Three of our leading public intellectuals come together to offer an urgent way to escape our current permacrisis.

A complete introduction to the field of computational physics, with examples and exercises in the Python programming language. Computers play a central role in virtually every major physics discovery today, from astrophysics and particle physics to biophysics and condensed matter. This book explains the fundamentals of computational physics and describes in simple terms the techniques that every physicist should know, such as finite difference methods, numerical quadrature, and the fast Fouri...

One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers new ways to look at maths - focusing on questions, not answers

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress... Huxley's ingenious fantasy of t...

In de jaren ’20 en ’30 van de vorige eeuw groeit Greet op in de kalmte van het Nederlandse platteland. Door een stommiteit wordt ze op haar 23e door de Duitsers opgepakt. In de bedomptheid van een onmenselijk volle wagon ontmoet ze Sarah, een Jodin. In Kamp Ravensbrück geeft hun vriendschap haar de kracht en het vertrouwen om de lange, koude dagen door te komen en alle doodsangsten te doorstaan.

Hannelore, Aufseherin in Kamp Ravensbrück, vervult haar taken met Duitse trots. Toch begint ...

Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of: mechanical failure, human error, the CIA's impatience, a blind woman's curse or Generals not happy with their pension plans. This novel takes one of the subcontinent's enduring mysteries.

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. It is also a powerful political novel, inspired by the events following the French Revolution. This new edition reprints the original novel of 1794, the grittier, topical text that reflects Godwin's political philosophy.