How to Kill a Language: A Story of Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words
A globe-spanning investigation into the disappearance of languages that asks: what do we lose – culturally, politically, and personally – when a language dies?
Interdisciplinary studies
Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea
‘A new understanding of history’ Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%
‘If you think progress will take us to the promised land, this is a must-read’ Alpa Shah, author of The Incarcerations
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Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes
Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes
Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
Author of Wall Street Journal Bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for people to learn new skills, arguing that three factors must be met to make advancement possible, and offering 12 maxims to improve the way we learn.
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while?
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’FINANCIAL TIMES
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.
The Good Ally
‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis.
Are you ready?
100 Symbols That Changed the World
100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world’s most recognizable symbols.
The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong
‘Impressive … Fascinating’ Sunday Times
‘An authoritative history’ Financial Times
‘Gripping and richly researched’ Rana Mitter
A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Peak District (Collins New Naturalist Library)
The Peak District, Britain’s first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year.