People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.

Lucky charms really do improve athletic performance.

Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still benefit your health.

Welcome to The Expectation Effect.

David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge research happening right now that suggests our expectations shape our experience. Of course, you can't just think yourself thinner, happier or fitter, but using this book you can reframe many different facets of your li...

Daybreak in Gaza humanises the people dismissed as mere statistics and ‘collateral damage’, showing Gazans as artists and storytellers with lives full of culture and meaning. This book seeks to preserve the heritage that has been lost, and that which can never be lost, revealing the wealth of Gaza’s cultural landscape and the depth of its history.

A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.

Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and a 100 per cent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. How could her story be straightforward when she is anything but? The telling of her tale is kaleidoscopic, wild and audacious: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard...

Transformative insights on exhaustion, from ancient wisdom to modern life, by a celebrated burnout coach

A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world - now with a new preface

A timely critique investigating how four women philosophers persevered in a field that often suppressed and disregarded the insights of female thinkers.

The tender memoir of a writing life from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Künstliche Intelligenz ist heute überall. Sie steckt im Smartphone, in medizinischen Geräten oder im Kühlschrank. Sie säubert unseren Haushalt und überwacht Aktienkurse. Auch künstlerische Prozesse werden immer häufiger automatisiert: Maschinen erschaffen Skulpturen, komponieren Musikstücke oder malen Bilder, die für viel Geld versteigert werden. Und natürlich schreiben sie auch Texte. Aber was heißt es, wenn wir sagen, dass eine Maschine kreativ ist? Dadurch, dass in poesie.exe ...

Van jezelf houden. Het klinkt zo makkelijk, maar ga het maar eens doen

Als ze haar vriend betrapt met een ander, voelt Lianne zich verloren en verlaten. Een leven alleen, hoe doe je dat? Al jaren knoopt ze relaties aan elkaar omdat een jongen haar een gevoel van veiligheid geeft. Maar ja, dat is natuurlijk niet echt feministisch, sterk en onafhankelijk en zo. En je schijnt toch ook van jezelf te kunnen houden? Nu paniek hoogtijdagen viert, lijkt zelfliefde de ultieme oplossing. Door terugblik...