De nieuwe thriller van bestsellerauteur David Baldacci speelt zich af in Amsterdam, Dublin, Edinburgh, Rusland en de Verenigde Staten "Dick, ik heb een oorlog nodig." Achter de schermen van de internationale politiek spelen zich zaken af die het publiek nooit ofte nimmer te weten mag komen. Het is een wereld waarin macht en misdaad naadloos in elkaar overgaan, waarin oorlogen worden ontketend om geld te verdienen. Nicolas Creel is directeur van de Ares Corporation, de grootste wapenfabrika...

Evan Waller is een wreed man, een levensgevaarlijk monster. Hij is schatrijk geworden door te handelen in alles waar veel geld aan te verdienen valt, inclusief mensen. In zijn drang naar grotere rijkdom gaat hij letterlijk over lijken en nu heeft hij een nieuw doel in het vizier. Een deal die miljoenen mensen het leven kan kosten… Het is in ieders belang dat Waller wordt tegengehouden en de man die deze taak krijgt opgelegd, is Shaw. Als agent in dienst van een internationale inlichtingend...

The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth centuryThe epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and more—toppled the Newtonian universe amid the turmoil of two World WarsThere may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live—Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfga...

Ich bin tot. Ich wurde ermordet.Die verwackelten Bilder eines gefolterten Russen, der seine letzten Worte in die Kamera spricht, versetzen die ganze Welt in Entsetzen. In rasender Geschwindigkeit verbreitet sich das Video über das Internet - und mit ihm die alarmierende Botschaft des Mannes: Er ist Opfer der russischen Regierung. Und er ist nicht das Einzige. In großem Stil räumt Russland sein eigenes Volk aus dem Weg.Daraufhin spitzen sich die Konflikte zw...

Erlöse uns von dem Bösen ...Evan Waller ist ein skrupelloser Geschäftsmann mit einem gewaltigen Vermögen. Nichts und niemand ist ihm heilig. Seine neuesten Unternehmungen bedrohen das Leben von Millionen von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt. Doch Agent Shaw ist ihm dicht auf den Fersen und versucht alles, um ihn aufzuhalten.Gleichzeitig hat es Reggie Campion, Mitglied einer Geheimorganisation, auf Waller abgesehen. Dabei hat sie ganz eigene Pläne. Auf der Jagd ...

Now in paperback: The epic story of how, amid two World Wars, history’s greatest physicists redefined reality—and ignited the atomic age“A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era.”—The Wall Street JournalThere may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others—came together...

A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself.The West is under pressure, and it has only itself to blame. Over the past thirty years, through a mixture of naivety and arrogance, it has lost its global advantage. The challenges are profound: the rise of China, climate change, and the polarisation of society. It’s time for a new start: modernity must become su...

After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja Göpel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in.Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will change fundamentally, because things we have taken for granted about the environment, the economy, politics, society, and technology are crumbling. In We Ca...

Now in paperback: The epic story of how, amid two World Wars, history's greatest physicists redefined reality—and ignited the atomic age"A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era."— The Wall Street JournalThere may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others—came togethe...

Why do diets fail? Is it because of genetic disposition? A sluggish metabolism? An underactive thyroid?A behavioural psychologist reveals the truth about dieting, including how she lost over 100lb in one year.After years of failed diets Dr Nadja Hermann weighed over 23 stone at the age of 30. All her life, she had heard and read about hundreds of reasons why diets wouldn't work for her. But when her weight started to seriously affect her he...

A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout the environment or within society, our systems are under stress.In this book, Maja Göpel, co-founder of the Scienti...

Featuring an extract from Giulia Ender's new book, Organ Speak.**INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAS SEEN ON NETFLIX'S HACK YOUR HEALTH: THE SECRETS OF YOUR GUT'The world's most surprising page-turner.'Anna Murphy, The Times**Our gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet we know very little about how it works and many of us are too embarrassed to ask questions.In Gut, science star and medical doct...