The Will to See. Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope, Hardback - ***

An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reportersPublisher: Ya...

An official companion book to From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 4's flagship foreign affairs programme.

Reducere. ``In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and ag...

An official companion book to From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 4's flagship foreign affairs programmePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): ...

Learning to Look is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva Noe starts from an experience of a ...

Reducere. Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engag...

Reducere. America, how well do you know your history?Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned t...

Reducere. Christians serving in Muslim lands told their stories of challenge and change in the acclaimed Where There Was No Church. In this sequel, devoted w...

Reducere. The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crow...

What he doesn't realise is that encountering an illness and understanding it are two quite different things. An uproarious and uplifting novel abou...

Reducere. Maharani's Misery sheds new light on the ordeal of indentured Indians, especially women, as they crossed the oceans to labour on sugar plantations ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Oliver UbertiNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 196 x 253 x 24Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. When Luke O'Neil isn't angry, he's asleep. When he's awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): David KaiserIllustration(s): 47 halftonesNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Memoir from a Christian Syrian doctor who stayed in his war-torn country to help the most vulnerable.

An irresistibly moving, honest and often hilarious memoir about caring for your parents when you can barely care for yourself.Publisher: Pan Macmil...

An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics

I had drifted, gotten lost, strayed from the paths and places I love. I felt Shetland calling me, and in this moment, I began my slow, imperfect jo...

An analysis of the present political moment, and the anger that defines it, from bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke.

Reducere. This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B. Shockley. It reconstructs Shockley's upbringing,...

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.

Reducere. Published in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider's look at one of the most prevalent, yet commonly misunderstood institut...

DescriptionFrom celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army durin...

DescriptionThroughout his career, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche explored the concept of the will to power, interpreting it variously as a psychologic...

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel t...

Pope Francis's third official book - already an international bestseller - on how to find joy in challenging circumstancesPublisher: Hodder & Stoug...

Our ever-increasing intimacy with technology is changing our bodies and our brains. What can those at the frontiers tell us about what it means to ...

Publisher: See Sharp PressAuthor(s): Charles BufeNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. One third of the world's nearly 400 species of parrots are threatened with extinction or already close to it. These include some of the most specta...

Reducere. This volume contains the complete texts of two books by America's most important psychologist and philosopher. Easy to understand, yet brilliant an...

This book introduces a collection of tools that enable novices - including educators, hobbyists, and youth designers - to create and learn with e-t...

This study charts how Shakespeare's early fascination with power developed into the profoundly optimistic utopian visions suffusing his later tragi...

Celebrating the prize that has honored international literature's top players, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Edwidge Danticat, a groundbreaking co...