Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
By: Georgina Sturge
4.06
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford'[An] entertaining introduc…
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1. How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
By: Tristan Gooley
3.97
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2. Hitch 22: A Memoir
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.02
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3. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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4. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
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"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
6. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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8. 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
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9. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
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10. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
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11. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
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3.86
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12. The Age of AI and Our Human Future
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3.46
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13. Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game
By: The Rebel Accountant
4.37
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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15. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
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3.99
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16. But What Can I Do?
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3.87
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17. Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
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3.63
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18. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
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4.22
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19. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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20. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
By: Oliver Bullough
4.20
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21. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
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22. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
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23. Death and Fromage (Follet Valley Mystery, #2)
By: Ian Moore
3.85
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24. The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship
By: Derek Scally
4.02
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25. Sedating Elaine
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3.29
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27. How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Stats in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
By: Tom Chivers
4.34
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28. Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
By: Georgina Sturge
4.06
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
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29. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
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4.51
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30. Moral AI: And How We Get There (Pelican Books)
By: Jana Schaich Borg
3.81
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31. Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI
By: Susie Alegre
3.87
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