William Davies

“Deeply researched and pithily argued.” —New York Magazine

“A brilliant, and sometimes eerie, dissection” of ‘the science of happiness’ and the modern-day commercialization of our most private emotions (Vice)

Why are we so obsessed with measuring happiness?
 
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at...

In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary...

A story about the events leading up to the sword-fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends. Lover, fighter, and outlaw Puss in Boots is off on the adventure of his nine lives as he teams up with Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Dumpty for the ultimate showdown with the notorious Jack and Jill. Here's the true story of the cat, the myth, the legend!

The UK is in peril. Five days before the PM is to host her first G12 summit, MI7's security is breached and every agent in the field identified and exposed. The only hope of finding the perpetrator is to bring an agent out of retirement, but with most of them either dead or close to it, the head of MI7 is left with only one choice, and his name is English.

Fast-paced action-comedy about a Los Angeles police sergeant who has his life turned upside-down when his feisty mother comes to town for a rare visit.