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Why Does the World Exist?
Jim Holt
An irreverent sleuth tackles the riddle of existence that has puzzled man since the dawn of time
'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?'remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad, ...
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Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
Ian Stewart
A unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to ...
From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are fundamental to everyday life.Seventeen Equations that Changed the Worldexaminesseventeen groundbreaking equations that have altered the course of human ...
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Inside the Box
Drew Boyd, Jacob Goldenberg
Forget thinking outside the box. Get inside it!
Current business wisdom holds that to forge a powerfully original solution to problems, we must think outside the box,'brainstorming'random connections. But, as Jacob Goldenberg and Drew Boyd reveal, based on expertise and experience in both corporate and academic worlds, this is utterly wrong. It may seem counterintuitive - but faster, better and ...
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The Great Animal Orchestra
Bernie Krause
A fascinating and unique exploration of nature's music, from plants and animals to wind and rain.
Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound. Beginning by recording the sound of wheat growing in a Kansas field, he has spent the last 40 years recording ecological soundscapes and the sounds of over 15,000 species. Due to human actions, half of the wild soundscapes he has on ...
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Destiny in the Desert
Jonathan Dimbleby
A unique history of the road to El Alamein - and how the bloody battle that followed decided the ...
It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms:'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And ...
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The Norm Chronicles
David Spiegelhalter, Michael Blastland
A far from average book: the real story behind the statistics on risk, chance and choice.
Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind of guy. In fact, he istheaverage guy in this clever and unusual take on statistical risk, chance, and...
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Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense
Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles
The winning difference daring to be different can make - insights into how organisations can stand ...
This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.It puts forward the notion that the ...
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Occupation Diaries
Raja Shehadeh
Life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, now shortlisted for the Orwell Prize ...
It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be enough water for the bath tonight? ...
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On The Eve
Bernard Wasserstein
A major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War...
This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught and World War Two.In this revisionist account of modern European Jewry, Wasserstein shows how ...
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The Man Who Plants Trees
Jim Robbins
An extraordinary investigation into the world of trees - and the inspiring story of one man's quest ...
This is an extraordinary book about trees. It's an account by a veteran science journalist that ranges to the limits of scientific understanding: how trees produce aerosols for protection and'warnings'; the curative effects of'forest bathing'in ...
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Nijinsky
Lucy Moore
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, ...
'He achieves the miraculous,'the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of Vaslav Nijinsky.'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth ...
