The little book of data

understanding the powerful analytics that fuel AI, make or break careers, and could just end up saving the world

Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time. Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it ...

On democracies and death cults

Israel, Hamas and the future of the West

Douglas Murray confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the Palestinian cause is ultimately playing into the hands of a much more dangerous force. Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, Murray presents ...

To the city

along the ancient walls of Istanbul

Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future. Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at ...

God's ghostwriters

enslaved Christians and the making of the Bible

For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But the truth is that these individuals did not write alone. In some ...

The new rules of investing

essential wealth strategies for turbulent times

The rules for investing have changed. Don't get left behind. Reboot your approach with this timely guide from a wealth management powerhouse.It's not hard to grasp why we need to change the way we think about investing. Over the past twenty-five years ...

Globalismo

Ingeniería social y control total en el siglo XXI

El globalismo no es globalización, sino una ideología demoledora que supone el más ambicioso proyecto de ingeniería social y control total de la actualidad. Institucionalizada en organizaciones que, por definición, no tienen ni patria, ni territorio ni pueblo, esta ideología pretende alumbrar un régimen político ...

Misbelief

What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

Generación Idiota

una crítica al adolescentrismo

En la continuación de su béstseller internacional La batalla cultural, el afamado escritor, politólogo y conferencista Agustín Laje presenta Generación idiota: Una crítica al adolescentecentrismo. Según Agustín, las ideologías centradas en la adolescencia del siglo XXI están en auge. Como resultado, los adolescentes están gobernando ...

History of war in maps

The perfect gift for history buffs this Christmas From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the start, maps have been an essential part of planning and waging war. History of War in ...

Kleptopia

how dirty money conquered the world

In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us. They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected ...

The future of capitalism

facing the new anxieties

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural ...

Neruda

el llamado del poeta

Pocos poetas han sabido reflejar la imaginación del mundo como Pablo Neruda. Tanto en su país natal, Chile, como en toda América Latina y en muchas otras partes del mundo, su nombre y su legado se han convertido prácticamente en sinónimos de movimientos de liberación ...

Trumpocracy

the corruption of the american republic

As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal strongmen such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, the Philippines' Roderigo Duterte, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Egypt's Abedel Fattah el-Sisi. He has threatened the American mainstream media, obsessed over ...

Change by design

how design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities ...

Dollars and sense

how we misthink money and how to spend smarter

Why is paying for things painful? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we’ve overpaid for it in the past? Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn’t spend more than ...

A history of the United States in five crashes

stock market meltdowns that defined a Nation

In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the ...

The price of prosperity

why rich nations fail and how to renew them

In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength-and the foundation of a national renewal. America ...

Only humans need apply

winners and losers in the age of smart machines

An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future. Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It's not only blue-collar jobs ...

Play bigger

how pirates,dreamers, and innovators create and dominate markets

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design. Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market ...

The secret war

spies, ciphers, and guerrillas, 1939-1945

From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures ...

Pacific

Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean ...

The lost book of Moses

the hunt for the world's oldest Bible

One man’s quest to find the oldest Bible scrolls in the world and uncover the story of the brilliant, doomed antiquarian accused of forging them. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira—archaeological treasure hunter and inveterate social climber—showed up unannounced in ...