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Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on...

We stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par with the Industrial Revolution. Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives quickly - but digital disruption goes much further than we realize. Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalization experts, argues that the inhuman speed of this transformation threatens to overwhelm our capacity to adapt. 

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on...

Discover a world of outrageous experiments with the Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Elephants on Acid. Guided by Alex Boese's engaging storytelling, unearth answers to questions that have tickled your curious mind – from the unusual to the hilariously absurd. 'Excellent accounts of some of...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history. What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ...

Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and harmless until it's too late to think otherwise. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighbourhood wrongs through acts of violence. 

An urgent and shocking examination of how the ultra-rich dominate democracies, hoard political power, and maintain inequality—and how we might chart another path. The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human history. This is now more starkly visible than...

AN EARTH SHATTERING SECRET. A LIFE-CHANGING LOVE STORY. “Nobody writes angst and joy and hope like Paige Toon.”—CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of LOVE AND OTHER WORDS For fans of Colleen Hoover, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks...

“Kirsty Greenwood’s writing is like receiving a warm hug from a dear friend.”—Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Golden Summer A heartbroken romance novelist is forced to address her writer's block when the villainous cowboy character from her books shows up in...

'Yo-ho-ho and a barrel of grass, snout and crossbones on our mast!' When Jake, Jay and Jim Hawkins discover Billy Beak's long-hidden treasure map, they vow to set sail immediately. Except they have no ship and no crew. Luckily, a humble ship's cook called Long John Smooth Cheeks is at hand...

Life's a beach for the happy birds of Bird Island. They work, play, and raise their hatchlings without a care in the world. Occasional outbursts from a few Angry Birds ruffle some feathers. But that's what anger-management classes are for. Red--the angriest of them all--hates going to class...

Sometimes, it takes two villages... Welcome back to Bird Island, a peaceful happy bird community - thanks to Red, Bomb and Chuck, who saved all their feathered friends from an all-out war with King Leonard and the pigs! Well, the war's over - kind of. Now the birds and pigs are in a prank war -...

Red and the blues wake up one Christmas morning to find his presents missing! Can Red and friends take back their large sack of presents from the piggies and rescue Christmas? Buckle up and sit tight as the Angry Birds take you on a snowy Christmas adventure!...