Social media is supposed to bring us together - but it is tearing us apart The evidence suggests it's making us sadder, angrier, less empathetic, more fearful, …
Essential reading.' Jamie Bartlett, author of The People vs Tech'A magisterial guide to the impact of the digital revolution on our institutions and our lives.' Anthony Giddens
An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of …
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with …
**Shortlisted for the 2017 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards****Shortlisted for the 2018 FortnumMason Food Book Award**'The next Bill Bryson.' New York TimesFood and travel …
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.
In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. you can't stop …
Tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor …
