NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call, explai...

An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it.'Stunning … essential reading' DANIEL H. PINK, author of DriveIf we continue as we are, the world’s population will peak in the next few decades – and then begin a sudden, rapid decline. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better: better for the planet, better for the people who rema...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call, explai...

Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent itIIf we continue as we are, with birth rates falling globally, the world’s human population will peak in the next few decades – and then begin a sudden and rapid decline. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better: better for the planet, better for the people who remai...

Brought to you by Penguin.50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA,...

'A Bible for how to thrive in a world that seems designed to overwhelm' Amol Rajan'Calm, sensible advice that helps you focus on what truly deserves your energy' Ashley James'In a world full of self-help gurus offering quick fixes, Lily Silverton is a breath of fresh air' Melissa HemsleyDaily life. It demands more and more of us. And the truth is that we can't do it all - but we can achieve a lot, when we focus on w...

Brought to you by Penguin.How does your brain decide what it’s seeing, from the physical world to other people? For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems.The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing that the scientists are: using past experiences to build theories of how the world works, and using these model...

Brought to you by Penguin.The new book from the Orwell Prize-Winning author of Poverty Safari and The Social Distance Between UsToday, trauma permeates media, from music and television to films and books – my own included. While the increasing openness is welcome, I’ve observed that this rise has been accompanied by a parallel explosion of disinformation and sometimes harmful guidance about how to deal with personal trauma...

'A Bible for how to thrive in a world that seems designed to overwhelm' Amol Rajan'Calm, sensible advice that helps you focus on what truly deserves your energy' Ashley James'In a world full of self-help gurus offering quick fixes, Lily Silverton is a breath of fresh air' Melissa HemsleyDaily life. It demands more and more of us. And the truth is that we can't do it all - but we can achieve a lot, when we focus on w...

'Gripping and essential reading' - TIM SPECTOR'A compelling true crime story' - THE NEW YORK TIMES'Strips away the lies to show what's really happening in the world' - OLIVER BULLOUGH'Totally compelling' - ELIZABETH KOLBERTPlastic is everywhere in our daily lives. But the companies making it - oil and petrochemical giants like ExxonMobil and INEOS - are hiding in plain sight. Becaus...

Brought to you by Penguin.From breakups that ended empires to naps that sank ships, 10 Mistakes That Changed History reveals how overlooked historical errors are responsible for some of the most era-defining events of the past.Featuring many of the most recognisable characters and episodes in history, from Cleopatra to the sinking of the Titanic, comedian and historian Paul Coulter reframes our understanding of the...

Brought to you by Penguin.A thrilling and darkly funny debut novel about the joy and anxiety of adolescence by the acclaimed memoirist and cult writerNicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects t...