“One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year…. Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.”
—Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our...
Students need to learn to manage their time, organise their studies, understand, learn, and convey a lot of information – and they need to learn to do it quickly. Whether you’re fresh out of school, or a mature student returning to education,...
Superintelligence asks the questions: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The...
'Philosophy begins in wonder,' said Plato. Descartes agreed that 'wonder is the first of all emotions'. Wonder is the impulse behind all scientific and philosophical endeavour, art and spirituality. It is the most fruitful human sense: fuelling our...
Mathematics isn't just for academics and scientists, a fact meteorologist and Irish Times columnist Professor Peter Lynch proves elegantly in this wide-ranging and unconventional ode to the numbers at the heart of everyday life. With chapters on...
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new...