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The Wisdom Of Crowds
In this landmark work, new yorker columnist james surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren’t smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of ‘experts’. this seemingly simply notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organised and how nation-states fare. with great erudition, surowiecki ranges across the disciplines of psychology, economics, statistics and history to show just how this principle operates in the real world. along the way surowiecki asks a number of intriguing questions about a subject few of us actually understand – economics. what are prices? how does money work? why do we have corporations? does advertising work? his answers, rendered in a delightfully clear prose, demystify daunting prospects. as surowiecki writes: ‘the hero of this book is, in a curious sense, an idea, a hero whose story ends up shedding dramatic new light on the landscapes of business, politics and society’.
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Sweetness In The Skin
‘the shock of the fall’ is an extraordinary portrait of one man’s journey through the spinning vortex that is mental illness. it is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.
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So Much For That
What do you pack for the rest of your life? the explosive new novel from the orange prize-winning author of we need to talk about kevin
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Being Nikki
From the queen of teen fiction… the second book in a spectacular, romantic, hilarious new trilogy with a spine-tingling twist! she’s a brainiac trapped in the body of an airhead! teenagers emerson watts and nikki howard have nothing in common. em’s a tomboy-brainiac who couldn’t care less about her looks. nikki’s a stunning supermodel: the world’s most famous airhead. but a freak accident causes the girls’ lives to collide in the most extraordinary way and “being nikki” isn’t as easy as it looks…
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England, England
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of england on the isle of wight. in this humorous novel, the grotesque, visionary tycoon sir jack pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that.
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The Flight Of The Falcon
Armino fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum, life — until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in rome. the woman, he gradually learns, was his family’s beloved servant many years gao, in his native town of ruffano. over five hundred years before, the sinister duke claudio, known as the falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life preying on the people of ruffano. now, in the twentieth century, the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. but have things really changed? the parrallels between the past and present begin to converge iin this masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and hypnotic suspense.
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Future Politics
Politics in the twentieth century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? now the debate is different: to what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems – and on what terms? digital technologies – from artificial intelligence to blockchain, from robotics to virtual reality – are transforming the way we live together. those who control the most powerful technologies are increasingly able to control the rest of us. as time goes on, these powerful entities – usually big tech firms and the state – will set the limits of our liberty, decreeing what may be done and what is forbidden. their algorithms will determine vital questions of social justice. in their hands, democracy will flourish or decay. a landmark work of political theory, future politics challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have power or property, and what it means for a political system to be just or democratic. in a time of rapid and relentless changes, it is a book about how we can – and must – regain control. winner of the estoril global issues distinguished book prize.
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Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Enigma
Jason bourne is in moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster general boris karpov. but amid the celebrations, the general has an important message to deliver to bourne – ‘a lifeline,’ he says, ‘for the end of the world’. before bourne can decipher this enigmatic warning, karpov’s wedding ends in chaos and bloodshed. bourne discovers that the russian has betrayed the kremlin to forewarn him of the crippling disaster about to engulf the world. bourne has just four days to discover the nature of the catastrophe and halt it. to get to the truth, bourne must first track down an infamous and elusive arms dealer – a man both he and karpov have been hunting for years. with the clock ticking, bourne follows a labyrinthine path that weaves from the underbelly of moscow to the pyramids of egypt and the war-torn border between syria and turkey as he races to stop a world-threatening conspiracy in its tracks.
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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
The best-selling relationship book of all time- over seven million copies sold world wide to date- in a freshly designed new format. learn how to create understanding and communication between the sexes from this classic and authoritative guide.
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The Four-dimensional Human
“shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize for non-fiction 2015 winner of the jerwood prize a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. we are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection. our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. but what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? how do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? what new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows and anxieties of a networked world? and how do we live in public, with these recoded private lives? tackling ideas of time, space, friendship, commerce, pursuit and escape, and moving from hamlet to the ghosts of social media, from seinfeld to the fall of gaddafi, from facebook politics to oedipus, the four-dimensional human is a highly original and pioneering portrait of life in a digital landscape.”
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The Invisible Guardian
“a police inspector [reluctantly returns] to her hometown in basque country–a place engulfed in mythology and superstition–to solve a series of eerie murders”–amazon. com.
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The Magicians’ Guild
Each year the magicians of imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. but their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. sonea, angry, frustrated and outraged by the treatment of her family and friends, hurls a stone at the shield, putting all her rage behind it. to the amazement of all who bear witness, the stone passes unhindered through the barrier and renders a magician unconscious. the guild’s worst fear has been realised … there is an untrained magician loose on the streets. she must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her, and the city that is her home.
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Les Misérables
“les miserables” is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. site accessed 03/06/2013 http://www. booktopia. com. au/les-miserables-victor-hugo/prod9781853260858. html.
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Crashed
Winner of the 2019 lionel gelber prize ‘majestic, informative and often delightful … insights on every page’ yanis varoufakis, observer the definitive history of the great financial crisis, from the acclaimed author of the deluge and the wages of destruction. in september 2008 the great financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of lehman brothers, shook the world. a decade later its spectre still haunts us. as the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the west’s triumph since the end of the cold war, seemed – through greed, malice and incompetence – to be about to bring the entire system to its knees. crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse – but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across europe and the united states. gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us – whether in greece or ukraine, whether through brexit or trump. adam tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story.
