Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and become better leaders today? This book offers a deep-dive into the art, science and practice of leadership around the world and across ages, led by a Harvard professor and historian. Through wide-ranging and lively stories, Moshik Temkin consid
A LIFE-CHANGING collection of inspiring quotations, mantras and photographs to embrace the PHENOMENAL WOMAN you truly are.
Discover the EMPOWERING PATHWAY for moving forward in life with wise women WHO WALK THE TALK.
‘One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.’ – Emily Dickinson
Step into a brand-new day and feel the amazing energy of walking through life with appreciation and zeal
A monumental new narrative of the collapse of the USSR, drawing on an unprecedented range of interviews with key players, showing how the great forces of history worked through individual lives to condemn Russia to its present fate
A searing insight into the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.
A history of twenty-nine key borderlines that demarcate Europe, and what they can tell us about the past, present and future of our continent. From a political historian and Tim Marshall's 'borders expert'.
Leading political scientist Eugene Finkel places the war in Ukraine amid a long history of political violence to argue that dominating Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian policy for centuries - now, we are witnessing a genocide.
How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time? Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citiz
All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Meeting basic needs is a feminist issue.
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'A great historian at th
A provocative manifesto on what it means for women to be 'good' - and what happens when we stop. 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO 'You will finish this book and immediately hand your copy over to your best friend' JENNIFER ANISTON 'I left feeling energized and galvanized to take back my true f**king freedom' JAMEELA JAMIL In this ground
A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the general ‘hoo-ha’ of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed ‘the difficult bit’ was over, and her forties were going to be a doddle. If only she had known: when middle age arrives, a whole new bunc
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' After eleven years of writing bestsellers about women and dismissing this question, having been very sure that the concerns of feminism and men are very different things, Caitlin Moran realised that this wasn't quite right, and that the pro