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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian 'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the...

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'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world' Hannah Dawson We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Do colleagues roll their eyes in...

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Jordan B. Peterson, clinical psychologist and 'the world's most influential public intellectual' (New York Times), has improved the lives of millions of people around the world with his books, 12 Rules for Life and Beyond Order. Drawing on ancient...

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*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year* We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossib...

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The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Pe...

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From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have...

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The first book of the next crisis. *Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award* *Shortlisted for the 2023 Hayek Book Prize* All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activ...

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'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh The Enlig...

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A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of The Black Swan , Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredi...

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'Everyone should read this important book' Josh Glancy, Sunday Times 'One of the most important living philosophers' Bryan Appleyard, Spectator In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond re...

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The latest volume in The New York Times bestselling physics series explains Einstein's masterpiece- the general theory of relativity He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and special relativity. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind, assis...

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FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever re...

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The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize* A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate Raworth From the bestselling author of Feral, a breat...

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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequen...

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A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'Endlessly fascinating ... History has returned to Europe, and Iron and Blood is an exce...

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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it made Innovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff...

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'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life ...

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A #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller The long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Books of the Year, Guardian The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From the momen...

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One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole so...

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'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, published to coincide with the centenary of its dissolution The Ottoman Em...

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'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday Times Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest int...

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Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world 'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past an...

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A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporation Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Produci...

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There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Bo...

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Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military ...

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What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe? In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of the most extraordinary numbe...

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The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding o...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year, British Book Awards (Nibbies), 2022 A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter 'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobio...

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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Notable Book A riveting, masterfully researched acc...

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