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The international bestseller First Things First by Stephen R. Covey is a self-help book that offers an alternative to traditional advice on time management and productivity. By focusing on relationships and results instead of time and tasks, Covey gives his readers the tools they need to achieve "effectiveness"....
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is an engaging, thought-provoking look at the behaviour and phenomena we see around us every day. Its authors seek to apply the analytical tools of economics to a host of curiosities to answer questions as diverse as whether your...
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"Trust has never been lower than it is today". This is a statement by Covey from his bestselling book, The Speed of Trust, and he goes on to explain that trust has virtually disappeared from business, politics and even our personal lives. Yet trusting others is an integral aspect of any career or relationship...
4) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: The Leading Guide to Better Communication
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Despite first being published over 75 years ago, the advice offered in How to Win Friends and Influence People remains startlingly relevant. From enabling you to make friends quickly to becoming a better salesperson and handling tricky complaints, Carnegie provides helpful suggestions and explanations...
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Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about putting a stop to bedwetting with this straightforward guide.
Although bedwetting is a normal part of infancy, it can be frustrating and distressing for the child and their parents if it continues beyond the usual age. Fortunately, a range of effective treatments are available, so you can find the one that is best for your child and help them to stay dry throughout the night.
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6) Lean in by Sheryl Sandberg: Helping women overcome barriers and make it to the top of their field
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Lean In is one of the most talked-about business books in recent years, and has resonated with women around the world. It takes as its starting point the notable paucity of women in corporate and governmental leadership positions, before outlining the reasons for this and laying out a series of recommendations...
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Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is one of the bestselling books of this generation and is now taught in business schools around the world. What makes it so special? The answer is undoubtedly Kiyosaki's unique writing style; the book not only offers financial advice, but also entertaining anecdotes...
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Capitalism and Freedom outlines the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman's views on the relationship between economics and politics. Specifically, he believes that economic freedom is necessary both in and of itself, and because it is inextricably linked to political freedom. He applies this...
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Eric Ries' 2011 bestseller The Lean Startup is a valuable guide for startup founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. Ries applies the methods of lean management to the creation and development of startups, with the aim of allowing users to reduce waste, optimise production processes and find out what their...
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The Tipping Point is a bestselling book by Malcolm Gladwell and explains how social phenomena come about and what triggers a social epidemic. Using case studies and experiments in social psychology, Gladwell presents the three aspects that he considers essential to create a social phenomenon; rare birds,...
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The World is Flat is an award-winning book by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman. It combines meticulous research, personal anecdotes and conceptual analysis to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the mechanisms behind globalisation in the 21st century, along with recommendations...
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Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about making learning enjoyable with this straightforward guide.
If your child seems constantly distracted at school, lacks motivation and struggles to retain what they have learnt, it could be that traditional teaching methods are simply not right for them. Fortunately, there are a range of new and innovative approaches that take each child's strengths and preferences into account,...
13) Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty: Understand inequality in the modern world
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Thomas Piketty's 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was an immediately bestseller in the UK and US, and has been widely praised by both economists and the general public. Piketty provides a richly detailed account of the development of inequality in the Western world, and argues that economic...
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The Wealth of Nations is one of the most significant works in economics history, and is a foundational text of classical economics. Written at a time when the Industrial Revolution was changing the face of Western societies, the book seeks to explain why some countries are wealthier than others and...
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The New One Minute Manager is an updated version of Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson's bestselling book The One Minute Manager. It tells the story of a young man who is searching in vain for the ideal manager, until he comes across a man known as the "One Minute Manager", who has managed to strike the...
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As its name suggests, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind seeks to trace the history of Homo Sapiens from its earliest evolution, when it was one of several human species coexisting on earth, to the 21st century. This sweeping narrative takes in the Agricultural Revolution, the development of language,...
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard H. Thaler and the Harvard Law School professor Cass S. Sunstein, advocates libertarian paternalism, an approach by which individuals can be steered to make better decisions without taking away their...
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Taking a company from being good to being great is no mean feat, but luckily Collins has outlined some interesting concepts to help business owners take the next step towards greatness. From becoming a level 5 leader to improving your way of thinking and acting, Good to Great provides all the advice you...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow, by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, explores the fallacies that can impair human decision-making and the biases that may lead us to act in an irrational way. Kahneman posits that the human mind is governed by two systems of thought, which we lean on in different...
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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz offers an insider's view of the role played by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in the economic crises of the 1990s. Stiglitz argues that the so-called Washington Consensus, a set of economic principles typically applied to nations...
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