Cool can't be taught. Or can it? That's the received wisdom, yet the idea behind this sleek, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of How to Sound Cultured) is that, on the contrary,
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Ro
A knowledgeable and charmingly-written compendium, 50 Dishes features China’s banquet-pleasing Peking Duck, Thai green curry and the comforting coq au vin of France. There are servings of Italy’s carb
Explosive advice from LA's mysterious online columnist, Dear Coquette.With her merciless and razor-sharp wit, bolted to one of the most finely-tuned moral compasses out there, the Coquette has been di
From freewheeling through tufted French vineyards and scaling the rocky, cloud-topped tracks in the Himalayas to rattling past white-washed sugar-cube houses in narrow Spanish valleys, surviving the p
Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to de
John Timpson, Chairman of the eponymous British high street chain, knows a thing or two about running a successful business. Over many years he revolutionised how his firm worked, developing his philo
Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathem
Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux— a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics,
In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art a
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader since Napoleon is intent on conquering the
Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Hôtel Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were duly brought to his room he got out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Sh
A Practical Guide to Confident Speaking teaches you how to plan what you want to say, manage your anxieties and project your best self.Whether you want to ask your boss for a pay rise, chair meetings
A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurship reveals the stories of the world's greatest entrepreneurs, distilling the key points into down-to-earth, realistic advice to help you turn any business opportunit
A Practical Guide to Counselling provides you with a hands-on understanding of how counseling works and how it can help people.Alastair Ross offers an invaluable guide to anyone interested in learning
We hear about mindfulness everywhere. But how does it really work?In this short, easy-to-follow book, mindfulness teacher Tessa Watt explains how to use mindfulness every day, by listening to your bod
Overcome fears, manage negativity and improve your life with A Practical Guide to CBT.Change can often seem like an impossible task, but this practical book will help you put it into perspective. Usin
When it was first published in 1897 - 120 years ago - Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the Daily Mail above work by Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Wuthering Heights. Yet
Where does Victor Frankenstein dig up his body parts?Is the monster a fan of Goethe?How does the monster die?On the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's perennially popular and influential gothic tale,
Published to coincide with the club's centenary celebrations, 100 Years of Leeds United tells the story of a one-club city and its tumultuous relationship with its football team.Since its foundation i
