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The Golden Road
How Ancient India Transformed the World
2024 || Paperback || William Dalrymple || Bloomsbury Publishing
For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't the complete story. A full millennium earlier, India's major cultural exports - religion, art, technology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, language and literature - were shaping civilisations, traveling as far as Afghanistan in the West and Japan in the East.
Out of India came pioneering merchants, astronomers and astrologers, scientists and ma...
Goodbye to Russia
A Personal Reckoning from the Ruins of War
2024 || Paperback || Sarah Rainsford || Bloomsbury Publishing
A unique, personal insight into Vladimir Putin's Russia and the impact his rule had on his own people and on its neighbour Ukraine.
In 2021, Sarah Rainsford decided to write a book about how those Russians who dared to think differently to the Putin regime were labelled as enemies, foreign agents and even traitors. It was something she had experienced first-hand when Russia expelled her for being a national security threat. Then, as Russia declared war on Ukraine in 2022, she realis...
The Genetic Book of the Dead
a Darwinian Reverie
2024 || Hardcover || Richard Dawkins || Bloomsbury Publishing
Richard Dawkins's ground-breaking exploration of the power of DNA and what it can reveal about the deepest patterns of evolution.
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Leonard Cohen
The Mystical Roots of Genius
2024 || Paperback || Harry Freedman || Bloomsbury Publishing
A Crack in Everything
how Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage
2024 || Hardcover || Marcus Chown || Bloomsbury Publishing
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind’s most enduring questions may lie in science’s greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can occur when a star approaches the end of its life.
Unable to generate enough heat to maintain its outer layers, it shrinks catastrophically down to an infinitely dense point. When this phenomenon was first proposed in 1...
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Powerful
Be the Expert in Your Own Life
2024 || Paperback || Maisie Hill || Bloomsbury Publishing
Maisie Hill turns her attention to our stress hormones and nervous system - and how women can revolutionise the way in which they interact with the world to harness our inner power and live our best lives. How we're wired has a lot to do with why we worry about the same things. We need to stop beating ourselves up and find the tools to thrive.
Are you a habitual people-pleaser that leaves you feeling resentful and pissed off - with them and yourself? Do you lose all your time and e...