24 June 2019
Summer’s here, in all its unpredicatable-weathered glory! Come rain or shine (or thunderstorms, or humidity, or thick cloud cover, or surprise hail … we could go on) we have the ideal book for you, whether you’re on a sun lounger or furtively slipping on your warm socks one chilly evening.
‘A sparkling and illuminating study,one of those rare books that could genuinely improve your life’ Sunday Times
Bursting with cutting-edge science and eye-opening advice, Chasing the Sun explores the extraordinary significance of sunlight. – from ancient solstice celebrations to modern sleep labs, and from the unexpected health benefits of sun exposure to what the Amish know about sleep that the rest of us don’t.
As we move into longer, lighter days, it’s imperative to know how important this light is to us – and how to make the most of it.
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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
In her groundbreaking new work The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff exposes the corporations that are fighting to predict and control our online activity – and our lives.
Tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder, whether government or retailer. Profits now depend not only on predicting our behaviour but modifying it too. How will this fusion of capitalism and the digital shape our values and define our future?
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Sunday Times Bestseller + Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month
Moneyland is the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. In Bullough’s jaw-dropping and entertaining book, we learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability. We discover the true cost of being open for business no matter how corrupt and dangerous the customer. Meet the kleptocrats. Meet their awful children. And we find out how heroic activists around the world are fighting back.
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A secret history of the space rocket
This is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the ‘problem of escape from the Earth by rocket’.
It’s a wild ride. Jack Parsons, Malina’s chemistry-expert research partner, was a bed-hopping occultist with delusions of grandeur. There are drug parties and sex magic, cameos by Aleister Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, and an ill-fated attempt to start a mail-order religion.
Armed with hitherto unpublished letters, journals, and documents from the Malina family archives, Fraser MacDonald reveals the secret history of the space rocket.
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘It couldn’t be more relevant’ Daily Telegraph
Armed with the data, Emily Oster debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!), potty training (wait until they’re ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren’t necessarily geniuses), vaccines (there is no evidence of a link between vaccines and autism, and much evidence to refute such a link), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time.
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‘Mind-expanding’ Guardian
Learn how to simplify complex decisions without over-simplifying them. Discover the power of analogies and the dangers of false equivalences. Find out how people construct misleading arguments, and how to always be right.
A practical and inspiring guide to decoding the modern world.
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What it means to be a minister in the UK government
The ministers of the UK are a cast of roles that expand and contract based on the whims and political needs of the Prime Minister. Within their portfolios those MPs and Lords are able to reshape whole sectors of British society.
Any misstep or scandal can invite media attention, public outcry, and their swift departure. At the same time, their resignations can shatter political alliances and bring down Prime Ministers and even governments. In Fifteen Minutes of Power, Peter Riddell draws on interviews with former ministers, conducted on behalf of the Institute of Government, to reveal the fraught existence of these powerful men and women.
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‘Nobody evokes the transformative joy of cycling the way Fournel does here … magical’ – Herbie Sykes
Starting with the childhood joy of learning to ride a bike, Need for the Bike, by award-winning cycling writer Paul Fournel, explores the agony of climbing, the angst of crashing, and all the other universal moments and feelings which all cyclists will recognise.
The sounds, smells, pains and joys of riding with friends or alone, finding things on the road; getting lost, “re-reading” familiar routes; Paul Fournel’s classic comes as close as any book has to an encapsulation of why we all need the bike.
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Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize
An evocative portrait of an extraordinary street, William Miller’s memoir tells stories of his father, Jonathan Miller, his bohemian upbringing and their neighbours, who include the philosopher A. J. Ayer and the writers Alan Bennett and Clare Tomalin. Out now in paperback.
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