Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1769-1821), the most celebrated general in history, has always attracted eminent male writers but only a few female writers have written his biography. Ruth Scurr, a lecturer in history and politics at Cambridge University, a keen Gardner herself, who knows her pelargonium from her amaryllis is one of the most eloquent and…
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman’s last masterpiece book, has demonstrated in a companion volume book Noise, aimed at most people care about rationality and good judgement. Multi-million copy bestselling author Daniel Kaneman teamed up with co-author of million copy bestseller Nudge, Cast Sunstein and the eminent professor and writer on strategic thinking Olivier Sibon,…
Bloomberg Journalist, Brad Stone, charts a revelatory and definitive portrait of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder’s journey to become the world’s richest man and Amazon’s expansion exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries. Its workforce quintupled in size ad its valuation has soared Lowell over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos who once…
Suzanne Simard, the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees and shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees and their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience. Professor Simard, raised in the forests of British Columbia, where her family lived for generations, did not set out to be…
Private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, is neither a Rothschild, a JP Morgan nor a Goldman Sachs. In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former Financial executive Zachary Karabell, offers the first full and frank look inside the institution against the backdrop of American history and explores Brown Brothers Harriman’s central role in the story…
Jude Piesse’s biography “ The Ghost in the Garden” traces the origins of the theory of evolution and uncovers the lost histories that inspired it, ultimately evoking the interconnectedness of all things. The Garden at Down House in Kent, a former parsonage to which Charles Darwin moved in 1842 after marrying his cousin Emma Wedgwood,…
Heavy Light is the story of a mental breakdown, a journey through mania, psychosis, and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing. Heavy Light deal with a lifetime of ups and downs, from hypomania in the Alps to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, explaining how…
Three generations of the Sackler dynasty and their roles in the stories of the opioid Valium, and Opioid OxyContin, revealing misery, greed and pliant regulators and the abuse of philanthropy. Patrick Radden Keefe, a New Yorker writer and prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing, reveals the inside story. In 1980s, a small UK drugs company…
How Napoleon secured the privileged place of Catholicism in France but reinforced Vatican’s control Amid French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalising an agreement in 1801, relations between them…
Pickled cucumbers were dyed green with copper-based dyes, which most people failed to realise that the green copper dyes were extremely poisonous, in Victorian England. Fertilizer produced by sucking nitrogen out of the air now sustains about half the population of the globe, as farmers worldwide depend on the data spewing from 160 environmental satellite…