Explore the healing, transformative power of shedding tears in this evocatively illustrated study of crying, one of the most uniquely human things we do. What if crying wasn\'t just an involuntary reaction to feeling sad, vulnerable, or overwhelmed - but a hidden wellspring of power we could harness to live a fuller life?

Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced – childhood. Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us – our uniquely long childhoods.

THE INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN HARDBACK\'A superb survey of planetary politics\'The Sunday TimesSpy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions.

Turn your living space into an indoor oasis with the RHS\'s definitive guide to more than 330 house plant varieties. Take your house plant collection to the next level with RHS House Plant.

\"A NATURAL STORYTELLER\" Mary Roach \"BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING\" Matthew Gavin Frank

An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientistsDeep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment systems.

For all of neuroscience\'s advances, we\'ve made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know.

China\'s economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world\'s second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world\'s steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa

Monocle has always been a champion of taking it slow. It has encouraged readers to dive into a lake and go for a run.

Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain\'s surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival.

\'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass\' Brendan Simms As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward? Susan Neiman\'s Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind\'s greatest invention: the city. \'Brilliant...enchanting\' Evening Standard \'Exhilarating\' New York Times The story of the city is the story of civilisation.

\'An urgent and exhilarating account of how populism, prejudice & polarisation have corrupted objective truth and public discourse. D\'Ancona\'s sparkling prose provides an explanation of how we got here and, crucially, how we might get out.\' -- James O\'Brien \'A book so rich in thought, wisdom and persuasion I find myself sharing the ideas within it with everyone I meet... In the much-mourned absence

\'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success\' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our so

Winning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians.The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have sought a leg up, a shortcut, or an end run to power and influence. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Robert Rotberg, a recognized authority on governance and international

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease.

Well-behaved women don\'t make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism\'s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights.

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID \'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex\' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, \'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman\'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs

\"A Scheherazade for our time.\" -- Daily Telegraph What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage?

From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to create new income streams and thrive in today\'s turbulent economy. The nine-to-five is dead.