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Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lav...

Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Behavioural economics blends insights from economics and psychology to explain how people make everyday decisions. Analysing the forces t...

Unconventional Wisdom

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemaker...

Survival of the Richest - Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the "Event": th...

The Tyranny of Merit - Can We Find the Common Good?

A Times Literary Supplement's Book of the Year 2020 A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020 A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020 A Guardian Best B...

Uncanny Valley - A Memoir

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Pos...

Money Men. TV Tie-In - A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

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Digital Gold - The Untold Story of Bitcoin

An engrossing account of the new technology of the bit coin, filled with dramatic booms and busts that have led to untold riches for some...

The Change Book - Fifty models to explain how things happen

The new look Change Book - 40,000 copies already sold of these surprisingly simple explanations of our seemingly inexplicable world

Historical Capitalism - With 'Capitalist Civilization'

A succinct introduction to the history of capitalism by the renowned political theorist.

Elon Musk - How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

Ashlee Vance is one of the most prominent writers on technology today. After spending several years reporting on Silicon Valley and techn...

21st Century Business Icons - The Leaders Who Are Changing our World

While businesses, both big and small, have undoubtedly caused the majority of our environmental and sustainability problems, they are als...

You Can't Make Money From a Dead Planet - The Sustainable Method for Driving Profits

From the stratospheric success of Jeff Bezos to the secret genius of Satoshi Nakamoto, 21st Century Business Icons uncovers the fascinati...

Rethinking Our World - an invitation to rescue our future

A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller rep...

Megathreats - Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

Financial Times Economics Book of the Year. From the economist who predicted the 2008 crash, MEGATHREATS outlines the new risks in our un...

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that ca...

The Price of Time - The Real Story of Interest

The first book of the next crisis. A history of interest rates by a leading financial commentator, updated with a new postscript. *Winner...

The Deficit Myth - Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy

Kelton has succeeded in instigating a round of heretical questioning, essential for a post-Covid-19 world, where the pantheon of economic...

GDP - A Brief but Affectionate History

Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and ninete...

How Charts Lie - Getting Smarter about Visual Information

Today, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. Although charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us wiser, they can a...

The 100-Year Life - Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

What will your 100-year life look like? A new edition of the international bestseller, featuring a new preface 'Brilliant, timely, origin...

The Globalization Myth - Why Regions Matter

The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years the world has become increasingly international but much ...

A Dictionary of Finance and Banking

The dictionary defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including financial trading, foreign exchange, deriv...

Steve Jobs - The Exclusive Biography

Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for pe...

Power and Progress - Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE...

A Man for All Markets - Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street

A¿New York Times¿bestseller In a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card coun...

Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exc...

Firefighting - The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons

From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnifi...

The Optimist's Telescope - Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR "How might we mitigate losses caused by shortsightedness? Bina Venkataraman, a former climate adviser to...

Capitalism in America - An Economic History of the United States

From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from...

Building Social Business - The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus looks more deeply into the concept of social business, an alternative to capitalism that channels the best ...

The Widow Clicquot - The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It

"Narrative history that fizzes with life and feeling." -- Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's Vinega...

Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

The groundbreaking bestseller from iconic behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely, now the inspiration for the Fall 2023 NBC show The Irration...

Grinding It Out - The Making of McDonald's

"He either enchants or antagonizes everyone he meets. But even his enemies agree there are three things Ray Kroc does damned well: sell h...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity t...

Becoming Steve Jobs - The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

The #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history. Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down t...

Crash Landing - The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink

A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy’s winners ...

Taxtopia - How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game

In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the ...

Tomorrowmind - Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection - Now and in an Uncertain Future

Sold Out - How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy

Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now b...

Remote - Office Not Required

Trade paperback. A call to action to end the tyranny of being shackled to the office, this argues that the technology to work remotely ha...

The Ascent of Money - A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Professor Klaus Schwab is founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private C...

Rise and Decline of Nations - Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

"A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations"--Publisher's website.

The Economist Guide to Commodities - 2nd edition

From aluminium and platinum to zinc and gold, oil and gas to cocoa and wheat, our lives are full of products derived or made from commodi...

The Accidental Billionaires - The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires." -The Ne...

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it.

Crypto Wars - Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption

Crypto is big news. You may be an existing user yourself or have friends that laud its promise of getting rich fast. Arm yourself with kn...

Narrative Economics - How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help dri...

Corruptible - Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us

'Pertinent!' Margaret Atwood 'Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others...

Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

The Technology Trap is a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of e...

What Money Can't Buy - The Moral Limits of Markets

In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our soc...

Rise of the Robots - Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A New York Times Bestseller Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes One of N...

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived - The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger

A colourful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history, Jacob Fugger, the Renaissance banker.

Collusion - How Central Bankers Rigged the World

On title page, the letter 's' in the title is represented by a dollar sign.

Climate Shock - The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing o...

Langenscheidt Praxiswörterbuch Textil und Mode - Englisch-Deutsch-Französisch-Italienisch

Fachgebiete: Modische Bekleidung, Mode, Textilindustrie, Wäsche, Schneiderei, Näherei, modische Accessoires, Modellentwurf, neue Werkstof...

Factfulness - Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the wo...

Slouching Towards Utopia - An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIM...

Tomorrow's Economy - A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth

How we can achieve healthy growth--more regenerative than destructive, restoring equity rather than exacerbating inequalities. In Tomorro...