**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLDThis inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?**“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The New York TimesONE...

****THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal**What makes life worth living in the face of death?At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.When Breath B...

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian____________The Barnes family are in trouble.Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread; straigh...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Most people assume that the world has been explored and true adventure is dead: This book is one man’s rebuttal. Explorer and conservationist Paul Rosolie shares his incredible life in the Amazon rainforest—and what we can learn from the people fighting to protect it.“On behalf of the forests that I love, thank you, Paul, for writing this book.”—Jane Goodall**Deep in the Peruvian jungle, there exists a corner of the world that remains ...

Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.Democritus c. 460-c. 370BCThe Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher'; our own age's 'Prophet of Quark': throughout the modern philosophical tradition, Democritus has been a man little known beyond his labels.Yet if the image of the cheerful ironist understates his true seriousness, that of father of modern nuclear physics - though by no means entirely unfounded - loses sign of the man in the hyperbole. Flattering ...

A Financial Times Book of the Year'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish TimesThe dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a perman...

My husband will never love me, but I’m in this now until death do us part.The man who threatened to carry me over his shoulder down the aisle and marry me at knifepoint is both my captor and my liberator. He makes me weak and strong at the same time.Before, he didn’t give me an option. Now, there’s a choice. But he’s determined to push me away.If I’m wise, I’ll take that freedom and run for my life. Because the heart of the man who captured and save...

The Leadership Crash Course is a hard-hitting day-to-day guide for leaders in the digital world. It helps executives and managers gain insight into their own leadership, then develop and hone the practical skills to become powerful leaders. In a business world fast becoming more digital and more interconnected, genuine leadership makes a huge, often crucial, difference to the value that strategy, structure and culture offer. It moves things forward, it inspires action, it changes the world...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE‘A brilliantly original book’ Financial Times‘One of the masterpieces of modern historical writing’ Daily TelegraphPaul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy’s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power in...

On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fatally injuring and poisoning thousands more. Among the survivors was Takashi Nagai, a pioneer in radiology research and a convert to the Catholic Faith. Living in the rubble of the ruined city and suffering from leukemia caused by over-exposure to radiation, Nagai lived out the remainder of his remarkable life by bringing physical and spiritual ...

Disturbed by his own nightmares, Dr. Zomboss invents a machine that allows him to enter the dreams of Neighborville's citizens.Zomboss hopes to hypnotize humans, using their dreams, into liking and approaching zombies instead of fearing them and running away. Brainwashed and dream-influenced citizens galore need Crazy Dave, his army of powerful plants, his genius niece Patrice, and neighborhood friend Nate to steer them in the correct direction--away from zombies! ...

Are you up for a thrilling adventure?When the Mystery Kids go camping on a deserted island off the coast of England, they fall headfirst into another exciting adventure.Follow the children as they are trapped in a lighthouse, stow away on a seaplane, get lost in a mine, hide in a tree house, outwit birdwatchers, and more!Book 2 in the Mystery Series, this adventure novel is set in 1950's Britain and will suit anyone who enjoys Nancy...