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The Hidden Globe
How Wealth Hacks the World
2025 || Hardcover || Atossa Araxia Abrahamian || Pan Macmillan
Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land and reveals how it became a haven for the rich and powerful.
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The Nvidia Way
Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
2024 || Hardcover || Tae Kim || WW Norton & Co
Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: its chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny's in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company's leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmo...
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The Wim Hof Method
Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits
2022 || Paperback || Wim Hof || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I've never felt so alive' JOE WICKS
'The book will change your life' BEN FOGLE
My hope is to inspire you to retake control of your body and life by unleashing the immense power of the mind.
'The Iceman' Wim Hof shares his remarkable life story and powerful method for supercharging your strength, health and happiness. Refined over forty years and championed by scientists across the globe, you'll learn how to harness three key elements of Cold, Breathing and Mindset to master mind over matter ...
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The War Below: AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 ‘TODAY’
Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives
2025 || Paperback || Ernest Scheyder || Bonnier Books Ltd
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe trillion-dollar battle for the resources to power our future. Oil and gas defined the twentieth century.
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A Little History of Literature
2025 || Paperback || John Sutherland || Yale University Press
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2025
2025 || Hardcover || Lawrence Booth || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The 162nd edition of the most famous sports book in the world – published every year since 1864 – contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers cricket from all over the globe, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide.
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Change Starts Now
100 Lessons from a full-time Changemaker
2025 || Paperback || Melati Wijsen || HarperCollins || met inkijkexemplaar
Inspired by her own successes and failures, Melati Wijsen takes you on her journey of becoming a changemaker and the 100 lessons she learned along the way. Change Starts Now shares an insight into what it was like for a 12-year-old girl growing up in the movement, and how anyone, anywhere, no matter their age, can get involved too.
‘In a world that can sometimes feel consumed by darkness, Melati is a shining light.’ The World’s Largest Lesson
‘The most powerful force for change today ...
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Wuhan Diary
Dispatches from a Quarantined City
2025 || Paperback || Fang Fang e.a. || HarperCollins
From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak.On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced is...
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A Little History of Philosophy
2025 || Paperback || Nigel Warburton || Yale University Press
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism
2015 || Paperback || Brian McHale || Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jeffers...