In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and 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. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation - each of these can be understood only by ... |
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A simple, positive, practical toolkit for better mental health, from clinical psychologist and TikTok star Dr Julie Smith. Drawing on her years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr Julie Smith's first book is a must-have handbook for instantly better mental health. Filled with secrets from the therapy room, "Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?" offers simple advice, effective strategies and powerful coping techniques to help readers stay positive and resilient no matter what life throws their way. Written in short, bite-sized entries, in Dr Julie's warm and informal style, a reader can turn ... |
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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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Humbert Humbert – scholar, aesthete and romantic – has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky-skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers viciously in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Savagely hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust. " ... |
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How our minds predict and shape reality. A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds. For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a passive receiver, but an ever-active predictor. At the forefront of this cognitive revolution is widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark, who has synthesized his ground-breaking work on ... |
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Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted-and will come. n vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly ... |
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Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented ... |
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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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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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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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The Art of risking everything. In a world wired for chaos, these players are rewriting the rules. High-stakes, high-IQ, and often high on their own mythologies, they are driving the next era of finance, tech, and politics. But what happens when their bets go too far? Nate Silver's On The Edge reveals the hidden world of the River. It is the domain of gamblers and like-minded folks who move markets and change the fabric of society: poker legends, hedge fund titans, crypto speculators, and even those willing to bet the world's future on AI. They are obsessives with a deep hunger for volatility and an unrelenting ... |
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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 ... |
