An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the way we live today

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light

'Addictive... fascinating and provocative' Guardian

'Gladwell is a great storyteller with a contagious sense of curiosity' The Economist

What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do elite universities care so m...

In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope of making war impossible.

Stunning and much anticipated follow up to the acclaimed, prize-winning, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.

A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage.

Written by an academic with extensive experience in translator education, its strong pedagogical emphasis makes it the essential entry-level textbook for courses introducing students to professional translating within translation studies and translator training.

Part of the bestselling Surrounded by Idiots series!

#1 internationally bestselling author Thomas Erikson shows readers how to identify and avoid the psychopaths around them.

Charming, charismatic, and delightful or manipulative, self-serving, and cunning? Psychopaths are both and that's exactly what makes them dangerous. Bestselling author of the international phenomenon Surrounded by Idiots, Thomas Erikson reveals how to identify the psychopaths in your life and combat th...

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume responds to the diversity of the field today and explores its key concepts, including:pollutio...

The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhance...

The important and intimate political memoirs of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021.