Jackpot
By: Rob Davies
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The history of British gambling is a history that stretches back nearly one thousand years, reachin…
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1. An African in Greenland
By: James Kirkup , Al Álvarez , Tété-Michel Kpomassie , A. Alvarez
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Tete-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew th… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
3. 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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- nonfiction
4. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… 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
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- politics
- 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
6. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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7. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
8. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
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
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Spaceships Over Glasgow
By: Stuart Braithwaite
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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12. 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
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13. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
By: Kashmir Hill
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- politics
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15. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
16. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
17. Unbreakable
By: Ronnie O'Sullivan
3.90
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2023 AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER… read more
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18. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- nonfiction
19. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
20. Subprime Attention Crisis (FSG Originals x Logic)
By: Tim Hwang
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious fo… read more
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21. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
22. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails
By: Vanessa Frake
4.33
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more
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23. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more
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- nonfiction
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
24. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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25. Jak człowiek staje się mordercą. Mroczne opowieści psychiatry sądowego
By: Richard Taylor
3.94
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
'An intricate and brilliantly written psychiatric perspective on the most perplexing of crimes' Ker… read more
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26. The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
By: Scott Ellsworth
4.20
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
And then they were gone. More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theat… read more
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27. Resolution (Ray Lennox, #3)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
"The truth is what we say the truth is . . . " Former detective Ray Lennox is determined to sta… read more
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28. Might Bite: The Secret Life of a Gambling Addict
By: Patrick Foster
4.12
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
This is the shocking story of a life secretly shattered by pathological gambling addiction, and the… read more
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29. Jackpot
By: Rob Davies
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The history of British gambling is a history that stretches back nearly one thousand years, reachin… read more
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30. How to Win the Premier League: The Sunday Times Bestselling Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution
By: Ian Graham
4.36
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
'The best book on football I have ever read' Daniel Finkelstein'Deserves a place among the great mo… read more
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