Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin EverythingWhat will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith giv...9999903124320DR. KELLY. WEINERSMITH WE...
Allen Lane
martes, 14 de mayo de 2024
A Hard CountryIn the past decade Pakistan has emerged as a country of immense importance. Large, heavily populated, strategically placed between Iran, Afghanistan and India, Pakistan has since i...9999903120025Anatol Lieven
Allen Lane
miércoles, 8 de mayo de 2024
The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionAre we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool,...9999903112525Christopher Wills
Allen Lane
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Why Psychiatric Treatments FailTowards the end of the twentieth century, a new approach to treating mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in focusing on madness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or im...9999903112280Richard P. Bentall
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Nature and Meaning of PsychiatryOur Necessary Shadow is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry, from the UK's leading expert, Tom BurnsA lot is written about psychiatry and t...9999903112082Tom Burns
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Remember when we all thought it couldn't get much worse? Before bomb-happy Bush and his best friend Tony decided to wage a war that no one(in their right minds) wanted? Before he w...9999903095101Moore, Michael
Allen Lane
viernes, 15 de marzo de 2024
Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't ExistOur society is at a crossroads. Smart technology is transforming our world, making many aspects of our lives more convenient, efficient and - in some cases - fun. Better and cheape...9999903083719Evgeny Morozov
Allen Lane
sábado, 17 de febrero de 2024
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous"Harvard University's Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global ps...9999903076520Joseph Henrich
Allen Lane
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and MachinesA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand? George Dyson plots an un...9999903074038George Dyson
Allen Lane
viernes, 26 de enero de 2024
1946-2004When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which...9999902917565Alistair Cooke
Allen Lane
martes, 22 de noviembre de 2022
A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the LineGang Leader for a Dayis a gripping journey of discovery about life on the wrong side of the tracks. When na?ve sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh went to find out more about urban ...9999902753804Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Allen Lane
miércoles, 6 de octubre de 2021
And Other Tales from the American UndergroundEric Schlosser explores three of the most prominent and least understood features of globalization; drugs, pornography and migrant labour. Reefer Madness traces the history of the ...9999902469538Schlosser, Eric
Allen Lane
martes, 23 de julio de 2019
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