The Logic of Life by Tim Harford

The Logic of Life by Tim HarfordLife sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questionsand you might be surprised to hear the answers coming

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as well as how to build strong relationships based on an attitude of winning together

Set in Nigeria during the 1960s

Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft which he believes they embodied

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And to what end has he hijacked America

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's newly translated tales create a cast of unlikely heroines in a carnivalesque world of extremes

Scintillating

your mother is in a magically induced coma

aranyakas and Upanishads

uncovering a powerful

packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives