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Cypherpunks
Visionary WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed, perpetually tracking people's locations, contacts and lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most people willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance? And does anyone have the ability to resist this tide?
Cypherpunks
Visionary WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed, perpetually tracking people's locations, contacts and lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most people willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance? And does anyone have the ability to resist this tide?
Cypherpunks
Visionary WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed, perpetually tracking people's locations, contacts and lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most people willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance? And does anyone have the ability to resist this tide?
Human Remains
Highly intelligent but socially inept, Colin spends his free time collecting academic qualifications and searching for ways to meet women, until he stumbles upon a new technique that proves both potent and deadly. Police analyst Annabel is shocked when she discovers a decomposing body in the house next door and realises that no one, including herself, noticed her neighbour's absence. At work she finds data showing that such cases are frighteningly common in her own town and sets out to investigate, convinced she is on trail of a killer.
Creature Couture
For the best part of a decade, the inimitable Felt Mistress has been hard at work, creating a legion of one-of-a-kind bespoke creatures. From Demetri the pipe-smoking Yeti, to monster-truck lovin' Dwight Klugg, to fan-favourite adventurer Tippy, over 250 of Felt Mistress' weird and wonderful friends are on display in this book. Containing interviews with collaborators and Felt Mistress herself and over 350 pages of photography and illustrated designs by Edwards, this is one book not to be missed by lovers of all things plush.
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. As he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his own. But the story he keeps coming back to, the person and event affecting all others, is his mother and her abandonment of him as a boy, which left him with a void to fill, a substitute to find. A debut novel packed with suspense and intrigue.
Debt
Economic history states that money replaced a bartering system, yet there isn't any evidence to support this axiom. Anthropologist Graeber presents a stunning reversal of this conventional wisdom. For more than 5000 years, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. Since the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have been divided into debtors and creditors. Through time, virtual credit money was replaced by gold and the system as a whole went into decline. This fascinating history is told for the first time.
Pure
Timothy Mo's first novel in a decade is set within the battle for secession in the Muslim regions of southern Thailand. Pure covers epic expanses of time and is told through narrators who range from fanatical zealots to decorated Oxbridge dons. Everything that Mo's readers expect abound in this long-awaited novel: versatile style, memorable characters, insight into those tormented by dual loyalties and the ability to handle the weightiest of themes with a light touch. By examining the cultural wars of the past and present, Pure's themes are among the most important of the day.
The Lake
A young woman moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to overcome her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. But she spends her time staring out of the window, only to realise that there is a young man across the street staring out of his window too. They eventually embark on a hesitant romance, until she learns that he is the victim of a childhood trauma. Visiting two of his friends who live a monastic life beside a beautiful lake, she begins to piece together clues that reveal that his troubled past includes a bizarre religious cult.
Maonomics
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over communism. Maonomics argues just the opposite: Capitalism is collapsing and instead, 'communism with a profit motive' will prevail. Bestselling author and Journalist Loretta Napoleoni charts the prodigious ascent of the Chinese economic miracle and the parallel course of the West's ongoing insistence on misconstruing China and its economy even as its influence and importance has become undeniable. Based on first-hand reporting, Loretta translates the Chinese view as a warning to the West.
Boy in the Suitcase, The
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife and mother of two, is trying to live a quiet life. The last thing her husband wants is for her to go running off on another dangerous mission to help illegal refugees. But when Nina's estranged friend Karin leaves Nina a key to a public locker in a Copenhagen train station and begs her to take care of its contents, Nina gets drawn into a brutally violent underworld. Inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked, drugged, but alive. Nina tries to find out who the boy is, but when Karin is murdered, their lives are threatened too.
Smell of Football, The
When Mick Rathbone signed for Birmingham City as a 16 year-old apprentice he was living every schoolboy's dream. But when he discovered he was so nervous he was unable to speak, let alone pass the ball, in the presence of his boyhood hero and City star Trevor Francis. That's when he realised that a career in football might not be everything he had imagined. The Smell of Football is the brutally honest and utterly unputdownable story of how 'Baz' conquered his personal demons to build a life in the game.
Smell of Football, The
When Mick Rathbone signed for Birmingham City as a 16 year-old apprentice he was living every schoolboy's dream. But when he discovered he was so nervous he was unable to speak, let alone pass the ball, in the presence of his boyhood hero and City star Trevor Francis. That's when he realised that a career in football might not be everything he had imagined. The Smell of Football is the brutally honest and utterly unputdownable story of how 'Baz' conquered his personal demons to build a life in the game.
Popeye Cookbook, The
One of those rare books that really encourages readers to eat their greens - with Popeye's well-known love of spinach, this is the perfect opportunity to introduce a whole range of nutritious recipes that are as fun to make as they are to eat. Popeye fans can now prepare a week's worth of healthy meals, with chapters on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Other chapters include vegetarian recipes, Swee' Pea's desserts, snacks, smoothies and seaside suppers. All recipes are easy to make with adult supervision and feature spinach as a main ingredient.
Art of Non-Conformity, The
Chris Guillebeau shot to fame when he published a report on his blog called 'A Brief Guide to World Domination'. Within weeks, it was downloaded more than 100,000 times in over 60 countries, written about in the New York Times and endorsed by Seth Godin. It outlined a plan to 'take over the world' by doing what is most meaningful whilst helping others in unique way. The Art of Non-Conformity expands upon the gutsy ideas first introduced in Guillebeau's blog, focusing on three areas: life, work and travel.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969
The second volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues. Volume two takes place almost 60 years after the events of Century 1910, in the psychedelic haze of Swinging London in 1969 - a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars.
Debt
Economic history states that money replaced a bartering system, yet there isn't any evidence to support this axiom. Anthropologist Graeber presents a stunning reversal of this conventional wisdom. For more than 5,000 years, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. Since the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have been divided into debtors and creditors. Through time, virtual credit money was replaced by gold and the system as a whole went into decline. This fascinating history is told for the first time.
Manga Dreams
An exclusive body of work by esteemed photography duo Anderson & Low is a collaboration between the subjects - dedicated followers of the manga aesthetic and culture - and photographers, in which numerous layers of interpretations, translations, exchanges, reproductions and visual executions are involved. Throughout the series, street youth and visual cyber culture clash with contemporary art in a technically and visually discerning interpretation of manga culture. Anderson & Low embrace digital technology and montage layers in this visually exuberant series.
Witness The Night
Winner of the 2010 Costa First Novel Award, this is a highly atmospheric mystery set in India, with the controversial subject of female foeticide at the fore. In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but only just. She is arrested for the murders she is believed to have committed. Visiting social worker Simran attempts to break through the girl's mute trance to discover the truth. Hauntingly real and beautifully atmospheric, this ia a major debut.
Role Models
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favourite personalities - some famous, some unknown. From the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis, here are the figures who helped John Waters form his own brand of neurotic happiness. A personal invitation into one of the most unique artistic minds of the time.
