Każdy chce być porządnym człowiekiem, czasem się to jednak nie udaje – jak bohaterom opowiadań Wellsa Towera. Często czują się samotni i zmęczeni. Mają dosyć kłamstw i póz, tęsknią za ...
The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable - the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It includes facsimile ...
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a treeless, wind-battered island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with t...
Mai 1993. Deux sours sont retrouvées mortes en bordure de Garonne. Vetues de robes de communiantes et attachées a des troncs d'arbres.C'est la premiere enquete du jeune Martin S...
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice.What followed became legend.Throughout the l...
In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on ...
The BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney! A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldw...
We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of scie...
‘How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy’s stories’Sharon Cameron ...
Will shatter some of your basic assumptions about ageing' - Adam GrantWhy do some people age better and live longer than others?This is the question that led leading expert ...
Alexander's mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny.'Alexander of Macedon has one, wild dream: to rule the worl...
The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific to form the tense, highly fortified bo...
WOMANI learned early in life how to survive. A skill that became vital in my position.WIFEI was given no power, yet I was expected to hold my own with the most powerful man ...
When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie. To ...
Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned conventional beliefs in proving that trees and plants are connected underground by an immense web of ...
The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The CircleWhen the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce...
Put your vocabulary skills to the test with this witty and engaging book. Improve Your Word Power is primarily a collection of multiple-choice challenges in which the reader is asked to decide whic...
'His heart racing, Henry took a step towards the enemy line. A shape loomed towards him in the darkness...'Travel back in time to a world engulfed by war, as historian Dominic Sandbrook...
George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, hi...
Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing old, chance e...