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With over 200 images and extensive how-to and how-not-to examples, the new edition of the book The Financial Times voted one of the 'six best books for data geeks' has everything students and scholars need to understand and create effective data visualisations.

From a witty new voice in popular science comes a life-changing look at what makes you you.

A The New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era.

His work on broader issues and trends - such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve - has changed the way we view society.In his new book, Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities the next generation faces.

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things.

A new popular psychology title looking at where video games come from, why we play them, and taking a balanced, clinical view of whether they are healthy or not, depending on our individual player-game relationship.

John Higgs is back with another surprising, eclectic book, this time looking to the future to make sense of who we are and where we're going

The driving force behind The Costs of Connection is the idea that something big is happening with data, a new phase of colonial extraction that is annexing human life to capitalism and in the process building a new social economic order - one that must be resisted if human autonomy is to be protected.

This book argues that the work of Theodor W. Adorno is best understood through the lens of his highly suggestive-yet often overlooked-concept of the "uncoercive gaze," an innovative way of relating to the object of one's analysis that interweaves critical intimacy and analytic vigilance.

Mary Roach meets Michael Pollan in this ambitious, dynamic and thought-provoking foray into the future of food

The amazing inside story of Apollo 11 - The Right Stuff for a new generation

The keys to enjoying the outdoors in an extraordinary way, one that is new and ancient.

From one of the world's pre-eminent marine biologists - and a scientific consultant on the BBC's Blue Planet series - comes a dazzling account of the wonders that lie beneath the ocean's surface, and an empowering vision of how we can protect them

The new science behind dreams, why they are good for us and why they matter.

In 1973 Viktor Duvakin taped six interviews with Mikhail Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin's personal views. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, translated and annotated here from the tapes, offers a fuller, more flexible image of Bakhtin than we could have imagined beneath his now famous texts.

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.

Translation of the author's book Att feorklara samheallet.

In order to fight capitalism in the digital age, we must understand Marx!

Takes the enterprising researcher, student, or hobbyist through explorations in a variety of computing exercises with the physical sciences. The book has tutorials and exercises for a wide range of scientific computing problems.

Canadian intellectual juggernaut Alain Deneault has taken on all kinds of evildoers: mining companies, tax-dodgers, and corporate criminals. Now he takes on the most menacing threat of all: the mediocre.

An inside guide by astronomer Paul Murdin revealing everything you need to know about the planets, their satellites and our place in the solar system.