House of Huawei examines the rise of Ren Zhengfei and his family alongside the ascent of Huawei, focusing on the company's ties to China's state apparatus. It recounts the 2018 detention of Meng Wanzhou as a turning point that revealed the family's political prominence and explores how Huawei's technologies intersect with China’s surveillance and security systems. The book considers what these links and Huawei’s global reach mean for business, state power, and international relations.

The Thinking Machine traces Nvidia’s transformation from a maker of video-game graphics chips into the dominant supplier of AI hardware. Stephen Witt follows CEO Jensen Huang, the engineers and business decisions that repurposed GPUs for AI and high-performance computing, and how that shift reshaped industries and practical applications—from supercomputers and robotics to AI-generated media—without revealing key plot points or surprises.

Augustine Sedgewick’s Fatherhood traces how ideas about being a father developed from ancient times to the present, examining the cultural, scientific and social forces that shaped masculinity and family life. Using historical figures and moments as touchpoints, the book explores how sex, money, power and love have influenced fathering and suggests a more caring vision of men’s roles in families.

Helen Lewis examines the myth of the lone "genius," arguing that cultural bias, collaboration, and historical context shape who we label exceptional. Using examples from science, music, and technology, she highlights overlooked contributors, questions whether inventions were inevitable, and reassesses celebrated figures. A concise, provocative look at how we understand creativity and achievement.

In 2011 a GPS-collared wolf named Slavc crossed the Alps from Slovenia into Italy and helped re-establish wolves in the Italian Alps. Journalist Adam Weymouth retraces Slavc’s route on foot, using the wolf’s return to explore local reactions, human–nature conflicts, migration, political tensions, and environmental change. The book uses Slavc’s journey as a lens to consider how movement across borders reshapes communities and landscapes.

Why Q Needs U explores the history, evolution and oddities of the English alphabet, tracing how letters developed their shapes, sounds and roles over centuries. Through short, self-contained chapters it explains everyday puzzles — why Q usually needs a U, why some letters are silent, and how different pronunciations arose — while revealing connections across languages without giving away surprises.

Northern Germany, winter 1945. A boy named Benno sees forced labourers flee one snowy night and keeps a secret he cannot carry alone. Ruth, an English Red Cross officer newly posted to the area, runs a crowded refugee camp where whispers about that night spread. The novel quietly explores how a community's silence, children's curiosity and ordinary choices shape the aftermath of war.

Caribe by Keshia Sakarah is a culinary and cultural exploration of the Caribbean that traces the food histories and traditions of the region. Drawing on years of research and travel, it pairs essays and photography with recipes for everyday and celebratory dishes, highlighting the people and stories behind them.

Chesnok gathers more than 110 recipes from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, drawn from Polina Chesnakova’s Ukrainian, Russian and Armenian family traditions. Featuring dishes such as tkemali, gata, varenyky and golubtsy, the book mixes practical recipes with short essays and profiles that trace the food of her childhood and the broader Soviet diaspora, offering a personal and accessible way to explore regional flavours and family cooking traditions.

A comprehensive, illustrated cookbook that demystifies Japanese home cooking with clear step-by-step instructions, ingredient guides, equipment notes and photos; it covers pantry essentials and core techniques — from making dashi and sushi rice to grilling, steaming, frying and pickling — and provides a wide range of recipes (soups, noodle dishes, tempura, yakitori, bento, sweets and more) along with menu suggestions and seasonal variations to help cooks of all levels prepare authentic Japanese meals at home.

Fusão is a cookbook by Ixta Belfrage that blends traditional Brazilian flavors with modern, inventive twists. It gathers vibrant recipes—ranging from seafood and meat dishes to desserts—alongside practical ingredient substitutions, personal stories, and photography from Brazil.

Allies at War examines the tense, often contentious relationships among the Allied powers in World War II. It shows how mistrust, rivalry and competing postwar aims between Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States—and the influence of smaller countries and diplomats—shaped wartime decisions and helped determine the political order that followed.

In 2010, ten Russian deep-cover agents were arrested in the United States — including married couples who had lived as ordinary Americans for decades and a man posing as a Uruguayan photographer. The book traces the history and methods of Russia’s clandestine "illegals" program, Directorate S, from its early 20th-century origins through the post‑Soviet era, showing how agents built and sustained long-term false identities without revealing plot details.

Set during the 1944–45 siege of Budapest, the book follows the city’s descent from a vibrant, multicultural capital into chaos as front lines close in. Using diaries and archives, it follows a cross-section of residents — aristocrats, soldiers, a teenage Jewish student, a popular entertainer, and a housewife — as they face scarcity, violence, and moral uncertainty while trying to survive.

Peak Human examines seven historical golden ages—ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere—to identify the cultural, scientific, technological and economic factors that enabled their flourishing. Johan Norberg explores common patterns and vulnerabilities in these societies and draws lessons about how progress can be sustained and why prosperous eras eventually falter.

A narrative-driven account that follows the twenty-four hours around a Roman games to illuminate the lives of gladiators and the society that made them central. Through the perspectives of combatants and observers — from slaves to emperors — it explores spectacle, power, servitude, sex, courage and attitudes to death in Roman life, giving a vivid, spoiler-free picture of what a match day really looked like.

The Traitors Circle tells the little-known true story of a secret group in Berlin—army officers, officials, and socialites—who risked everything to hide and help Jewish people and to oppose the Nazi regime. Working in the shadows, their small network carried out rescues and plotted for a different Germany, until a betrayal within the group forced them to confront the risks and moral costs of resistance.

Arctic Passages examines how rapid warming is opening the Arctic—creating new shipping routes and access to seabed resources—and triggering geopolitical competition among major powers. Drawing on historical exploration and contemporary reporting, Kieran Mulvaney explores the consequences of that scramble for Arctic communities, wildlife, and the global climate, and asks how decisions beyond the region will shape its future.

The Highest Exam examines China’s gaokao, the high-stakes national college entrance exam that determines admission for millions each year. Drawing on research and the authors’ personal experiences, it shows how the exam shapes family decisions, schooling, social mobility, and public policy in China, and how expectations tied to the gaokao are influencing debates about assessment and admissions among Chinese-American communities in the United States.

A concise biography of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping, tracing his seven-decade career in the Chinese Communist Party—from revolutionary years and senior roles alongside leaders like Zhou Enlai to his work initiating early reform policies. Drawing on documents and interviews, the book examines how he balanced personal convictions with the Party’s demands and how his experiences illuminate the CCP’s organizational power and its human consequences, while outlining the political legacy that influenced his son.

Righting Wrongs recounts Kenneth Roth’s three decades leading Human Rights Watch, chronicling investigations and campaigns to expose abuses and pressure governments worldwide. Drawing on his personal background and cases from Rwanda, Kuwait, Israel-Palestine, China, Myanmar, Russia-Ukraine and the U.S., Roth explains the strategies—most notably the use of international “shaming”—used to pursue accountability. The book reflects on successes, setbacks, and the ongoing effort to defend human rights globally.

An investigative account of Viktor Bout, the alleged international arms trafficker known as the "Merchant of Death." Scott-Clark traces his global smuggling operations, the long US pursuit that led to his arrest, extradition and 25-year sentence, and his 2022 prisoner exchange and return to Russia. Drawing on interviews with investigators and Bout himself, the book examines his networks and the geopolitical implications of his release.

This book explains the idea of common knowledge—how people form layered beliefs about what others know and what others know they know—and shows how that shared awareness shapes coordination, social rituals, politics, markets, and everyday interactions. Using clear examples from humor, art, and real-world events, it explores the signals that create or mask common knowledge and how those dynamics produce phenomena like panic buying, viral outrage, diplomatic posturing, and awkward personal moments.

A concise biography of physicist Luis W. Alvarez that follows his wide-ranging career—from wartime research and work on the Manhattan Project to innovations in particle physics, archaeological probing, and the development of the asteroid-impact theory for the dinosaurs’ extinction. The book also examines his forceful personality, mentorship, and the scientific controversies and collaborations that shaped his life.