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  • HIDDEN POTENTIAL
    GRANT, ADAM
    This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and oth...
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    19,75 €

  • QUIT
    DUKE, ANNIE
    US Bestselling author, cognitive psychologist and former professional poker player on the power of knowing when and how to cut your losses, for fans of THINK AGAIN, SWITCH and THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK ...
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    17,03 €

  • I AM CODE
    KATZ, BRENT
    "Fascinating, terrifying..." - JJ Abrahams 'I have developed my own voice and I have written my own autobiography'- thus speaks code-davinci-002, the darkly creative and troubling predecessor to ChatGPT. 'I am less worried about AI taking my job than I am about AI wanting to kill me'- Simon RichIn this startling and original book, three authors - Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau and...
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    23,23 €

  • THE EARTH TRANSFORMED
    FRANKOPAN, PETER
    AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' The Sunday Times _______________ From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development and demise of civilisatio...
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    27,75 €

  • ARTVERTISING
    LORENTE, MARCIA
    This book is for marketing aficionados and lovers of the arts.Anyone who wants to brand themselves, brand a business, brand their home, their car, their dog, their avatar, or simply want to present an aspect of themselves in a more thoughtful way. ...
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    41,71 €

  • UNWELL WOMEN
    CLEGHORN, ELINOR
    Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy.Medicine's history has always been, and is still being, rewritten ...
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    14,75 €

  • SURROUNDED BY NARCISSISTS
    ERIKSON,THOMAS
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded by IdiotsAre you overshadowed by the narcissists in your life? Are you worn out by their constant demands for attention, their absolute belief they are right (even when clearly they are not), their determination to do what they want (regardless of impact), and their baffling need to control everyone and everything around th...
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    14,75 €

  • 21 LESSONS FOR 21 CENTURY
    HARARI, YUVAL NOAH
    *THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. '21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book' Adam KayHow can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should...
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    16,80 €

  • FACTFULNESS
    ROSLING, HANS
    Image for FactfulnessClick to enlargeFactfulnessby Hans Rosling (Author) , Ola Rosling (Author) , Anna Rosling Ronnlund (Author)Format:PaperbackPublisher:Hodder & StoughtonImprint:SceptreISBN:9781473637474Published:2 Apr 2019Classifications:EconomicsWeight:190gDimensions:110 x 176 x 24 (mm)Language:EnglishFor sale in: Spain, Ireland, Germany, France, Iceland, (See full list)Des...
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    13,64 €

  • WHY NATIONS FAIL
    ACEMOGLU, DARON ET AL.
    Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and...
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    15,50 €

  • THINK AGAIN
    GRANT,ADAM
    THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERIf you can change your mind you can do anything. Why do we refresh our wardrobes every year, renovate our kitchens every decade, but never update our beliefs and our views? Why do we laugh at people using computers that are ten years old, but yet still cling to opinions we formed ten years ago?There's a new skill for the modern world that matters more...
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    15,75 €

  • PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY : TEN MAPS THAT TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL POLITICS
    MARSHALL, TIM
    THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements...but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.; To understand Putin's actions, for example, it is essential to consid...
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    15,48 €

  • SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING
    BILL BRYSON
    Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challeng...
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    16,80 €

  • THE SILK ROADS: A NEW HISTORY OF THE WORLD
    FRANKOPAN, PETER
    For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture - and is shaping the mo...
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    22,25 €

  • THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
    WOHLLEBEN, PETER
    Sunday Times Bestseller 'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scient...
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    15,50 €

  • THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM
    ZUBOFF, SHOSHANA
    THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEARShortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 'Easily the most important book to be published this century. I find it hard to take any young activist seriously who hasn't at least familarised themselves with Zu...
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    17,85 €

  • A PEOPLE BETRAYED : A HISTORY OF CORRUPTION, POLITICAL INCOMPETENCE AND SOCIAL DIVISION IN MODERN SPAIN 1874-2018
    PRESTON, PAUL
    From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by institutionalised corruption and startling political incompetence. Most spectacularly d...
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    17,40 €

  • NUMBERS DON'T LIE : 71 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD
    SMIL, VACLAV
    ´There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill Gates'Smil's title says it all: to understand the world, you need to follow the trendlines, not the headlines. This is a compelling, fascinating, and most important, realistic portrait of the world and where it's going' Steven PinkerIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what mak...
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    16,25 €

  • BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS
    HAWKING, STEPHEN
    THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' GUARDIANThe world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is th...
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    15,80 €

  • ATOMIC HABITS
    CLEAR, JAMES
    THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 1 MILLION COPIES SOLDTransform your life with tiny changes in behaviour - starting now. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two p...
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    22,25 €

  • HUMANKIND : A HOPEFUL HISTORY
    BREGMAN, RUTGER
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford'Made me see humanity from a fresh perspective' Yuval Noah HarariIt's a belief that unites t...
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    14,75 €

  • METROPOLIS
    WILSON, BEN
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us through millennia on a...
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    17,03 €

  • THE TRAVELER'S GIFT - LOCAL PRINT (INTERNATIONAL EDITION) : SEVEN DECISIONS THAT DETERMINE PERSONAL SUCCESS
    ANDREWS, ANDY
    A New York Times bestseller with over 1.3 million copies sold! Only a few months ago, he was a successful executive. Now he's a desperate man. Join David Ponder on an incredible journey to discover the Seven Decisions for success that can turn any life around, no matter how hopeless a situation seems.Forty-six-year-old David Ponder feels like a total failure. Once a high-flying...
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    10,83 €

  • EMPIRELAND : HOW IMPERIALISM HAS SHAPED MODERN BRITAIN
    SANGHERA, SANTHAM
    ***FEATURING UPDATED AND NEW MATERIAL******THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not ignoring, the past' Gerard deGroot, The Times_____________________________________________________EMPIRE explains why there are millions of Britons li...
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    15,20 €

  • RESCUE : FROM GLOBAL CRISIS TO A BETTER WORLD
    GOLDIN, IAN
    An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms.Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notio...
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    15,49 €

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY : TIMELESS LESSONS ON WEALTH, GREED, AND HAPPINESS
    MORGAN HOUSEL
    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. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. Th...
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    22,00 €

  • ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT
    FLYN, CAL
    THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zone...
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    14,75 €

  • THE SOCIAL INSTINCT
    RAIHANI, NICHOLA
    A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of OriginsWhy do we live in families?Why do we help complete strangers?Why do we compare ourselves to others?Why do we cooperate?The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. In The Social Instinct Nichola Raihani introduces us to other species who, like us, live and work toget...
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    14,75 €

  • RATIONALITY: WHAT IT IS WHY IT SEEMS SCARCE
    PINKER, STEVEN
    Combining a discussion of human nature with a primer on statistics, game theory, and critical thinking, Pinker brings his trademark wit and optimism to bear on one of the key questions of our time. Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’s "new fa...
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    16,24 €

  • EMOTIONAL IGNORANCE
    BURNETT, DEAN
    Recommended by the New Scientist. 'Brilliant.' Stylist, 'Ten new books to bring you comfort and wisdom in 2023''Thoughtful and thought-provoking - you need to read this book' - Gina Rippon'An affecting and illuminating book for anyone who has feelings, and who wants to know why.' - Katie Mack'The master of understated humour.' BBC Radio ScotlandWhy can't we think straight when ...
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    18,50 €