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Described by the author as simply `a work of love`, Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling & fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well as being a charming & witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture & tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, artistic, social & religious inheritance of the Damascenes in an amusing & perceptive manner, whilst interspersing the narrative with innumerable anecdotes about travellers of bygone days. Mirror to Damascus is a unique portrait of a city now obscured by recent upheavals, by one of the most indefatigable & popular of travel writers. ...

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` Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.` So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ` Bill` Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20, 000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: ` Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double bass in the ship`s orchestra`. With unclimbed ice-capped peaks & anchorages that could at best be described as challenging, the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet & Kerguelen provided obvious destinations for Tilman & his fifty-year-old wooden pilot cutter Mischief. His previous attempt to land in the Crozet Islands had been abandoned when their only means of landing was carried away by a severe storm in the Southern Ocean. Back at Lymington, a survey of the ship uncovered serious Teredo worm damage. Tilman, undeterred, sold his car to fund the rebuilding work & began planning his third sailing expedition to the southern hemisphere. Mischief among the Penguins (1961), Tilman`s account of landfalls on these tiny remote volcanic islands, bears testament to the development of his ocean navigation skills & seamanship. The accounts of the island anchorages, their snow-covered heights, geology & in particular the flora & fauna pay tribute to the varied interests & ingenuity of Mischief`s crew, not least after several months at sea when food supplies needed to be eked out. Tilman`s writing style, rich with informative & entertaining"ations, highlights the lessons learned with typical self-deprecating humour, while playing down the immensity of his achievements. ...

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Misbehaving: The Making Of Behavioural Economics

ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles. Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything. Behavioural economics knows better. Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the notion that humans are central to the economy - and that we`re error-prone individuals, not Spock-like automatons. Now behavioural economics is hugely influential, changing the way we think not just about money, but about ourselves, our world and all kinds of everyday decisions. Whether buying an alarm clock, selling
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ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES & EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Shortlisted for the Financial Times & Mc Kinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned & entertaining behavioural economist & co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent & enlightening look into human foibles. Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything. Behavioural economics knows better. Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the notion that humans are central to the economy
- & that we`re error-prone individuals, not Spock-like automatons. Now behavioural economics is hugely influential, changing the way we think not just about money, but about ourselves, our world & all kinds of everyday decisions. Whether buying an alarm clock, selling football tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases & make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations & their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, & our governments. Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives & market behaviour, Thaler enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. He reveals how behavioural economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building, to TV quiz shows, sports transfer seasons, & businesses like Uber. When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers & policy makers are both profound & entertaining.

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