Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time (Garfield Simon)(Paperback)

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time (Garfield Simon)(Paperback)

A witty and entertaining journey through time from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the

Selfie - How the West Became Self-Obsessed (Storr Will)(Paperback / softback)

Selfie explains how the West became self-obsessed and reveals the danger of this modern obsession - a 'fascinating' (Guardian), 'brilliant' (Independent) and 'electrifying' (Financial Times)

In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate The World (Garfield Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the

how the first sparks became visible (Atangana Bekono Simone)(Paperback / softback)

Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Epypt (Nielsen Nicky)(Pevná vazba)

Egyptomaniacs examines the popular view of Egypt as an exotic, esoteric, mystical culture obsessed with death and overflowing with mummies and pyramids but asks - is it at all accurate?The Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera declared during the 4th century BCE that the Egyptian civilization was

Just My Type - A Book About Fonts (Garfield Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Describes how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world; why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco; the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers; and

Will In The World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Greenblatt Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears. In this book, by reconnecting with this historic reality we are able to experience the true character of the playwright himself. It traces Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative

Mauve - How one man invented a colour that changed the world (Garfield Simon)(Paperback / softback)

1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye,

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (Winchester Simon)(Paperback)

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing could

Weirdest People in the World - How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Henrich Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Dog's Best Friend - A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond (Garfield Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A wise, witty, alternative history of humanity exploring how our relationship with dogs has changed over the centuries - by the author of the bestselling JUST MY

How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story (Tingle Tim)(Paperback)

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World (Alt Matt)(Paperback)

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination. 'A masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.'--W. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style

Miniaturist (Burton Jessie)(Paperback / softback)

The sensational debut novel that became a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller and took the world by

A Life (Veil Simone)(Paperback)

Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life, she describes in vivid detail a childhood of happiness and innocence spent in Nice that came to an abrupt end in 1944 when, at the age of 17, she was

The Art of Negotiation: How to get what you want (every time) (Castle Tim)(Paperback)

Anyone can learn to become a good negotiator. Let me show you how. I became a professional negotiator at the age of 23, and within just 12 months, I was single-handedly negotiating $1,000,000 deals. Being a negotiator has been such an empowering experience, and I've been able to transfer my

Earth - An Intimate History (Fortey Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world -

How Jesus Became God (Ehrman Bart D.)(Paperback)

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed

How the Irish Became White (Ignatiev Noel)(Paperback)

'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America

Exactly - How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (Winchester Simon)(Paperback / softback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs

Bernard Dunne: Champion of the World (Dunne Bernard)(Paperback)

How a little kid from Dublin became a world champion boxer. Bernard Dunne tells his own story in his own words: for children Growing up in Neilstown, west Dublin, Bernard Dunne was always going to be a boxer. His Dad Brendan was an Olympic boxer in his day, and coached in the CIE club in Inchicore,

World of Simon Rich (Rich Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Classic and new work from Simon Rich - never before published outside the USA - to tie in with Simon's BBC Radio 4 show of the same

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (Goodfellow Maya)(Paperback)

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics As refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a 'hostile environment' for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that

Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (Sorkin David)(Paperback)

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of-and indeed