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Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is...
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Do you have a blog? Does your business? It's not too late to get started! With "Blogwild!" you'll discover that wildly effective blogging is within the reach of everyone. Blogs are cheap to set up and operate, and they can humanise a company's image, start the buzz on a new product, and get instant customer...
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"Freakonomics" revealed much about our society. Now, one of Americaas most respected economists reveals how "individuals" can turn economic reasoning to their advantage in their daily lifeaat home, at work, even on vacation. Tyler Cowen explains how understanding the incentives that work best with each individual...
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Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father. Michael Paleologus, retired archeologist and supposed descendent of the last Emperors of Byzantium, lives alone at Trennor, a remote...
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It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson. ...
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The war on drugs has been lost, but for want of the courage to face that fact, the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime and this story takes us through the landscape it has created.
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Late one night Abe Rosenberg, the Supreme Court's liberal legend, is gunned down in his own home. The same night, Myron Jensen, the court's youngest and most conservative justice is strangled. What linked the two men and what caused their deaths? Darby Shaw thinks she knows the answer.
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In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work...
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It's a big night at the London Palladium. As Jimmy Conway steps out blinking into the spotlights live on national television, he can't help wondering whether he should have perhaps shared his little secret with someone by now. Jimmy has never done any performing of any sort ever before...Just as 'bogus doctors' are...
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A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. ...
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Harry Barnett leads a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace, reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes and working in a bar. Then a guest at the villa - a young woman he had instantly and innocently warmed to - disappears, and Harry is suspected for murder.
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The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all you have to know is how to find it. Google is a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion Web pages, in more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 million searches a day. The more you know about Google, the better you are at pulling...
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Chaos breaks loose when the Governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be installed on all streets and highways, and warns that motorists will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric inhabitants of Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, respond by...
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A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels "Out" and "Grotesque." In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless "cram school" sessions meant to ensure entry...
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A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Mikko Rantanen. When...
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It is 1939, Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is "The Gravedigger's Handbook", left there by accident, and it is...
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A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling...
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He is known as the Changer: a vagabond who slips in and out of myths and cultures, refusing to be pinned down to any one origin just as he refuses to be locked into any one shape - or name. Yet when a quest for vengeance forces him to shed animal form and seek out King Arthur, the Changer discovers that dangers...
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