Kapla, the former creative director of the Gothenburg Festival, has gathered the thoughts and experiences of the last remaining inhabitants of a village in a densely forested part of Sweden ... read more
"There's a hole in our universe, dear Liza, dear Liza..." A whizz around some cosmological complexities by a distinguished professor of physics who has the further honour of having a minor p... read more
The light of reason is safe in the hands of Prof. Pinker, experimental cognitive scientist. He even manages to explain why we are surrounded by crack-pots, quacks and conspiracy theorists.
From the author of the excellent 'The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are', an account of the dazzling city that was the hub of the known world in the C16th.
LW is first class on catastrophic events - his book on 9/11 won a Pulitzer. Now he shows how political incompetence and cynicism caused mortality ten times greater than US combat deaths in V... read more
A cultural history through seven coloured lenses. Its broad frame of reference encompasses Shakespeare, Goldfinger (first name Auric), Goethe, Roman marbles, Bronze Age gold, Mayan jade... C... read more