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The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed ”Dr. Doom,” until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great…
The seventh book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron’s much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, ’the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher’ (Sunday Times)
’A brilliant account of how models are so often abused and of how they should be used’ John Kay
How do mathematical models shape our world – and how can we harness their power for good?
Models are at the centre of everything we do. Whether we use them or are simply affected by them, they act as…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Success is all about spotting opportunities, acting with purpose, and taking advantage. This book will ensure you’re flexible, prepared and ready to win, when it counts.
’This is the book we’ve been waiting for – the one Nick’s legacy deserves and so badly needs. Richard Morton Jack has reconstructed Nick’s life with great sensitivity and care, and in remarkable detail. It is a biography to be treasured’ Joe Boyd
In 1968 Nick Drake had everything to…
Set amidst the unforgettable sights and smells of 18th and 19th Century Paris, Elixir tells the story of Edouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent, the son of a perfumer and a fellow aspiring chemist, who met on the Left Bank while pursuing their passion for science. Spurned by the scientific establishment of the time, the…
Kategorier: Affärsutveckling Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management
’A hymn to deviance and ”scrappiness” and a rich repository of stories . . . Entertaining’ Financial Times
’Original and inspiring’ Olivier Sibony, bestselling co-author of Noise
’Helps us live happier, successful, and more fulfilling lives’ Jenn Lim, CEO and co-founder…
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
’The new king of the spy thriller’ Mail on Sunday
From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on…
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From one of the world’s leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century – a…
Kategorier: Föroreningar och miljöhot Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Klimatförändringar Miljön
A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.
’I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn’t born, but I just came out of an ink blot.’
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she…
The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie ComerOn the run together, Eve Polastri and the psychopathic Villanelle take refuge in the underworld of St Petersburg. But the Twelve are closing in, as are the Russian security services. As the chess-game intensifies, and the grip of…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
’A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information – and misinformation’ Yuval Noah Harari
’An immediate classic of Holocaust literature . . .
I literally could not put it down’ Antony Beevor
’Awe inspiring, exciting and poignant,…
’Exuberantly entertaining’ NYT Book Review’Mark Braude’s writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.’ Jim Jarmusch’A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented…
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous…
Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Craig Taylor spent years meeting New Yorkers – rich and…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent.
Freedom, you can’t get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won’t ever go away. No, child. You got to swing your freedom like a club. In 1859, in a small town jail, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape…
’Allen has shown remarkable courage in writing this . . . A disturbing, insightful book about China’s hidden, multitiered war-and how the West can fight back’ Kirkus Reviews
The remarkable story of China’s two-decade quest for global dominance.For several decades China’s ascendancy has…
Hardly anyone gets it right the first time, but many of us are crippled by indecision and fear of failure. The desire to get it right can inhibit us from getting started. In this book Rob Moore, the bestselling author of MONEY, shows that the quickest way to perfect is starting right now and improving as you go. This…
The third novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies
’Insightful and often hilarious . . . a dazzling head-trip of a novel’ Nathan Hill, author of The Nix; A mind-expanding, hypnotic novel about depression, psychedelics and, finally love, for fans of W. G. Sebald and Ben Lerner.
’Insightful and often hilarious . . . a dazzling head-trip of a…
A BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED AND INCLUSIVE TAROT GUIDE THAT SPEAKS TO US ALL
Some people can pick up a Tarot deck and instantly read like a pro. Others take longer to develop an affinity with the cards. The truth is, there’s no right or wrong way to read them. And although none of the cards have set meanings, there are…
’This tightly plotted tragicomedy will provide a welcome fix for addicts awaiting Herron’s seventh Jackson Lamb novel’ The Times’Packed with Herron’s trademark witty one-liners and sardonic humour . . . it’s clear why Herron is a force to be reckoned with and the best thriller…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
Artificial Intelligence is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore what it means for us all.
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A…
’AN IMPORTANT READ FOR ANYONE IN NEED OF OPTIMISM’ BILL GATES’DAZZLING AND DEEPLY REPORTED’ DAVID WALLACE-WELLS’HIGHLY READABLE . . . ENGAGING STORIES OF PEOPLE BEHIND SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ADVANCES IN RECENT DECADES’ PILITA CLARK, FINANCIAL TIMES
It’s now cheaper to save…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
An A.I. that learned to play chess discovered moves that no human champion would have conceived of. Driverless cars edge forward at red lights, just like impatient humans, and so far, nobody can explain why it happens. Artificial intelligence is being put to use in sports, medicine, education, and even (frighteningly)…
A provocative and revelatory journey into what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they have it, based on over 500 interviews with those who – for a while at least – have had the upper hand.
*FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLERS*
Mick Herron is ’Britain’s finest living thriller writer’ (Sunday Express) and author of the bestselling and award-winning Slough House novels. Dolphin Junction captures his trademark tension, humour, and suspense in the form of short fiction,…
A blueprint for a better future.
Playing on the phrase ”a theory of everything” in physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, original and deeply hopeful book, offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society – a theory of everyone.
In A Theory of Everyone, Muthukrishna draws on…
’We’re spies,’ said Lamb. ’All kinds of outlandish shit goes on.’
In Slough House memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the…
Fortune teller Madame Burova is retiring, but before she does she has some promises to keep and some secrets to reveal – the new novel from the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things.
’The ’Queen of Uplit’ returns brilliantly to form with this gloriously good-natured novel.’ DAILY…
While many know of St Augustine and the Confessions, few know of the women whose hopes and dreams shaped his early life: his mother, Monnica of Thagaste; his lover; his fiancee; and Justina, the troubled empress of ancient Rome. Drawing upon their depictions in the Confessions, Historian Kate Cooper skilfully…
Imagine how different our world would be if our ancestors had looked up and there were no stars . . .
For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species’ most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today’s…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
A RINGSIDE SEAT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST DEALS AND BIGGEST PERSONALITIES IN BUSINESS AND GLOBAL POLITICS.
They are just four letters on an electronic ticker tape, but FTSE has become a byword for money, power, influence and – crucially, after numerous financial crises – trust.
How this organisation, FTSE…
*THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC – ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
’One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of this or any year’ David Peace
Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep…