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A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way. It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground...

The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first century, ...

This is the 6th bestselling business book of 2011 - a smart, fun, bestselling guide to making the right choices. Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? And how can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently? ...

In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account ...

Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science...

When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special....

When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special....

The perfect pocketbook gift for the power-hungry - from 'the modern Machiavelli', Robert Greene, international bestselling sensation author of The 48 Laws of Power, Seduction and War. This concise version of the ...

One of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperback. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town...

This is the companion book to the bestselling "Concise 48 Laws of Power". Amoral, ruthless, clever and cunning, this is the essential guide to the art of seduction...

Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us...

Al Ries and Jack Trout, two of the world's most successful marketing strategists, call upon over 40 years of marketing expertise to identify the definitive rules that govern the world of marketing...

At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, ...

The perfect gift book for the power hungry (and who doesn’t want power?) at an excellent price. The Concise Edition of an international bestseller.At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o’clock news: the 48 Laws apply everywhere...

Your new business went online yesterday and you've got a marketing budget of zero. How are you supposed to create a movement around your product? How can you get to your first thousand - or million - customers? Starting from zero, it feels impossible...

Aprovocative new theory of political economy explaining why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others?Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, ...

From bestselling author Robert Greene comes a new guide to the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, ...

Just My Typeis not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco...

An entertaining miscellany of logical curiosities - from anecdotes and proofs to puzzles and puns - found outside the classroom. If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, ..

Even though everyone is talking about it, there is no concept in business today more muddled than 'strategy'. Richard Rumelt, described by McKinsey Quarterly as 'a giant in the field of strategy' and 'strategy's strategist', ...