On The Map

Simon Garfield

From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestsellingJust My Typeauthor turns his gaze to maps

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories.From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. His ...

The Economist: Pocket World in Figures 2013

The Economist

New edition of this annual bestseller of fascinating facts and figures about the world we live in.

The 2013 edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features. Full of facts and figures about the world today - on subjects as diverse as geography, population and demographics, business, finance and the economy, transport, tourism and the ...

The Economist Style Guide

The Economist

The best selling guide to English usage, now in paperback.

This expanded tenth edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on theEconomist'sown updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which theEconomistis renowned. As the introduction says,'clarity of writing...

The Little Book of Perfumes

Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez

This marvellous little book is a distillation of the essence of Turin and Sanchez's acclaimed ...

InPerfumes, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful.Here inThe Little Book of Perfumesthe authors choose their ...

Just My Type

Simon Garfield

Non-fiction Christmas bestseller - now a Radio 4Book of the Week

Just My Typeis not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the ...

Just My Type

Simon Garfield

'A quirky and informative study of fonts'Anthony Horowitz,Sunday Telegraph

Just My Typeis a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the ...

A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels

Carol Mack

Completely revised and expanded edition of the international bestseller - the original guide on how ...

If you met a werewolf in a forest at night, would you be able to tell what he really was? Could you resist the dark charms of a vampire or the lure of a fallen angel? Seductive, thrilling and often highly dangerous, you may recognise these inhuman ...

The Economist Book of Isms

John Andrews

Wonderfully illuminating and witty guide to every ism you could ever want explained

Entries include: Absurdism, Altruism, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Atheism, Bohemianism, Bonapartism, Buddhism, Capitalism, Careerism, Chauvinism, Colonialism, Cubism, Darwinism, Defeatism, Deism, Determinism, Eclecticism, Epicureanism, Eurocentrism, Expressionism, Fanaticism, Feminism, Freeganism...

How Bad Are Bananas?

Mike Berners-Lee

Packed full of information yet always entertaining. From text messages and plastic bags to wars and ...

From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child,How Bad are Bananas?gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out ...

The Economist: The World of Business

The Economist

Proof that you can combine business with pleasure.

How many billion spam emails are sent each day?Who said'Business is a combination of war and sport'?How did Amazon.com and Volvo get their names?Which are the world's most valuable brands?When and what was the Mississippi bubble?What did Xerox get seriously wrong in the 1970s?Which company'exists to benefit and refresh everyone it touches'?How much...

Perfumes

Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez

The must-have hardback has also been hailed as a masterpiece of criticism and invective. Over 400 ...

'I've long wished perfumery to be taken seriously as an art, and for scent critics to be as fierce as opera critics, and for the wearers of certain"fragrances"to be hissed in public, while others are cheered. This year has broughtPerfumes: The ...

Get Out of My Life

Suzanne Franks, Tony Wolf