Beautiful fashion plates from Regency magazine La Belle Assemblée are combined with much-loved passages from Jane Austen’s novels and juvenilia and woven together with commentary from leading Oxford academic Professor Ros Ballaster.

Perfect for fans ofDrive to Survive,On the Gridis a love song to Formula One by acclaimed journalist Luke Smith.

A collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's best music writing

The author and her husband lost their home as a terminal diagnosis took away their future, embarking on the 630 mile South West Coast Path - an experience reflected on in this memoir which emphasises the restorative powers of nature.

This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of engagement and markers of quality in books and e-books.

The story, in his own words, of one of the most popular and influential British popstars of the past 30 years

In the tradition of The Power of Now and The Art of Happiness, and written by Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google [X], this is the first-ever attempt to present the equation for being happy – not just intermittently but as a default state of being.

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The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?

Not long ago, t...

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'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red

PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?

ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what ...

Laws and rules are in place to protect us. They are what keeps our societies from descending into madness and chaos. Without them, how we would know our right from wrong, how would we improve our communities and how could we be better neighbours to one another without rules telling us what to do?

Cindy Skach feels differently. After years spent in some of the most complex corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions, trying to create order where it did not exist, she has come to re...