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    Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind

    by Dan Davies ...
    Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a ... Read more

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  • Lying for Money

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    by Dan Davies ...
    An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, ... Read more

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  • In Plain Sight

    The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile

    by Dan Davies ...
    A major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black PrizeDan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a ... Read more

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    Nuclear Family

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    Unabridged

    5 hours 28 min

    From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie over the course of three decades: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive ... Read more

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  • The Bull Island Rock Festival

    The experience had by me and others at 1972's Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival

    by Dan Davis ...
    In 1972 the banks of the Wabash River in southeastern Illinois played host to one of the most disorganized music festivals in history. The Bull Island Rock Festival was officially called The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival and also went by Woodstock on the Wabash— and the 3 day event degenerated into chaos. By the end of the festival even the stage had been burned down. "The Bull Island Rock Festival ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Do Bigger Things

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    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    Unleash your potential to do bigger things! In today’s changing world, where business leaders must navigate industry disruption, entrepreneurs struggle to push beyond initial success, and activists tackle hard challenges like climate change, there is a need for a more powerful way to do innovation. Too many innovators are trapped by the limits of common innovation practices. The way we’ve been ... Read more

    $15.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ELEVATE

    Mindset Matters Athletics Mental Performance Playbook

    As athletes, we constantly push ourselves to be our best. And that’s precisely what the Elevate Playbook is designed to help us do. Whether you’re looking to become a pro athlete or just want to improve your overall performance and mindset, this program will give you the tools and strategies you need to succeed both on and off the field. Through this program, we’ll explore various aspects of our ... Read more

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    Unaccountability Machine, The

    Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind

    by Dan Davies ...
    Narrated by Peter Dickson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Brompton

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    The story of how Brompton, the iconic folding bicycle that you can take anywhere—and that can take you anywhere—grew from a small cult bike company to a multimillion-dollar businessLightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hubbub in Outer Space

    by Dan Davies ...
    Six years after comet Lihtan swerves past planet Earth...."A delightfully offbeat tale of a dystopian world."—Kirkus Reviews ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flight of Oscar

    by Dan Davis ...
    The Flight of Oscar is the story of a mouse who wears plaid shirts, which he makes himself, and has a fascination with flying. Well, he can’t fly but he really wants to. One day, after watching and studying the birds in flight (which he did a lot), he makes a plan that he hopes will get him up in the air. During his trials, he makes a new friend who understands his passion and may be able to help ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • My Family, My Law, My Life and My Land

    by Dan Davis ...
    Growing up in a small town to me was an adventure. In Bluff, a small town in central Queensland, everyone knew everyone. I had plenty of friends to hang out with. My mates and I were always outside playing and never got home until dark, which I sometimes got a flogging for, but I had fun playing. The school had about five to six buildings in the seventies and eighties but big enough to keep us ... Read more

    $4.99 USD