Politics & Social Sciences

Angels And Demons CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power...

Who Was Queen Elizabeth II? How did a little girl who loved horses become the longest reigning monarch in England? Find out in this addition to the #1  New York Times  best-selling Who Was? series !  In 1936, the life of ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York changed forever....

Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk  Discover why 90% of your worries won’t come true in this highly practical, internationally bestselling guide by the renowned Zen Buddhist author of   The Art of Simple Living. Think of a time when you were...

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperback In  12 Rules for Life , acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in...

In  The Book of Fun , Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games, theme parks, festivals, sports, and more. With 80+ digestible, entertaining entries, it's not just fodder for your next dinner party -- you might also...

From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times...

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast   In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our...

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World   'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves...

What makes a mammal a mammal? The answer is more complicated than you think! I, Mammal  is a history of mammals and their ancestors and of how science came to grasp mammalian evolution. After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his...

The Body: A Guide For Occupants   NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A  NEW YORK TIMES  EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY  Maclean's  •  The Washington Post  •  USA Today  • Indigo  Bill Bryson,...

Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World   From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it for us. In Coders, acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson offers an illuminating...

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to...

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover - UK Edition) In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what...

Philosophy 101 Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions! Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details...