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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'
The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.
The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, from ancient Rome through the Tudors to modern-day China, leading academics Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson show that to invest and prosper, people need to know that if they work hard, they can make money and actually keep it - and this means sound institutions that allow virtuous circles of innovation, expansion and peace. Based on fifteen years of research, and answering the competing arguments of authors ranging from Max Weber to Jeffrey Sachs and Jared Diamond, Acemoglu and Robinson step boldly into the territory of Francis Fukuyama and Ian Morris. They blend economics, politics, history and current affairs to provide a new, powerful and persuasive way of understanding wealth and poverty.
Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too?
Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked.
Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to 'have it all,' Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. Instead of their issues being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take 'me-time' or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order.
In Why We Can't Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss - and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.
Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked.
Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to 'have it all,' Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. Instead of their issues being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take 'me-time' or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order.
In Why We Can't Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss - and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.
Why We Sleep
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.
Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
Now, in this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves in to everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.
Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
Now, in this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves in to everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.
Wildfire
When Russ and Aurora cross paths at a university party, a drinking game ends with them spending the night together. The next day, Aurora slips away before Russ learns her full name.
This anonymity ends when they both turn up to their first day of work as camp counsellors. A job they had both chosen to escape Maple Hills for the summer.
Given their history, there’s still an obvious tension between the two but the camp has a strict “no staff fraternizing” rule. Russ doesn’t want to risk heading home early but Aurora has never been one for rules.
As things heat up, they'll have to resist or risk starting something they just can’t stop.
This anonymity ends when they both turn up to their first day of work as camp counsellors. A job they had both chosen to escape Maple Hills for the summer.
Given their history, there’s still an obvious tension between the two but the camp has a strict “no staff fraternizing” rule. Russ doesn’t want to risk heading home early but Aurora has never been one for rules.
As things heat up, they'll have to resist or risk starting something they just can’t stop.
Will Jaeger Volume 2, Les anges de feu
Une vision d'horreur, au fond d'une crevasse, sur un glacier du Groenland.
Un orphelin kidnappé dans un bidonville de Nairobi.
Une grotte à fl anc de volcan en Tanzanie.
Une île au large de Cuba.
Des singes évadés d'un laboratoire secret.
Des larmes de sang.
La quête de Will Jaeger continue.
Mais plus il avance, plus ses ennemis s'acharnent.
Et plus la noirceur de leurs desseins apparaît terrifiante.
Un orphelin kidnappé dans un bidonville de Nairobi.
Une grotte à fl anc de volcan en Tanzanie.
Une île au large de Cuba.
Des singes évadés d'un laboratoire secret.
Des larmes de sang.
La quête de Will Jaeger continue.
Mais plus il avance, plus ses ennemis s'acharnent.
Et plus la noirceur de leurs desseins apparaît terrifiante.
William Clarck Volume 1, L’éminence bleue
~~LYCEEN LE JOUR, AGENT SECRET LA NUIT !
~~À 15 ans, William Clarck est un apprenti hacker à tendance kleptomane. Héros de son lycée, il utilise ses talents pour restituer à ses camarades les objets confisqués par les professeurs. Jusqu'au jour où il se fait prendre et finit au poste. À son retour à la maison, il trouve, horrifié, le corps sans vie de sa mère, criblé de balles.
~~À 15 ans, William Clarck est un apprenti hacker à tendance kleptomane. Héros de son lycée, il utilise ses talents pour restituer à ses camarades les objets confisqués par les professeurs. Jusqu'au jour où il se fait prendre et finit au poste. À son retour à la maison, il trouve, horrifié, le corps sans vie de sa mère, criblé de balles.
Un danger qu'il n'aurait jamais imaginé s'est abattu sur sa famille. Membre des services secrets, son père est la cible d'un ennemi qui a juré sa mort et celle des siens. William prend alors une décision cruciale : il va retrouver lui-même l'assassin de sa mère. Et pour cela, il a besoin d'un complice : sa meilleure amie, Zoé. Lancée à toute berzingue sur le scooter de la jeune fille et équipée des gadgets que le garçon a réussi à subtiliser à son père, cette équipe de choc aura besoin de beaucoup d'ingéniosité et de courage pour affronter celui qui a juré la perte des Clarck.
~~À 15 ans, William Clarck est un apprenti hacker à tendance kleptomane. Héros de son lycée, il utilise ses talents pour restituer à ses camarades les objets confisqués par les professeurs. Jusqu'au jour où il se fait prendre et finit au poste. À son retour à la maison, il trouve, horrifié, le corps sans vie de sa mère, criblé de balles.
~~À 15 ans, William Clarck est un apprenti hacker à tendance kleptomane. Héros de son lycée, il utilise ses talents pour restituer à ses camarades les objets confisqués par les professeurs. Jusqu'au jour où il se fait prendre et finit au poste. À son retour à la maison, il trouve, horrifié, le corps sans vie de sa mère, criblé de balles.
Un danger qu'il n'aurait jamais imaginé s'est abattu sur sa famille. Membre des services secrets, son père est la cible d'un ennemi qui a juré sa mort et celle des siens. William prend alors une décision cruciale : il va retrouver lui-même l'assassin de sa mère. Et pour cela, il a besoin d'un complice : sa meilleure amie, Zoé. Lancée à toute berzingue sur le scooter de la jeune fille et équipée des gadgets que le garçon a réussi à subtiliser à son père, cette équipe de choc aura besoin de beaucoup d'ingéniosité et de courage pour affronter celui qui a juré la perte des Clarck.
Winter
Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana...
When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.
But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even find the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter claim their happily ever afters by defeating Levana once and for all?
When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.
But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even find the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter claim their happily ever afters by defeating Levana once and for all?
Without Merit
From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth.'Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.'The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's former nurse, the little half-brother isn't allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there's Merit.Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn't earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan . His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her - until she discovers that he's completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she's never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves.Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.'Emotionally wrenching and utterly original, Without Merit 's characters stayed with me long after I finished' Sara Shepard , New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars
Words of Radiance, Part 1
The natural heir to Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series hit No.1 in the US and No.2 in the UK with the hardback release of the massive second volume, WORDS OF RADIANCE. Split into two volumes for paperback this is Part One of that second volume.
WORDS OF RADIANCE takes the reader even deeper into the lives of its characters as they fight for power, freedom and their lives on the extraordinary, hurricane swept world of Rosharr.
Famed for his plotting, his wonderful characters and his intricate magic systems Brandon Sanderson is poised to take up the crown of Robert Jordan as the creator of the keynote epic fantasy series of its time with the Stormlight Archive.
WORDS OF RADIANCE takes the reader even deeper into the lives of its characters as they fight for power, freedom and their lives on the extraordinary, hurricane swept world of Rosharr.
Famed for his plotting, his wonderful characters and his intricate magic systems Brandon Sanderson is poised to take up the crown of Robert Jordan as the creator of the keynote epic fantasy series of its time with the Stormlight Archive.