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Amazing women on what the F-word means to themThe Sunday Times BestsellerNational Book Awards Winner 2018!One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018!"Brilliant, hysterical, truthful and real. These essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders." - Reese Witherspoon"As a feminist ..

Whether it’s flinging frozen rats or parading in holly evergreens, racing snails or carrying wives, human beings have long displayed their creativity in wild, odd, and sometimes just wonderful rituals and competitions. To show what lengths we’ll go to uphold our eccentric customs, British Ameri..

100 new bedtime stories, each inspired by the life and adventures of extraordinary women from Nefertiti to Beyonce.The unique narrative style of "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" transforms each biography in a fairy-tale, filling the readers with wonder and with a burning curiosity to know mo..

'One should always be in love.' Oscar WildeLove is... strength.Love is... pride.Love is... all you need!This celebration of every kind of love is full of heart-melting quotes and romantic statements to make you realise love is love is love is love!..

What is it that makes us human? There are more than seven billion of us on the planet and we come in all different shapes and sizes, are born in different cultures and to different parents, but fundamentally we are the same. People Like Us provides a tongue-in-cheek investigation of the human race t..

National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a 'self-portrait' o..

From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the charact..

THE SENSATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER'The real-life children's fairy tale book so inspiring adults are reading it' I newspaper'Absolutely beautiful - get one for yourself and one to inspire a woman in your life' Stylist'In an ideal world, not only would mothers read this aloud to their daughters, but teac..

No Wall Too High: One Man's Extraordinary Escape from Mao's Infamous Labour Camps"ONE OF THE GREATEST ESCAPE STORIES I'VE EVER READ". (MAIL ON SUNDAY). It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century. Xu Hongci was an ordin..

Charismatic, compelling and trendsetting, 69 of the world's most influential and creative men presented by cult style-bible Fantastic Man. Twice a year for the last 10 years Fantastic Man has chronicled the world's most stylish and influential men through insightful interviews and the lenses of equa..

'Engaging, hilarious and practical - I will proudly proclaim myself a card-carrying member of the FFC' - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and bestselling author of Lean In This is a call to arms. Are you aged zero to infinity? Finished with the sexist status quo? Ready to kick ass and take names? We..

To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't ExistOur gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even ..