Accomplishment - How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things by Michael Barber
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Category: Classics
'Excellent . . . reveals that high accomplishment has a signature pattern that reoccurs from sport to politics to business to government' Matthew Syed There is no secret formula for success, especially when tackling a new challenge. But what if there were a pattern you could follow? A way of mapping th ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
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Category: Classics
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl- History of a TragedyFor more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical question ...Show more
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, hi ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Classics | Series: FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON
A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelagois Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven ...Show more
Discourses and Selected Writings by EPICTETUS
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Category: Classics
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ide ...Show more
The Rebel by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's classic treatise on his theory of evolution and natural selection and is among the most important works in the history of science and evolutionary biology. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
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Category: Classics
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.