The Attention Merchants

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Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers.In nearly every moment of our waking lives, …

Hunter Killer

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We are too close. We know too much, and when it is time to shoot, we can zoom in until the target fills the screen.Drones, or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), are a mysterious and headline-making tool …

The Protest Years

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women’s rights, Abori …

The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott

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In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd year …

The ISIS Hostage

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The Number One International BestsellerThe dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, as told by an award-winning writer.In May 2013, freelance ph …

Straight to Hell

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Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the …

Eccentric Orbits

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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary satellite telephone system called Iridium. Light-years ahead of anything previously put into space, …

Disrupted

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Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old …

Free Speech

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WINNER OF THE 2017 AL-RODHAN PRIZENever in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentiall …

The Marketing Gurus

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This indispensable guide to classics of marketing strategy, summarizing the lessons of seventeen of the most influential titles in the field.The featured books include:Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey M …

The Three Battles of Wanat

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Ranging from war journalism to crime stories to profiles on influential leaders to pieces on sports, gambling and the impending impact of supercomputers on the practice of medicine, this collection is …

The Invitation-Only Zone

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During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens – perhaps hundreds – of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in ‘Invitation Only Zones’, high-security detention-centre …

Thrown Under the Omnibus

‘Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.’ Richard Nixon P.J. O’Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America’s most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn’t ha …

Thrown Under the Omnibus

‘Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.’ Richard Nixon P.J. O’Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America’s most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn’t ha …

And Yet…

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Sunday Times bestsellerAnd Yet… gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times.Christoph …

Winter Is Coming

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For readers of Putin’s People by Catherine Belton comes the stunning story of Russia’s slide back into a dictatorship led by Vladimir Putin – and how the world is now paying the price. ‘Brave, trencha …