Bad Elements
Ian BurumaRRP: £9.99
Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politburo or activists like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a emocratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be fund amid the …
Genre: Current Affairs, Politics & Economics
Winners and Losers
Kieran LevisRRP: £12.99
Kieran Levis tells the stories of some of the most innovative businesses of recent times to explain how a few succeeded – when so many failed – in creating entirely new markets and dominating them. He …
Planet Google
Randall StrossRRP: £8.99
Google has a dream: to manage the entire world’s information. The company wants to access every single bit of it it can – from news, to financial and historical data; from the content of books, films …
Inside Steve’s Brain
Leander KahneyRRP: £9.99
It is hard to believe that the same man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ’80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and put digital music on the map in t …
Bring on the Apocalypse
George MonbiotRRP: £8.99
‘A dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people… I never miss reading him.’ — Naomi KleinIn these incendiary essays, George Monbiot tears apart the fictions of religious conservativ …
Slow-Tech
Andrew PriceA sailor crossing the Atlantic in a small yacht would want to minimize excess baggage. But it would be unthinkable not to carry more fresh water than seemed necessary, to survive unexpected calms or s …
The Day of the Barbarians
Alessandro BarberoRRP: £8.99
On August 9, ad 378, outside Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace, the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unexpected flood of refugees from the tribe known as the Goths had arrive …
The Idea Generator
Ken HudsonRRP: £7.99
Ideas are the lifeblood of any business. But have you ever been stuck for one? If you have, then The Idea Generator is for you. It outlines sixty effective and practical tools to help you find inspira …
On The Wealth of Nations
P.J. O'RourkeRRP: £16.99
Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776 and almost instantly was recognized as fundamental to an understanding of economics. It was also recognized as being really long and as P …
The Social Entrepreneur
Andrew MawsonRRP: £20.00
Social entrepreneurs are cutting through ideology and red tape and making real, lasting social change. Britain’s leading social entrepreneur shows how, and why, it works. When Andrew Mawson arrived in …
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Charlie Wilson’s War
George CrileRRP: £8.99
In the last decade, two events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. Ge …
Charlie Wilson's War
George CrileRRP: £8.99
In the last decade, two events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. Ge …
Marx's Das Kapital
Francis WheenRRP: £7.99
‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,’ wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of the new capitalist worl …
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret
Paul GannonRRP: £14.99
This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world’s first true computer, Colossus.Uncov …
Betraying Hitler
Lucas DelattreRRP: £9.50
The extraordinary story of the German foreign ministry official who, at risk to his life, spied for the Allies in the Second World War.
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Kang Chol-HwanRRP: £12.99
‘I beseech you to read this account’ – Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentrati …
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