You know less than you think you do - about what makes you healthy, what makes you rich, who you should date, where you should live. You know less than you think you do about how to raise your children, or, for that matter, whether you should have children in the first place. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz showed how big data is revolutionising the social sciences. He shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions we...

Presents over one hundred suggestions for inexpensive happiness-inducing activities, including many free options, organized into such categories as schadenfreude, calories of contentment, and shameless consumerism.

The co-founder of Women Thrive Worldwide documents her advocacy work in three impoverished nations, evaluating broad poverty-inducing forces while describing how women she has met have successfully overcome restrictive systems.

It is the height of the Cold War, and Francis and Carroll-two CIA "legends" dubbed "The Sisters Death and Night" by their associates-plot the perfect crime. They deftly lure The Potter-former head of the Russian's KGB espionage school-into revealing the identity of his most talented student, an assassin called "The Sleeper." The Sisters covertly send the Sleeper on a treacherous and near-impossible assignment, while the Potter races against time stop...

Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions...