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Tiffany Jenkins

Strangers and Intimates

A brilliantly readable history of privacy with a simple and urgent argument: private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended.

Tiffany Jenkins

Strangers and Intimates

A brilliantly readable history of privacy with a simple and urgent argument: private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended.

Michael Lewis

Going Infinite

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Extraordinary' The Observer 'A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read' New Yorker 'Lewis's storytelling is as good as ever' The Economi…

Henry Gee

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

By the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history of humanity on the brink of decline. We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time i…

Alex Duff

Smart Money

English football's Moneyball.

Henry Gee

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

In ?Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct', an article in Scientific American published in November 2021, veteran Nature editor Dr Henry Gee predicted that Homo sapiens is on a rapid one-way ride to extinction.…

Peter Allen, Ziggy Hanaor,

Rise and Fall

An excavation of ten world civilisations; their rise, their decline and their legacies. What makes a society successful, what allows it to last thousands of years and what causes its eventual downfall? In…

Henry Gee

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

Nature editor and Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species and our probable extinction, while suggesting how, through technological innovation, we might indefinitely postpone…

Thomas W Merrill

The Chevron Doctrine

With Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the so-called Chevron doctrine, courts generally defer to agencies. Thomas Merrill examin…

William D. Cohan

Power Failure

A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporation Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as …

Ian Williams

Vampire State

In this book, Ian Williams tells the terrifying story of China's vampire economy and the single-minded and ruthless policy of the Party to bend economics and business to its own will. All this is part of …

Bolan

Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of classic records, but then lost his way, bingeing on cocai…

Edward Gibbon

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Richard Blakemore

Enemies of All

"The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined …

Edward Gibbon

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

David Leaf

Smile

On February 20, 2004, Brian Wilson walked onstage at London's Royal Festival Hall to unveil his long-delayed masterpiece - the Holy Grail of Rock - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE. It was a night that that ex…

Marc Favreau

Crash

"The Great Depression in the United States had wide-ranging effects on people of all walks of life"--

The Shadows

At Their Very Best

Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

Astor

A NPR Best Book of the Year The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished…