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What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition
Author: Samuel J. Gershman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition At the heart of human intelligence...
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton
Author: Stanley Corngold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States....
Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction
Author: Luca Peliti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The first comprehensive graduate-level introduction to stochastic thermodynamicsStochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to interpret thermodynamic...
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book...
Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
Author: Deanna Marcum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long...
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published...
Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being
Author: Maureen Perry-Jenkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can help. Low-wage...
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter
Author: Emily Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download...
The Last Woman in the Forest
Author: Diane Les Becquets Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The national bestselling author of Breaking Wild delivers a riveting and haunting thriller about a woman who fears that the...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
Author: Roosevelt Montas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterised by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and...
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Author: John G. Matsusaka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism...
School Thesaurus: Trusted support for learning (Collins School Dictionaries)
Author: Collins Dictionaries Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 680 The must-have Back to School thesaurus for Year 7. This English School Thesaurus is the essential word finder for all students...
You're My Little Baby Boo
Author: Nicola Edwards Format: Board book Number of Pages: 18 Celebrate your little baby boo this Halloween with this sweetly spooky rhyming board book. With chunky pages for little hands...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels: the Bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club Pick
Author: Janice Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Open the safe deposit box. Inside you will find research material for a true crime book. You must read the documents,...
You'd Look Better as a Ghost
Author: Joanna Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny' - CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Delightfully shocking and irreverently funny' - JANICE HALLETT I have a gift. I...
Delicate Condition
Author: Danielle Valentine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'The feminist update to Rosemary's Baby we all needed' - ANDREA BARTZ 'A darkly visceral and magically evocative novel' - SARAH...
Sunny Side Up
Author: Clare Helen Welsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A CBT-inspired novelty book by Clare Helen Welsh, accompanied by beautiful, nuanced illustrations from Ana Sanfelippo. When you change the...
Dragon Detective: That's A Wrap!
Author: Gareth P. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 When Holly and her family fly to LA for a holiday, it promises to be the trip of a lifetime....
Popcorn Bob: The Popcorn Spy
Author: Maranke Rinck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Ellis is now best friends with a grumpy, talking popcorn kernel. Yes, REALLY! Together, they're secretly handing out popcorn to Ellis's...
The DIY BBQ Cookbook: How to Build You Own BBQ and Cook up a Feast
Author: James Whetlor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You'll never use a store-bought instant BBQ tray again as James guides you through the DIY BBQ section with handy illustrations,...
LEGO Heroes: LEGO (R) Builders Changing Our World-One Brick at a Time
Author: Graham Hancock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 LEGO (R) Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable stories about everyday heroes using the LEGO (R) system in unique ways...
Stalin: Passage to Revolution
Author: Ronald Grigor Suny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 896 In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life...
What's the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal-and How It Costs Us All
Author: Hal Weitzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 How the 'First State' has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us. The...
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement
Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Author: Roberto Saba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the...
Nia and the New Free Library
Author: Ian Lendler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 When the town's old library is destroyed by a tornado, the people are left wondering: What should be done with the...
Prey Zone: An explosive, action-packed teen thriller to sink your teeth into!
Author: Wilbur Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A thrilling new Wilbur Smith series for the next generation with high action and high stakes - starring teen protagonists Ralph...
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Author: George A. Akerlof Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today....
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
Author: Eric D. Weitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 **Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers** Once dominated by vast empires, the world is...
The Witch, The Sword, and the Cursed Knights
Author: Alexandria Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Twelve-year-old Ellie can't help that she's a witch, the most hated member of society. Determined to prove her worth and eschew...
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters
Author: Emanuel Deutschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication. Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders....
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay
Author: John Cottingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today The...
Crystal Blade
Author: Kathryn Purdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Fans of Three Dark Crowns and Red Queen will devour book two in the #1 New York Times bestselling...
Parallel History: The Nineteenth-Century World
Author: Alex Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What developments in government and society, industry, exploration and discovery, science and technology, art, architecture and literature, medicine, communication and transport...
The Seaplane on Final Approach
Author: Rebecca Rukeyser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 I didn't realize how much I needed this lusty, funny, heart-breaking bookuntil I devoured it in a single sitting ... A...
The House Uptown
Author: Melissa Ginsburg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Utterly unique, addictively readable.' - Pandora Sykes 'Intriguing, elegant and seductive.' - Jessica Moor 'You can't put it down.'...
The Ghost Bride
Author: Yangsze Choo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A haunting, evocative and highly unusual romantic debut Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father,...
Skin Deep
Author: Gary Kemble Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 When washed up journalist Harry Hendrick wakes with a hangover and a strange symbol tattooed on his neck, he...
Perfect Match
Author: D. B. Thorne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Are you on a killer date? When Solomon's sister is found drugged and in a coma after an...
Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight
Author: Vanessa Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your...
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World
Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 From the author of STITCHED UP: 'Makes a strong case for nothing less than a revolution' Emma Watson...
A Small Revolution in Germany
Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about...
A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
Author: Emmy J. Favilla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the...