They know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by mathematicians and what can everyone else learn from them?\nTheir advantage can be reduced to a small number of equations. Ten of them. And, surprisingly, it isn't their technical details that give them an edge. It is the way these equations allow them to view problems from a different angle -- a way of seeing the world that anyone can learn.\nIn this eye-opening book, mathematician David Sumpter reveals the formulas that make the modern world go round, and how we can use them to better our chances of success, solidify friendships and live healthier lives, to guard against failure and financial ruin, and to see through scaremongering. Writing with clarity and wit, Sumpter explains how the same equations that are integral to Facebook can help you to work out how long to persist with a difficult task or how many episodes of a new Netflix series to watch before giving up.\nEmpowering and enlightening, The Ten Equations shows how maths can truly change our way of understanding the world.

The Ten Equations that Rule the World

David Sumpter

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Time'S Monster (Lead Title)

Priya Satia

Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points - industrial or transportation hubs - cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell delves deep into questions of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war.

The Bomber Mafia

GLADWELL, MALCOLM

History

Guardian ‘literary highlights of 2020’ 
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Evening Standard ‘thirteen titles to look for in 2020’\nTom Bower is acknowledged as Britain’s leading investigative writer. His 24 bestselling books encompass a remarkably wide range of subjects. His most recent books include the most authoritative and best-selling account of Tony Blair’s decade as prime minister and the definitive biographies of Gordon Brown and Geoffrey Robinson MP.\nWith his trademark access, insight and candour, Britain’s leading investigative biographer tackles his most fascinating subject yet: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

Boris Johnson

Tom Bower

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America – A Recent History

During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right-wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all-powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests, and leaving the huge majority of Americans with dwindling economic prospects and hope.\nWhy and how did America take such a wrong turn? In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural, economic, and political chronicle, Kurt Andersen offers a fresh, provocative, and eye-opening history of America’s undoing, naming names, showing receipts, and unsparingly assigning blame—to the radical right in economics and the law, the high priests of high finance, a complacent and complicit Establishment, and liberal “useful idiots,” among whom he includes himself.

Evil Geniuses

ANDERSEN, KURT

See the world. Then make it better.\n'I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.\nAs a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.\nI have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake - and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right.\nWe have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited.\nAll we need is the will to do so.'

A Life on Our Planet

ATTENBOROUGH, DAVID

Jeff Bezos: In His Own Words

Helena Hunt

Sex and Vanity

KWAN, KEVIN

The End of October

Lawrence Wright

The Janus Point

BARBOUR, Julian

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