The Power of Bad: And How to Overcome It by John Tierney; Roy F. Baumeister
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Category: Classics
Why does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so hard to shake? The answer is the negativity bias - or in other words, the power of bad. As John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister show, we are wired to react to bad events more ...Show more
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman
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Category: Classics
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You c ...Show more
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
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Category: Classics
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our worldSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric ...Show more
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin American Library | Reading Level: good
One of the great classics on democracy, "Rights of Man" was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - ...Show more
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery
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Category: Classics
'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter ... Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America ...essential reading' Junot Diaz, The New York Times, Books of 2016 ' ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
General Relativity - The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind; Andre Cabannes
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Category: Classics
He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and special relativity. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind, assisted by a new collaborator, Andre Cabannes, returns to tackle Einstein's general theory of relativity. Starting from the equivalence principle and covering the necessary mathematics of Rieman ...Show more
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