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1	The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Thomas L Friedman add to wishlist In THE WORLD IS FLAT, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution- ... see all copies from £2.47! new only from £5.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable more books like this by Nassim N Taleb add to wishlist Taleb delivers a groundbreaking look at the role played by the unexpected in life and history, and a fascinating examination of why we know less than we think we do--and what to do about it. see all copies from £2.96! new only from £6.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief more books like this by Dr. Francis S Collins, M.D., PH.D. add to wishlist Does science necessarily undermine faith in God? Or could it actually support faith? Beyond the flashpoint debates over the teaching of evolution, or stem-cell research, most of us struggle with contradictions concerning life's ultimate question. We know that accidents happen, but we believe we are on earth for a reason. Until now, most scientists ... see all copies from £5.08! new only from £5.08! \| first editions
4	Emotional Intelligence more books like this by Prof. Daniel Goleman add to wishlist Author Daniel Goleman uses vivid examples of emotional intelligence in order to delineate the critical role it plays in relationships, work, even our physical well-being. What emerges is a crucial new way to talk about being smart--one that accounts for the other forces at work when a person of high IQ appears to be stymied, while someone of ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £8.52! \| first editions
5	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business more books like this by Neil Postman add to wishlist A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.09! \| first editions
6	How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques and Technologies for Uncertain Things more books like this by James Wesley Rawles add to wishlist The ultimate guide to total preparedness and self-reliance, this work, written by one of the best-known survival experts, contains everything people need to know in order to prepare and protect themselves. see all copies from £8.83! new only from £8.83! \| first editions
7	I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell more books like this by Tucker Max add to wishlist The creator and protagonist of the infamous TuckerMax.com Web site is back with a whole new collection of hilarious stories of male debauchery, deviance, and occasional delinquency. see all copies from £5.37! new only from £5.37!
8	Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist A searing, eye-opening expose of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age and Rachel and Her Children. Kozol blames the disparity among public school systems on the local funding structure that ensures a direct connection between affluence of a community ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions more books like this by Thomas S Kuhn add to wishlist Thomas S. Kuhn's work explaining the process of scientific discovery. This text is the third edition and incorporates a new index. see all copies from £5.59! new only from £5.59! \| first editions
10	Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships more books like this by Daniel P Goleman, Ph.D. add to wishlist "Emotional Intelligence" was an international phenomenon, appearing on the "New York Times" bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, which reveals that we are "wired to connect" and ... see all copies from £2.48! new only from £6.51! \| first editions
11 view cover	Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk more books like this by Peter L Bernstein add to wishlist The story of the group of scientists who pioneered the modern techniques of risk management. see all copies from £6.15! new only from £8.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Then We Came to the End more books like this by Joshua Ferris add to wishlist Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is a family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Zeitoun more books like this by Dave Eggers add to wishlist When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on ... see all copies from £12.29! new only from £12.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark more books like this by Carl Sagan add to wishlist Scientist Dr Carl Sagan argues that modern tales of the paranormal, such as alien abduction stories, are in fact simply a modern version of fairy tales and only exist in the mind, and asserts that these accounts come from a potentially hazardous lack of scientific thought and knowledge, a situation which he feels should be remedied. see all copies from £7.40! new only from £8.04! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them more books like this by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell, Zlata Filipovic (Foreword by) add to wishlist Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students-whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse-Gruwell was the first person to treat them with ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.77!
16 view cover	Holographic Universe more books like this by Michael Talbot add to wishlist What if all the separate images we see virtually every moment of our waking lives were actually part of the same whole? What if every mind was connected and inseparable from every other mind? And what if the universe were a projection of our consciousness? Synchronicities and previously inexplicable phenomena would be easier to understand, the ... see all copies from £4.66! new only from £4.66! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Design of Everyday Things more books like this by Donald A Norman add to wishlist How and why some products are satisfying to use while others are maddening. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.71!
18 view cover	Business & society : ethics and stakeholder management more books like this by Archie B. Carroll add to wishlist Written for vocational accounting students, this text covers the principles of the relationship between business and society. The topics covered include: corporate social responsibility; business ethics; personal ethics; and business's influence on government and public policy. see all copies from £1.49! new only from £8.02!
19 view cover	Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism more books like this by Muhammad Yunus, Dr. Karl Weber add to wishlist The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world - and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for ... see all copies from £5.86! new only from £5.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50 more books like this by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot add to wishlist Renowned sociologist Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between 50 and 75--the third chapter--may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in a person's life. see all copies from £11.80! new only from £11.80! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology more books like this by Ray Kurzweil, PhD add to wishlist Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, the author of THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES, provocatively argues that we are rapidly approaching the Singularity, a point in history in which advances in artificial intelligence, brain scanning, and nanotechnology will blur the division between humans and machines. When we are no longer limited by our current ... see all copies from £7.82! new only from £10.53! \| signed copies
22 view cover	Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology more books like this by Neil Postman add to wishlist In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.64! \| first editions
23 view cover	Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling more books like this by John Taylor Gatto add to wishlist This radical treatise on public education has been a best-seller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year ... see all copies from £5.39! new only from £5.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Other End of the Leash more books like this by Patricia B McConnell, PH.D. add to wishlist Noted dog expert McConnell meditates on the intricacies of the human-dog relationship, offering tips on communication, true stories, a little science, and a wealth of photographs--of dogs and their owners, naturally. see all copies from £6.48! new only from £6.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life more books like this by Richard Florida add to wishlist The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new ... see all copies from £5.84! new only from £8.46! \| signed copies \| first editions

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