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The Dawn of War, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

The Tipping Point meets Magic Words in this lively, illuminating exploration of the hidden science behind the words we use—and how we can harness their influence to better communicate with each other, navigate our world, and shape our futures, from a professor of marketing and psychology. A...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House...

Ever caught yourself people-watching and thinking, what on earth are we doing? Humans: we’re curious creatures - brilliant, social and just a little bit weird. In A Spotter’s Guide to Humans, behaviour expert Mark Earls unpacks the odd habits, copycat moments and social quirks that make our...

Explore the Stories Behind the Legends In the mid-1970s, Misty Knight burst onto the pages of Marvel Comics. Before Storm, Shuri, or Riri, Misty opened the doors of comics as Marvel’s first Black woman super hero. A detective and martial artist with a bionic arm that gives her heroic strength...

In the ground-breaking The Myth of Human Nature Dr Heidi Colleran, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, looks at cultures all over the world and throughout history that live according to different social facts of life than ours in the West - and not simply by the brute facts of...

What if everything you thought you knew about human history was only part of the story? Humans: Our Seven Million Year History offers an ambitious re-examination of our past on a truly global scale, integrating groundbreaking archaeological and scientific discoveries to present a nuanced and...

Social media’s “smell queen” reveals the secrets of our most overlooked sense Roses. Rotten eggs. Perfume. Sweat. Smells transport, attract, and seduce us, but they also disgust, unsettle, even anger us. Why do some smells comfort us while others repel us? And what does that reveal about...

Why do some smells comfort us while others repel us – and what does that reveal about who we are? Social media’s ‘smell queen’ Dr Ally Louks reveals the secrets of our most overlooked sense. Take a deep sniff. Before you have time to think, your body will react. Our noses have around 400...

Eve meets Who We Are and How We Got Here in this exciting new examination of human evolution that puts motherhood at the center of the story. Seven million years ago, a pregnant, apelike ancestor to the whole of our species found a secluded space on the forest floor and began her labor. An hour...

One of the most talked about conservative thinkers in America argues that if you always stand up for the normies, you will eventually be vindicated. Many Americans believe that we have finally entered a “post-normal” age in which ancient structures like the family and organized religion are...

The shocking full story of the “human zoos” that exploited thousands of Indigenous people In the 19th century, as colonial expansion exposed previously unknown civilizations to the Western gaze, a small group of entrepreneurs, adventurers, and anthropologists created a new form of...

Historian and data scientist Jo Guldi shares the David and Goliath story of the nineteenth-century Irish Land War, showing how a small band of revolutionary peasants took on the British Empire—and won. The War Over Rent is a sweeping story of the groundbreaking struggle between the Irish and...

A meditative exploration of how people-watching encourages us to be more curious about those around us, teaches us to decode our unique quirks and universal similarities, and enriches our digital-first lives The fascinating practice of people watching is beginning to disappear. Whether we're...

For fans of Yuval Noah Harari and David Graeber comes a sweeping history of destruction, exploring how our urge to burn it all down has shaped human progress across the centuries. Smashing idols, defacing monuments, burning books, breaking windows, toppling statues...for as long as humans have...

For fans of Yuval Noah Harari and David Graeber comes a sweeping history of destruction, exploring how our urge to burn it all down has shaped human progress across the centuries. Smashing idols, defacing monuments, burning books, breaking windows, toppling statues… for as long as humans have...

“The best book on human evolution this century." —Agustín Fuentes, author of The Creative Spark The award-winning author of First Steps returns with a revelatory tour of the latest scientific discoveries in paleontology and archaeology to challenge the idea of human exceptionalism...

Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society? This is not an accident, but by design. Capitalism is structured by racism and has...

In this cultural and historical guide, award-winning authors Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau reveal the mysteries behind French culture and answer the question: What makes the French so French? Why must you always say bonjour when entering a store in France? What gives the French people...

In Scenes from Prehistoric Life, the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43, in a sequence of fifteen profiles of ancient landscapes. Whether writing about the early human family who trod the estuarine muds of Happisburgh in Norfolk c.