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America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China’s astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West. In ‘Breakneck’, Wang offers a new framework for understanding China – which helps us to see global geopolitics more clearly too.
Bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how the identities of women have been co-opted by those intent on crafting national identities. Their names are well-known, and summaries of their achievements have been recited in classrooms for decades, but medieval women like Joan of Arc, Lady Godiva and Isabella of Castile have been misrepresented, their stories twisted and weaponised. Meanwhile, ground-breaking 18th and 19th-century women who blazed a trail through revolutionary Europe have been forgotten, their legacies too easily dismissed or ignored. Questioning established narratives and searching for the real women behind the legends, Ramirez interrogates what defines a nation and who gets to build it, shining a light on how history is so often hijacked to serve the ideological and political interests of the present.
The story of how – and why – the world has come to rely on star ratings for almost everything.
Help your baby “talk” before they can speak—with signs that turn everyday moments into meaningful connection. My First 100 Signs makes early communication easy and joyful with bright visuals and simple signs for everyday needs like “milk,” “more,” and “all done.”
A groundbreaking guide to working with your hormones for better periods, more energy and improved health, from one of the UK's most trusted and influential health experts, Dr Hazel Wallace (aka The Food Medic).
Now more than ever, might is right – or so today’s strongman leaders would have us believe. In this era of conflict and souring historical alliances, how will the world’s nations co-exist and survive? ‘The World in Turmoil’ untangles the complex threads of geopolitics that both bind us and threaten to tear us apart. From military might to soft power and from empires to rogue states, John Andrews takes the long view of the factors that influence relations between countries, complete with a jargon-busting A-Z of key terms and concepts to help us navigate the changing landscape. He offers a clear-sighted analysis of the themes and trends governing global politics – and why we ignore them at our peril.
The hilarious, gutsy account of misadventures in the kitchen and in the bedroom by anonymous chef Slutty Cheff.
Packed with foods that make you feel good and recipes that are easy to follow from registered nutritional therapist Caroline Hanna, ‘Hungry’ is the cookbook to satisfy your cravings. No more coffee for breakfast and restrictions on snacking – when you are hungry, you should eat. Nutritional therapist and Cordon Bleu-trained chef Caroline shares over 90 recipes that are nutritious, well-balanced and tasty to honour both your hunger and your health. ‘Hungry’ incorporates highly nutritious ingredients in each and every dish without you noticing.
For a million years people have been travelling throughout Europe, from the mysterious homo antecessor who left his footprints on the coast of England to travellers on the motorways of today. Under every footstep lies an older one, under every paved road a donkey trail or wagon rut, under every footpath the prints of a hunter or his prey. And yet the long, nation-spanning roads of Europe don’t hold a special place in the imaginations and identities of its residents. No classic songs have been written about the E8, the way Americans have written about Route 66. Are Europeans too attached to their own home patch? Or have they too often seen armies marching towards them along those roads? Eager to answer that question, Mathijs Deen goes in search of the warriors, refugees, bandits, pilgrims, fortune-seekers, conquerors and racers who advanced into history along the roads of Europe.
How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans bond girl Caroline ‘Tula’ Cossey? In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity – from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow’s first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.
Women have never been ‘missing’ from economic life – they were simply hidden from view by those writing the history books. In ‘Economica’, feminist historian Victoria Bateman rescues them from obscurity in a thrilling narrative that retells the economic history of the world from a female perspective.
An ambitious, revisionist and wide-ranging account of the centuries-old relationship between Islam and Europe, from the Moorish invasion of Spain to the present, for readers of Peter Frankopan, Mary Beard and William Dalrymple.
The tools you need to build healthy, safe digital boundaries for your family (and yourself) in a world where offline isn't always an option, from one of the UK's foremost experts in digital culture, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL (University College London)
Authentic and delicious Japanese food you really can cook at home, from international best-selling Maori Murota, author of Tokyo Cult Recipes.
Filippo Grandi reflects on a decade as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, exploring the right to asylum in a divided world. Alongside Catherine Ashton, he advocates for international cooperation and a pragmatic, principled approach to displacement.
Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence victory and defeat – all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of one of the pivotal episodes in English history embroidered on a strip of linen. Famously, it shows the stricken Anglo-Saxon king Harold dying on the battlefield of Hastings in 1066 amid a shower of arrows, as axes clash, spears fly and fallen warriors are trampled beneath charging hooves. However, there is much more to this remarkable historical and artistic treasure, which tells its tale with an intensity and immediacy that speak to our modern world, almost 1,000 years after its creation. David Musgrove and Michael Lewis skilfully lead us through the full story of the Tapestry and the history it relates, providing illuminating insight into a world of fascinating details that might otherwise be overlooked or their significance missed.
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