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We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, ‘How the World Really Works’ offers a much-needed reality check – because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.
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Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake sances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby? Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board – and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom. The Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal danger and even high farce – and chronicles a profound but unlikely friendship.
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In ‘The Century of Deception’, Ian Keable tells the engrossing stories of eighteenth-century hoaxes, and those who were duped by them. The English public were hoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales of a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitating Frenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrological predictions. Not only were the hoaxes widely influential, drawing in celebrities such as Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift, but they also inflamed concerns about ‘English credulity’. ‘Fake news’ and ‘going viral’ may be modern terms, but as this eye-opening book shows, these concepts have been with us for centuries.
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The dust had yet to settle on the global financial crisis in 2009 when an unlikely Wharton grad set in motion an international investment fund which raised more than ten billion dollars from global investors with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others.
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The shocking true story of a respectable doctor, 18 years of lies, and five murders that took place in France during the early 1990s. ‘The Adversary’ reveals the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
