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'One of the best - and most authentic - spy thrillers in years' The Times***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR*** A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in Damascus to hunt for a killer CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to rec...

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'Thrilling, propulsive and terrifying' Simon Sebag MontefioreTHE SECOND NOVEL FROM FORMER CIA OFFICER AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR*** DAMASCUS STATION ('One of the best spy thrillers in years'...

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If you want to 'change lives, change organizations, change the world,' the Stanford business schools motto, you need power. Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, po...

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A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes and what we can do about it We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Weal...

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From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into how mental health overdiagnosis is harming, not helping, children 'A pacy, no-holds barred attack on mental health professionals and parenting experts ... thought-provoking' F...

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The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A full-spectrum triumph' Guardian A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer...

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A Book of the Year 2022 in The Economist and Daily Mail A Barack Obama 2024 Summer Reading List Pick 'One of the most important non-fiction books of the year' - Sunday Times Boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at all three key sc...

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'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVE Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius wh...

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'Every parent needs to read this' Helen Joyce Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria severe discomfort in ones biological sex was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early...

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A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. Humans dont desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic we imitate what other people want. This affects the...

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CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for aLondon firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico a CIAfront since the 1960s is a farm that breeds high-en...

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'Not since Joan Didion in her prime has a writer reported from inside inside a system gone mad with this much style, intelligence and wit ... A perfect book' Caitlin Flanagan From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irr...

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'Essential reading for all parents and professionals supporting young people struggling with the issue of gender identity Louise Perry Being the parent of a gender-questioning child is confusing. There is a lot of advice out there, but much o...

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If you want to 'change lives, change organizations, change the world,' the Stanford business school's motto, you need power. Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, p...

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Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes have the admirable goal of creating a welcoming environment for everyone. Increasingly, however, people are realising that the way they are commonly practised isnt simply an extension of past civil rights...

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'Thrilling, propulsive and terrifying' Simon Sebag MontefioreTHE SECOND NOVEL FROM FORMER CIA OFFICER AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR*** DAMASCUS STATION ('One of the best spy thrillers in years'...

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The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A full-spectrum triumph' Guardian A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'This is what journalism is for' - Observer Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHSs flags...

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It isn't quite 'Don't buy any green bananas'. But it's close to 'Don't start any long books'. In his mid-40s, Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer it had been caught too late, and spread around his...

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Time is not money. Time is life force. Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company's profit and potential? Your time is far more precious than money. ...

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Shortlisted for the National Book Award A story of forbidden love and fugitive faith in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle 'Transports readers deep into an unfamiliar world, yet with familiar conflicts and desires. I was absorbed and change...

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In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institutions decline has led to a host of economic woes. Eschewing the religious and values-based arguments that have long domina...

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'The most important book in social science for many years' Paul Collier, TLS Books of the Year The Upswing is Robert D. Putnam's brilliant analysis of economic, social, cultural and political trends from the Gilded Age to the presen...

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'Fascinating. It blew my mind!' Malcolm Gladwell Wonderworks reveals that literature is among the mightiest technologies that humans have ever invented, precision-honed to give us what our brains most want and need. Literature is a techn...

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Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2023 'Essential reading' Tony Blair A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of Chinas juggernaut economy Although Chinas economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is of...

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The truth is, Partha, Krishna said, that there is no better path. Both paths the path of knowledge and the path of action work just as well. It is up to you to pick the one that you are suited to.' The Bhagavad Gita is a profound book from In...

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The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth is a wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience. Humans have long believed ...

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A Times, Express and Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal Lucia Gomez i...

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How and why birds navigate the skies, travelling from continent to continent flying thousands of miles across the earth each autumn and spring has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understan...

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When 10-year-old Lukas disappears, investigator Erik Schfer has little to work with. Until he discovers that the boy is obsessed with pareidolia the psychological phenomenon where we see faces in random things and has recently photographed an old ...

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