The major new memoir from Sir Alex Ferguson, filled with never-before-seen photographs and memorabilia from his private archives.Twenty-one games. One extraordinary life.Sir Alex Ferguson is widely regarded as the greatest football manager of all time. In this intimate and heartfelt memoir, he tells the unique stories of twenty-one defining matches in his career, revealing fresh insights into his incredible journey from working-class Glasgo...

In the year 2333, humanity has survived decades of epidemic disease, political fracture, climate disruption, and conflict over increasingly capable machine intelligence. Human life has become far longer. Fusion propulsion has opened much of the Solar System. Permanent settlements beyond Earth are no longer speculative. And engineered minds are beginning to raise questions that older political, legal, and moral categories cannot comfortably answer.At the center of the crisis...

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

The first comprehensive introduction to benchmarking, the engine behind progress in AIIn machine learning, researchers split their data into training and test sets, let model builders compete on the test set, and call it a benchmark. Statistical tradition prescribed locking test sets in a vault, but machine learning practitioners shared them freely. Benchmarking shouldn’t have worked, but it did, and the machine learning community never figured out the science behi...

A.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In The Wren, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given th...

A great achievement is recognized. A committee chooses. A medal, title, check, or statuette is offered. The recipient accepts.There is applause.But what happens when the winner says no?In Those Who Didn't Want the Prize, Elan Moritz explores the people who refused, nearly refused, redirected, returned, or were prevented from accepting some of the world's most prestigious forms of recognition. Grigori Perelman declined both the Fields Medal and a mi...

A deeply moving and intimate story that reveals how the ravages of history that tore one family apart echo across continents nearly a century later."A memoir which ranks alongside The Hare with Amber Eyes."—The Times (London)"Brilliant."—The EconomistSorting through papers and photographs after his mother's death, Michael Moritz uncovers the history of close family members murdered by the ...

Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures – travel – taking a trip to Brazil and ultimately a journey up the great Amazon River by boat.Assaulted by ghosts and memories at every turn, as his journey unfolds he re-examines his life to understand how he came to be living a life of self-imposed poverty and hardship. Outwardly he sails up the Amazon towards Manaus, giving us poignant and limpid descriptions ...

The narrator thought he was training a terminal interface. The terminal, unfortunately, had other ideas.Train Your Etui Dragon: A Field Manual for Raising a Terminal Dragon on Your MacBook introduces Etui, a young dragon living in the command line caves of a MacBook. Etui is eager, literal, affectionate, and occasionally catastrophic. He does not breathe fire. He breathes file: outlines, notes, summaries, README fragments, mysterious drafts, and documents ...

According to this bestselling author, diabetes is not a disease. In the vast majority of cases, it is a complex mechanism of protection or survival that the body chooses to avoid the possibly fatal consequences of an unhealthful diet and lifestyle. Despite the body's ceaseless self-preservation efforts (which we call diseases), millions of people suffer or die unnecessarily from such consequences.The imbalanced blood sugar level in diabetes is but a symptom of illness, not the illn...

Winner of BEST NEW AUTHOR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025Highly commended for BOOK OF THE YEAR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025Shortlisted for THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION at the 2025 CWA DAGGERS'Diligent and absorbing' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian'Meticulous and unexpectedly gripping' Janice Turner, The Times*AS SEEN ON BBC'S PANORAMA*

When archivist Perpetua Maria Voss finds a cedar box hidden behind the wrong shelf at Chatsworth, she expects a cataloguing error. What she finds instead is a three-hundred-year-old warning, encoded in the pages of a real 1666 novel by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- and a hollow in the velvet exactly the shape of a vanished vial.The trail leads through Cambridge archives, a sealed room beneath a working physics laboratory, and the quiet, unbroken record of keepers who ...