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Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind
0130.00 DH‘Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth’ Barack Obama
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?
One of the world’s preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.
In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
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Surrounded by Idiots
0155.00 DHIn Surrounded by Idiots, Thomas Erikson argues that there are four distinct personalities, and everyone reflects one or more of them in their behavior. While he touches on how they affect personal relationships, the bulk of this bestseller discusses how each personality type would behave in common workplace scenarios.
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Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow
0130.00 DH**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**
Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we’re going.
‘Spellbinding’ Guardian
The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond – from overcoming death to creating artificial life.
It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?
‘Even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens‘ Kazuo Ishiguro
‘Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before’ Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Leaders Eat Last
0110.00 DH‘Leaders Eat Last’ by Simon Sinek is a thought-provoking book on how great leaders create a circle of safety in the workplace, inspiring trust, cooperation, and peak performance. He explains how a leader putting the needs of the team first can create a culture of success.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
0180.00 DHThe phenomenal international bestseller – 2 million copies sold – that will change the way you make decisions
‘A lifetime’s worth of wisdom’ Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics
‘There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Thinking, Fast and Slow’ Financial TimesWhy is there more chance we’ll believe something if it’s in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It will enable to you make better decisions at work, at home, and in everything you do.
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Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
0165.00 DH‘The best productivity plans call for strategy, not just hacks or tactics—and Hyperfocus gives you strategy in spades. When you read this book, get ready to do your most important work!’ Chris Guillebeau
In Hyperfocus, you will learn:
– How working fewer hours can increase our productivity
– How drinking caffeine strategically instead of habitually gives us more energy
– How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
0110.00 DHThe #1 Sunday Times bestseller from ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now’ (New York Times) – now in paperback.
How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty?
Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you.
Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and on lessons from humanity’s oldest myths and stories, Peterson offers twelve profound and realistic principles to live by. After all, as he reminds us, we each have a vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
Deep, rewarding and enlightening, 12 Rules for Life is a lifeboat built solidly for stormy seas: ancient wisdom applied to our contemporary problems.
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Man’s Search For Meaning: Classic Editions (Rider Classics)
0130.00 DH”Every human being should read this book” Simon Sinek
One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man”s Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl”s story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.
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Big Potential : Five Secrets of Reaching Higher by Powering Those Around You
0189.00 DHForget everything you thought you knew about being your best. It’s not about your own skills or talents. Instead, real success in work and life comes from your connections and relationships – the teams you build around you, the friends you make – and getting the best out of them. You hugely amplify your own potential by helping others around you to realise theirs.
A TED talk star with over 16 million views, Shawn Achor is one of the world’s leading experts on happiness and personal success – and author of the positive psychology classic The Happiness Advantage. Now, in this game-changing guide to greatness, he demolishes the myth of single individual achievement. With powerful stories, cutting-edge research and exclusive insights from Fortune 100 leaders, he shows how only by working with others will you ever reach your Big Potential.
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Find Your Why : A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
0189.00 DHStart With Why has led millions of readers to rethink everything they do, in their personal lives, their careers and their organisations.
Now Find Your Why picks up where Start With Why left off. It shows you how to apply Simon Sinek’s powerful insights so that you can find more inspiration at work and in turn inspire those around you.
This hands-on, step-by-step guide will help you to find your WHY. With detailed exercises, illustrations and action steps for every stage of the process, Find Your Why can help you address many important concerns including:
-What if my WHY sounds like my competitors?
-Can I have more than one WHY?
-If my work doesn’t match my WHY, what should I do?
-What if my team can’t agree on our WHY?Whether you’ve just started your first job, are leading a team or are CEO of your own company, the exercises in this book will help guide you on a path to long-term success and fulfilment, both for you and your colleagues.
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Working Hard, Hardly Working : How to achieve more, stress less and feel fulfilled
0150.00 DHTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Excellent.’ The Times
‘Offers a fresh take on how to create your own balance, be more productive and feel fulfilled in the high-pressure social media age.’ Cosmopolitan, 12 BEST NEW BOOKS TO READ
‘Serves some serious inspiration for the business-minded.’ Bustle, TOP DEBUT BOOKS OF 2021
‘Pinpoints and unpacks the confusing and impossible messages we are all fed about modern work, how we are supposedly meant to be “nailing” all areas of our life all at once.’ Emma Gannon
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We all know the pressure of feeling like we should be grinding 24/7 while simultaneously being told that we should ‘just relax’ and take care of ourselves, like we somehow have to decide between success and sanity. But in today’s complex working world, where every hobby can be a hustle and social media is the lens through which we view ourselves and others, this seemingly impossible choice couldn’t be further from our reality.In Working Hard, Hardly Working, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed ‘lazy workaholic’ Grace Beverley challenges this unrealistic and unnecessary split, and offers a fresh take on how to create your own balance, be more productive and feel fulfilled.
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A BOOK TO HELP YOU:Create your own Productivity Method: Work smart and do more of what you love
Make your routine work for you: Optimise your habits and reap the benefits
Understand your value: Get into your flow and enjoy your everyday
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Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love
0165.00 DHIs there a science to love?
In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships-until now.
Attachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes.
In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways:
*ANXIOUS people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner’s ability to love them back.
*AVOIDANT people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness.
*SECURE people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving.Attached guides readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mates) follow. It also offers readers a wealth of advice on how to navigate their relationships more wisely given their attachment style and that of their partner. An insightful look at the science behind love, Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections.
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The 4-Hour Work Week : Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
0170.00 DHA new, updated and expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller on how to reconstruct your life so it’s not all about work Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan – there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint. This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: * How Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week * How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want * How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs * How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist * How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent ‘mini-retirements’. This new updated and expanded edition includes: More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point * Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating email, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than GBP5 a meal * How lifestyle design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times * The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either.
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The Personal MBA
0157.00 DH10th Anniversary edition * Completely revised and updated * over 800,000 copies sold
ARE YOU TEMPTED TO GO TO BUSINESS SCHOOL? SAVE YOUR MONEY AND READ THE PERSONAL MBA INSTEAD.
This bestselling business classic gives you everything you need to transform your business and your career.An MBA at a top business school is an enormous investment in time and cash. And if you don’t want to work for a consulting firm or an investment bank, the chances are it simply isn’t worth it.
The Personal MBA gives you simple mental models for every subject that’s key to commercial success. From the basics of products and marketing to the nuances of teamwork and systems, this book distils everything you need to know to take on the MBA graduates and win.
‘File this book under: NO EXCUSES’ Seth Godin
‘No matter what they tell you, an MBA is not essential. If you combine reading this book with actually trying stuff, you’ll be far ahead in the business game’ Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired -
The Concise Art of Seduction
0150.00 DHThe companion book to the bestselling Concise 48 Laws of Power, which has now sold over 125,000 copies in the UK. Amoral, ruthless, clever and cunning, this is the essential guide to the art of seduction.
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
0160.00 DHInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller Discover how rethinking can lead to excellence at work and wisdom in life Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world it might matter more that we can rethink and unlearn. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people’s minds-and our own. As Wharton’s top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he tries to argue like he’s right but listen like he’s wrong. Think Again invites us to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.
