Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus – The Language of the Universe

Self-help books like The Secret promise that we can tap into the ‘law of attraction’ to control our destiny, simply by changing our thoughts. If we strip away the mystique, at the heart of this idea is a fundamental truth that is backed up by the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience: most of the things we […]

Schadenfreude – enjoying the pain and failures of others – is an all-too-famil- iar feeling. It has perplexed philosophers and psychologists for centuries but, in a time of polarised politics, twitter trolls and ‘sidebars of shame’, has never been more relevant. Recent studies have shown that we smile more at a rival’s loss than at […]

The sequel to the global bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked, the Japanese phenomenon in applying twentieth-century psychology to contemporary dilemmas continues with life-changing advice on finding happiness. In The Courage To Be Happy, Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga again distil their wisdom into simple yet profound advice to show us how we, too, can […]

Den världsberömda kosmologen och författaren till Kosmos: En kort historik ger oss sina sista tankar om universums största gåtor. Hur uppstod universum? Kommer mänskligheten att överleva? Finns intelligent liv utanför vårt solsystem? Kommer den artificiella intelligensen bli smartare än vi? Stephen Hawking hade innan han gick bort i mars 2018 tagit positionen som vår tids […]