Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
by Cindy Meston & David Buss

* Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss j...

1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
by Ian Mortimer

* Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justi...

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle For The Soul Of The Beatles
by Peter Doggett

* When Paul McCartney told the world in 1970 that he had no plans to work with the Beatles again, it was widely viewed as a cultural tragedy by the me...

The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
by Irving Kirsch

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered d...

Predictioneer: one who uses maths, science and the logic of brazen self-interest to see and shape the future
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

* Bruce Bueno de Mesquita can predict the future. He is a master of game theory, a rather fancy name for a simple idea: when people compete with each ...

War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam
by Bernd Greiner

* Shortly before 8 a.m. on 16 March 1968, C-Company, First Battalion, Twentieth Infantry, Eleventh Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy...

The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love & the Meaning of Life
by Alison Gopnik

* For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting t...

A Genius for Failure: The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon
by Paul O'Keeffe

* Haydon’s first attempt at suicide ended when the low calibre bullet fired from his pistol fractured his skull but failed to penetrate his brain. * H...

The Power of Art
by Simon Schama

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed re...

The Case for God: What religion really means
by Karen Armstrong

* The enormous popularity of books by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and others shows that despite the religious revival that is un...