David Shaw sees himself as an Average Joe. He grew up an average kid in an average neighbourhood in Ayrshire. Like many an Average Joe, he does ordinary things: goes to work, supports his local football team, puts the world to rights over a pint. But this Average Joe is anything but average. Styling himself ‘spiritcounsellor’, he shares with us an extraordinary journey through the twilight world. Blessed with the ability to see and hear those who’ve passed on, and, helped by his spirit gui...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThis book is for beginners who wish to start using Nmap, who have experience as a system administrator or of network engineering, and who wish to get started with Nmap.What you will learnLearn about the inner workings of networks and the importance of portsRun a basic or default scan to detect services using NmapRun an advanced scan with Nmap to designate different types of scansDe...

Now in paperback: The epic story of how, amid two World Wars, history's greatest physicists redefined reality—and ignited the atomic age"A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era."— The Wall Street JournalThere may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others—came togethe...

A retelling of the classic tale of a tailor whose boast about killing seven flies at one blow leads him to even greater feats.

How do we manage to transition to a more sustainable world without the collapse of the economy?Capitalism has brought about many positive things. At the same time, however, it is ruining the climate and the environment, so that humanity’s very existence is now at risk. ‘Green growth’ is supposed to be the saviour, but economics expert and bestselling author Ulrike Herrmann disagrees. In this book, she explains in a clear and razor-sharp manner why we need ‘green sh...

We know that we must change ourselves and the world if we want to survive. So why do we cling to old habits and false certainties instead of embracing change now?In New Beginnings, Stefan Klein delves into the most pressing problems facing our world — from the climate crisis to the rapid development of artificial intelligence — and investigates why individuals and societies often resist necessary changes, despite knowing the risks of inaction.Blend...

Featuring an extract from Giulia Ender's new book, Organ Speak.**INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAS SEEN ON NETFLIX'S HACK YOUR HEALTH: THE SECRETS OF YOUR GUT'The world's most surprising page-turner.'Anna Murphy, The Times**Our gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet we know very little about how it works and many of us are too embarrassed to ask questions.In Gut, science star and medical doct...

After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja Göpel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in.Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will change fundamentally, because things we have taken for granted about the environment, the economy, politics, society, and technology are crumbling. In We Ca...

A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself.The West is under pressure, and it has only itself to blame. Over the past thirty years, through a mixture of naivety and arrogance, it has lost its global advantage. The challenges are profound: the rise of China, climate change, and the polarisation of society. It’s time for a new start: modernity must become su...

Why do diets fail? Is it because of genetic disposition? A sluggish metabolism? An underactive thyroid?A behavioural psychologist reveals the truth about dieting, including how she lost over 100lb in one year.After years of failed diets Dr Nadja Hermann weighed over 23 stone at the age of 30. All her life, she had heard and read about hundreds of reasons why diets wouldn't work for her. But when her weight started to seriously affect her he...

A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout the environment or within society, our systems are under stress.In this book, Maja Göpel, co-founder of the Scienti...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates planning as an international discipline and practice with an important role to play in delivering sustainable development across different scales in diverse global contexts. A series of chapters covers past episodes of international influence and exchange in planning, key concepts, research strategies, methods in contemporary international plann...