A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICK Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, this is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe v.
They dragged more than two hundred thousand trees across fifty miles of desert to raise a canyon full of great houses where almost no one seems to have lived.
A Waterstones Best History Book 2024'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.
A warning to humankind from one of the world s greatest physicists'What drives these pages is the guilty conscience of my profession, theoretical physics.
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMESVera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers' rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery.
On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
Wie Väter die Welt prägten – eine Geschichte von Macht, Männlichkeit und MythosAugustine Sedgewick begibt sich auf eine faszinierende Spurensuche durch die Geschichte der Vaterschaft – von den Anfängen menschlicher Gesellschaften über religiöse und politische Ordnungen bis hin zur Gegenwart.
Zwischen Glanz und Krise – mit Siegfried Kracauer durch die Weimarer RepublikTanzpaläste, Kaufhausfenster, Bestsellerlisten – der vielleicht schärfste Chronist der Goldenen Zwanziger Siegfried Kracauer sah in den Oberflächen der Weimarer Republik die Tiefe der Gesellschaft.
Wenige Architekturen sind in Deutschland so mit Bedeutung aufgeladen wie Synagogen – darunter besonders jene, die in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Holocaust errichtet wurden: Jüdische Neubauten dieser Art gelten zumindest in der BRD als Beleg für eine geleistete 'Wiedergutmachung' für die systematische Zerstörung jüdischen Lebens und jüdischer Architektur durch den Nationalsozialismus.
Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory Blood and Thunder shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions of politics, religion and class that have defined modern Irish history.
In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system - in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pocketsThis is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.
The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans.
Winner of the Western Heritage Award for "e;Outstanding Western Novel"e; 2005As the Cheyenne fought that June day in 1876, warrior Comes in Sight faced grave danger.
A radical retelling of human history through collapse from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.
'A poignant celebration of human resilience' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite RunnerDear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud; to a life spent in a dark, dusty room weaving carpets; to a young girl brought up as a boy; to life as a widow shunned by society.
The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, present and futureTraditionalism is founded on ancient teachings that, its followers argue, have been handed down from time immemorial, forming a basis of the sacred order that must be defended from modernity and the disorder it brings.
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERA Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times'The biographer who brought down Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor' THE OBSERVER'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' SUNDAY TIMES'Undoubtedly the most important book of the last year, if not the century' MAIL ON SUNDAY'This book has changed the way its readers think.
