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Figuring Out The Past
A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
2024 || Paperback || Peter Turchin e.a. || Profile Books Ltd
The numbers that tell the story of humanity
The Shock Of The Old
Technology and Global History since 1900
2023 || Paperback || David Edgerton || Profile Books Ltd
'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time.
Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. I Letters e...
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The Digital Silk Road
China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
2024 || Paperback || Jonathan E. Hillman || Profile Books Ltd
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.
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Designing Organisations
Why it matters and ways to do it well
2024 || Paperback || Naomi Stanford || Profile Books Ltd
A new approach to structuring a business to support strategy and maximise efficiency.
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Tracks on the Ocean
A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel
2024 || Hardcover || Dr Sara Caputo || Profile Books Ltd
A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world
The Unaccountability Machine
Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions
2025 || Paperback || Dan Davies || Profile Books Ltd
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing expos of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors
The History of Ideas
Equality, Justice and Revolution
2025 || Paperback || David Runciman || Profile Books Ltd
Henry Kissinger
An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik
2025 || Hardcover || Jeremie Gallon || Profile Books Ltd
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
2024 || Paperback || Professor Shoshana Zuboff || Profile Books Ltd
Surveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every move with the goal of predicting and controlling your behaviour. Under surveillance capitalism you are not the customer or even the product: you are the raw material.
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Fabric
The Hidden History of the Material World
2024 || Paperback || Victoria Finlay || Profile Books Ltd
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.