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Planet Insect
How Insects Conquered The Earth
2024 || Paperback || Steve Nicholls || Bloomsbury Publishing
An extraordinary account of the evolution and biology of insects, the busy, teeming arthropods on whose activities much of life on earth depends.
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Smart Thinking
How to live, think and work even better
2024 || Paperback || Jo Owen || Bloomsbury Publishing
A clear and practical review of the 50 most common thinking challenges everyone faces from day to day, accompanied by a full guide to the most accessible and practical solutions.
Many people find themselves facing difficult work situations, day after day - often as a result of existing patterns of behaviour, or at the mercy of negative thoughts. But such cycles can be broken, allowing people to approach problems and challenges in a more robust and sustainable way. Smart Thinking will...
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Flights of Fancy
Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
2024 || Paperback || Richard Dawkins || Bloomsbury Publishing
Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight. A book about flying – from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the British Airways pilots of today.
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Negotiate Successfully
How to find win-win situations and still get what you need
2024 || Paperback || Bloomsbury Publishing || Bloomsbury Publishing
A clear explanation of the art of negotiation, with practical advice on how to prepare, how to keep cool under pressure, and how body language can be used to your advantage.
All of us negotiate every day in different ways - whether that's in a work setting, using professional partners, or even at home. But for many people it's a nerve-wracking experience that leaves them feeling awkward, tongue-tied and at a disadvantage. This book will explain the dynamics of a successful negotiatio...
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The New Psychology
The 50 newest concepts that are shaping how we live and work
2024 || Paperback || Adrian Furnham || Bloomsbury Publishing
An in-depth look at some of the newest issues in psychology and how they can shape our lives, at home and at work - from AI and eco-psychology, to the great resignation, Zoom fatigue, and the psychology of social media.
Psychologists have always shone a torch, and often a spotlight, into many dark corners of the human mind. They study everything, from art preferences to altruism, coaching to criminality, jokes and humour to justice and honesty. But in our hyper-connected, post-pande...
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Succeed as a New Manager
How to inspire your team and be a great boss
2024 || Paperback || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC || Bloomsbury Publishing
Everything a first-time manager needs to know about leading and managing other people.
It's great to find yourself with a new promotion and to suddenly have fresh challenges at work. But managing other people can be a daunting responsibility when it's your first time - particularly if you find yourself as the boss of former colleagues or friends. Packed with practical advice, Succeed as a New Manager will help you sail through issues such as getting to know your team, dealing with in...
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Evolutions
Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
2024 || Paperback || Oren Harman || Bloomsbury Publishing
A reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human.
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The Known Unknowns
The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
2024 || Paperback || Lawrence M. Krauss || Bloomsbury Publishing
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The Seven Games of Leadership
Navigating the Inner Journey of Leaders
2024 || Hardcover || Paolo Gallo || Bloomsbury Publishing
A fresh take on assessing your priorities - both professionally and personally - to ensure you are in the best position to make a positive difference to the people and places around you, and in the process to transform your own life.
The disruptive moment in which we find ourselves living demands that we are our own agents of change. The Seven Games of Leadership is a guide for readers through seven key phases of personal and professional development, with the aim not of climbing a corporate ...
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Utopia for Realists
And How We Can Get There
2024 || Paperback || Rutger Bregman || Bloomsbury Publishing
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer
'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times
'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' Guardian
In Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable. Every milestone of civilisation - from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy - was once considered a utopian fantasy. New utopian id...