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Psykologen Daniel Kahneman, som belönats med Ekonomipriset till Alfred Nobels minne för sin banbrytande forskning, anses vara en av vår tids viktigaste tänkare. Hans forskning har haft stort inflytande inom en rad olika områden från ekonomi och ps...

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Efter Dag Hammarskjölds död 1961 fann man i hans bostad i New York ett manuskript med titeln Vägmärken. I ett närslutet brev kallade han anteckningarna för "en sorts 'vitbok' rörande mina förhandlingar med mig själv - och Gud". Idag är Vägmärken e...

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Brought to you by Penguin.How to create the most transformative meetings and momentsBeing deprived of gathering has revealed just how important it is to us; to connect with others, collaborate, share ideas and create moving, life-affirming experie...

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Brought to you by Penguin.We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientistsThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstra...

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What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he qui...

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________Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Heat of the Moment written and read by Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton.'[One of] the wonder women of our emergency services' Glamour'An inspirational woman' Good HousekeepingIn the face of urgency...

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?A joy? Philippe Sands?Glorious? David SpiegelhalterA fascinating, enchanting and personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to inflect our day to day lives.What does it mean to be luc...

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A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today.?Intelligently written and powerfully argued.? Paul Mason?Witty, scathing, and entertaining.? Danny DorlingJournalist Sam Bright is a Northerner liv...

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From internationally bestselling author and retired FBI agent Joe Navarro, a ground-breaking look at the five powerful principles that set exceptional individuals apartJoe Navarro spent a quarter century with the FBI, pursuing spies and other dang...

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Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making ? rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead England cricket to sustained success. And to help us all win more.?An ...

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The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, bi...

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Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In! Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names?as soon as they leave the room? Don''t pan...

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The  New York Times  bestselling author of the beloved classic  How to Read Literature Like a Professor  teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful ...

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Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could beco...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis, read by Dennis Boutsikaris. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kah...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thank You for Arguing written and read by Jay Heinrichs.Your ultimate guide to the art of winning arguments, in a brand new editionEveryone is always trying to persuade us of something: politicians, advert...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan. In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at ...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Superthinking by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann, read by Rene Ruiz.You want to make better decisions. You want to be right more of the time professionally and personally. However, being more right cons...

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'Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely' -ADAM GRANT, author of Originals and Give and TakeYour words matter more than you thinkMost of us use the language we inherited from a time when workers...

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More than 80 classic myths retold and explained, from early creation beliefs to classical hero narratives and the recurring theme of the afterlife, narrated by Emma Fenney. The Mythology Book explores the compelling worlds and characters depicted ...

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Exploring more than 80 of the world''s most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and maths, this book offers a fascinating look at the history of science. Discover how Galileo work...

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An illuminating celebration of more than 80 of the world's most important thinkers, this book explores the fascinating stories of their lives, their loves, and their pioneering ideas.Introduced with a featured philosopher, entries trace the ideas ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.We are entering an empathy crisis. Most of our communication is conveyed through non-verbal cues - facial expressions, tone of voice, body language - nuances that are completely lost when we interact through our smartphon...

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Brought to you by Penguin.A STORY OF HOPE, PERSEVERANCE AND RESILIENCE IN THE MIDST OF WAR Louai Al Roumani was head of finance and planning at one of the largest banks in Syria, when the war broke out in 2011.In Lessons from a Warzone, Al Roumani...

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Brought to you by Penguin.At Amazon, 'Day One' is code for inventing like a startup with little regard for legacy. Day Two is, in Jeff Bezos's own words, is 'stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by d...

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From Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre and dualism to existentialism, discover the key philosophers and theories which have shaped the way we view the world.Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, and exploring all of the most ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. The year is 1735.Twelve unruly men board ships bound for South America.Their mission? To discover the true shape of the earth.They will be exposed to a wilderness of dangers none can imagine.The survivors won't return fo...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and p...

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Brought to you by Penguin.The greatest questions of our future can be answered by twelve crucial moments in Britain's history.It wasn't long-ago that Britons could have been as at home in Varanasi as they could have been in Wolverhampton - why? - ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our timeWhat leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling ...

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