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She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary...

When Pete Etchells was 13, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify "game addiction" as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea. In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games via scientific study....

THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER. Candid, fearless and provocative – the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today. Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick...

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious - curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world

Straightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'. This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the...

Erlebe ein fesselndes Sachhörbuch, das mittelalterliche Fakten schonungslos von der blutigen Dracula-Fiktion trennt. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln oder wissensdurstige Abende, entführt dich diese atmosphärische Reise direkt in die wilde Natur der rumänischen Karpaten. Hinter der...

Suivez l'évolution intime d'un esprit rebelle qui a redéfini la physique et bouleversé l'histoire des sciences. Plongez au cœur d'une biographie fascinante qui s'éloigne volontairement des démonstrations mathématiques austères. Vous saisirez les mystères de la matière et de la lumière...

Démêlez le mythe de la réalité maritime dans cette enquête historique sur la zone océanique la plus redoutée au monde. Parfait pour transformer vos trajets quotidiens en une expédition immersive, ce récit vous transporte directement sur les flots houleux de l'Atlantique. L'incertitude...

Entre libre arbitre et destinée, explorez l'histoire de l'astrologie et son impact psychologique millénaire. De la simple mesure du temps aux premiers thèmes astraux, cette écoute captivante retrace la naissance d'un langage céleste mythique. Laissez-vous porter par un récit historique...

Ce stimulant quotidien cache la plus grande dépendance mondiale de l'histoire, façonnant nos cerveaux et notre société. Que ce soit lors de votre trajet matinal ou pour booster votre productivité au bureau, cette enquête fascinante décrypte la science et l'économie derrière notre besoin...

Diese fesselnde historische Analyse seziert den tödlichen Pharaonenfluch exakt zwischen echtem Mythos und Medienhype. Wenn du auf dem täglichen Weg zur Arbeit packende Geheimnisse enträtseln willst, saugt dich diese mysteriöse Zeitreise direkt ins Tal der Könige des Jahres 1922. Erlebe...

Punk started much earlier than we think: enter the seductive subculture created by three rebellious boys navigating the sparkling world of the Elizabethan court Three young noblemen – heirs to some of the greatest titles in the land – come of age under the watchful eye of William Cecil, the...

A manager fires someone using the word "space" four times and never once says "fired." A parent negotiates with a four-year-old instead of holding a limit. Ten thousand strangers destroy a person's career over one bad tweet, and every one of them believes they're being kind. These aren't unrelated. They're the same thing wearing different clothes. We spent thirty years building a culture that treats kindness as the highest virtue and discomfort as a kind of harm to be prevented at any cost. We renamed honest feedback "toxic."

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. In We Will Not Cancel Us, movement mediator adrienne maree brown reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond this impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes even from from its targets. However, brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us?

Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk, William Shakespeare was a stoner, and George Washington drank a spoonful of opium every night to staunch the pain from his fake teeth? Or how about the fact that China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, ingested liquid mercury in an...

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents two hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made in this two-book collection containing THE GREAT MOVIES and THE GREAT MOVIES II. Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a...

A “highly entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin’s creator and a deep dive into crypto’s utopian origin story—from The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire’s Vinegar “Could be the best mystery story of the past...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power. Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that...

The words we use shape the world we live in - so it matters when we get them wrong. This series, from the creators of the chart-topping Origin Story podcast, sheds much-needed light on the true meanings and surprising stories behind some of our most used and abused political terms.

Brought to you by Penguin. From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes an incisive examination of post-Brexit Britain and what it means for our future. Returning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting – or maybe discombobulating would be a...