Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them?

Discover how to balance learning and performing to bolster personal and team success with this revolutionary guide from a world-renowned expert on growth mindset.

“An essential read for fostering learning, performance, and a growth mindset . . . I wholeheartedly recommend it.”—Carol Dweck, bestselling author of Mindset

A Next Big Idea Club Must Read

To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies know they must create a culture of growth, where experimentation and feedbac...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, the story of the mammals, our own kind, from their earliest development and their co-existence with the great lizards to their emergence out of the shadows to dominance of the recent history of our planet.

Get what you want without compromising who you are: the new rules of persuasion to influence others for good

We're all nice. In fact, we're told we're too nice and we have to change to succeed: 'Play the game!'; 'Beat them down!'; 'Toughen up!'. Do we have to choose between betraying our own values and being left behind without a voice? Absolutely not. We can naturally be persuasive and successful every day without making enemies of ourselves or other people.

Influence is a science and renown...

From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots

-- Do conversations with certain people leave you feeling depleted or exhausted?

-- Do you have colleagues who take a lot of your time but don't actually do - or contribute - much?

-- Are there people in your life who diminish you through their words, actions or inactions?

You could be surrounded by Vampires! International bestselling author Thomas Erikson will help you recognize and deal with the three most co...

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award

'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live

We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of year...

For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.

In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alon...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 48 LAWS OF POWER BRINGS YOU 365 MORE

Over the last 25 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human: whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, or recognising strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into easy-to-digest daily entries whose content spans power, seduction, war, strategy, politics, productivity, psychology, leadership, and adver...

From the internationally bestselling author of When, Drive and To Sell is Human, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion: regret

FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland

'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times

This is the past as we've never seen it before.

Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the wo...