How to Think Like Muhammad Ali - The Paradox of Greatne...
Consider the question why does anyone buy sports books, o...
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design - How to Think Like a ...
This book is practical and immediate, without being condesce...
How to Change the World - Social Entrepreneurs and the ...
David Bornsteins How to Change the World is the first book...
How to Think Like Einstein - Simple Ways to Break the R...
This updated edition with brand-new material reveals ingenio...
How To Think - A Guide for the Perplexed
Most of us dont want to think, writes the American essayis...
Learning with Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scie...
Learning with Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist...
The Biology of Belief - Unleashing the Power of Conscio...
This new updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition of Th...
How to Think Like a Coder - Without Even Trying
A back-to-basics guide on coding for absolute beginners, whe...
Never Binge Again(tm) - Reprogram Yourself to Think Lik...
If you struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, stress ...
The Wealth Paradox: Economic Prosperity and the Hardeni...
The Wealth Paradox: Economic Prosperity and the Hardening of...
How To Think Like Muhammad Ali - The Paradox Of Greatness And The
The Fabric of the Cosmos - Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas Financial TimesI thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended the Independent (Greene) send(s) the readers imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride. As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator the New Yor...
Lillian Armfield - How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face ...
An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman Australias first female detective LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydneys organised crime underbelly. Special Constable Lillian Armfield was policing Sydneys mean streets during some of the most dramatic years of crime in the city. By the late 1920s, eastern Sydney was the heartland...
Bearing the Unbearable - Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
If you love, you will grieveand nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearableespecially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, NO! with every fiber of our body. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinearand often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it ...
The Dalai Lama's Cat And The Power Of Meow
In the latest installment of the Dalai Lamas Cat series, His Holinesss Cat (HHC) is on a mission: to think less, to experience more, to live in the moment. She soon learns the proper phrase for this, being mindful, or, a concept better known to her as the power of meow. What ensues is a journey to discover her own true nature, to gain a deeper understanding of her mind, and to experience l...
The Meaning Revolution - Leading with the Power of Purpose
One of the most extraordinary thinkers on leadership and management I have ever encountered Sheryl Sandberg Forget the standard practices of leadership taught in business school all about compensation, command and control. This is a new model for how to inspire through purpose, principle and people. The Meaning Revolution is Fred Kofmans call to arms for anyone who has ever felt unen...
A History of the Crusades II - The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
The second volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams
Steven Runcimans unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of ...
Far from the Tree - Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, and one of The New York Times Book Reviews Ten Best Books of 2012, this masterpiece by the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing soa brave, beautiful book that will ...
Looking for the Stranger - Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camuss novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. Its the rare novel thats as at likely to be found in a teens backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. If the twentieth century produced a novel that could be called ubiquitous, The Stranger...
Serpent of Light - Beyond 2012: the Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light
Every 13,000 years on Earth a sacred and secret event takes place that changes everything. Mother Earths Kundalini energy emerges from its resting place in the planets core and moves like a snake across the surface of our world. Once at home in ancient Lemuria, it moved to Atlantis, then to the Himalayan mountains of India and Tibet, and with every relocation changed our idea of what spiritual...
Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africas first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby te...
The Australian Disease - On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Ils haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped ...
The Magnificent Lizzie Brown and the Mysterious Phantom
Lizzie Brown has escaped the slums of Victorian London and joined Fitzys Travelling Circus. By accident, she discovers that she has an amazing ability: in a world of charlatans and tricksters, Lizzie may be the only truly clairvoyant palm reader in existence! While reading a clients palm, she sees shocking images of a masked man taking part in a violent robbery. Lizzie musters together her gan...
A History of the Crusades III - The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
The third volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion Steven Runcimans triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades remains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed the world and continue to resonate today. This final volume of the trilogy be...
Medium Raw - A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the authors bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts wh...
The Cupcake Diaries - Katie and the Cupcake Cure
Sometimes starting from scratch turns out to be the icing on the cupcake. Its Katie Browns first day at her new school and shes already feeling miserable. Her best friend Callie has been invited to join the Popular Girls Club and Katies been left out in the cold. Is their an Unpopular Girls Club she can join? The only thing that makes Katie feel better is the special cupcake her mum pack...
War on Peace - The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. This is one of the most important books of our time. Walter Isaacson THE NEW YORK TIMES #3 BESTSELLER US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing Americas place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out af...
10% Human - How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of `Western diseases lie in our gut? You are 10% human. For every one of your cells, there are nine impostors hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and bone, but also bacteria and fungi. And you are more `them than you are `you.Your gut alone hosts 100 trillion of them an...
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
The School of Life is dedicated to making our lives clearer, less puzzling and more enjoyable by studying the big themes of life with the help of culture. Alain de Botton Having the drive, ambition and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset no wonder we regard successful entrepreneurs as modern-day magic-makers. But what if that spirit and drive were applied outs...
Never Binge Again(tm) - Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person. Stop Overeating and Binge Eating and...
If you struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, stress eating, or if you repeatedly manage to lose weight only to gain it all back, you may be approaching things with the wrong mindset. Most contemporary thought on overeating and bingeing focuses on healing and self-love. But people whove overcome food and weight issues often report it was more like capturing and caging a rabid dog than lea...
The Sharing Economy - The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
The wide-ranging implications of the shift to a sharing economy, a new model of organizing economic activity that may supplant traditional corporations. Sharing isnt new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club-these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the sharing economy, is that you are not helping a...
How to Think Like Bill Gates
A household name for his role in the founding of ubiquitous computer software company Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the worlds great businessmen. Brought up to compete rigorously in all areas of his life, he dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to follow his dream of starting his own firm. He formed Micro-Soft and set about coding his way to the top. But creating software language was just the b...