Humanity Century

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective. “Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30...

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

Tristan MacArthur has outrun extinction, outlasted Olympians, and survived wars that swallowed worlds. But what is coming now is older than any of it — older than the Formorians, older than the alien pyramid on Titan, older than the first civilization that dared to reach beyond its own solar system. The twilight of humanity has arrived. And for the first time, Tristan isn't sure the human race deserves to be saved. His search for an answer will take him from the dead mines of Mars to the secret depths of Mercury — and finally to Jupiter, where a threat that has destroyed civilizations ...

El futuro ya se está inventando en los laboratorios de los científicos más punteros de todo el mundo. Con toda probabilidad, en 2100 controlaremos los ordenadores a través de diminutos sensores cerebrales y podremos mover objetos con el poder de nuestras mentes, la inteligencia artificial estará en todas partes y lentillas con conexión a internet pondrán toda la información a nuestro alcance en un simple parpadeo.

She carries the memory of light. He holds the harmonic key. Together, they must align the Axis or watch it fracture. Across shifting skies and crystalline echoes, Through twin suns and twin moons and ancestral flame— Their love becomes the song of renewal. “The Axis wavers, and the shadows remember.” Anya and Ethan have awakened the Earth Shields. But as the Crystal Axis begins to realign, an ancient fracture stirs—one buried deep in the soul of the planet. To restore balance, they must gather the emissaries of the Aquafereion and Indigo lineages… and travel to the heart of ...

"Within the harrowing landscape of both the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Escobar shines a light on hope and humanity. Descriptions and prose, both startling and lyrical, bring you into the scene and into the lives of both Elisabeth and Isabel as they strive to survive, thrive, and care...

An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature George Forster was a man out of time: he journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical...

A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness. Creating a world worthy of our children requires recalling the dignity and distinction of the African way of life. This book is not written for...

Five interview-based essays celebrating Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, Norman MacCaig and Edwin Morgan. Fivefathers offers a reassessment of Scottish writers who produced significant work during or shortly after the Second World War, on their way to earning international reputations. Combining material from interviews with readings of the poetry, Colin Nicholson argues that conventional assumptions about transitions from literary Modernism into the contemporary do not adequately account for the work he discusses. These writers were declaring, occupying and ...

The New Humanity KINDLES HOPE. This multiple award-winning heartfelt story uplifts and inspires. This century and the next—this millennium—we undergo communal awareness and increasing inclusivity in attitude. Republished today for the new generation, these visions of the 21st century show us our potential, for today and tomorrow. What changes the world? We do. We are the change we hoped for.

Brought to you by Penguin. "Vital is [Gaia Vince's] narration: enthusiastic and lucid." - The Times Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as...

Why Has Nationalism Come Roaring Back? Trump in America, Brexit in the U.K., anti-EU parties in Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and Hungary, and nativist or authoritarian leaders in Turkey, Russia, India, and China -- Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Imperfectionists, the story of a chameleonic writer desperate to finish her final book, and the indelible characters from her own life who intrude on those efforts with breathtaking results Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal Shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award Longlisted for the 2025 Leacock Medal for Humour In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who’s promised a time machine...