A renowned historian and Resistance fighter—later executed by the Nazis—gives his firsthand perspective on why France fell in 1940.
A best-selling author and renowned security expert reveals the rise and risks of a new goliath: our massively networked, world-sized web.
This new fourth edition of the acclaimed and bestselling Div, Grad, Curl, and All That has been carefully revised and now includes updated notations and seven new example exercises.
Astrophysicist and NPR commentator Adam Frank reveals what the latest research on alien civilisations may tell us about our own.
“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New Yorker
"A devastating bombardment of managerial thinking and the profession of management consulting…A serious and valuable polemic." —Wall Street Journal
A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government’s oldest problem is its greatest destabilising force.
A collection of new and selected works from a prize-winning poet known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian.
Discover new favourites by tracing wine back to its roots.
Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
“If you want the true, mixed, fourteenth-century book that Boccaccio wrote, choose Rebhorn.”—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker