An exciting journey through history, this beautifully illustrated new edition tells the stories of fifty plants that have been key to the development of the western world.
One of the Evening Standard best diet books for 2021.SMALL CHANGES, BIG RESULTS.You don''t need a fad diet. You don''t need to sign up to a slimming club. You don''t need to…
Author Ian Cramb was a fifth-generation stonemason who relied on traditional methods to create and restore beautiful stone structures. In this do-it-yourself manual for homeowners…
Includes the previously unpublished essay "The philosopher as expert."
They say everybody uses porn. They’re wrong. People don’t use pornography: it uses us. And you don’t have to watch it to be one of its victims. In this thought-provoking…
Patisserie, the art of the maître pâtissier, is the most admired style of baking in the world and requires the highest level of skill. In this new book master baker and…
All your questions and worries about Al today - the who, what, where, when and WHY - answered by a computer scientist.It''s here and it''s not going away - AI is on everyone''s…
''Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?''Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal…
I WANT A LITTLE SISTER!As Kazuma spends his downtime bemoaning his party''s lack of a little-sister archetype, he''s invited to a royal banquet, where he meets the young Princess…
A brand new, highly readable history by Scott Crawford, Chinese Ancient Origins surveys the events, cultural practices, political developments, beliefs, key individuals and roots…
In an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we're…
The Fourth volume of the best-selling sci-fi detective series - Detective Bridget Kurtis has to solve a brand new mystery.The entire planet of Mercury seems to have vanished and a…
The keenly anticipated third Rilke thriller exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning author of the cult classic The Cutting Room
Hazel, Cashew and Conker are squirrels who have hidden their nuts somewhere safe – but they can’t remember where! Will they ever find them again? This fun story was written by…
Kevin Lewis grew up on a council estate in South London. Beaten and starved by his parents, ignored by the social services and bullied at school, he was offered a chance to escape…