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London, Allen Lane, 2012.
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xix, 519pPink and blue spine
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Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time.
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9781846141560 Hb.
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London, Allen Lane, 2017.
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xv, 396pGray spine
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The dramatic story of the relationship between the world's three largest economies, one that is shaping the future of us all, by one of the foremost experts on east Asia. For more than half a century, American power in the Pacific has successfully kept the peace. But it has also cemented the tensions in the toxic rivalry between China and Japan, consumed with endless history wars and entrenched political dynasties. Now, the combination of these forces with Donald Trump's unpredictable impulses and disdain for America's old alliances threatens to upend the region, and accelerate the unravelling of the postwar order. If the United States helped lay the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia's Reckoning will reveal how that structure is now crumbling. With unrivalled access to archives in the US and Asia, as well as many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale which blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with the domestic political trends and personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The confrontational course on which China and Japan have increasingly set themselves is no simple spat between neighbors. And the fallout would be a political and economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent.
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9780241248089 Hb.
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019622
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London, Allen Lane, 2015.
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xx, 292pWhite spine
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Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education. His talk, 'How Schools Kill Creativity', is the most viewed in the history of TED and has been seen by millions of people all over the world. In 'Creative Schools' he sets out his practical vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish and succeed in the 21st century. He argues that the real solution to the underlying problems with our education system can be found in understanding the climate in which individual schools and learners will flourish. He shows how harnessing technology to allow for more individualized approaches to learning can benefit students, schools and society as a whole.
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9780241003954 Hb.
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017017
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London, Allen Lane, 2013.
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ix, 305pWhite Spine
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Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In this book, the author takes us on a surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty.
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9781846145810 Hb.
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019690
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London, Allen Lane, 2015.
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xv, 398pBrown spine
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"A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments. More than just a tech industry fad, Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society's most basic institutions.An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold charts the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement's colorful central characters, including a British anarchist, an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already, Bitcoin has led to untold riches for some, and prison terms for others.Digital Gold includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos
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New Delhi, Allen Lane, 2012.
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237pBeige Spine
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The story of Indian business
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A fresh look at the world of Indian business, fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, and potraying how trading in India has changed the Company and how the Company changed the Indian business.
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9780670085071 Pb.
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018969
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London, Allen Lane, 2015.
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xxvi, 428pBlack spine
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Discusses the causes of inequality, including unjust and irresponsible economic policies and misguided priorities, and offers suggestions to help the United States become a more fair and equitable society.
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9780241202906 Hb.
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024342
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London, Allen Lane, 2018.
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x, 257pGrey spine
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This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future. How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created. This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History," the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. In "Origin Story", Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years we've come to know as "history." By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together -- from the creation of the planet to the advent of agriculture, nuclear war, and beyond. With stunning insights into the origin of the universe, the beginning of life, the emergence of humans, and what the future might bring, "Origin Story" boldly reframes our place in the cosmos.
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I COSMOS
ch. 1 In the Beginning: Threshold 1
ch. 2 Stars and Galaxies: Thresholds 2 and 3
ch. 3 Molecules and Moons: Threshold 4
pt. II BIOSPHERE
ch. 4 Life: Threshold 5
ch. 5 Little Life and the Biosphere
ch. 6 Big Life and the Biosphere
pt. III US
ch. 7 Humans: Threshold 6
ch. 8 Farming: Threshold 7
ch. 9 Agrarian Civilizations
ch. 10 On the Verge of Today's World
ch. 11 The Anthropocene: Threshold 8
pt. IV THE FUTURE
ch. 12 Where Is It All Going?.
Part I: Cosmos. In the beginning: Threshold 1 ; Stars and galaxies: Thresholds 2 and 3 ; Molecules and moons: Threshold 4
Part II: Biosphere. Life: Threshold 5 ; Little life and the biosphere ; Big life and the biosphere
Part III: Us. Humans: Threshold 6 ; Farming: Threshold 7 ; Agrarian civilization ; On the verge of today's world ; The Anthropocene: Threshold 8
Part IV: The future. Where is it all going?
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9780241338377 Pb.
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London, Allen Lane, 2015.
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xlix, 333pBlack spine
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Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry, the places where there is much agreement on treatment and where there is not, throughout alert to where psychiatry helps, and where it is imperfect. What is clear is that mental illnesses are intimately tied to what makes us human in the first place. And the drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not something we can just ignore. It is our necessary shadow.
Tom Burns is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. From the late 1980s he has conducted research, in addition his clinical and teaching work, and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
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Part 1: How modern psychiatry developed
The origins of institutional psychiatry
The discovery of the unconscious
The rise and fall of psychoanalysis
The first medical model (between the wars)
The impact of war
Out of the asylum
The origins of community care
Part 2: The questions psychiatry asks about us and the questions we ask of it
Is mental illness real? Psychiatry's legitimacy
Is psychiatry trustworthy? Psychiatry's sins and abuses
Is bad behaviour any of our business? Psychiatry and the law
A diagnosis for everything and the medicalization of everyday life
New treatments but old dilemmas
The rise of neuroscience and the future of psychiatry.
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9781846144653 Hb.
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008290
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London, Allen Lane, 2008.
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309pWhite Spine
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This book examines everyone from business giants to scientific geniuses, sports stars to musicians, and reveals what they have in common. He looks behind the spectacular results, the myths and the legends to show what really explains exceptionally successful people.
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9780141036243 Pb.
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019605
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London, Allen Lane, 2015.
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xxi, 392pRed and white spine
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A provocative case for how an emerging axis of the major democracies - America's might combined with India's potential - could counteract the rise of China.
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9780670088126 Hb.
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022289
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London, Allen Lane, 2016.
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486pBlack spine
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How do these changes interact, and how can we cope with them? To get a better purchase on the present, Friedman returns to his Minnesota childhood and sketches a world where politics worked and joining the middle class was an achievable goal. Today, by contrast, it is easier than ever to be a maker (try 3-D printing) or a breaker (the Islamic State excels at using Twitter), but harder than ever to be a leader or merely "average." Friedman concludes that nations and individuals must learn to be fast (innovative and quick to adapt), fair (prepared to help the casualties of change), and slow (adept at shutting out the noise and accessing their deepest values). With vision, authority, and wit, Thank You for Being Late establishes a blueprint for how to think about our times. How do these changes interact, and how can we cope with them? To get a better purchase on the present, Friedman returns to his Minnesota childhood and sketches a world where politics worked and joining the middle class was an achievable goal.
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9780241300978 Hb.
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London, Allen Lane, 2011.
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499pWhite spine
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Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in Economics for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields, but he has never brought them together in one book. Here, he explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the capabilities and also the faults and biases of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. Then he reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
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Pt. 1: Two systems. The characters of the story ; Attention and effort ; The lazy controller ; The associative machine ; Cognitive ease ; Norms, surprises, and causes ; A machine for jumping to conclusions ; How judgments happen ; Answering an easier question
Pt. 2: Heuristics and biases. The law of small numbers ; Anchors ; The science of availability ; Availability, emotion, and risk ; Tom W's specialty ; Linda; less is more ; Causes trump statistics ; Regression to the mean ; Taming intuitive predictions
Pt. 3: Overconfidence The illusion of understanding ; The illusion of validity ; Intuitions vs. formulas ; Expert intuition : when can we trust it? ; The outside view ; The engine of capitalism
Pt. 4: Choices. Bernoulli's errors ; Prospect theory ; The endowment effect ; Bad events ; The fourfold pattern ; Rare events ; Risk policies ; Keeping score ; Reversals ; Frames and reality
Pt. 5: Two selves. Two selves ; Life as a story ; Experienced well-being ; Thinking about life.
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9781846146060 Pb.
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London, Allen Lane, 2017.
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362pDark blue spine
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There are geniuses who work on their own. Together, we are exceptional.' Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctive blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the story of how their unlikely friendship became one of the greatest partnerships in science - until, tragically, it started to unravel. Their ideas, shows Lewis, helped shape our world - revolutionizing everything from Big Data to medicine, money to sport - and changed humankind's view of its own mind.
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Great Britain, Allen Lane, 2019.
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193pGrey spine
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Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before. Yet once contrasted with the period between 1933 and 1945, when the world made a partially successful attempt at self-annihilation, the new millennium begins to take on an unprecedented form. What emerges is something illusory, ever-shifting and occasionally murderous: the unnamable present. This book, The ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening in societies today, where distant echoes of Auden's the age of anxiety give way to something altogether more unsettling.
Presents an analysis of the post-World War II cultural transformations that are occuring at all levels of contemporary society
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i. Tourists and terrorists
ii. The Vienna gas company
iii. Sighting of the towers.
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9780241344637 Hb.
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London, Allen Lane, 1998.
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xiv, 337pBlack Spine
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Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says Dawkins - Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved; the solution is often more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mystery. Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, and combines them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder.
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London, Allen Lane, 2009.
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xvi, 414pWhite Spine
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Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from "The""New Yorker" in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
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Preface
Part 1
Obsessives, pioneers, and other varieties of minor genius
The pitchman: Ron Popeil and the conquest of the American kitchen
The ketchup conundrum: Mustard now comes in dozens of different varieties.
Why has ketchup stayed the same?
Blowing up : How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy.
True colors : Hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America
John Rock's error : What the inventor of the birth control pill didn't know about women's health
What the dog saw : Cesar Millan and the movements of mastery
Part 2
Theories, predictions and diagnoses.
Open secrets : Enron, intelligence and the perils of too much information
Million dollar Murray : Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage
The picture problem : Mammography, air power, and the limits of looking
Something borrowed : Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?
Connecting the dots : The paradoxes of intelligence reform
The art of failure : Why some people choke and others panic
Blowup : Who can be blamed for a disaster like the Challenger explosion? No one, and we'd better get used to it
Part 3
Personality, character and intelligence.
Late bloomers : Why do we equate genius with precocity?
Most likely to succeed : How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job?
Dangerous minds : Criminal profiling made easy
The talent myth : Are smart people overrated?
The New-Boy Network : What do job interviews really tell us?
Troublemakers : What pit bulls can teach us about crime.
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London, Allen Lane, 2012.
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xi, 498pBrown spine
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Draws on Diamond's near five decades in New Guinea as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians and other cultures, exploring how tribal peoples approach essential human problems.
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9781846147586 Pb.
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