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Get It Done
The perfect guide to mastering your motivations and achieving your ambitions, from renowned psychologist and behavioural scientist Ayelet Fishbach, PhD.
£11.99
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Ravenous
Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global system: one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it's there. The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth. It sustains us, but it is also killing us. Diet-related disease is now the biggest cause of preventable illness and death in the developed world - far worse than smoking. The environmental damage done by the food system is also changing climate patterns and degrading the earth, risking our food security. In this book, he takes us behind the scenes to reveal the mechanisms that act together to shape the modern diet - and therefore the world.
£16.99
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Emotion by Design
For decades, Nike's campaigns have been so radically creative that they make an indelible mark on the public imagination - and, just sometimes, change how the world thinks. It's an art form that Greg Hoffman understands better than anyone. Over 30 years at Nike, he crafted some of the most iconic campaigns in history: from Colin Kaepernick's 'Dream Crazy' ad, to the instantly recognisable logos used by Roger Federer and Serena Williams. By the end of his career, he was Chief Marketing Officer - responsible for maintaining the brand recognition of the Nike swoosh everywhere on Earth. Now, Hoffman reveals the simple principle that Nike uses to power their creativity: emotion by design. Combining scientific analysis and artistic daring, emotion by design helps Nike forge deep personal bonds with their customers - crafting campaigns that chime with people's most audacious dreams.
£10.99
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Money in One Lesson
Money in One Lesson offers an accessible guide to economics and why it often doesn't work the way we think it does, from Economics correspondent Gavin Jackson.
£11.99
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Butler to the World
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.' But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet. Butler to the World reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. We pride ourselves on values of fair play and the rule of law, but few countries do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts. We are now a nation of Jeeveses, snobbish enablers for rich halfwits of considerably less charm than Bertie Wooster. It doesn't have to be that way.
£10.99
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How to Make Money
How do I start a business on a budget? How do I find my first 100 customers and make my first £100k? How do I build a network and get my business noticed?
£16.99
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Crucial Conversations
'Crucial Conversations' provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation - especially difficult ones - leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.
£16.99
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The Epigenetics Revolution
Nessa Carey presents a compelling story of the most important revolution in modern biology - and what it could mean for humanity. She concludes by investigating the amazing possibilities for the improvement of humankind that epigenetics offers for the surprisingly near future.
£11.99
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How I Built This
How I Built This will offer invaluable insight, direction and advice to entrepreneurs at every point on their entrepreneurial path.
£12.99
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The Biggest Problem in the World
Our biggest problem is one we don't know we have. We all have problems we struggle to solve, sometimes personal, sometimes bigger. Yet many are solvable, having been solved before, so we choose whether to solve them or not. Only by solving problems do we progress. When we choose not to solve them, we choose not to progress. Suffering unnecessarily, we choose a lower quality of life and sometimes a shorter life instead. Sometimes we try to solve them-or think we do. We invest money, time, energy and emotion. Despite our educations, intelligence, experience and expertise, however, many solvable problems go unsolved, regardless of the stakes; our investments, wasted. It's a choice we don't know we're making. It is our problem with problems, and it's solvable too.
£4.99
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Redesigning Work
We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century. So, how do we make the most of this unique opportunity and radically redesign the way we work - forever?
£16.99
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems. He explains how the world can work to build the tools it needs to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions - investing in research, inventing new technologies and deploying them quickly at a large scale. Gates is optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. This is a visionary and inspiring book by one of the world's most celebrated public figures.
£10.99
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Don't Fix Women
Achieving gender balance at work isn't about 'fixing' the women, it's about changing the system. Here's how.
£14.99
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
'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 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.
£10.99
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Figuring Out the Past
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. So, join the radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past. Drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log each piece of demographic and econometric information that can be reliably estimated for every society that has ever existed, this book does more than tell the story of the past: it shows you the large-scale patterns.
£10.99
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She Said
On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that changed the world forever. For months Kantor and Twohey had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, learning of disturbing, long-buried allegations. The journalists meticulously picked their way through a web of decades-old secret payouts and non-disclosure agreements, pressed some of the most famous women in the world - and some unknown ones - to risk going on the record, and faced down Weinstein, his team of high-priced defenders, and even his private investigators. In this book, Kantor and Twohey relive in real-time what it took to break the story and give an up-close portrait of the forces they were up against.
£9.99
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Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through
The Britain that went into recession as the pandemic hit had been shaped by two hundred years of history. In looking at how the British economy developed over the last two centuries, Duncan Weldon explores the choices taken (and not taken) by politicians and businesspeople over the years, and reveals how those choices have shaped the outcomes and futures faced by us all.
£10.99
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A Home of One's Own
A home is important because it offers sanctuary and privacy. It can help improve mental health and emotional resilience, and it can help break people out of cycles of poverty. Yet in the past 30 years we've seen home ownership dwindle as council housing stocks deplete and more of us are caught in insecure tenancies. And it's not just London - there isn't a single major city in the world today not suffering from an affordable housing crisis. Why does this matter - and what can be done? Hashi Mohamed examines the myriad aspects of housing - from Right-to-Buy to Grenfell, slums and evictions to the Bank of Mum and Dad. Here is a deeply personal study of the crisis confronting global metropoles - and an exploration of the ways we can remove barriers, improve equality and create cities where more people have a place to call their own.
£7.99
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Values
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHorrified by the current financial crisis? Want to learn how we might get out of it?
£12.99
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There's a War Going on But No One Can See It
Summer 2017: computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NHS is so affected that hospitals can only take in patients for the casualty department. The attackers ask each victim to pay them 300 dollars. This is hijack software. Those who transfer the money get nothing in return. A month later, an unknown virus strike shuts down systems in France, India, Britain, Holland, Poland and Germany, before spreading to 60 further countries. Based on the cases he investigated over a period of six years, Huib Modderkolk takes the reader on a tour of the corridors and back doors of the globalised digital world. He reconstructs British-American espionage operations and reveals how the power relationships between countries enable intelligence services to share and withhold data from each other.
£9.99
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Remainders of the Day
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after 20 years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right? Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, 'Remainders of the Day' is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.
£16.99
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Die With Zero
Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired. The only thing you wasted along the way was - your life. 'Die with Zero' presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money - and out of your life. It's intended for those who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and accumulating money for one's so-called golden years.
£13.00
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Undercover Economist
The economics of everyday life in everyday terms, brought to life by a young and very talented economist.
£12.99
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Business Studies for Dummies
Providing readers with a thorough review of the subjects that form the foundation of business degree studies, this is the ideal guide for students headed for university and deciding on a course of study, as well as those entering their first year of business studies.
£18.99
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