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Christendom
the Triumph of a religion
2023 || Hardcover || Peter Heather || Allen Lane
'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times
'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review
'A page-turner' The Spectator
*A major new reinterpretation of Christendom, by one of our foremost medieval historians*
In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almos...
Diplomacy Ends at Midnight
he Long Return of Hong Kong to China
2022 || Hardcover || Delena Wright || Allen Lane
The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handover
British Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunion with China, when its 99-year leasehold on much of the colony's territory expired. 25 years ago, Britain did not want to return Hong Kong to its once and future owner, and most Hong Kongers d...
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An All-Consuming History of Energy
2024 || Hardcover || Jean-Baptiste Fressoz || Allen Lane
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one.
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Chernobyl Roulette
a War Story
2024 || Hardcover || Serhii Plokhy || Allen Lane
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Ru...
Why Machines Learn
the Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
2024 || Hardcover || Anil Ananthaswamy || Allen Lane
Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the intricacies of quantum systems.
We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries...
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
2024 || Hardcover || David Graeber || Allen Lane
Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively e...