Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
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Category: Non-fiction
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
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Category: Non-fiction
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
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Category: Non-fiction
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
Paying It Forward: How to Be A Social Entrepreneur by Josh Littlejohn, Josh Littlejohn MBE
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Category: Non-fiction
'Josh Littlejohn is a rockstar of social impact. Paying It Forward is a much-needed reminder about what is really important.' - Irvine Welsh When Josh Littlejohn started a small sandwich shop in his home city of Edinburgh, he would never have thought that, within ten years' time, it would be frequented ...Show more
The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz
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Category: Non-fiction
An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives. Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It's here and it's growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recent ...Show more
Guinness World Records 2024 by Guinness World Records
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Category: Non-fiction
This year's edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year. And with lockdowns and quarantines gradually becoming a distant memory for much of the world, the claims have been flooding in! · Take the plunge with our opening BLUE PLANET chapter, celebrating wate ...Show more
The House That Joy Built by Holly Ringland
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Category: Non-fiction
An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creativity, from bestselling author, Holly Ringland. The House that Joy Built is about how to give ourselves permission to be creative. It explores two big forces: the fear that can block our creativity, and t ...Show more
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump by Liz Cheney
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Category: Non-fiction
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violen ...Show more
Alice ™: The biggest untold story in the history of money by Stuart Kells
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Category: Non-fiction
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding
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Category: Non-fiction
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - ...Show more
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel
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Category: Non-fiction
Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
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Category: Non-fiction
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitze ...Show more