In The Upside of Irrationality, behavioral economist Dan Ariely will explore the many ways in which our behaviour often leads us astray in terms of our romantic relationships, our experiences in the workplace, and our temptations to cheat. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking analysis and ...
Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics. ...
A newly revised and expanded edition of the revolutionary business classic, Differentiate or Die, Second Edition shows you how to differentiate your products, services, and business in order to dominate the competition. Veteran marketing guru Jack Trout uses real-world examples and his own unique insight ...
A century and a half after the publication of "Origin of Species", evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects - anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar ...
Irreverent and electrifying, when A.J. Ayer’s epoch-making work was published in 1936 it shook the foundations of British philosophy, and made its author notorious. He argues that if you cannot prove a statement by scientific methods, or by experience, it is literally meaningless. In this sense, everything ...
"In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years'''' worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of improvement with XP, you must read ...
Niall Ferguson''s bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West.The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? ...
In recent years, an extensive collection of drawings was discovered in Andy Warhol\''s estate. Dating from the 1950s, the artist\''s early years in New York, the drawings took as their inspiration magazine photographs and illustrations-many fromLIFE magazine-and provide further insight into Warhol\''s ...
Dressing the Man is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well and look stylish without becoming fashion victims.§Alan Flusser''''s name is synonymous with taste and style. With his new book, he combines his encyclopedic knowledge of men''''s clothes with his signature wit and ...
The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first century, where everything has been turned on its head. Building on the runaway success of Robert Greene\''s ...
Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the ''''Kitchen Thinker'''' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled! Her charming and original new book, Consider the Fork, explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This is the story ...
