Based on Dr Fisher's groundbreaking personality type study in which she analyzed the personalities of more than 28000 matchcom users Why Him? Why Her? provides a formula for long-term love that is based on cutting-edge discoveries in evolutionary neurology 304 pages ill Fisher Helen ...

' Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?' Self-celebrating & self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range & diversity with works from around the world & across the centuries
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Whether puncturing the lies of politicians wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war Orwell's timeless uncompromising essays are more relevant entertaining & essential than ever in today's era of spin ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD' Essential' Marlon James Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015' One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla editor of The Good Immigrant'A wake-up call to a country in denial' Observer In 2014 award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race & racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it She posted a piece on her blog entitled Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' Her words hit a nerve The post went viral & comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences Galvanised by this clear hunger for open discussion she decided to dig into the source of these feelings Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class & race Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely & essential new framework for how to see acknowledge & counter racism It is a searing illuminating absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today ...

In Why Information Grows rising star Cesar Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economics What is economic growth? & why historically has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions geography finances & psychology But MIT professor Cesar Hidalgo argues that in order to fully grasp the nature of economic growth we need to transcend the social sciences & turn to the science of information networks & complexity The growth of economies he explains is deeply connected with the growth of order
- or information At first glance the universe seems hostile to order Thermodynamics dictates that over time order will disappear But thermodynamics also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets Our cities are such pockets where information grows but they are not all the same For every Silicon Valley Tokyo & London there are dozens of places with underdeveloped economies Why does the US economy outstrip Brazil&s & Brazil&s that of Chad? Why did the technology corridor along Boston&s Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossomed? In each case the key is how people companies & the networks they form process information
- it is all about their knowledge knowhow & imagination As Hidalgo compellingly shows economies are made from networks of people & society is a collective computer The problem of economic development is in fact the problem of making these networks more powerful A radical new interpretation of global economics Why Information Grows overturns traditional assumptions about the development of economies & the origins of wealth & takes a crucial step toward making economics less the dismal science & more the insightful one

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A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now
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Before he wrote 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' before the Baudelaires became orphans even before the invention of Netflix Lemony Snicket asked all the wrong questions Four to be exact This is the account of the fourth question There was a town & there was a train & there was a murder Apprentice investigator Lemony Snicket was on the train & he thought that if he solved the murder he could save the town In the tradition of great storytellers from Dickens to Dahl comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary & irreverent You'll laugh only if you find humour in gothic & mysterious things involving detectives & crime solving Lemony's other literary outings in A Series of Unfortunate Events' have sold 60 million copies worldwide & been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey & a Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris These regrettable developments mean that millions of fans have found out about the dreadful plight of the Baudelaire orphans but you do not have to You have been warned Have you read all four mysterious titles in the Wrong Questions series? Who Could That Be at the This Hour?' When Did You Last See Her?' Shouldn't You Be in School?' Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?' Author Lemony Snicket was born before you were & is likely to die before you as well He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious & prone to riot He grew up near the sea & currently lives beneath it Until recently he was living somewhere else He is a broken man wracked with misery & despair as a result of writing 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' He spends his days wandering the countryside weeping & moaning & his evenings eating hastily-prepared meals Artist Seth has portrayed suspicious circumstances & shady characters in much of his work He is a multi-award-winning cartoonist author & artist whose works include Palookaville & Clyde Fans ...

Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander Provincetown Cape Cod Massachusetts (1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter Battersea Power Station XI July 13 2004)? & why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston Red Ceiling 1973)? In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus Jackie Higgins offers a lively informed defence of modern photography Choosing 100 key photographs with particular emphasis on the last twenty years she examines what inspired each photographer in the first place & traces how the piece was executed In doing so she brings to light the layers of meaning & artifice behind these singular works some of which were initially dismissed out of hand for being blurred overexposed or badly composed The often controversial works discussed in this book play with our expectations of a photograph our ingrained tendency to believe that it is telling us the unadorned truth Jackie Higginss book proves once & for all that theres much more to the art of photography than just pointing & clicking ...

Addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform & shows how cherished truisms about education & child development have led to unintended & negative consequences The author argues that a carefully planned knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success 280 pages Hirsch E D ...

John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life art & how we see the world around us Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man & nature has been broken in the modern consumer age with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized & reduced to spectacle Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are

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