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The Culture Code
The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
2024 || Paperback || Daniel Coyle || Cornerstone
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A marvel of insight and practicality' Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit____________________________How do you build and sustain a great team? Highly recommended, an urgent read.' Seth Godin, author of Linchpin'Truly brilliant .
Through the Language Glass
Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
2024 || Paperback || Guy Deutscher || Cornerstone
Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes.
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How to be Well Read
A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities
2024 || Paperback || John Sutherland || Cornerstone
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The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
2024 || Paperback || Charles Duhigg || Cornerstone
Takes you to the edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. This book brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation. It shows, by harnessing this science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.
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Superforecasting
The Art and Science of Prediction
2024 || Paperback || Philip Tetlock e.a. || Cornerstone
Tetlock's latest project – an unprecedented, government-funded forecasting tournament involving over a million individual predictions – has since shown that there are, however, some people with real, demonstrable foresight.
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Smarter Faster Better
The Secrets of Being Productive
2024 || Paperback || Charles Duhigg || Cornerstone
In his international bestseller The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize-winner the author explained why we do what we do. In this book, he applies the same relentless curiosity and masterful analysis to the question: how can each of us achieve more.
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Sand and Steel
A New History of D-Day
2024 || Paperback || Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams || Cornerstone
The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published 'Extraordinary' Andrew Roberts'Fascinating' Daily Mail'Magisterial' James Holland________________ 6 June 1944, 4 a.m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of France.
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David Bowie
A Life
2024 || Paperback || Dylan Jones || Cornerstone
Dylan Jones is the multi-award winning editor of GQ magazine.He has been an editor at i-D magazine, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times. He is a Trustee of the Hay Festival, a board member of the Norman Mailer Foundation and was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to publishing. He has written twenty books including the critically aclaimed When Ziggy Played Guitar and From the Ground Up, U2's celebration of their record-breaking 360¿ tour.
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The Anglo-Saxons
A History of the Beginnings of England
2024 || Paperback || Marc Morris || Cornerstone
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Switch
How to change things when change is hard
2024 || Paperback || Dan Heath e.a. || Cornerstone
We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? The authors argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour.