Stand Up Straight
By: Major General Paul Nanson
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Inspirational Sandhurst helped me to discover my potential. Now…
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1. The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
By: Meik Wiking
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness Meik Wiking is the CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Ins… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Remember: Danes are direct descendants of Vikings, so we enjoy watching things burn: bonfires, candles, villages. It's all good."-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
"Some of the best decisions we make come from that inner voice that says, "Why not?" That says, "Andiamo." So much disappointment arises from what is desired but not chosen."-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
"My, ludzie, jesteśmy szczęśliwsi, kiedy czujemy się związani z innymi. Oczywiście za tym, co nas uszczęśliwia, musi stać coś więcej niż tylko zaspokojenie tęsknoty za miłością, przyjaźnią i wspólnotą…"-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
"For the ambitious among us, once we reach our goal we soon formulate another to pursue. This is the hedonic treadmill. We continuously raise the bar for what we want or feel we need in order to be ha…"-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
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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- nonfiction
- self help
3. The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
By: Pete Blaber
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a commander in Delta Force-the most elite counter-terrorist organization in the world-Pete Blabe… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
"The ultimate goal of this book is to share what I consider to be life-saving and life-changing lessons that I was fortunate enough to learn as a key participant in many of recent history’s most impac…"-Pete Blaber, The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
4. The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
By: Patrick Hennessey
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Hennessey is a graduate in his 20s. He reads Graham Greene, listens to early-90s house on h… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
5. An Officer and a Gentlewoman: The Making of a Female British Army Officer
By: Heloise Goodley
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Heloise Goodley decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, sh… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
6. Himalaya
By: Michael Palin , Basil Pao
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
Michael Palin's travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back a… read more
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- nonfiction
7. First Light
By: Geoffrey Wellum
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In First Light, Geoffrey Wellum tells the inspiring, often terrifying true story of his coming of … read more
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8. Alpe d'Huez: The Story of Pro Cycling's Greatest Climb
By: Peter Cossins
4.00
Format: 176 pages,
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9. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
By: Zach Weinersmith , Kelly Weinersmith
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Hardcover
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar c… read more
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10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging s… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Eating sensibly and exercising don't guarantee long life and good health; they just decrease the risk of getting sick."-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"The mantra of this book is that nothing about the biology of exercise makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about exercise as a behavior makes sense except in the light of anthrop…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from …"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"For generation after generation, our ancestors young and old woke up each morning thankful to be alive and with no choice but to spend several hous walking, digging, and doing other physical activiti…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
13. 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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- nonfiction
14. Stand Up Straight
By: Major General Paul Nanson
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Inspirational Sandhurst helped me to discover my potential. Now… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
- self help
15. Hurry Up and Wait: The Secret Life of a Sandhurst Cadet
By: Geordie Stewart
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
, Nobody forgets Sandhurst. The outside perception is one of pure professionalism, organisation, … read more
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16. 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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17. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
18. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)
By: David McCloskey
4.30
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more
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19. 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
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- nonfiction
20. 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
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- nonfiction
21. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
22. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
By: William H. McRaven
4.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
- self help
23. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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24. Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
By: Ryan Holiday
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"When good men come to bad ends,"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute."-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"It is a striking contrast, an emperor and a slave sharing and loving the same philosophy, the latter figure greatly influencing the former, but it is not a contradiction—nor would it have seemed odd …"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
25. North Korea Journal
By: Michael Palin
3.85
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARYA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as … read more
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- nonfiction
"My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a…"-Michael Palin, North Korea Journal
26. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
By: The Secret Barrister
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more
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- nonfiction
"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
27. Nothing But The Truth
By: The Secret Barrister
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Into Iraq
By: Michael Palin
4.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense o… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfillment, Love, and Success
By: Steven Bartlett
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"This book will change your life if you let it." - Tom Bilyeu, Co-Founder/CEO of Impact Theory & C… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will fuck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35 and have kids at 36. Ever…"-Steven Bartlett, Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfillment, Love, and Success
30. The Joy of Small Things
By: Hannah Jane Parkinson
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
31. Black and British: A Short, Essential History
By: David Olusoga
4.52
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A short, essential introduction to Black British history When did Africans first come to Britain… read more
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