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Primal Leadership

Primal Leadership illustrates the power of leadership and the necessity of being self-aware, empathic, motivating, and collaborative in a world that is ever more volatile and technologically complex.

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Emotional Intelligence

It is not our IQ, but our emotional intelligence that plays a major role in thought, decision-making and individual success. This book describes qualities that allow individuals to excel at home and work.

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Thinking Fast and Slow

Our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical). Thinking Fast and Slow gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking to help make better decisions.

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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Everyone has an opportunity to start a movement and bring together a tribe of like-minded people to do amazing things. This book is for those who have a desire to do fresh and exciting work.

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Learning to Lead

Written by one of America's most successful health-care executives, this book helps readers at any career stage learn leadership strategies that deliver personal, interpersonal, and organizational success.

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Drive

Learn how the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world.

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Design for How People Learn

Discover how to use the key principles behind learning, memory, and attention to create materials that enable your audience to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills you're sharing.

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy is a pioneering book which argues 'education is freedom'. It suggests that co-operation, dialogue and critical thinking are necessary to develop a sense of self and fulfil the right to be heard.

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The Hidden Lives of Learners

Explore the three worlds which together shape a student's learning - the public world of the teacher, the highly influential world of peers, and the student's own private world and experiences.

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Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn

Visible Learning is aimed at teachers and students. It explains the major principles and strategies of learning, outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions.

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Why Don't Students Like School?

This book helps teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn. It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in creating lasting learning.

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The Improvement Guide

This book offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. Use this as an outstanding reference book.

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If Disney Ran Your Hospital

The 9 1/2 principles in this refreshingly written book will help any hospital team gain the extraordinary competitive advantage that comes from being seen as "the best" by their own employees and patients.

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The Healthcare Data Guide

The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to use data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Read this practical and step-by-step guide.

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The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire.

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Switch

Why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This book tackles argues that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour.

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The Checklist Manifesto

The volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver results. This book shows how the simplest of ideas could transform how we operate in almost any field.

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Failure: Why Science Is so Successful

Pursuit of science is not the rule-based, methodical system for gathering facts that dominates public view. Rather it is an idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in uncharted places.

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Letters to a Young Scientist

Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. He reflects on his past in twenty-one letters that illuminate his career―both his successes and his failures.

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Envisioning Information

Envisioning Information provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays.

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

A classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. View the best (and a few of the worst) illustrations of statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

A fascinating account of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world for ever. Balancing the beauty of scientific discovery with questions about who owns the stuff we are made of.

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How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble

This clear and accessible guide to decoding academic feedback will help you interpret what your lecturer or research supervisor is really trying to tell you about your writing-and show you how to fix it.

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A Handbook for Data Driven Design

With over 200 images and extensive how-to and how-not-to examples, this new edition has everything students and scholars need to understand and create effective data visualisations.

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Storytelling with Data

Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. Discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story.

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Knowledge is Beautiful

Knowledge is Beautiful takes you through the world of visualized data and offers a deeper, more wide-ranging look at the world and its history. View expert visualisations at their best in this fascinating book.

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Power Cues

This concise and engaging guide will help leaders of all stripes to connect powerfully, communicate more effectively, and command influence through a useful framework of seven “power cues”.

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

This classic book will turn your relationships around and improve your interactions with everyone in your life. It includes advice on persuasion, public speaking and how to quickly gain friends among others.

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Never Eat Alone

The author describes how highly successful people use the power of relationships to get ahead in life. This book offers advice on how to connect with colleagues, friends and associates through generosity.

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Words That Work

Learn how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what people buy, who they vote for and what they believe. The author examines how choosing the right words is essential to getting what people want.

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Crucial Conversations

Crucial conversations revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This book gives you the tools to make it safe to talk about almost anything and shape your life.

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Power Questions

Power Questions showcases thirty-five real conversations with CEOs, clients, colleagues, and friends. Each story illustrates the extraordinary power and impact of a thought-provoking, incisive power question.

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Risk Savvy

Numbers don't lie - but they often mislead us. We often find it hard to make decisions because the statistics have been misinterpreted. Learn to simple rules to become better-informed, risk-savvy citizens.

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The Lean Start Up

The Lean Startup is changing the way companies are built. It's about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.

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Zero to One

Zero to One delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. Read this book and discover how to get there.

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The $100 Startup

Learn how to earn a good living on your own terms and when and where you want. This book will help you achieve that perfect blend of passion and income to make work something you love.

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The E-Myth

E-Mythn walks you through the steps in the life of a business and teaches you to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Learn to work on your business.

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Grit

Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that grit – not talent or luck – makes all the difference. Discover the true qualities that lead to outstanding achievement.

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The One Thing

The One Thing will teach you to cut through clutter, achieve better results in less time, build momentum toward your goal, revive your energy and stay on track for what matters to you.

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Patient Will See You Now

Dr. Eric Topol examines medicine’s “Gutenberg Moment”. He argues that as medicine becomes digitized, it will now be democratised. The result is better, cheaper, and more human health care.

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The Founder's Dilemmas

This book examines the early decisions made by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.

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Rich Dad Poor Dad

This is a story of growing up with two dads. It explores the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.

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The Intelligent Investor

Since its original publication in 1949, this book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to the timeless philosophy of "value investing". It teaches investors to develop long-term strategies.

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Your Money or Your Life

Learn how to gain control of your money and finally begin to make a life, rather than just make a living. Example topics include resolving inner conflict between value and lifestyle and getting out of debt.

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The Automatic Millionaire

The Automatic Millionaire gives you a realistic system with everything you need to know so you can put the secret to becoming an Automatic Millionaire in place from the comfort of your own home.

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A Random Walk Down Wallstreet

Explores how the individual who buys over time and holds a low-cost, internationally diversified index of securities is likely to exceed the performance of portfolios carefully picked by professionals.

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Against the Gods

Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.

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Ultralearning

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide.

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Fooled by Randomness

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences.

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The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle demonstrates how to live a healthier, happier, mindful life by living in the present moment. Learn how to leave our analytical mind and its false created self behind. Create a liberated life.

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Deep Work

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment.

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

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How to Read a Book

Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.

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Medical Interviews

Olivier Picard is a specialist in medical interview coaching. He shares his extensive knowledge and in-depth understanding of the NHS interview process having coached over 30000 doctors applying to training posts.

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Cases for PACES

Cases for PACES is concise, ideal for quick reference, and the perfect study aid to Part II of the MRCP examination. Including all the essential information for the exam in colour-coded sections for each station.

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Essential Revision Notes for MRCP

Each chapter is authored by renowned experts in their respective specialties and with key information displayed in a concise and structured format. This book remains the definitive guide to the MRCP written examinations.

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Basic Science for the MRCS

This is a concise revision guide to the core basic sciences covering anatomy, physiology and pathology. This book facilitates easy learning of the essential facts, with indications of both clinical relevance and importance.

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MRCGP AKT: 1001 Questions and Answers

This revised edition includes new and updated questions throughout, reflecting the latest AKT exam format. Reflecting the range of syllabus topics, 21 core clinical medicine chapters are ordered by body system.

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CSA Revision Notes for the MRCGP

This book helps you to revise and prepare for the CSA part of the MRCGP exam. A standardised format is used throughout to help you to improve your data gathering, interpersonal skills, management and consultations.

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Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career

Designing Your Life puts forward the idea that the same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products and spaces can be used to build towards a better life and career by a design of your own making.

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Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what determines success and importantly, how anyone can achieve it.

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Take the Leap

Take the Leap features inspiration and advice from game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers who once stood where you are now, wondering if they should take a risk. Go after whatever it is that you truly want.

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Do What You Are

Using workbook exercises and real-life examples to highlight the strengths and pitfalls of all 16 personality types, DO WHAT YOU ARE shows you step-by-step how to utilize your unique strengths to customise your job search.

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Switchers

As a career switcher, you have to go beyond the basics, using tactics tailor-made to ensure your candidacy stands out.

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The Squiggly Career

Packed with insights about the changing shape of work and inspiration from highly successful people, this book will fuel your growth and help you be happier, and ultimately more successful in your career.

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Pivot

Jenny Blake shows you how to build upon your strengths, interests and networks to launch a new career with meaning and adventure. You'll learn how to redirect your energy, scan for opportunities and identify new skills.

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When to Jump

Mike Lewis has curated a community of people to share their stories about taking the leap into the unknown - people who left the safe inertia of their own circumstances to try and do what they really wanted to be doing.

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Reinventing You

Reinventing You provides a step-by-step guide to help you assess your unique strengths, develop a compelling personal brand, and ensure that others recognize the powerful contribution you can make.

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So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport's clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person's talent and skill - and not necessarily their passion - that determines their career path.

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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. Read his story.

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Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Handbook

The essential resource forexpedition medics and all well-informed travellers, including gap-year students. Clear and concise, readers can rely on this handbook to provide the knowledge and practical advice they need.

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The Travel Survival Guide

Travelling to more remote and volatile corners of the globe, can be a dangerous business. If you don't prepare properly you may wish you'd never started out. Learn how to spot potential hazards how to deal with them.

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Vagabonding

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Rolf Potts shows how anyone can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

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The 4-Hour Work Week

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. This book provides the blueprint.

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Reboot Your Life

Whether you're disillusioned with your career or yearning to follow a dream, now is the time to step back and reboot. This book will show you how you can give yourself the best gift ever---the gift of time.

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The Career Break Traveler's Handbook

The Career Break Traveler's Handbook is filled with tips, stories, and photos from around the world. It is your indispensable tool for dreaming, planning, and finally taking your trip of a lifetime.

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The Career Break Book

This book is for those who want a break from their working life - to travel the world, do volunteer work, study a language and much more. It caters for first-time and experienced travellers alike.

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Gap Years for Grown Ups

A guide for grown ups wanting to take the trip of a lifetime. It covers everything from what to pack to paying the mortgage when away, as well as advice from adult gappers who have been there and done it.

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