Shakespeare, Hitchcock, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Gandhi, the Mona Lisa, Michael Jackson, Audrey Hepburn, John F. Kennedy, Van Gogh, Madonna, Einstein and Muhammad Ali are the 20 iconic portraits to complete yourself by following the absolutely teeny weeny numbers on each huge page. Bright white paper, the numbers are in colour but you really could need a magnifying glass or your reading glasses on! Pavitte is a graphic designer from New Zealand who has completed the most complex dot-to-dot ever, a reconstruction of the Mona Lisa that features 6,239 dots and takes at least nine hours to complete. Thankfully these are simplified to just 1000 dots which take a satisfyingly long time to complete and may look good on your wall. 'Answers' at the back. 30cm (12") x 42cm (16½"). Softback.

Sub-titled 'Extraordinary Partnership Between Humans and Dogs', the popular TV nature presenter is a lifelong animal lover. Now living on an idyllic farm in Wales, Kate has achieved her dream of surrounding herself with as many varieties as possible, but as with many Brits, the dog has always held a special place in her heart. Here she uses her journey with her sheepdog puppy Teg to frame her examination of this very special relationship and her book is packed full of stories about rescue dogs, guide dogs, service dogs and medical dogs. Kate's journey takes her to the mountains of Afghanistan, a prison in Scotland, and a unique research centre in Austria. Meet ex-Royal Marine Jon with his chocolate Labrador Jester, Marjory with her beloved ex-guide dog Mouse, Colonel Neil Smith and his retired IED detection dog Fire, and many more people whose dogs have changed and saved countless lives by working together with their owners, handlers and human companions. Inspiring, eye-opening and heart warming by the writer and broadcaster specialising in science, wild life and rural affairs. A companion to Humble by Nature code 92848. 308pp, paperback, photos.

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the 20th century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936. But its ideas had been forming for decades ? as a student at Cambridge, Keynes had written to a friend of his love for 'Free Trade and free thought'. Keynes's limpid style, concise prose, and vivid descriptions have helped to keep his ideas alive - as have the novelty and clarity, at times even the ambiguity, of his macroeconomic vision. He was troubled, above all, by high unemployment rates and large disparities in wealth and income. Only by curbing both, he thought, could individualism, ?the most powerful instrument to better the future', be safeguarded. The 21st century may yet prove him right. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Keynes elegantly and acutely exposes the folly of imposing austerity on a defeated and struggling nation. 538 page paperback.

The capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 Vienna consisted of some 15 nations and drew in many artists and intellectuals in a creative melting pot. In rapid succession Historicism, Art Nouveau and Expressionism developed as the dominant art styles and these emerged from typical Viennese themes. One of the first images in this sumptuous volume is of Gustav Klimt's Auditorium of the Opera House and Theatre followed by colour photographs of modern Viennese architecture, sepia postcards before this magnificent gallery of portraits by artists like Hans Makart of a beautiful female pianist and singer, a Caught Ball, idyllic family scenes with children, Leopold Carl Müller's Camel Market in Cairo, the sensuous Woman in Yellow by Max Kurzweil and his romantic A Walk in the Garden, the stunning gold iconography of Klimt, his Yearning for Happiness, poster art, Garden with Sunflowers, A Church in Cassone, his graphic Sitting Male nude and Two Girlfriends, self-portraits and nudes by Egon Schiele, nude male studies by Koloman Moser and much more architectural legacies photographed in colour, plus interiors and design, greetings cards, fashion and more. The turn of the 20th century was a fascinating period in Vienna, as Austria-Hungary's capital on the Danube became a leading centre of modernism, defined by styles of Art Nouveau, historicism and Expressionism, all with a touch of typical Viennese morbidity. Artists like Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann dreamed of forging a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artistic expression, in which not just design, architecture and crafts were combined, but also art and life itself. In this sumptuously illustrated album, art historian Janina Nentwig explores such major movements in Vienna as the Vienna Secession, themes of sex and Eros and death in painting, the construction of the Ring Road, ornamentation and architecture, and objects of everyday beauty from the Wiener Werkstätte. Oozing with hundreds of colour photos. 320 pages, softback, 21 x 24cm.
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As the threats of AI loom large, we must all earn how to think alongside our silicon counterparts. Discover the unexpected advantage of the AI age. There is so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it might be tempting to surrender to our robot overlords right away, but Mubeen isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. As far as he is concerned, we have an edge over machines. Our own superpower is a remarkable system of thought developed over the centuries. Familiar to us all, but often badly taught and misrepresented in popular discourse, this system has a name - mathematics. Mathematicians have always seized upon the latest technologies to enhance their own thinking skills. Computers may reign supreme when it comes to totting up sums and spotting patterns, but Mubeen identifies seven areas of mathematical intelligence where humans can retain a crucial advantage. In exploring these areas, he opens up a fascinating world in which we can develop our uniquely human abilities. Topics covered are estimation where tribes only count to four, where babies outsmart computers and why we underestimate pandemics. He looks at the dogness of dogs, how mathematicians paint ideas, and the blind spots of computers; when stories fool us, why machines can't be trusted, and how to tell eternal truths; why spoilsports deserve more credit, how mathematics gets reinvented, and the truths computers will never discover; and why speed is overrated and the wisdom of 'sleeping on it'. Finally he looks at an unlikely mathematical duo, how ants get their intelligence, and the quest for a super-mathematician. 339pp, graphs and illus.

An ingenious pre-cut cardboard kit which creates a layered landscape and hand-drawn icons which makes traffic move and brings London to life. The London Eye, Nelson's Column, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Post Office Tower and Big Ben, the Bank of England and city skyscrapers, there are full instructions of which pieces to glue together and piece to the base top or on to the back of buses which should shake when turned! Also a crowd can move too and finally when your model is ready, turn the handle and watch the wheel of the ginormous blue London Eye rotate with a tube train below. A quality National Gallery product, large resealable wallet. Colour.

Sister of the former Prime Minister Boris, Rachel Johnson was appointed Editor of the oldest women's magazine in the world. 'All I knew about The Lady was what all middle-class mothers of a certain age and income bracket knew about The Lady. It was where you got your nanny from. End of.' Facing the challenge of a lifetime, Rachel tried to find out how to become an editor when she really never had edited before. How do you turn around a venerable title, full of gloomy articles on watery eyes and ads for walk-in baths into a totally cookin' property? And during the worst recession ever. And forget about doubling the circulation in a year. What on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last 15 years sitting at home in sweatpants? As Rachel puts on her best Bree Van de Kamp silk blouse and penetrates the time-capsule six-storey cream and pink HQ in Covent Garden, with its Fred West basement, Ladies' Smoking Room, Anne Frank annexe and wall-safe filled with custard creams, she soon realises that if The Lady was ever to become more hip than hip replacement, it would need emergency surgery, fast. Here is Rachel's riotous and alarmingly frank account as she redesigns the magazine, persuades big names to write for peanuts, attempts to sell advertising space to bewildered executives and tackles her dreaded in-tray. Will she sink or survive? We think that she meant well but she really is an insufferable snob in the opinion of many readers. Read at your peril! 323pp. Illus.

Set in 1979 amidst the blizzards and power cuts and struggles for Scottish independence and political unrest of the day, Cambridge graduate from Fife Allie Burns is working as a journalist for the Glasgow Daily Clarion. She runs into colleague Danny Sullivan on the train and they team up in an investigation into an international tax fraud which gets them noticed. Together they expose the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland but risk making powerful enemies, but Allie won't stop there. She discovers a home-grown terrorist threat and comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she is a female journalist in a man's world and putting a foot wrong could be fatal. With all the dark atmosphere of a rather gloomy Glasgow riddled with alleys and where much drink is taken, McDermid herself was a newshound at the time and it shows. This is her best book in years. 418pp in glamorous hardback with fairly large print.

By the author of the bestselling Cromwell series and 'The Mirror and the Light', this suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour and even darker secrets and has now made it on to the Collins Modern Classics series. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman. She knows the terrors the next life holds, but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists. The novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. 451pp, paperback.

An adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series which has readers hooked. Can he uncover their deadly plot before time runs out? When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives to find the recipient dead, brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic's secrets. But he's not the only one with an interest. The Guild of Night, a dangerous and vengeful cult, is determined to bring the Church to its knees, and the basin holds the power to do just that. In a frantic cat-and-mouse chase across the country, Mason battles to unravel the conspiracy before devastating power falls into the wrong hands. For the Guild of Night will protect itself at all costs, and its members have secrets they are willing to kill for. But in Mason have they met their match? 338pp, paperback.