The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionAre we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool,...9999903112525Christopher Wills
Allen Lane
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Why Psychiatric Treatments FailTowards the end of the twentieth century, a new approach to treating mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in focusing on madness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or im...9999903112280Richard P. Bentall
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Power of Organizing Without OrganizationsA woman loses her phone, and recruits an army of volunteers to get it back. A dissatisfied airline passenger spawns a movement with her weblog. Citizens with camera-phones are more...9999903112136Clay Shirky
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Nature and Meaning of PsychiatryOur Necessary Shadow is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry, from the UK's leading expert, Tom BurnsA lot is written about psychiatry and t...9999903112082Tom Burns
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Remember when we all thought it couldn't get much worse? Before bomb-happy Bush and his best friend Tony decided to wage a war that no one(in their right minds) wanted? Before he w...9999903095101Moore, Michael
Allen Lane
viernes, 15 de marzo de 2024
A Natural History of Transformation"Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own...9999903091943Michael Pollan
Allen Lane
viernes, 8 de marzo de 2024
Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't ExistOur society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transforming our world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient, efficient and - in some cases - fun. Better and cheape...9999903083719Evgeny Morozov
Allen Lane
sábado, 17 de febrero de 2024
How to Make Good DecisionsA fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk.Risk-taking is essential...9999903081531Gerd Gigerenzer
Allen Lane
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous"Harvard University's Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global ps...9999903076520Joseph Henrich
Allen Lane
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
How Not to Liberate The WorldDoes free information mean free people? At the start of the twenty-first century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. We could come together as never before...9999903074922Evgeny Morozov
Allen Lane
martes, 30 de enero de 2024
The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and MachinesA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand? George Dyson plots an un...9999903074038George Dyson
Allen Lane
viernes, 26 de enero de 2024
Private Life in Stalin's RussiaDrawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin, brilliantly conveying the re...9999902990193Orlando Figes
Allen Lane
sábado, 3 de junio de 2023
Private Life in Stalin's RussiaDrawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin, brilliantly conveying the re...9999902989654Orlando Figes
Allen Lane
sábado, 3 de junio de 2023
"Drawing on an astonishing cache of photographs, letters, diaries, and documents, as well as interviews on three continents, historian Mark Roseman reconstructs Marianne's odyssey ...9999902982341Mark Roseman
Allen Lane
viernes, 12 de mayo de 2023
1946-2004When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which...9999902917565Alistair Cooke
Allen Lane
martes, 22 de noviembre de 2022
The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of AsiaFrom Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking ...9999902912782Pankaj Mishra
Allen Lane
viernes, 11 de noviembre de 2022
A Global Journey Into History'He writes history like nobody else. He thinks like nobody else ... He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless fund of stories' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Where have the p...9999902882979Norman Davies
Allen Lane
miércoles, 17 de agosto de 2022
The American Military Adventure in IraqÿþCutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to ...9999902816462Thomas E. Ricks
Allen Lane
jueves, 10 de marzo de 2022
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?ÿþPrize-winning author Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and...9999902802557Jared Diamond
Allen Lane
miércoles, 2 de febrero de 2022
A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the LineGang Leader for a Dayis a gripping journey of discovery about life on the wrong side of the tracks. When na?ve sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh went to find out more about urban ...9999902753804Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Allen Lane
miércoles, 6 de octubre de 2021
Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies spectacular and eagerly awaited return to cosmology. Here he tackles all the 'big questions' and introduces the latest discoveries that have al...9999902747520P. C. W. Davies
Allen Lane
viernes, 10 de septiembre de 2021
A Human's Guide to the Art of PersuasionCats rank among the world's top negotiators. They get humans to do what they want, when they want. So if you could learn to persuade a cat to do what you wanted, then any human - c...9999902719190Jay Heinrichs
Allen Lane
miércoles, 30 de junio de 2021
And How They Get Away with ItSpectator, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Guardian, Observer, Independent Books of the Year 2014 In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, off...9999902709948Owen Jones
Allen Lane
martes, 18 de mayo de 2021
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?Prize-winning author Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and C...9999902704202Jared Diamond
Allen Lane
jueves, 29 de abril de 2021
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