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Our Books of the Month for November
Fiction
Playground
By Powers, Richard
AED 90.00 AED 90.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse.
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanity's next great adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now estranged, still find themselves in competition: Todd unravels while working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new project on their shores and change their home forever. Set in the world's largest ocean, Playground explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
Non-Fiction
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By Silver, Nate
AED 102.00 AED 102.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse.
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Masterly... Utterly compelling... A highly readable and engaging tour' Sam Freedman, The Times From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk-and the players raising the stakes In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape-and dominate-so much of modern life. These professional risk takers-poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors-can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century. By embedding within these worlds, Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all, from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI. The River has increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society, and understanding their mindset-including the flaws in their thinking-is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today. There are certain commonalities in this otherwise diverse group: high tolerance for risk; appreciation of uncertainty; affinity for numbers; skill at de-coupling; self-reliance and a distrust of the conventional wisdom. For the River, complexity is baked in, and the work is how to navigate it, without going beyond the pale. Taking us behind-the-scenes from casinos to venture capital firms to meetings of the effective altruism movement, On the Edge is a deeply-reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of powerbrokers and risk takers.
Children's Fiction
The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Headless Ghost
By Rashford, Marcus
AED 48.00 AED 48.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse.
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
Join Marcus and friends as they solve another exciting mystery in The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Headless Ghost. This is the fifth spooky adventure by England International footballer, child food-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE. Inspired by Marcus's own experiences growing up! The perfect spooky read for Halloween. There's only a week to go before the school play when things start going wrong in rehearsals. Sets crash over, lights go on and off and the fog machine has a mind of its own. There are rumours that a headless ghost has been haunting the dressing rooms and ruining rehearsals with its ear splitting screech. Marcus and his friends must work together to solve the mystery before opening night. The show must go on, so it's a good thing the Breakfast Club Investigators never give up! Written with Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie and packed with tons of illustrations by Marta Kissi, The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Headless Ghost is the perfect book for children aged 8-11. Join the Breakfast Club Investigators on more adventures in The Phantom Thief and The Treasure Hunt Monster!
Children's Non-Fiction
The Astronaut Diaries
By Cristoforetti, Samantha
AED 54.00 AED 54.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse.
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
This exciting exploration of space travel offers insights from a trailblazing female ESA astronaut to inspire young girls into science. With a "learning by stealth" approach, The Astronaut Diaries combines fiction in the popular diary entry format with fascinating nonfiction based on Samantha Cristoforetti's experiences during her journeys into space. How do astronauts prepare to go to space? Why are robots so important to space exploration? And how do you wash your hair in zero gravity? Andi Futura, her older brother and their parents are about to become the first family in space... and she's sharing everything she learns while living aboard a space station with YOU! Discover what life in space is really like in this fascinating read authored by real-life astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Andi's diary entries share the fun of slow cartwheeling around a space station and watching 16 sunrises and sunsets every day, while her reports to mission control will have you learning about how conducting science experiments in space can help humanity. Can Andi do enough to show that she's capable of becoming a fully-fledged astronaut and commanding her own mission one day? Pull on your space helmet, strap on your oxygen tank, and dive into The Astronaut Diaries to find out!
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AED 96.00
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AED 90.00
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AED 48.00
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AED 60.00
The Life Impossible
AED 96.00
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
AED 78.00
The Secret of Golden Island
AED 48.00
Science is Lit: Crazy chemistry and epic experiments
AED 54.00
First Wife's Shadow
AED 84.00
Right Thing, Right Now : THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AED 96.00
Roswell Johnson Saves the World!
AED 90.00
When She Took to the Sky
AED 74.00
The Midnight Feast
AED 90.00
Pattern Breakers: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Start-Ups
AED 102.00
The Cheat Book (vol.1): Can Kamal cheat his way on to the cool table?
AED 48.00
Unequal Planet: Why some people have - and some have not (and what you can do to change it)
AED 60.00
Unstressable: Dissolve Your Stress Before It Start
AED 90.00
Geomancer: In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen: An epi
AED 48.00
Kay's Incredible Inventions: A fascinating and fan
AED 54.00
You Are Here: The new novel by the number 1 bestseller
AED 65.00
The Wealth Money Can't Buy
AED 68.00
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AED 48.00
Unstoppable Us Volume 2: Why the World Isn't Fair
AED 90.00
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