Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

With their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, Guy Claxton shows why today's schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, Claxton proves that education's key responsibility should be to create con...

On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow, or envisaged that four years later, in April 1593, the Throckmorton...

SELF-HELP & PRACTICAL INTERESTS. Do you know how to change a tyre? Give a speech? Or shave without leaving a nasty rash? How about ironing a shirt? Urinal etiquette? Stuck on the verge of a major motorway with a punctured tyre after swerving to avoid a low-flying pigeon, Gareth was confronted wit...

Have you ever read the Bible only to come away confused? Ever wondered if God actually had you in mind when He began telling His story? Though life may not be going according to your plan, God has another one: far better than you can imagine. From Genesis to Revelation, experience His invitation ...

HISTORY OF ART: C 500 CE TO C 1400. "The Book of Kells" is a masterpiece of medieval art a brilliantly decorated copy of the four Gospels with full-page depictions of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists as well as a wealth of smaller decorative painting that does not always relate to the sacre...

GHOSTS & POLTERGEISTS. This book includes some of the tales that are ones the stars themselves confided, and others that tell of stars whose spirits have left Hollywood but have shown up to haunt other places around America.

Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewilderin...

Examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. Challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do, and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers.

Features amazing case studies of real people embarking on life-changing spiritual journeys: returning to past lives as a Viking, a German WWII soldier, a slave in the American South... reuniting with soul mates and spirit guides... and communing with their immortal souls. As gems of self-knowledg...