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A celebration of neurodiversity - meet nine extraordinary people on the autism spectrum

From the bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY and THINKING IN NUMBERS

'Bursting with feeling and possibility' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Nine Minds offers something that autistic people urgently need: it humanises us' KATHERINE MAY

'Tammet's exquisite portraits remind us that the variety of brains is  every bit as essential as any other form of diversity' ANDREW SOLOMON

'A book as beautiful as the minds it portrays' AMY TAN

A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience of autism. A quirky boy growing up in 1950s Ottawa sows the seeds of his future Hollywood stardom. In the US, a non-verbal man explores body language, gesture by eloquent gesture, in his mother's yoga classes. 

Nine Minds delves into the extraordinary lives of nine neurodivergent men and women from around the globe. From a Fields Medal-winning mathematician to a murder detective, a pioneering surgeon to a bestselling novelist, each is remarkable in their field, and each is changing how the world sees those on the spectrum.

Exploding the tired stereotypes of autism, Daniel Tammet - acclaimed author and an autistic savant himself - reaches across the divides of age, gender, sexuality and nationality to draw out the inner worlds of his subjects. Telling stories as richly diverse as the spectrum itself, this illuminating, life-affirming work of narrative nonfiction celebrates the power and beauty of the neurodivergent mind, and the daring freedom with which these individuals have built their lives.  

'Nine Minds reminds us of the diversity within neurodiversity' GRAEME SIMSION

Tammet D: Nine Minds / B

Nine Minds

Inner Lives on the Spectrum - THE INSTANT BESTSELLER

Challenges and Opportunities for Neurodiverse Teams

Neurodiversity in Companies

Very Short Introductions

Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works are tragic and funny, impassioned and ironic, obsessed with philosophical seeking and attuned to the details of everyday life. Melville engaged the pressing issues of his day, from economic inequality and the American slavery crisis to the rise of science and the fragility of democracy. He dwelled on timeless questions about loneliness and intimacy, moral and political responsibility, the limits of our knowledge and agency, and the place of human beings within nature and the cosmos. Melville's life was dramatic, and his career improbable. He was born into privilege, fell into poverty as an adolescent, hunted whales and lived with the Tai Pi people of Polynesia, served in the United States Navy, skyrocketed to fame as a novelist, ruined his career by challenging religious, political, sexual, and artistic conventions, reinvented himself as a poet, and died in relative obscurity just as readers began to appreciate his genius. The scope and diversity of Melville's literature reflects an artist of restless ambition. Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction helps readers explore the richness of his work.

A Very Short Introduction

Herman Melville

"More than inspiring anecdotes. It provides a toolkit and is a really nice balance of personal story, scientific study and practical lesson." -- Scottish Mountaineer Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. Mollie Hughes has explored some of the wildest environments on earth, from the top of Mount Everest to the vast frozen continent of Antarctica, where at the age of 29 she skied solo from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole in a journey of over 700 miles through storm-force winds, eight-day whiteouts and temperatures as low as minus 45 degrees Celsius. With reference to her all-extreme experiences, and backed with psychological research, Breathe encompasses tales of bravery, risk and pressure on an epic scale and expertly turns them into valuable lessons that can be applied to more everyday challenges. In doing so, Mollie shows how we can unlock our potential, regulate emotion, overcome fear, cope with psychological pressure and understand the importance of silence and headspace in our mental wellbeing.

Life Lessons from the Edge of the World

Breathe

Only a teenager when her beloved father was murdered, shot outside their home by his political opponents, as an adult Fatima Bhutto longed to build a happy family life. When she met a charismatic, alluring man, she thought she had found something special. The man promised to take away her pain; all she had to do was believe in him. This is the story of how Fatima freed herself from the tight coils of the man's manipulative charm and his dangerous, intoxicating hold over her. It's a tale that crosses continents, and travels into myth, literature, astronomy and art. By Fatima's side for the entire journey is Coco: a small, ferociously loyal Jack Russell terrier. In The Hour of the Wolf, Fatima Bhutto weaves wolf ethnography with her own suppressed maternal instinct; care for pregnant Coco with coercive attachments; and the power of found families with an exploration of humanity's connection to nature. The result is a memoir as intellectually compelling as it is intimate and evocative, and that has at its heart the simple truth that love can and should be free of pain.

The Hour of the Wolf

A whip-smart, funny, and timely memoir about one worker’s 12 years at Google and her journey from buying in to buying out, and being radicalized in a sea of false promises, fake work, and bad bosses.Hugely clever and uncanny, Don't Be Evil&nbsp;is a biting look back at a surreal era in tech, asking: How do we disentangle ourselves from work, when work demands our whole self? For readers of How to Do Nothing and Careless People, Stapleton's candid book grapples with what it means to find a sense of identity and power beyond our jobs, in a culture that tells us our career is who we are.

A whip-smart, funny, and timely memoir about one worker’s 12 years at Google and her journey from buying in to buying out, and being radicalized in a sea of false promises, fake work, and bad bosses.Hugely clever and uncanny, Don't Be Evil&nbsp;is a biting look back at a surreal era in tech, asking: How do we disentangle ourselves from work, when work demands our whole self? For readers of How to Do Nothing and Careless People, Stapleton's candid book grapples with what it means to find a sense of identity and power beyond our jobs, in a culture that tells us our career is who we are.

Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech

Don't Be Evil

Jewish Lives

An absorbing portrait of Edmond de Rothschild, who defied his class to help build a nation-and found his identity in the processEdmond de Rothschild (1845-1934) was born into one of the wealthiest families in history, but his legacy lies beyond banking, art, and aristocratic privilege. In this compelling biography, award-winning historian and journalist James McAuley tells the story of a man who defied his elite world to support a radical cause: the creation of a Jewish homeland.Drawing on rare access to archives-including Rothschild's own long-lost memoir-McAuley reveals how and why this reserved French aesthete became a driving force in the early Zionist settlement of Palestine. Rothschild's journey from the salons of Paris to the fields of Eretz Israel is a tale of emotional awakening, political conviction, and personal transformation-of a man's search for a cause and discovery of himself.

Finding Zion

Edmond de Rothschild

Hari Kumar

Meet HARI KUMAR, superstar-in-the-making, in this laugh-out-loud doodle-packed diary series for 8+ readers.'Hari is my favourite type of character. A warm, witty and cleverly observed story' Louie Stowell, author of Loki'Funny, fresh and relatable - Hari Kumar really isa superstar' A. F. Steadman, author of the Skandar seriesHari Kumar: 10 years old, 75% Indian, 25% French, and 100% going to be a superstar. All Hari needs to make it big is a lucky break - a chance to get his name out there. And when that arrives in the form of a film festival competition at school, it's Hari's chance to shine.But life isn't always like the movies. The new kid Hari thought would be his sidekick turns out to have the makings of a true villain, the crack team he's assembled have minds of their own, and censorship (in the form of the Deputy Head Teacher) is looming. Can Hari keep things together and pull off an epic comeback, or will his film-making debut be cancelled before it's even released...?Packed full of friendship, doodles and draaaaama, this series is perfect for fans of TOM GATES and LOKI!

Hari Kumar, Ultimate Superstar

'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Absorbing and often very moving' - Peter Parker, Spectator 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . .' So began the letter penned by Roger Butler and sent to several British newspaper editors - some of whom were so shocked they thought it was a hoax - in June 1960. Writing such a letter seven years before the decriminalisation of homosexuality was a radical and dangerous move. It was a risk that set a major milestone in the fight for gay rights - one that has been almost entirely forgotten. This is the story of the first man to come out voluntarily, using his own name, to the entire British public, a decade before activists started petitioning gay people everywhere to 'come out proud'. Taking us through a criminalised underworld of gay pubs, parties and activist meetings, The Light of Day charts how Roger helped bring about the legalisation of homosexuality, but soon found himself marginalised from the movement he kickstarted after losing his sight in his early 30s. Enter Christopher - a student asked to visit and read to an old, blind man at the beginning of a new century. As their intergenerational friendship bloomed, Roger came to trust Christopher with his most precious possession: memoirs of his revolutionary past, locked away in his home. After Roger's death, Christopher opened a series of unsent letters, left in a pink folder, addressed to him. They contained Roger's final wish, for Christopher finally to bring his remarkable, hidden story into the light of day. 'Remarkable . . . a splendidly sprawling part biography, part autobiography, part history and part social commentary . . . the result, a true account, benefits greatly from a lightness, a candour untethered to any agenda or argument' - Times Literary Supplement 'Faithfully and beautifully told' - Mail on Sunday

the moving true story of the first man to come out as gay

The Light of Day

Revealing the people behind the Rothschild name, The Rothschilds explores the lives and legacy of one of the best-known and most impactful families in modern history The Rothschild name has long been synonymous with wealth and privilege, but as Jews the family has also been dogged by prejudice and hatred. Antisemitism followed them from their earliest beginnings in the oppressive Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt, where Jews were not allowed out after nightfall, to the lofty summits of high finance, art, and culture. However, behind the myths, the glamor, and the conspiracy theories are a group of relatives whose individualism, personalities and occasional eccentricities have been obscured by their shared surname. In The Rothschilds, Harry Freedman delves into their lives on a historical tour, marked as much by dry British humor as by an unfailing attention to the influence of individual family members on world events. Freedman takes us from the genesis of the Rothschild international banking empire to the impact of individual Rothschilds in multiple fields over the past 250 years. Spanning war, politics and the industrial revolution, art, architecture and interior design, zoology, smuggling, counter-terrorism and the ongoing struggle against entrenched anti-Jewish bigotry, he reveals a truly new story of a very old family. The Rothschilds makes a great contribution not only to Jewish history but also our understanding of a dynasty that has shaped our world. &nbsp;

The Untold Story

The Rothschilds

What can anthroposophy, a spiritual movement started by Rudolf Steiner more than a hundred years ago, offer an ailing world? Much, very much, it turns out.This volume is a collection of inspiring and fascinating biographical and autobiographical essays by and about people who have successfully applied, in different ways, the fundamental insights of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science to social and practical life: in education, agriculture, business, caring for others, working towards peace, and more. From transforming a business, to starting one of the first CSAs in the United States, to working with inner city youth in Detroit or working for peace in war-torn countries, each writer relates their inner and outer journey, revealing the threads of destiny which led each person to engage with the needs and suffering of the world.The essays collected here by Christopher Schaefer are meant to help and inspire the healing of social life now, out of the life stories of individuals who have not only been "moved" by social concerns, and destiny, but have themselves taken action and moved things forward.

Life Stories of Social Engagement: Anthroposophy and Social Reform

Moved by Destiny

DK Human Body Guides

This new edition of the award-winning The Brain Book uses the latest findings from neuroscience research and brain-imaging technology to take you on a journey into the human brain. Artworks and scans reveal the brain's anatomy in unprecedented detail. Step-by-step sequences unravel and simplify complex processes, such as how nerves transmit signals and how a memory is laid down and recalled. The book answers fundamental and compelling questions about the brain and cognitive neuroscience, such as what it means to be conscious and what happens in the brain when we use language to communicate. It also explains the brain's resilience and neuroplasticity - the ability to constantly adapt and reorganize neural connections to learn new skills or to cope with traumatic brain injuries. Written by award-winning author Rita Carter, this is an accessible reference book to a fascinating part of the human body. Thanks to improvements in scanning technology, our understanding of the brain is changing fast. Now in its fourth edition, The Brain Book draws on the latest information to provide a fascinating guide to one of science's most exciting frontiers.

A Visual Guide to Structure and Function

The Brain Book

THE NAIL-BITING NOVEL OF FRIENDSHIP, RIVALRY AND THE THIN LINE BETWEEN INFATUATION AND OBSESSION. For fans of Eliza Clark, Lucy Rose and Alice Slater 'An increasingly dark, twisted fantasy. I couldn't put it down' Chloe Michelle Howarth, author of Sunburn 'Thrilling, seductive, toxic, wild' Reader Review 'I devoured it' Heather Darwent 'Cracking . . . A great read about friendship, devotion and obsession' Reader Review 'Will sink its teeth into you . . . oozes with sass and seduction' Vikki Patis --- Cat and Louise. Louise and Cat. And now Henry . . . Louise lives in Cat's shadow. (When Cat lets her.) But who wouldn't want to. Cat is rich, beautiful and sexy. She's even brought unruly Henry to heel. Louise, in their golden company, is smitten. But Cat is careless. She can be an unfaithful friend. A disloyal lover. A danger to all who worship her . . . Nevertheless, Louise would do anything for Cat. And so when Henry crosses a line, and Cat needs rescuing, she turns to Louise. But even she is stunned by Cat's proposal . . . PRAISE FOR EMMA MEDRANO: 'Emotionally intelligent and thought-provoking. Raw and compelling' Daily Mail 'A thought-provoking, quietly devastating novel about loneliness and what people will do to belong' Red 'Sharp, sublime, and achingly hopeful. I loved it' Chris Whitaker, author of ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK 'A searing exploration into the shape of loneliness and how far we'll go to create connections' Heather Darwent, author of THE THINGS WE DO TO OUR FRIENDS and A SHARP SCRATCH

Venus Fly Trap

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