Making right desicions when you don't have all the facts. ... Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there's always information hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a ... |
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A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible ... |
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In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft which he believes they embodied. After the Second World War, Konrad Adenauer brought defeated and morally bankrupt Germany back into the community of nations by what Kissinger calls the strategy of humility. Charles de Gaulle set France beside the victorious Allies and renewed its historic grandeur by the strategy of will. During the Cold War, Richard Nixon gave geostrategic advantage to the United States by the strategy of equilibrium. After twenty-five years of conflict, Anwar Sadat brought a vision ... |
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Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we're rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it's called slow productivity. Coined by Cal Newport, slow productivity is a revolutionary philosophy based on three simple principles: do fewer things; work at a natural pace; obsess over quality. Examining the stories and habits of ancient and modern scientists, philosophers, artists and scholars who worked in this way, Newport ... |
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The first rule of handling PR for a hockey team? Never hook up with a player. That shouldn't be a problem since the last man on earth I want to give an image makeover to is our goalie. He's infuriatingly hot, famously grumpy and lives to spar with me after every game. Shining up his rough edges is my path to landing the promotion I need, so I grit my teeth and do my job, no matter how hard he makes it. As I get to know the man behind the broody iceman exterior, he becomes impossible to resist and soon, only once turns into every night. But the man is entirely off limits. Because the only thing worse than hooking ... |
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A forbidden romance with my brother's hockey teammate wasn't on my to-do list when I moved across the country... Neither was getting locked out of a friend's place wearing next to nothing. Or spending the night with the sexy stranger who rescues me. In the morning, I learn the filthy-mouthed man with the talented hands is not only the hotshot new hockey player on my brother's team: he's also - wait for it - my brand new roommate. A Friends-only rule seems like a good idea, but it turns out to be far from easy. Wes is flirty, generous and looks at me like I'm the only one. How can I avoid falling ... |
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From New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes a dark and twisted romance full of secrets and lies... Dive into Monica Murphy's Lancaster Prep series with this 5 book collection! Titles in Set: Things I Wanted To Say A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime Promises We Meant To Keep I'll Always Be With You You Said I Was Your Favorite I'll Always Be With You. Weston Fontaine is the hottest senior at Lancaster Prep. He could have any girl on campus, except for one Me I'm a Lancaster, meaning I'm basically untouchable - or so I thought. My family owns the school which I have to endure ... |
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This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or unintentional), graphs, indexes and other tools of democratic persuasion. ... |
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Evie Sage didn't mean to become the right hand woman to the kingdom's most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an entry level position that promised light paperwork and occasional beheadings, and the next, she was knee deep in magical mayhem, murder plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding, sharpawed, walking disaster of a boss. Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the break room, and a suspicious amount of frogs wearing crowns, Evie has to figure out how to survive her job without setting the kingdom on fire or her dignity, which is hanging by a very ... |
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How to prosper in a financial world that's rigged against you. Essential reading during a cost of living crisis, Dix's accessible and authoritative volume explains exactly why we are all worse off financially and the measures we can take to keep some control over our money. We all depend on money every day. But almost none of us understand it. Have you ever wondered why your shopping bill keeps getting more expensive? Or how the government can produce billions out of thin air while your savings are shrinking? Or where you should put your money in an age of economic turmoil? Here, a leading investor offers a ... |
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A Netflix Original Series! See if you have what it takes to survive the monster zombie apocalypse in this interactive guided journal from the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Last Kids on Earth series, now with over 7 million copies in print. You've read all about the Last Kids on Earth 's adventures in the post zombie monster apocalypse, and now it's time to get in on the action! In this interactive journal, readers will feel like they're part of the Last Kids world by taking part in creative exercises that are based on the characters and settings that they've come to ... |
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Can We settle Space, should we settle Space, and have we really thought this through? Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of original research, and interviews with leading space scientists, engineers and legal experts, they aren't so sure it's a good idea. Space tech and space business are progressing fast, but we lack ... |