From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, this book reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us. It explains how the economy is the result of complex and unpredictable processes; how risk models go astray; and, why the economy is not rational or fair.

From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, this book reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us. It explains how the economy is the result of complex and unpredictable processes; how risk models go astray; and, why the economy is not rational or fair.

Einstein's Masterwork puts Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in the context of his life and work, and shows why his greatest year was indeed 1915.

'The master of popular science writing' (Sunday Times) on an incredible year for modern physics - 1915.

Mark Forsyth's 'sparkling' (Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph) and idiosyncratically brilliant third book.

Mark Forsyth's 'sparkling' (Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph) and idiosyncratically brilliant third book.

The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

Benjamin Franklin's Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity