State of Play: Under the Skin of the Modern Game
By: Michael Calvin
3.93
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Intelligent Investor
By: Benjamin Graham , Jason Zweig , Warren Buffett
4.25
Format: 623 pages, Paperback
More than one million hardcovers soldNow available for the first time in paperback! The Classic … read more
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2. Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them
By: None , Steve Peters
3.99
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagg… read more
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3. Penso quindi gioco
By: Andrea Pirlo , Alessandro Alciato
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
"Per me il gruppo conta tantissimo, ma se mi dimenticassi di me stesso toglierei forza proprio ai m… read more
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"After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"I don’t give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"It’s an enemy that I can’t allow to wound me a second time. It’s already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
"- Mino, toglimi una curiosità. Come si pronuncia il tuo cognome? Dove va l’accento? Ràiola o Raiòla? - Come vuoi tu, basta che mi paghi."-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco
4. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
By: Michael Lewis
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
#1 New York TimesBestseller -- With a new Afterword In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a … read more
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5. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more
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6. Soccernomics
By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper
4.67
Format: 88 pages,
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more
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7. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have i… read more
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8. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography
By: Alex Ferguson
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in th… read more
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9. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
10. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
11. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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12. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
By: Michael Cox
3.88
Format: 496 pages,
An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more
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13. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
14. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
By: Hans Rosling
4.36
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more
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"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
15. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
By: The Secret Barrister
3.90
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more
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16. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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17. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
18. Done Deal: An Insider's Guide to Football Contracts, Multi-Million Pound Transfers and Premier League Big Business
By: Daniel Geey
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Insightful, enlightening and thought-provoking, leading Premier League lawyer Daniel Geey lifts the… read more
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19. The World's Biggest Cash Machine: Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul
By: Chris Blackhurst
4.19
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
From Chris Blackhurst, the former Editor of the Independent , comes a gripping and tightly reported… read more
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20. State of Play: Under the Skin of the Modern Game
By: Michael Calvin
3.93
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
*** Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men, Living on the Volcano and No Hunger in Paradise return… read more
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21. How to Win: Lessons from the Premier League
By: The Secret Footballer
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"I saw men under pressure. I saw men succeed and more men fail. I always wondered where the differe… read more
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