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Why War
Why has warfare always been part of the human story?
From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?
What light can this shed on humanity’s past – and its future?
There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.
Repeatedly humans have foresworn war, have understood its appalling risks and have wished to create more pacific, productive societies. And yet almost inevitably circumstances emerge under which war once more seems inevitable or even desirable
How can we make sense of what Einstein called 'the dark places of human will and feeling'? Richard Overy draws on a lifetime's study of conflict to write this challenging account of how we can understand the causes of war. Looking at every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, Overy allows readers to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option, and why it is likely to be part of our future as well as our past.
Bluey: The Pool
On a trip to the pool Bluey and Dad tease Mum about being fussy and over-prepared, but they soon realise that's what makes the fun things possible.
Fans of Bluey will love this thick, 24 page board book, and is a perfect bedtime story!
Also available:
Bluey: At the Beach 9780241486948
Bluey: Meet Bluey! Sticker Activity Book 9780241486924
Bluey: Little Library 9780241486900
The Membranes - A Novel
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she's too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city's best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality.
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes-heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies-into a sensitive portrait of one young woman's quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader's own role. Ari Larissa Heinrich's translation brings Chi's hybrid punk sensibility to all readers interested in books that test the limits of where speculative fiction can go.
Home and the World in Slovak Writing : A Small Nation’s Literature in Context
Literatures of small nations represent a minuscule portion of the global literary marketplace, where books written in English outnumber translated works. The struggle for visibility in relation to dominant languages and cultures is not new in Slovakia, a nation of five million whose literary history has been shaped by the influence of more widely spoken languages including Hungarian, Czech, and Russian.
Home and the World in Slovak Writing brings Slovak literature out of this isolation to tell the story of how a nation's literature can survive and thrive despite a small domestic audience and relatively limited circulation in English translation. The book demonstrates how historic events such as the post-Stalin Thaw, the Prague Spring, and the Velvet Revolution moulded the Slovak canon and situates contemporary Slovak literature in broader regional and global contexts. Through case studies of the transformations and adaptations of Slovak literature, contributors examine the changing social roles of writers, the tensions between tradition and innovation, and the dynamic interactions between influences from the outside world and domestic sources of inspiration.
Home and the World in Slovak Writing maps the relationship between geopolitical destiny and literary production at a critical moment. As relations between the East and the West are destabilized by war, the question of cultural identity has again become a matter of national survival in Central Europe.
Playing with Reality
A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.
We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice making predictions about the future. Games are thought to be older than written language, and have now become the dominant cultural media?bigger than movies, TV, music, and literature combined. They are also fun. But as neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy argues, it’s time we started taking them more seriously.
In Playing With Reality, she chronicles the riveting and hidden history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, biology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the future of democracy. Games, Clancy shows us, have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behaviour and brought us to the brink of annihilation?yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology. We used games to teach computers how to learn for themselves, and now we are designing games that will determine the shape of society and future of democracy. Games also inform the basic systems that govern our daily lives: the social media and technology that can warp our preferences, polarise us, and manufacture our desires.
Lucid, thought-provoking, and masterfully told, Playing With Reality makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature.
Love Triangle
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi.
Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.
In Love Triangle, stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on a mission to prove why we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To make his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich into three equal parts, and measure tall buildings while wearing silly shoes. But soon these hare-brained experiments begin to reveal a genuinely important truth: triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world, used in everything from GPS to CGI via Spotify streaming, the play button and your best mate’s triangle tattoo.
Join Matt Parker as he demonstrates why there’s more to triangles than Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.
The Continuum Concept
The Continuum Concept introduces the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings - especially babies - require the kind of instinctive nurturing as practiced by our ancient relatives. It is a true 'back to basics' approach to parenting.
Author Jean Liedloff spent two and-a-half years in the jungle deep in the heart of South America living with indigenous tribes and was astounded at how differently children are raised outside the Western world. She came to the realisation that essential child-rearing techniques such as touch, trust and community have been undermined in modern times, and in this book suggests practical ways to regain our natural well-being, for our children and ourselves.
The House by the Lake
In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall had stood for nearly three decades.
In a bid to save the house from demolition, Thomas began to unearth the history of the five families who had lived there: a nobleman farmer, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children and a Stasi informant. Discovering stories of domestic joy and contentment, of terrible grief and tragedy, and of a hatred handed down through the generations, a history of twentieth century Germany and the story of a nation emerged.
I Capture the Castle
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up.
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time.
Searching for Home
Be careful what you wish for! Jump into Aphmau: Searching for Home, the Minecraft-inspired, brand-new graphic novel from the #1 female gamer on YouTube, Aphmau!
Aphmau is the new girl in town, and after a rough first day at school?thanks, Stacy?she’s not sure anyone will come to her birthday party. Thankfully, the super cute and mysterious Aaron comes through and brings the party with him. But after Stacy sprinkles the cake with magic, Aphmau’s birthday wishes don’t only come true, they come to life! Soon Aphmau and her friends find that the world has become just like Aphmau’s video games! Will they be able to turn everything back to normal? Or will Stacy’s evil plan reign supreme?
Blow out the candles and put on your headsets in the action-packed, FIRST-EVER graphic novel adventure from beloved, social media sensation Aphmau, with over 22 MILLION subscribers and over 23 BILLION views!
Run Wild: Sa Ye (Novel) Vol. 2
A MOMENT ON THE LIPS
Since that night of revelry with charming slacker Gu Fei and their unexpected kiss, Jiang Cheng has been spiraling. Was it the spark of something real or a drunken mistake?
After all, in this nothing town, Jiang Cheng cherishes the bonds he's formed with Gu Fei and his curious sister Gu Miao. But that kiss... If—or when—Gu Fei finds out how much it meant to Jiang Cheng, would everything he's built unravel?
Thankfully, between modeling for Gu Fei's risqué photoshoots and gearing up for the upcoming basketball showdown with Class Five, Jiang Cheng has plenty to busy himself with. Yet the more time he spends laughing with Gu Fei, the harder it becomes to deny his feelings. When push comes to shove and tensions reach a boiling point, will Gu Fei rise to the occasion or will Jiang Cheng be left out in the cold?
Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) Vol. 2
CRIMES OF PASSION
Although the Department of Exorcism has successfully thwarted the fox yao’s attempts to infiltrate the imperial examinations, Hongjun, Li Jinglong, and their companions are no closer to uncovering the identity of the yao king of Chang’an. Investigations stall until the group stumbles across a series of bloody murders in the capital.
What appears to be a gruesome coincidence soon points to a larger plot as Hongjun and Li Jinglong discover evidence of yao involvement. Yet as the clues pile up, the group fears their enemies’ goals go far beyond murder: They may have their sights set on the emperor himself. Hongjun and Li Jinglong’s growing bond is tested as the fate of the empire—and their very lives—are put on the line in the hunt for the mastermind lurking in the city’s shadows.
Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 5
ENTER THE INFERNO
Racing to find a cure to Xie Xue’s illness, He Yu and Xie Qingcheng’s investigation into the forbidden drug RN-13 grows riskier with each new clue they discover. Along the trail of murdered professors and missing young women they uncover an unconscionable crime, and those responsible for it will stop at nothing to bury the truth.
Even worse, the shadowy forces are eager to get their hands on the unique powers of He Yu’s blood toxin. And despite his unwillingness to accept his former patient’s feelings for him, Xie Qingcheng refuses to let He Yu face this great peril alone.
Dali in 400 images
Accessible yet original, this comprehensive guide to Salvador Dalí contains over 400 color reproductions and a unique selection of historical photographs.
Dalí in 400 Images explores the full range of one of the most significant Surrealist painters of the 20th century. The exhaustive selection of works will reveal key masterpieces by perhaps the most famous of the Surrealists, as well as less familiar works including drawings and objects. Spanning the entire scope of the artist's career, this volume shows the complexity of the artist's vision from the early works inspired by Post-Impressionism and his engagement with Cubism in the mid-1920s, his major Surrealist paintings of the 1930s, through the American years (1940s), the artist's embracing of Classicism in the 1950s, with his return to Spain, and finally his re-engagement with avant-garde experimentation in the 1960s and beyond. The 400 reproductions of Dalí's work are complemented by a unique selection of historical photographs.
Alive with images and information, this compact gem is a must-have for all art enthusiasts and connoisseurs.
World Press Photo Yearbook 2025
The past year in photojournalism: 2024 as told through its most arresting, inspirational and profound images
Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has set the standard in visual journalism. The 2025 Yearbook showcases the most striking press photographs and compelling reports from 2024, carefully selected from thousands of entries by six regional and one global jury of acclaimed independent professionals.
Providing a diversity of perspectives from all over the world, the awarded works bear witness to the events that shaped this past year and document in long-term projects the ongoing issues we face. Recognizing the importance of photojournalism and documentary photography at a time when truth is so contested, the awarded images share courageous stories and present invaluable insight-from war zones, the struggle for civil rights and political empowerment to the visible effects of the climate crisis, which were felt in 2024 more acutely than ever.
Touring Europe 2025
Everything you need to know about exploring Europe in a caravan, motorhome or tent.
Touring Europe 2025 is your essential companion to independent touring in a caravan, motorhome or tent. This comprehensive handbook contains everything you need to know before you go, while you’re away and for your return to the UK.
The guide includes nearly 4000 sites in:
Western Europe including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Switzerland
Eastern Europe such as Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia
Southern European countries like Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain
And the Scandinavian nations of Norway and Sweden
All sites have been visited, recommended, and reviewed by Caravan and Motorhome Club members and other users of this book. You can even contribute yourself by reviewing the sites you visit.
Pomegranate - A Novel
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift returns with this “deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author) story about a queer Black woman working to stay clean, pull her life together, and heal after being released from prison.
Ranita Atwater is “getting short.”
She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Ranita is regaining her freedom, but she’s leaving behind her lover Maxine, who has inspired her to imagine herself and the world differently.
My name is Ranita, and I’m an addict, she has said again and again at recovery meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? Now she must steer clear of the temptations that have pulled her down, while atoning for her missteps and facing old wounds. With a fierce, smart, and sometimes funny voice, Ranita reveals how rocky and winding the path to wellness is for a Black woman, even as she draws on family, memory, faith, and love in order to choose life.
Pomegranate is a complex portrayal of queer Black womanhood and marginalization in America from an author “working at the height of her powers” (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling). In lyrical and precise prose, Helen Elaine Lee paints a humane and unflinching portrait of the devastating effects of incarceration and addiction, and of one woman’s determination to tell her story.
The Shell Keepers
An enchanting and sunny seaside adventure - perfect for sunny days ahead!
When Corrine picks up a shell on the beach, she doesn't expect to see a tiny girl inside it.
Kauri lives below the sand and sea, travelling with her family on the tides. But now their miniature world is in danger, and they need a shell keeper to keep them safe . . .
A cosy middle-grade debut from Truly Johnston, winner of the Bath Children's Novel Award 2022.
A heart-warming tale about a family of miniature people cast adrift in the human world.
Shades of The Borrowers in a coastal seaside setting.
Themes of belonging, identity, environment and activism, wrapped up in a sunny adventure and treasure hunt.
The Scream of the Whistle
All aboard for a new middle-grade paranormal adventure from 2024 Branford Boase-longlisted author of The Witchstone Ghosts, Emily Randall-Jones.
Ruby is miserable. Her parents have split up, and now she's stuck in a creepy village. At night, she decides to escape and follow the ancient train track home.
Her journey has barely begun when she hears the eerie scream of a whistle - and an old steam train appears out of the darkness . . .
Is Ruby ready for the ghost ride of her life?
Perfect for readers aged 9 and up
Packed full of spooky ghosts, child-friendly horror, time-travelling steam trains and ancient English mythology
For fans of Lucy Strange and Frances Hardinge
The Witchstone Ghosts was the 2021 winner of the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition and The Times Children's Book of the Week
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