English Non-fiction

Hardback Cicero Incomplete but invaluable excerpts from otherwise lost orations. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we kno...

Mary Beard Paperback 512 pages What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Ro...

Tom Holland Paperback 448 pages The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age...

Johan Norberg Paperback 352 pages A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels were right when they observed in The Communist Manifesto that fr...

Nadine Akkerman - Pete Langman Hardback 368 pages, 60 color illus. +1 map A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to cou...

Carlo Rovelli Paperback 160 pages From Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, this is a story of wonder, new worlds and why the end is just the beginningLet us j...

Layal Liverpool Paperback Racism is a public health crisis - and we can do something about it. A ground-breaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine – leading to worse...

Team WSIGT Hardback No idea where to go in Paris? We do! Dive into the heart of Paris, with savvy tips on where to stay, eat and explore without breaking the bank. It might be hard to grasp Pa...

Team WSIGT Hardback No idea where to go in Berlin? We do! Dive into the heart of Berlin, with savvy tips on where to stay, eat and explore without breaking the bank. It might be hard to grasp Ber...

Paperback 288 pages It’s easy to be pessimistic these days. We know that inequality has increased dramatically over the past two generations. Its ravages are increasingly impossible to ignore...

Haemin Sunim Paperback 288 pages Life moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United Sta...

Uri Gneezy Paperback 320 pages Incentives send powerful signals that aim to influence behavior. But often there is a conflict between what we say and what we do in response to these incentiv...

Roger Hampson & Nigel Shadbolt Hardback 272 pages A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being I...

Elizabeth Kolbert Hardback 160 pages Climate change resists narrative – and yet we must see clearly what’s happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million sp...

Dana Mattioli Paperback From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating expose of Amazon's endless strategic greed, its pursuit of tot...

Wayne Curtis Paperback 304 pages...

Charles Holland Hardback 192 pages Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is ...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...

Paul Oyer Paperback 216 pages An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sor...

Peter Burke Paperback 336 pages A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowle...

Andrew Monaghan Paperback 224 pages This illuminating book explains how and why Russia’s relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of ‘great power competi...

The School of Life Hardback 176 pages Great stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them. Books can be so powerful, helping us through tricky times, offerin...

Jimmy Callaway Hardback 112 pages Cult Sando brings 30 recipes for the showstopping Japanese sandwich. 'Sando' are sandwiches that – in typical Japanese creativity – have undergone ...

John Sellars Paperback 96 pages How can Stoicism inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives?In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In L...