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Allen Lane
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Awe-inspiring... Deeply researched, wonderfully well written and immensely thought-provoking, this is an important book which reshapes our understanding of the past
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Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.
For too long, Africa''s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight.
In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa''s spectacular history - from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, she unearths buried histories from across the continent and gives Africa its rightful place in our global story.
The result is a gripping new account of Africa: an epic, sweeping history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves. -
AUTOCRACY INC ; THE DICTATORS WHO WANT TO RUN THE WORLD
Anne Applebaum
- Allen Lane
- 24 Juillet 2024
- 9780241627891
Anne Applebaum is the author of Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize, of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, which won the Cundill Prize and Red Famine: Stalin''s War on Ukraine which won the Lionel Gelber and Duff Cooper prizes. She is a columnist for The Atlantic and a senior fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She divides her time between Britain, Poland and the USA.>
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HIDDEN POTENTIAL ; THE SCIENCE OF ACHIEVING GREATER THINGS
Adam Grant
- Allen Lane
- 31 Décembre 2024
- 9780753560068
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. His books have sold millions of copies, his TED talks have been viewed more than 30 million times, and he hosts the hit podcast Re:Thinking. His pioneering research on motivation and meaning has enabled people to reach their aspirations and exceed others'' expectations. His viral piece on languishing was the most-read New York Times article of 2021 and the most-saved article across platforms. He has been recognized as one of the world''s ten most influential management thinkers and Fortune''s 40 Under 40, and has received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. Grant received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and he is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and their three children.>
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We have reached a momentous inflection point with AI, and no other book I''ve read captures it with such stunning insight and imagination
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NO RULES RULES - NETFLIX AND THE CULTURE OF REINVENTION
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
- Allen Lane
- 4 Juillet 2024
- 9780753560969
*** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year ***
It''s time to do things differently.
Trust your team. Be radically honest. And never, ever try to please your boss.
These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 190 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation that rivals the likes of Disney.
Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy - which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate - and how it plays out in practice at Netflix.
From unlimited holidays to abolishing approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organisation, one far more in tune with an ever-changing fast-paced world. For anyone interested in creativity, productivity and innovation, the Netflix culture is something close to a holy grail. This book will make it, and its creator, fully accessible for the first time. -
Serhii Plokhy is the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Pushkin House Book Prize, and the New York Times bestseller The Gates of Europe. His many acclaimed books, including Nuclear Folly, Atoms and Ashes and The Last Empire, have been translated into over a dozen languages. He is Professor of History at Harvard University where he also serves as Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.>
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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. A #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of TED''s most popular speakers, his books have sold more than 2 million copies and been translated into 35 languages, his talks have been viewed more than 25 million times, and his podcast WorkLife has topped the charts. His pioneering research has inspired people to rethink their fundamental assumptions about motivation, generosity, and creativity. He has been recognized as one of the world''s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune''s 40 under 40, and has been honored with distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation.>
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TOO LATE TO AWAKEN ; WHAT LIES AHEAD WHEN THERE IS NO FUTURE
Slavoj Zizek
- Allen Lane
- 2 Novembre 2023
- 9780241651759
It offers a characteristically provocative and insightful account of the great geopolitical shifts of recent years, centring on Russia''s war in Ukraine>
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THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE ; UNDERSTANDING NEOLIBERALISM
George Monbiot, Peter Hutchinson
- Allen Lane
- 16 Mai 2024
- 9780241635902
George Monbiot is a very skilful writer He seems to see more fully than almost anyone else in this field>
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RURAL HOURS - THE COUNTRY LIVES OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER ROSAMOND
Harriet Baker
- Allen Lane
- 4 Avril 2024
- 9780241540510
Harriet Baker has written for the London Review of Books, the Paris Review, the New Statesman, the TLS, Apollo and frieze. She read English at Oxford and holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. In 2018, she was awarded the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. She lives in Bristol.>
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA - A PALESTINE STORY
Nathan Thrall
- Allen Lane
- 3 Octobre 2023
- 9780241566725
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THE 1619 PROJECT ; A NEW AMERICAN ORIGIN STORY
Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Allen Lane
- 6 Juin 2024
- 9780753559550
The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that the American story is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as America''s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country''s very origin.
The 1619 Project places the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the centre of the story America tells about itself. Orchestrated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by MacArthur "genius" and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this collection of essays and historical vignettes includes some of the most outstanding journalists, thinkers, and scholars of American history and culture -- including Linda Villarosa, Jamelle Bouie, Jeneen Interlandi, Matthew Desmond, Wesley Morris, and Bryan Stevenson. Together, their work shows how the tendrils of 1619 -- of slavery and resistance to slavery -- reach into every part of our contemporary culture, from voting, housing and healthcare, to the way we sing and dance, the way we tell stories, and the way we worship. Short pieces of flash fiction and poetry bring the history to life through the imaginative interpretations of some of our greatest writers.
The 1619 Project ultimately sends a very strong message: We must have a clear vision of this history if we are to understand our present dilemmas. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and trying as hard as we can to understand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future. -
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MATERIAL WORLD ; A SUBSTANTIAL STORY OF OUR PAST AND FUTURE
Ed Conway
- Allen Lane
- 1 Août 2024
- 9780753559178
**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**
Picked as a Book of the Year by THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMAN
A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week
''A compelling narrative of the human story'' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography
''Lively, rich and exciting... full of surprises'' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads
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Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.
These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted.
In Material World, Ed Conway travels the globe - from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe, to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan, to the eerie green pools where lithium originates - to uncover a secret world we rarely see. Revealing the true marvel of these substances, he follows the mind-boggling journeys, miraculous processes and little-known companies that turn the raw materials we all need into products of astonishing complexity.
As we wrestle with climate change, energy crises and the threat of new global conflict, Conway shows why these substances matter more than ever before, and how the hidden battle to control them will shape our geopolitical future. This is the story of civilisation - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - from a new perspective: literally from the ground up. -
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THE ROAD TO FREEDOM - ECONOMICS AND THE GOOD SOCIETY
Joseph Stiglitz
- Allen Lane
- 25 Avril 2024
- 9780241687888
Joseph E. Stiglitz was Chairman of the President''s Council of Economic Advisers 1995-7 and Chief Economist at the World Bank 1997-2000. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, teaching in the Department of Economics, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the bestselling author of Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, Making Globalization Work, Freefall, The Price of Inequality and The Great Divide, all published by Penguin.>
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Like its heroes Homer''s Iliad has earned immortal glory. It is the sublime Greek epic poem which tells of the anger of Achilles, and its dreadful consequences for persons and events during the war at Troy. Great questions still remain for its many readers: where, how and when it was composed and why it has such exceptional power. Robin Lane Fox applies his life-long love and engagement with the poem to answer them, deepening and enhancing what we will find in it as a result. Long planned, compellingly written and conceived, it is a memorable tribute to the poem underlying many of his own books.>
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TAKE MY GRIEF AWAY - VOICES FROM THE WAR IN UKRAINE
Katerina Gordeeva
- Allen Lane
- 6 Juin 2024
- 9780753560860
''Read this book. Don''t put it off until you''ll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you''ll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.''
- Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Chernobyl Prayer
In the darkest of times, in the midst of it all, a journalist has one single task: to document everything that is happening. It is time to slow down and listen to the voice of a human being.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled to refugee centres across Europe to record the human voice and cost of war. Take My Grief Away reveals twenty-four raw, heartbreaking first-person accounts from people united in grief and their first-hand experiences of the brutality and senselessness of war. These twenty-four voices will transform what you think you know about war, grief and human nature. -
HITLER''S PEOPLE - THE FACES OF THE THIRD REICH
Richard j. Evans
- Allen Lane
- 13 Août 2024
- 9780241471500
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