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From the creator of hit podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat comes a revolutionary re-envisioning of how to enjoy your job • Do you want to get more done, feel less stressed and love your job again? • Sometimes having a job can feel like hard work. But between Monk Mode mornings, silent meetings and crisp Thursdays, the solutions are at your fingertips • Bruce Daisley knows a thing or two about the workplace. In the course of a career that has taken him from some of the world's biggest media companies to Twitter, via Google and YouTube, he has become a leading expert on how we work now. And in his hugely popular podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, he has explored ways to fix it. Now he shares 30 brilliant - and refreshingly simple - tips on how to make your job more productive, more rewarding - and much, much more enjoyable

Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeere Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past

The new economics of culture and commerce • What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? • In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future of business does not lie in hits - the high-volume end of a traditional demand curve - but in what used to be regarded as misses - the endlessly long tail of that same curve. As our world is transformed by the Internet and the near infinite choice it offers consumers, so traditional business models are being overturned and new truths revealed about what consumers want and how they want to get it

The cofounder of LinkedIn offers a revolutionary new blueprint for thriving in today's fractured world of work • From the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn and author Ben Casnocha comes a revolutionary new book on how to apply the strategies of successful entrepreneurship to your career: in other words, how to run the 'start-up of you' • In a world where wages are virtually stagnant, creative disruption is rocking every industry, global competition for jobs is fierce, and job security is a thing of the past, we're all on our own when it comes to our careers. In the face of such uncertainty, the key to success is to think and act like an entrepreneur: to be nimble and self-reliant, to be innovative, and to know how to network and stand out from the crowd

In a world of social media and smartphones, true solitude has become increasingly hard to find. In this timely and important book, award-winning writer Michael Harris reveals why our hyper-connected society makes time alone more crucial than ever. He delves into the latest neuroscience to examine the way innovations like Google Maps and Facebook are eroding our ability to be by ourselves. He tells the stories of the remarkable people – from pioneering computer scientists to great nineteenth-century novelists – who managed to find solitude in the most unexpected of places. And he explores how solitude can bring clarity and creativity to each of our inner lives. Urgent, eloquent and beautifully argued, Solitude might just change the way you think about being alone

GIGGED goes inside the Silicon Valley companies leading the way to this emerging ‘gig economy’. It tells the stories of the workers – from computer programmers to online comment moderators – who are getting by in a new wave of precarious, short-term employment. And it sketches out what tomorrow’s economy might look like: one where the fortunate get to work when they want, how they want, while the rest live lives of extraordinary hardship • It might just be the future of work for all of us

This ground-breaking book from award-winning author Matt Watkinson reveals the fundamental, inseparable elements behind the success of every business • The Grid provides the mental scaffolding to help you • · Evaluate and refine product and service ideas • · Reduce risk by considering the broader impact of strategic decisions • · Identify the root causes of business challenges • · Anticipate the impact of changes in the market and turn them to your advantage • · Collaborate more effectively across teams • Combining practical guidance with real-world examples, The Grid will bring clarity and confidence to your business decision-making

If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar… • If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack… • And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure precisely what that entailed… • Then a dip into Michael Palin's Sackful of Limericks will provide all the answers - and a lot of fun besides

Мировой бестселлер Стивена Хокинга "Краткая история времени" стал знаковым произведением в научной литературе. Увлекательный голос ее автора - одна из причин, а захватывающие темы, к которым он обращается, - другая: природа пространства и времени, роль Бога в творении, история и будущее Вселенной. Но верно и то, что за годы, прошедшие с момента ее публикации, читатели неоднократно говорили профессору Хокингу о своих больших трудностях в понимании некоторых наиболее важных концепций книги • Таково происхождение и причина создания "Краткой истории времени": желание автора сделать ее содержание доступным для читателей, а также ознакомить ее с последними научными наблюдениями и находками • Хотя эта книга в буквальном смысле несколько "короче", на самом деле она раскрывает великие темы оригинала

Северная Калифорния, бурные 1960-е подходят к завершению. В начале лета одинокая, погруженная в себя 14-летняя Эви Бойд видит в парке компанию девочек. Они разительно отличаются от всех, кого Эви знает. Раскованные манеры, небрежная одежда, свобода в каждом движении, в каждом взгляде и аура отдельности от всего остального мира. Эви зачарована ими. А вскоре она сама станет одной из этих девочек, вольется в коммуну, где нет места правилам, где жизнь совершенно не похожа на привычную обыденность, где мир вращается вокруг харизматичного лидера. Увлеченная новой жизнью, одержимая тягой к новой подруге, Эви все ближе и ближе подходит к бездне, к той точке, что поменяет жизнь и смерть местами • "Девочки" - дебютный роман Эммы Клайн, ставший большим литературным событием

Иногда даже самые важные проекты могут казаться мучительно медленными. Но так не обязательно должно быть. В своем международном бестселлере Scrum Джей Джей Сазерленд представил простой революционный инструмент, используемый Google, Amazon и ФБР для повышения производительности каждой команды. Он назвал это методом Scrum • Теперь Сазерленд возвращается с пошаговым руководством по использованию этой революционной системы на любом уровне любой компании. Благодаря своему акценту на быстрые инновации, неформальные совещания и быстрое принятие решений, Scrum изменит вашу производительность - начиная с сегодняшнего дня • "Метод управления проектами, известный как Scrum, возможно, является наиболее широко используемым инструментом повышения производительности среди высокотехнологичных компаний