Simon Slater

It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, co-author of the bestselling book Factfulness, the most popular researcher of our time. How I Learned to Understand the World is Hans Rosling's own story, which he wrote while working on Factfulness in the months before his death, of how he became a revolutionary thinker, and takes us from the swelter of an emergency clinic...

An eye-opening examination of the stupid things smart people do-and how to cultivate skills to protect ourselves from error. "As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better he is educated, the easier it has been to mystify him" (Harry Houdini to Arthur Conan Doyle). Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else- they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the "intelligence trap," the subject...

"A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is...