Becoming Enlightened

Dalai Lama

Happily, we do not have to remain trapped by the past. His Holiness reveals how life-enhancing Buddhist practices, as relevant today as they have ever been, can help us break free from the cycles of suffering that ensnare us. He encourages us to broaden our outlook and to adjust our personal values. And...

How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum

Mitchell Symons

Did you know: The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years). Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers. Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of their short...

Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape Our Lives

Jesse J. Prinz

We are constantly told that human traits - from aggression to gender differences - are 'hardwired'. In Beyond Human NatureJesse J. Prinz reveals that it is the societies we live in, not our genes, that determine how we think and feel. From why mental illness differs so widely between cultures to how geo...

Motherlands

Si Spurrier

In a crazed future where unhinged technologies and interconnected parallel Earths have given rise to a spectacular class of super-criminal, the most beloved celebrities aren't actors or rock stars, but the bounty hunters who traverse an exotic multiverse in search of impossible prey But when the spotli...