The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day

Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment.

Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning and shows how wondrous and exciting the future will be' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

Society is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search engines to online dating, personalized medicine to predicting the stock market. But learning algorithms are not just about Big Data - these algorithms take raw data and make it useful by creating more algorithms. This is something new under the sun: a technology that builds itself. ...

"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly." --New Yorker

The famous bestseller with "concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement" (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer--the first and most famous of his books--was mad...

Wonderful . . . a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours. Natalie Haynes, Independent"

The book that changed the way we think: The book that launched Malcolm Gladwell and gave us the phrase 'tipping point'.

A revised and expanded edition of one of the most original and important books ever written on this enigmatic artist.

The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history.