Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
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Category: Culture and Ideas
I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine. His name is Lord Doyle. His plan- to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game- baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino ca ...Show more
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition by Benjamin Dreyer
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Category: Culture and Ideas
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don't - Dreyer's English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-no ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
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Category: Culture and Ideas
The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar--and diplomacy--to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons, in the process reshaping the Middle East.Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facil ...Show more
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World by Chao-Hwei Shih
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty and more. An unlikely duo-Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent Australian philosopher and professor of b ...Show more
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life by Paul Callaghan
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path has always been there, but in the modern-day world, it can be hard to find. There are so many demands on us family, health, bills, a mortgage, a career that it can be hard to remember what's most important- you. It's time to reconnect with your story. ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
Mary McCartney. Feeding Creativity by McCartney Mary (Photographer)
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Mary McCartney is a photographer, filmmaker, TV cook and author. In Feeding Creativity she blends her passions for food and photography, cooking 60 of her favourite recipes for friends, family, musicians, actors, artists and visionaries. Mary makes each a specially prepared dish, which they eat together ...Show more
A Therapeutic Atlas: Destinations to inspire and enchant by School of Life
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Category: Culture and Ideas
The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation or rich in memory. This is an atlas that gathers together some of the most enchanting and reinvigorating places around the world in order to heal and captiv ...Show more
A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Wellbeing by The School of Life
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment. Books, however familiar, are amongst the strangest objects on the planet: little portals that open directly into the ideas, feelings, loves and sorrows of writers from all times and places. ...Show more