The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world.

A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand?

A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.

Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.

Find order, creativity and productivity with this revolutionary system

The no-nonsense guide to change: how to lead it and how to lead through it when the world is still spinning. By the award-winning author of No Bullsh*t Leadership.

Following up 2016's hit Go Figure, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist.

The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.

From the international bestselling author of Better, Complications and The Checklist Manifesto and Reith Lecturer 2014, a revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine.