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The Trading Game : A ConfessionSpecial Price €17.59 Regular Price €21.99
An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open.
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Irresistible : How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World€17.99
Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up.
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Doppelganger : A Trip Into the Mirror World€20.99
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't.
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Power and Progress : Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity€20.99
Technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, social respect, cultural prominence, and further political voice for those already powerful. For most of the rest of us, there is the illusion of progress.
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The Power of Regret : How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward€18.99
'No regrets.' You've heard people proclaim it as a philosophy of life. That's nonsense, even dangerous, says Daniel H. Pink in his latest bold and inspiring work.
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The Ascent of Gravity : The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything (Large Paperback)€17.99
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is the least understood. It is a 'force' that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists.Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma'.
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive€19.99
At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight key concepts - from motivation and goal-setting to focus and decision-making - that explain why some people and companies get more done than others.
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Into the Magic Shop : A neurosurgeon's true story of the life-changing magic of mindfulness and compassion€20.99
The day that 12-year-old James Doty walked in to his local magic shop is the day that changed his life. Once the neglected son of an alcoholic father and a mother with chronic depression, he has gone on to become a leading neurosurgeon, based at Stanford University.
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The Looting Machine : Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's WealthSpecial Price €12.99 Regular Price €17.99
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa,The Looting Machine explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.
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Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema (Updated & Fully Revised Edition)€24.99
The zombie is cinema's most enduring horror icon, having terrified audiences for decades. Book of the Dead charts the history of the walking dead from the monster's origins in Haitian voodoo, through its cinematic debut in 1932's White Zombie up to blockbuster World War Z and beyond.