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Figuring Out The Past
A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
2024 || Paperback || Peter Turchin e.a. || Profile Books Ltd
The numbers that tell the story of humanity
The Shock Of The Old
Technology and Global History since 1900
2023 || Paperback || David Edgerton || Profile Books Ltd
'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time.
Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. I Letters e...
The Digital Silk Road
China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
2024 || Paperback || Jonathan E. Hillman || Profile Books Ltd
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.
Designing Organisations
Why it matters and ways to do it well
2024 || Paperback || Naomi Stanford || Profile Books Ltd
A new approach to structuring a business to support strategy and maximise efficiency.
The Tao of Coaching
Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You
2024 || Paperback || Max Landsberg || Profile Books Ltd
Master The Tao of Coaching with the new edition of this bestselling business classic, completely refreshed and updated and featuring two brand new chapters.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
2024 || Paperback || Professor Shoshana Zuboff || Profile Books Ltd
Surveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every move with the goal of predicting and controlling your behaviour. Under surveillance capitalism you are not the customer or even the product: you are the raw material.
Fabric
The Hidden History of the Material World
2024 || Paperback || Victoria Finlay || Profile Books Ltd
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.
The Handover
How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
2024 || Paperback || David Runciman || Profile Books Ltd
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before.
The Genetic Age
Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
2024 || Paperback || Professor Matthew Cobb || Profile Books Ltd
How fifty years of genetic engineering have brought us to the brink of a profound and disturbing future, from Baillie Gifford-shortlisted scientist Matthew Cobb
The Museum of Other People
From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
2024 || Paperback || Adam Kuper || Profile Books Ltd
A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance - and future - of anthropology museums, from a global expert