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Japan's fascinating culture of track cycling

A trailblazing journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action all depend on 'maps' etched into your gray matter - and how technology can use these maps to read your mind.

The heartbreaking, liberating truth about what racism has cost all of us.

In 2021, GW Pharmaceuticals plc was sold for $7.2 billion (£5.2 billion), but Dr Geoffrey Guy started it with just a licence from the UK Home Office and his personal cheque book. A Worthwhile Medicine tells the story of how and why he persuaded reluctant health regulators, sceptical investors and a conservative medical establishment that cannabis really could form the basis for a modern pharmaceutical - which he defines as 'a worthwhile medicine that can make money'. He had built up one publicly quoted pharmaceutical company only to have to step down from the top job after a failed attempt to float on the UK stock market. Undeterred, he started another venture after hearing heartrending tales of how multiple sclerosis sufferers were being denied symptom-relief because cannabis was a prohibited drug. He believed the answer was not to change the law and decriminalise recreational drugs but to create a licensed medicine from cannabis that doctors could prescribe safely for their patients. Looking to the future, Dr Guy has established a foundation to explore the exciting new area of quantum biology - the science of sub-atomic particles - which is completely changing our understanding of the ways in which all life functions.

Companion to the BBC series CIVILISATIONS. screening on SBS from December 2018.

The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career.

An overview of post-Covid economics and the possible future of decarbonisation.

Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a Surrealist master of the form.

Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up. Why was cute the aesthetic best able to ride the waves of globalisation, from Edwardian childrens literature to Disney to Hello Kitty and the general explosion of kawaii branded goods? Dale argues that cultural cross-fertilisation in a competitive market drove designers to home in on some of the most powerful psychological triggers we have - the ones that elicit our care and protection.

A bestselling author tries to rehabillitate a much-maligned field.

Another bestselling collection of astonishing explainers from The Economist.

In the bleak midwinter ... murder awaits.The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime stories you're more likely to come across a corpse under the Christmas tree than a present. From a Santa Claus with a secret to a violent theft that snowballs into something quite unexpected, pull up a chair, throw another log on the fire ... and let history's greatest crime writers surprise, delight and chill you to the bone.

The latest comprehensive overview of the forces at work in the world of commodities.

A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season.