The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth? The

From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep – and why we can’t seem to sleep any more

‘Persuasive, absorbing and refreshingly sane… [A] bracing and important intervention in the debate… Leader points the way to a richer and more humane understanding of our problems with sleep’ Guardian

One in four adults sleeps badly.
Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as have the incidence of sleep clinics.
Sleep used to be a natural state, easy as breathing, but increasingly it is an insecure commodity.
…Isn’t it?

Our relationship to sleep surfaces and resurfaces throughout human history, each time telling us something new about our indivudual and collective psychology. From the industrial revolution to blue-light on our phones, from the ancient art of dream interpretation to the modern science of Freud, sleep is connected to wider social patterns, to shifting norms and expectations. Weaving together cultural, social, economic and psychoanalytic influences, Darian Leader delves into the truth about this universal human experience.

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.

When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?

Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.

Despite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad—that is, irrational—when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as “cognitive errors.” Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all sorts of situations, for problems big and small: whether to choose the apple or the cupcake; whether to keep retirement funds in the stock market when the Dow tanks, or whether to take the advice of a friend over a stranger.

The “behavioral turn” in neuroscience and economics in the past twenty years has increased our understanding of how we think and how we make decisions. It shows how systematic errors mar our thinking and under which conditions our thought processes work best and worst. Evolutionary psychology delivers convincing theories about why our thinking is, in fact, marred. The neurosciences can pinpoint with increasing precision what exactly happens when we think clearly and when we don’t.

Drawing on this wide body of research, The Art of Thinking Clearly is an entertaining presentation of these known systematic thinking errors–offering guidance and insight into everything why you shouldn’t accept a free drink to why you SHOULD walk out of a movie you don’t like it to why it’s so hard to predict the future to why shouldn’t watch the news. The book is organized into 100 short chapters, each covering a single cognitive error, bias, or heuristic. Examples of these concepts include: Reciprocity, Confirmation Bias, The It-Gets-Better-Before-It-Gets-Worse Trap, and the Man-With-A-Hammer Tendency. In engaging prose and with real-world examples and anecdotes, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.

In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.

‘21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book’ Adam Kay

How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children?

Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change.
Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?

‘Fascinating… compelling… [Harari] has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century’ Bill Gates, New York Times

‘Truly mind-expanding… Ultra-topical’ Guardian

ضريبة الشعبية الهائلة لأي فنان هي ضمان أن يساء فهمه. يعرف الناس ظاهريا عن
رواية «ألف وتسعمئة وأربعة وثمانون» أكثر مما يعرفونها بالفعل.
هذا الكتاب محاولة لاستعادة بعض التوازن عن طريق شرح عما تدور حوله رواية
أورويل حقا، وظروف کتابتها، وكيف غيرت العالم على مدى سبعين السنة
الماضية بعد رحيل مؤلفها. بالتأكيد لا يقتصر معنى أي عمل فني على مقاصد
مبدعه، لكن في حالتنا هذه، تستحق مقاصد أورويل – التي كثيرا ما شوهت وأهمله
إعادة النظر، إذا ما أردنا أن يفهم الكتاب بصفته كتابا، لا مجرد منبع نافع لا ينضب
الحالات الشعبية الساخرة. إنه عمل فني ووسيلة لفهم العالم على حد سواء.
هذه إذا قصة كتاب «ألف وتسعمئة وأربعة وثمانون». لقد كتبت سير عديدة لچورچ
أورويل، وأجريت بعض الدراسات الأكاديمية عن السياق الفكري لكتابه، لكن لم تجر
محاولة من قبل لدمج الأمرين في سرد واحد، مع محاولة استكشاف صيرورة الكتاب
أيضا. أنا مهتم بحياة أورويل لأنها في المقام الأول وسيلة لإلقاء الضوء على التجارب
والأفكار التي غدت کابوسه الشخصي هذا، الذي دمر فيه بشكل منهجي كل ما كان
يقدره: الصدق والنزاهة والعدالة والذاكرة والتاريخ والشفافية والخصوصية
والفطرة السليمة والتعقل وإنجلترا والحب. سأتقفي أثر أورويل عبر قصف لندن
وقوات الحرس الوطني وهيئة الإذاعة البريطانية ولندن الثقافية وأوروبا المنهكة بعد
الحرب، وصولا إلى جزيرة چورا حيث كتب روايته أخيرا، كي أهدم الأسطورة التي
تقول: إن «ألف وتسعمئة وأربعة وثمانون» كانت نحيبا طويلا سببه اليأس، صدر عن
رجل وحيد يحتضر غير قادر على مواجهة المستقبل. أريد أن ألفت الانتباه إلى ما
كان يفكر فيه حقا، وكيف تأتي له هذا التفكير.

بولين

مع بولين، يوقع دوما على رواية مشبعة بالرومانسية وراسخة حقا في عصره.
ويذهب المؤلف إلى أبعد من ذلك حين يضع نفسه ضمن شخصيات روايته
ورفاقه والحياة الباريسية في ذلك العصر. وعلى عكس العديد من روايات
دوما، فإن الإطار التاريخي السياسي قد أغفل تماما هنا (على الرغم من
الاضطرابات العديدة التي ميزت هذه الفترة، وتخلى الكاتب عن أبطاله
الأسطوريين المعتادین

While Living at Squire Gordon’s country estate, the spirited young horse, Black Beauty, is well taken care of and happy. But when the squire is forced to sell his horses, Black Beauty’s life changes as he is passed form one cruel master to another. After much hardship and perserverance, Black Beauty finally finds a home full of love and kindness. This easy to read adaptation of the classic novel is guaranteed to hook beginning readers not yet ready to tackle the original.

The Wipe Clean: Learn Your Times Tables. Activity for early learning.