Asking questions about human motivation and living and reaching some conclusions, this book aims to be at the heart of things we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams.

This account of US history from the bottom up tells the real story of the people, rather than the flag-waving official story.

Explores three prominent and little understood features of globalisation: drugs, pornography and migrant labour. This work traces the history of the contemporary war on drugs from its origins in Reagan's social conservatism to its profound impact on civil society. It features tales such as An Empire of the Obscene and In the Strawberry Fields .

Tells you things you need to know about how the great and the good put one over on us. This title is suitable for those who wonder why politicians and big business are lying to them and wanted to know how they get away with it.

American democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which is why so many other nations are eager for it to be imposed on them. But just what exactly is it? Jon Stewart and his fellow patriots from the Emmy-winning The Daily Show finally deliver the answer. They offer their insights into a unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes,

This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.