The ultimate guide to mental toughness by James “Iron Cowboy” Lawrence—the greatest endurance athlete in human history.Lawrence’s accomplishments are nearly impossible to comprehend. After breaking two Guinness World Records, he shattered possibilities in 2015 by completing 50 full-distance triathlons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days. Yes, THE IRONMAN®, “the single most difficult day in sports”– a 2.4-mile swim, 112 miles on a bike, then a 26.2-mile run, all com...

For fans of The Drowned World and World War Z**, this “sobering and scary (and fascinating) novel—a look at where we’re going if we don’t quickly get our act together” (Bill McKibben,** New York Times bestselling author) regarding climate change—unveils our potential terrifying future.2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the most dire predictio...

“A propulsive mystery of high verve and wit, teeming with misfits, and fizzing with greed and desire."—Scott Dominic Carpenter, author of Theory of RemaindersIn 1990s San Francisco, the gruesome death of former district attorney Harrison Rose uncovers a 19th-century double homicide aboard the ship Hurricane, and begins the hunt for Inca gold smuggled from Peru to California by wayward Catholic priests.During the Gold Rush, dozens o...

A genuinely original biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire.'A superb history of a memorable subject' Andrew Roberts, bestselling author of CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINYOne of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but s...

Today, when global warming denial and vaccination denial are alarmingly prevalent, it is crucial to understand that throughout history, science denial at the state level has cost scores of millions of lives. In the Soviet Union under Stalin, Lysenko's denial of genetics led to disastrous agricultural policies, resulting in the persecution and execution of dissenting scientists and widespread famine. A similar tragedy unfolded in Mao's China, where the wholesale adoption of Lysenkoism contr...

In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers and introduces the men and women who, for better or worse, stamped their wills on Africa. The continent was a magnet for the high-minded, the philanthropic, ...

Uncle Jim's storytelling ability comes through clearly in this series where he shares a story told to him by SPARKLES. This first book deals with a lost polar bear cub, whose fate leads to Santa Claus and how being helpful to others has its rewards. The story will progress on how SPARKLES confronts real life concerns, until Sparkles' destiny in life is realized. The remaining three books explore what SPARKLES must endure searching for identity and purpose in life. Through SPARKLES, the aut...

This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan. British rule taught Indians to see themselves as Indians and its benefits included railways, hospitals, law and a universal language. But the Raj, outwardly so monolithic and magnificent, was always precarious. Its master...

Ray Dalio is one of the most influential investors of the last half-century-but the true story behind his success is not about markets, money, or algorithmic trading. It is the story of a mind engineered through failure, humility, and an obsessive pursuit of truth.Born to a middle-class family and working as a teenage caddy, Dalio's earliest lessons in wealth came not from textbooks but from watching the behavior of the powerful. A restless experimenter, he learned...

Lana Del Rey did more than release music—she invented a world.From her quiet beginnings as Elizabeth Grant to her rise as the modern icon of melancholy, she reshaped pop culture through a persona she consciously built: glamorous, tragic, poetic, defiantly vulnerable.Lana Del Rey: The Self-Made Myth of Melancholy traces her evolution from ignored New York songwriter to global archetype. It follows the breakthrough of "Video Games," the cinematic pow...

Hjalmar Schacht: Hitler's Banker Who Tried to Stop HimBy James LawrenceHjalmar Schacht was one of the most brilliant - and most contradictory - figures of the twentieth century: the economist who rescued Germany from collapse, financed Hitler's rise through monetary innovation, and later risked his life in a conspiracy to bring the regime down. Hjalmar Schacht: Hitler's Banker Who Tried to Stop Him is a gripping narrative ...

Quentin Tarantino did not enter Hollywood so much as he detonated inside it. A high-school dropout and video-store clerk with an encyclopedic memory and a bottomless love for film, he transformed pure obsession into one of the most distinctive voices modern cinema has ever seen. Quentin Tarantino: The Movie Geek Who Rewrote Cinema is the first narrative biography that truly captures the strange blend of genius, geekdom, ambition, and audacity that made him a global cultura...