shows that the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Nature of Fear
An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year A leading expert in animal behaviour takes us into the wild to better understand and manage our fears. Fear, honed by millions of years of natural selection, kept our ancestors alive. Whether by slithering away, curling up in a ball, or standing still in the presence of a predator, humans and...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Narrative Brain
An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell As humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work, our brains and the ways in which we tell stories must be attuned to each other. But how...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
"If you want to know about AI, read this book. It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence."-Peter Thiel "Larson worries that we're making two mistakes at once, defining human intelligence down while overestimating what AI is likely to achieve. Another...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Motivated Speaker
Master the mindsets and practices of the world's best public speakers A team of veteran communication and speaking coaches delivers a groundbreaking new framework for becoming a great communicator. Thanks to the authors' decades of experience, readers will discover the six essential threshold concepts needed to give talks like the best TED speakers and Fortune 500 leaders. Their practical and...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Kindness of Strangers
Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it. It turns out that, over the last 12,000 years, we have become more and more altruistic. This is despite the fact that, the majority of the time, our minds are still breathtakingly indifferent to...Hardback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Keys to Kindness
Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels good and does good. Did you know kinder bosses are more successful bosses? That paying it forward can help build a purpose-driven life? Being kind strengthens relationships. Acts of kindness,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Hidden Half
Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is The Hidden Half - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingenious book, Blastland reveals how in our...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Half Life of Facts
Facts change all the time, and what is known about the world is constantly in flux. There is an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how facts are formed. Samuel Arbesman is an expert in the field of scientometrics, literally the science of science. In this book, Arbesman encompasses a wide variety of fields and speeds of...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Garden
From bestselling author Jon Gordon comes a spiritual fable about the power of faith, hope, and love. Meet Jay and Kay. They’re twins, and like many teenagers their age, they’re dealing with stress and anxiety. One day on their way to school, they have a nice conversation with their old family friend and youth soccer coach, Mr. Erwin, who shows...Hardback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Future of the Brain
The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain scienceIncludes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Focus Fix
With focus and a clear mind, we can achieve almost anything. But we are constantly subjected to a deluge of distractions, from endless notification pings to anxiety and self-doubt. The Focus Fix explores how you can reset your mindset in order to reclaim your focus and achieve incredible results. In this fascinating book, leading creativity expert Chris Griffiths and journalist...Paperback$3599Elsewhere:$3600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Einsteinian Revolution
How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science. The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein's work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity, matter and radiation. Beginning with Einstein's miracle year of 1905 and continuing through his development of the theory of general relativity, Einstein spurred...Hardback$11800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Disordered Mind
Neurological and psychiatric disorders have long been regarded as fundamentally different, depending on whether they appear to affect the brain or the mind. In reality, the brain and the mind are inseparable. Both types of disorder can affect every aspect of brain function: from perception, action, memory, and emotion to empathy, social interaction, attention, and consciousness. It is easy to...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Call to Climb
Captivating fable to help you grow, discover yourself, succeed, and lead a more fulfilling life The Call to Climb is a transformative fable about self-discovery and personal growth that gives readers all of the tools they need to navigate their own challenges, embrace stillness, and rediscover the joy and meaning in their lives. We step into Riley's journey stranded in...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Burnout Challenge
Two pioneering researchers identify key causes of workplace burnout and reveal what managers can do to promote increased productivity and health. Burnout is among the most significant on-the-job hazards facing workers today. It is also among the most misunderstood. In particular, we tend to characterise burnout as a personal issue—a problem employees should fix themselves by getting therapy, practising relaxation...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Brain
Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours, and more. Written by Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Sophie Scott, and composed of ten mind-blowing yet accessible essays, The Brain guides you through the astounding complexities of the organ that makes you, you. From diving into the networks of neurons vital to our functioning,...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Book of Beautiful Questions
From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, comes hundreds of questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face— at work, in our relationships, and beyond. When we’re confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions in the face of uncertainty. But the questions must...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Biomimicry Revolution
Modernity is founded on the belief that the world we build is a human invention, not a part of nature. The ecological consequences of this idea have been catastrophic. We have laid waste to natural ecosystems, replacing them with fundamentally unsustainable human designs. With time running out to address the environmental crises we have caused, our best path forward is...Hardback$26699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Technology is Not the Problem
We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more? 'Great book' – Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works 'Essential reading' – Pete Etchells, author of Unlocked 'An urgent must-read' – Tiffany Jenkins, author and broadcaster, presenter...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sweet Reason
Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic, 2nd Edition offers an innovative, friendly, and effective introduction to logic. This book integrates formal first order, modal, and non-classical logic with natural language reasoning, analytical writing, critical thinking, set theory, and the philosophy of logic and mathematics. An innovative introduction to the field of logic, this text is designed to entertain...Paperback$25600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Spacecraft
Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture? If ever there were a spacecraft that could be detached from...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Souvenir
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have travelled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sock
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unravelling the garment’s history, construction, and use, Kim Adrian’s Sock reintroduces us to our own bodies—vulnerable, bipedal, and flawed. Sock reminds us that...Paperback$2300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Shopping Mall
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Matthew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating...Paperback$2300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity
The third edition of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity has been carefully updated to reflect significant developments, including a new chapter covering important recent work in the foundations of physics. A new edition of the premier philosophical study of Bell’s Theorem and its implication for the relativistic account of space and time. Discusses Roderich Tumiulka’s explicit, relativistic theory that can reproduce...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Playing Possum
When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophy and Simulation
In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize the space of possibilities associated with casual and other capacities. This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Personal Stereo
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocial—the quintessential accessory for the “me” generation. In Personal...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Personality
'The best introduction to personality psychology I have ever read.' Robert Hogan, founder and president, Hogan Assessment Systems We are each born with a particular genetic makeup and traits that are further shaped by our individual environments and life experiences, creating a personality unique to us. But at no point are we given a manual for how to use that...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Perplexing Paradoxes
Why does it always seem like the elevator is going down when you need to go up? Is it really true that 0.99999... with an infinite number of 9s after the decimal point, is equal to 1? What do tea leaves and river erosion have in common, per Albert Einstein? Does seeing a bed of red flowers help prove that...Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Overloaded
Many of the chemicals that allow our brains to function have become household names. These chemicals are the hormones and neurotransmitters that run our brain. They affect all aspects of our lives, from what we remember, how we make decisions, and who we love to basic survival drives such as hunger, fear, and sleep. In Overloaded, author Ginny Smith explores...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Notes on Complexity
2024 Nautilus Book Award Winner The Marginalian Favourite Books of 2023 An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that explains the interconnectedness of all things and that Deepak Chopra says, 'will change the way you understand yourself and the universe'. Nothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies, in oceans,...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Newspaper
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record, to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, to the story of an instrument that has been central...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
My Head For A Tree
How much can one love a tree? Rajasthan, in northern India, is home to the Bishnoi, a desert people whose religion is built around nature and wildlife conservation. They are renowned for the extreme lengths they go to defend nature: Bishnoi have died to defend trees from loggers and in pursuit of illegal poachers. In My Head For A Tree,...Hardback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Mushroom
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They are grouped with plants, but they behave more like animals. In their inscrutability, mushrooms are wondrous organisms. The...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Mindfulness without the Bells and Beads
Winner of the American Book Fest 2021 Best Book Award, Management and Leadership; Silver Medalist, 2021 Living Now Awards; Bronze Medalist, 2022 Axiom Business Book Awards for Success/Motivation/Coaching. Use mindfulness to unleash your potential - without adopting spiritual beliefs Mindfulness Without the Bells and Beads: Unlocking Exceptional Performance, Leadership, and Wellbeing for Working Professionals strips away the bells, beads, and...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Michael Rosen's Book of Play
These days, we seem to have less and less time for play. At school, children are focused on exams, while at home we're all glued to our phones and iPads. Here, Michael Rosen shows us why we need more play in our lives. He explores the influence of play on everyone from Shakespeare to Dickens and Dali, delving into the...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Luggage
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You can’t think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorise, and accompany our lives. Along the way, she shows how the materials of travel — the carry-ons,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Leading Yourself
Create the work experience you want in the less-than-perfect job you already have. In Leading Yourself, celebrated workplace thought leader Elizabeth Lotardo delivers an engaging guide to owning and elevating your work experience. With tips, watchouts, and funny stories, Leading Yourself will give you the encouragement and tactics to up-level your career, even if you aren't in your dream job....Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Know Thyself
How do you know when you've studied enough to pass an exam? Should you accept the testimony of an eyewitness? How do you know when to trust a doctor's orders? The answer is self-awareness. Self-awareness is humans' greatest superpower. Like the conductor of an orchestra, self-awareness guides the musicians of the mind—memory, creativity, intelligence, and skill—to perform at their best....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Jet Lag
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomises...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Is Gender Fluid?
The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between their biological sex and their inner identity? Is gender something we are or something we do? Is our expression of...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Hope for Cynics
Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford psychologist Dr Jamil Zaki has the cure - a 'ray of light for dark days' (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author). For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Hood
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, labourers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who’s ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney’s Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
High Heel
Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste Magazine Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence
According to research by Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence has proved to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. It's now one of the crucial criteria in hiring and promotion processes, performance evaluations, and professional development courses. And it's not innate—it's a set of skills that all of us can learn and improve upon. With this double...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Games for Your Mind
A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy. Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Future Superhuman
We're hurtling towards a superhuman future or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We'll need more technology to safeguard our future, and we're going to invent and perhaps even merge with some of that technology....Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Free Agents
An evolutionary case for the existence of free will. Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behaviour and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision-making, many conclude that agency or free will is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Free Agents
An evolutionary case for the existence of free will. Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behaviour and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency or free will is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Frantz Fanon
Revolutionary humanist and radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was one of the greatest Black thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Martinique and known for his involvement in the Algerian liberation movement, his seminal books Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are widely considered to be cornerstones of anti-colonial and anti-racist thought. In this essential introduction to...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Eye Chart
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes. Reading the eye chart is an exercise in failure, since it only gets interesting when you cannot...Paperback$2099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Emotional Intelligence
Boost Emotional Intelligence in any situation to achieve exceptional results for any organisation. As organisations around the world are putting more focus on the mindset and wellbeing of staff, the need to develop Emotional Intelligence (EI) has never been greater. Emotional Intelligence in the workplace—including the five key concepts of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, social skills and motivation—is defined as your...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Egg
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object—strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Earth
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Does the Earth Care?
Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency The world is changing. Progress no longer has a future, but any earlier sense of Earth as "providential" seems of merely historical interest. The apparent absence of Earthly solicitude is a symptom and consequence of these successive Western modes of engagement with the Earth, now exemplified in global capitalism....Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Difficult Conversations Don't Have to Be Difficult
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Help your team maximise their full potential by mastering tough conversations In Difficult Conversations Don’t Have to Be Difficult: A Simple, Smart Way to Make Your Relationships and Team Better, bestselling author Jon Gordon and veteran human resources professional and executive coach Amy P. Kelly deliver an engaging and inspiring new take on how to make tough workplace...Hardback$4599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Deviate
World-renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto reveals the truths of human perception and devises a cognitive toolkit for how to succeed in a world of uncertainty. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand how our own perception works. By revealing the startling truths about the brain and perception, Beau Lotto shows that the next big innovation is...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
David Walker
David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted his life to fighting slavery and antiblack racism. In this book, Sherrow O. Pinder brings to light Walker’s...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Zen Wisdom for the Anxious
Zen Wisdom for the Anxious offers a gentle introduction to Zen wisdom that feels like a breath of fresh air in a bamboo forest. - Hector Garcia, author of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life By dipping into this little book of simple Zen Buddhist sayings, you can calm your anxiety and return serenity to your...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Zen and the Beat Way
“Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever.” - Alan Watts When Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen Buddhism echoed the sentiments of the Beat Generation, who found in Zen a way of life unencumbered by the limits of "square" society....Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Culture is Not an Industry
Culture is Not an Industry delves into the heart of human identity through the lens of art and culture. Twenty-five years ago, the British government redefined these elements as 'creative industries', focusing on their economic value to position the UK as the creative hub within a globalised landscape. Today, art and culture grapple with exhausted workers, scarcity of funding, and...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Cigarette Lighter
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors… The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and emitting different meanings while always supplying its primary function, that of ignition. While the lighter may seem...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Burger
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Original I Ching
A groundbreaking new translation of the Book of Changes, the world's earliest-known divination system! ...an important book, not only because it is the first interpretation, ever, by a woman in a wholly male-dominated field, but because of its freshness and directness...A delight. — Richard Burns, poet Having this ancient text restored to its original form is something very valuable indeed....Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The No Bullshit Guide to Getting Sober
If your life appears to be right royally fucked from your drinking, it probably is. But the good news is The No Bullshit Guide to Getting Sober by Maree MacLean is a call to action, not a death sentence. The No Bullshit Guide to Getting Sober challenges us to get more honest than we've ever been before about how and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Bookshelf
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different, and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop, while another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Bookshelf by writer and historian Lydia Pyne explores these differences...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Book of IQ Tests
Maybe you think you're a genius, but these 25 brain-stumping IQ quizzes will put that to the test! Featuring wordplay, diagrams, numerical challenges, and more, they provide an intriguing and irresistible challenge. Can you think abstractly? Comprehend complex ideas? Decide which number comes next in a sequence? See which drawing is the odd one out? The best way to know...Paperback$1699Elsewhere:$2300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the best-known book on military strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is ancient, its principles and advice are timeless; it remains as influential as ever in military strategy, leadership roles, business tactics, legal challenges, martial arts philosophy, and more. Everyone from New England Patriots' coach Bill Belichick to Tupac Shakur has turned...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Bedeviled
How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible. Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcised by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously...Paperback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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