Without ASML, the world would be a different place. Based in the quiet Dutch town of Veldhoven, this offshoot of Philips Electronics designs the gigantic and extremely complex machines that produce increasingly advanced computer chips. It’s Europe’s most valuable tech company: ninety percent of the world’s chips are manufactured using ASML machines, powering our phones, cars, and the ai revolution.

For years, ASML operated in the background, but a geopolitical earthquake has put it in t...

Drawing on 15 years of The Reformed Broker, the most-read financial blog in the world, Joshua Brown revisits and expands on the best of his wildly popular writing and helps you to discover all the most important, surprising, and sometimes painfully true secrets of finance, investing, and Wall Street.

We live and breathe our culture. It defines a large part of who we are. It shapes our values and beliefs. We are our culture; it is our CALLING CARD.

This game is the ideal icebreaker for multicultural groups and teams. The idea is to learn about each other's culture by sharing information about your own culture and asking others about their culture. Fun, interactive and guaranteed to deliver insight and discussion.

Wij leven en ademen onze cultuur. Het definieert een groot deel van wie we zi...

Quotes: THE INGENIOUS INFECTION:

Whether a designer, and the architect in particular, chooses for the literal virtuality of a model that is made by a computer or for the metaphorical virtuality of a conventional model, is of no sense since it is the very borderline between both design processes that is interesting.

THE INGENIOUS INFECTION:

The trick is to stay somewhere between real and virtual, dogmatic and ambiguous, organisation and self-organisation, stable and unstable, straightforward ...

A radical examination by a leading financial analyst, commentator and investor of the ills of capitalism and how they can be fixed

What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma’s explanation is unlike any you have heard before. Progressives are partly right when they mock modern capitalism as “socialism for the rich,” but what really happened in recent decades is that government in developed nations expanded in just about every measurable dimension, from spending and regulation to the ...

#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller

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Epic feats. Epic failures. An epic story.

Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk's journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet but is Musk a genius or a jerk?

From the author ofSteve Jobsand other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishing...

A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year

‘Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale’ Independent

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We still have time to change the world. From the world's leading climate activist, this is the essential book for making it happen.

Created by Greta Thunberg in partnership with over 100 climate experts working around the globe, with her commentaries throughout and updates for this new paperback edition to ...

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND TIME

Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about?

From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood today

Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to ri...

One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.

‘One of the best scientist-writers of our time’ OLIVER SACKS

What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environmen...