9 Top self help books like The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins

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The Art of Explanation

By: Ros Atkins

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creat…

If you liked the self help plot in The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

1. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

Similar categories in Charles Duhigg's Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • communication
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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2. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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3. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • journalism
  • nonfiction
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4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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5. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

Similar categories in Ian Dunt's How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • journalism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

6. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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7. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
Cover of Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

8. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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9. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

Similar categories in Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
  • business
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10. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

Similar categories in Gary Stevenson's The Trading Game: A Confession book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
  • business
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11. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

Similar categories in Steven Bartlett's The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot by Matt Abrahams

12. Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

By: Matt Abrahams

3.74

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public spea… read more

Similar categories in Matt Abrahams's Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • communication
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Be obvious’ is the most powerful, creative mantra that there is,"

-Matt Abrahams, Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

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13. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

Similar categories in Amy C. Edmondson's Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

14. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

Similar categories in Bent Flyvbjerg's How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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15. Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV

By: Rob Burley

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of Britis… read more

Similar categories in Rob Burley's Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
Cover of But What Can I Do? by Alastair Campbell

16. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Campbell's But What Can I Do? book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins

17. The Art of Explanation

By: Ros Atkins

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creat… read more

Similar categories in Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • communication
  • art
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • journalism
  • business
  • leadership
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18. Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World

By: Todd Rogers

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life . Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink o… read more

Similar categories in Todd Rogers's Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • communication
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • business
  • self help
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19. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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20. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back

By: Torsten Bell

4.37

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more

Similar categories in Torsten Bell's Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
Cover of Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It by Sam Freedman

21. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

By: Sam Freedman

4.50

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more

Similar categories in Sam Freedman's Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It book and Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation

  • nonfiction
"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."

-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

21 must-read nonfiction books like The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

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16 Best audiobook books like Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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