Do They Think You're Stupid? 100 Ways of Spotting Spin and Nonsense From the Media, Celebrities and Politicians

Julian Baggini

Originally published as "The Duck that Won the Lottery", this companion volume to "The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten" provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politi...

Fabulously Feisty Queens - 15 of the Brightest and Boldest Women Who Have Ruled the World

Valerie Wilding; Pauline Reeves (Illustrator); Lucy Worsley (Foreword by)

Who needs a Prince Charming when you're busy running the world? Do you know about the fierce and fearsome pirate who dared to challenge the Queen of England? Or the Indian daughter of a slave who became a warrior queen? And what about the Hungarian princess who became a king when she was just 11...? F...