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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
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Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
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Author: James Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . ....
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
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Author: Jeff Madrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman
Author: Charles Dunst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 ' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim...
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
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Author: Jonathan Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A distinguished religious leader's "brilliant, urgent" (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values. With liberal democracy embattled,...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do
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Author: Prof Carl J Schramm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Business startup advice from the former president of the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation and cofounder of Global Entrepreneurship Week...
I'm Afraid Debbie from Marketing Has Left for the Day: How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World
Author: Morten Munster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World In this ground-breaking book, author Morten Munster...
What's Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed
Author: Robert Skidelsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time This insightful book...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
Joe Biden: American Dreamer
Author: Evan Osnos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former...
Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
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Author: Thomas Levenson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The sweeping story of the world's first financial crisis: "an astounding episode from the early days of financial markets that to...
How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power
Author: Jaideep Prabhu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand...
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future
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Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...
One Step Ahead: Mastering the Art and Science of Negotiation
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Author: David Sally Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 There's been a revolution in negotiating tactics. The world's best negotiators have moved beyond How to Win Friends & Influence People...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...
The Genius Habit: How One Habit Can Radically Change Your Work and Your Life
Author: Laura Garnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Make your job the right job. Maybe you're a young professional just starting to think seriously about what you want out...
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In this...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
The Resilient Leader: Life Changing Strategies to Overcome Today's Turmoil and Tomorrow's Uncertainty
Author: Christine Perakis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Life may not be smooth sailing, but with strategies to build strength, you can weather any storm. Everyone has encountered their...
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
Author: Peter S. Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder...
30-Second Money: 50 key notions, factors, and concepts of finance explained in half a minute
Author: Julietta Dexter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In a highly competitive world, many think business success means being ruthless: maximising short-term return for shareholders, cutting overheads,...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump
Author: James A. Morone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone...
A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press
Author: Michael Richards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 460 Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press is an account of a passion: that of a publisher and the books he made...
Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party
Author: John Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved....
Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear
Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
Butler to the World: The book the oligarchs don't want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals
Author: Oliver Bullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the...
Money, Magic, and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb: Quantum Economics for the Real World
Author: David Orrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Money has many apparently magical properties. It can be created out of the void - and vanish without so much as...
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
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Author: Binyamin Appelbaum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells...
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
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Author: Alan Rusbridger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of...
Gods of Management: The Four Cultures of Leadership
Author: Charles B. Handy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 It has always been a myth that there is one best way to manage - but it has...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps...
Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China
Author: Jin Xu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from...
Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age
Author: Martin Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, elite populists, and freextremists are exploiting our digital information infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...