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With the humour and irreverence of a "Horrible Histories" book for adults, a look at the gruesome and bizarre road to modern medicine across cases of injured body, mind and spirit.

Lucy Cooke is an award-winning broadcaster and filmmaker with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university (where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins). She began her career working behind the scenes in television comedy but is now an increasingly familiar face on natural history TV, having presented prime time series for BBC, ITV and National Geographic. She writes for the Telegraph and the Huffington Post. Her only previous book (a picture book...

Trade paperback. The techniques and mindset for creating a tangible sense of more hours in the day are advised upon by the authors of bestseller "Sprint" and popular time management newsletter "Time Dorks".

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Is this his best yet?...Full of sinister menace and propulsive pace with twisty plotting' Lee ChildWHAT REALLY LIES WITHIN?High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of mysterious background, currently acting as housesitter.The house has a panic room. Cunningly concealed, steel lined, impregnable - and apparently closed from within. Even Blake doesn't know it's there. She's too busy bei...

Robert Moore is an award-winning television reporter. He was ITN¿s Moscow correspondent during the collapse of the Soviet Union, during which he reported throughout Russia, the Baltics and the Caucasus. As ITN¿s Diplomatic and Foreign Affairs Editor he covered multiple wars in Chechnya, the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. He is currently the Washington Correspondent for ITV News. Kursk, first published as A Time to Die, was an acclaimed i...

The autobiography of Edric Kennedy-Macfoy documents a life in the London fire brigade, addressing how it feels to respond to an emergency call, fight a fire, rescue survivors, or find yourself unable to help. Kennedy-Macfoy draws on over a decade's experience, tackling some of the biggest incidents including the Croydon tram derailment and the Grenfell Tower fire. *Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes*

From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry:' A beautiful novel, a tonic for the soul and a complete joy to read.' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep.1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need.Then into his life wal...

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous. Now, Uber and Airbnb are household names - and a new generation of entrepreneurs is sparking a cultural upheaval through technology. This is the definitive account of the founders rewriting the traditional rules of business and changing our daily lives.

With an introduction and new commentary by the author, subjects range from evolution and Darwinian natural selection to the role of scientist as prophet, whether science is itself a religion, the probability of alien life in other worlds, and the beauties, cruelties and oddities of earthly life in this one.

Why would you run scared from a happy home?You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work. You're making dinner, looking forward to hearing about his day.That's the last thing you remember.You wake up in hospital, with no idea how you got there. They tell you that you were in an accident, you lost control of your car whilst driving in a dangerous part of town.The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to...

The author of "French Children Don't Throw Food" reflects on turning forty with a series of frank personal stories and witty maxims on the continuing struggle for maturity and confidence. This humorous coming of age piece invites comparison with Caitlin Moran, Nora Ephron and David Sedaris.

Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from smart phones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world of the 21st century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world of the 19th century. In the face of all these changes, we believe that there is a simple premise worth keeping in mind. If ...

Having spent a year aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly reflects on the extreme challenges of long-term space flight, from the banal to the existential, to the mysterious health oddities. The benefits of space travel are passionately argued for in this heroic space memoir.

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher's past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the i...

1993: The seaside town of Kingshaven looks picture perfect in the spring sunshine. Suddenly, the peace is shattered by the explosion of ordnance that has lain buried since World War Two. The event triggers something for three generations of women trying to make sense of their lives as the millennium approaches.

How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner - shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night - or fatter - as he tucks into a mince pie and a glass of sherry in billions of houses across the world?Full of diagrams, sketches and graphs, beautiful equations, Markov chains and matrices, The Indispu...

From the much-loved star of Gaelic football, comes an honest and compelling autobiography from one of the greatest players in the history of the game.

Chip Heath (Author) Chip Heath is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching courses on strategy and organizations. He has helped over 450 startups hone their business strategy and messages. He lives in Los Gatos, California.Dan Heath (Author) Dan Heath is a senior fellow at Duke University¿s CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs fighting for social good. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. Dan and his brother Chip have ...