Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People
by Philip Ball

* Can we make a human being?* That question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the homunculus of the medieval al...

The Book of Universes
by John D. Barrow

This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity ...

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
by Karen Armstrong

Drawing on a wide range of material - ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience - Karen...

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
by Nicholas Shaxson

* Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs.* Tax have...

The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World
by Jonathan Powell

* 'Niccolò Machiavelli is misunderstood,' argues Jonathan Powell in his twenty-first-century reworking of the Italian philosopher's influential m...

Amexica: War Along the Borderline
by Ed Vulliamy

Amexica provides the first full account of the terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border. An area of land more than 2,000 miles long and 100 miles w...

Amexica: War Along the Borderline
by Ed Vulliamy

'As dawn broke over the vast desert, the body was still hanging beneath the overpass, having been suspended from it - decapitated and dangling by a ro...

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder

* In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in a zone of death bet...

Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
by Roger Penrose

* Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality provided a comprehensive yet readable guide to our present understanding of the l...

Bob Dylan In America
by Sean Wilentz

Growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager. Almost half a century later, now a di...