Thinking in Pictures

‘One of the most original writers around. He has profoundly influenced my thinking.’ Hannah Fry Why thinking in pictures? Short answer: because the words seem to need help. If you sample the many smar …

Why We Sing

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‘A must-read for anyone moved by the power of song’ – Lesley Garrett, CBESinging has always been there for us, at the root of what it is to be a human being. Through personal anecdote and scientific f …

The Generation Myth

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‘Subtle and compelling.’ Observer’One of the best books of 2021.’ The TimesAre we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled ‘snowflakes’? Are Baby Boomers stealing their chi …

A Year to Change Your Mind

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‘Twelve months’ worth of smart self-help from someone you’d want on your team in a crisis … genuinely useful, charming, comforting’ – Guardian’Compelling, warm and authoritative’ – Viv Groskop, best …

Generations

‘Subtle and compelling.’ Observer’One of the best books of 2021.’ The TimesAre we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled ‘snowflakes’? Are Baby Boomers stealing their chi …

The Generation Divide

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‘Subtle and compelling.’ Observer’One of the best books of 2021.’ The TimesAre we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled ‘snowflakes’? Are Baby Boomers stealing their chi …

The Truth About Lies

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Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you …

A Dangerous Method

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Now a Major Motion Picture by legendary director David Cronenberg starring Viggo Mortensen, Kiera Knightley and Michael Fassbender.In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be …

The Perils of Perception

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New Statesman’s Best Books of 2018’Mandatory reading’ Steven PinkerDo you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the ri …

No!

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We like to get along, at home or in the workplace. We don’t want to hurt people or offend. Therefore, it is no surprise that numerous famous psychological experiments have proven that we don’t tend to …

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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‘Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation,’ said author Cha …

Moral Tribes

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A ground-breaking and ambitious book that promotes a new understanding of morality, one that will help us to solve society’s biggest problems.Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting alon …

Risk Intelligence

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There is a special kind of intelligence for dealing with risk and uncertainty. It doesn’t correlate with IQ and most psychologists fail to spot it because it is found in such a disparate, rag-tag grou …

How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

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The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is ‘the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It’s not about computers. It’s not about what …

The Shallows

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‘Boldly reactionary… What looks like feast, Carr argues, may be closer to famine’ Sunday Times’Chilling’ The EconomistIn this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since …

This Is Your Brain On Music

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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book AwardThe Independent best books of the yearThe Guardian best books of the year This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experie …