Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Ryan Mac

'The definitive account of how the world’s richest man, in a fit of unbridled vanity and arrogance, took over and destroyed our digital town square' John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood 
 
‘Astonishing. Kate Conger and Ryan Mac’s meticulous, comprehensive reporting turns an opaque mess brutally transparent’ Jia Tolentino, bestselling author of Trick Mirror 
 
‘Gripping… Through fly-on-the-wall reporting, Character Limit takes readers inside Elon Musk's tumultuous Twitter takeover and the disruption of a company, an industry, and the online public square. What a wild ride' Bradley Hope, bestselling author of Billion Dollar Whale 
 
In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost? 
 
This is the story of the showdown between Elon Musk and Twitter and how the richest man on earth suddenly came to control one of the most powerful media platforms in the world. In Character Limit, award-winning reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac draw on exclusive interviews, unreported documents and internal Twitter recordings to provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up to takeover Twitter, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers. 
 
In part, this is the story of Twitter's founder, Jack Dorsey, who idealistically dreamed of building a 'digital town square' but detested Wall Street and never built a profitable business, and Musk, one of the site's most influential users with over 70 million followers. To Musk, Twitter—once known for its almost absolute commitment to free speech—had utterly lost its way. Blaming it for the proliferation of what he called the “woke mind virus”, he claimed that the survival of humanity itself depended on the future of the site. 
 
In January 2022, Musk began secretly accumulating Twitter stock. By April, he was its largest shareholder, and, soon after, he made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company for the unimaginable sum of $44 billion. Backed into a corner, Twitter’s board accepted his offer—only for Musk to change his mind, forcing Twitter to sue him. 
 
Drawing on unparalleled sources, this is the defining story of our time told in vivid, cinematic detail.

Character Limit

How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

James Clear

Simple Exercises for Building the Life You Want 
 
The official companion to the #1 worldwide bestseller is the next step in your habits toolkit. Guided journal prompts will help you engage with your habits and the forces that impact them. Thought-provoking exercises allow you to implement the Atomic Habits theories and see your life transform. This workbook takes the reader from understanding habits to living them. James Clear's system helps good habits emerge naturally while unwanted habits fade away. 
 
What's included:<ul><li>Guided templates for easy habit tracking and habit stacking</li><li>Journaling prompts to help you assess your physical and social environments, identify the forces at play, and strategize for greatest habit success</li><li>Strategies for overcoming the habit plateau and sticking with your habits, even when the going gets rough</li><li>Plans for adapting your habits to fit your ever-changing life</li><li>New ideas from Clear on the role of fun in habit formation</li></ul>Packed with tips, tricks, and activities, The Atomic Habits Workbook is your step-by-step guide to making small changes that will transform your habits and deliver remarkable results. 
 
Praise for Atomic Habits 
 
"A supremely practical and useful book. James Clear distills the most fundamental information about habit formation, so you can accomplish more by focusing on less." --Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck 
 
"James Clear has spent years honing the art and studying the science of habits. This engaging, hands-on book is the guide you need to break bad routines and make good ones."--Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg 
 
"A special book that will change how you approach your day and live your life."--Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy

The Atomic Habits Workbook

Official Companion to the #1 Worldwide Bestseller

Jim Collins

THE QUESTION 
 
What to make of a life? 
 
It is a question we all wrestle with more than once. How do we find our way in the world? How do we make it past the cliffs, significant events that can radically change a life? How do we keep the inner fire burning bright, long and late? 
 
Inspired by relentless curiosity, Jim Collins devoted a decade to studying these questions and to minutely analysing those moments when life flips from clarity to confusion and casts us into a befuddling fog. 
 
THE STUDY 
 
His exploration compares various lives side by side, paired together at cliffs, and analyses the different choices made and divergent paths taken.<ul><li>Two rock musicians confronting a future without the group that had brought them success.</li><li>Two suffragists achieving their epic goal and then left with the puzzle of what to do next.</li><li>Two public figures tainted by scandal having to make decisions about how to rebuild their lives.</li><li>Two figure skaters seeking new purpose when their Olympic careers come to an end.</li></ul> 
What emerges from Collins’s extensive studies — of writers, actors, scientists, leaders, and many others — is a framework for understanding how individual lives can be built, sustained, and constantly renewed. 
 
THE FINDINGS 
 
By examining the long arc of these remarkable lives, Collins tackles life’s questions. What does it take to:<ul><li>Discover a deeply fulfilling role in life — one that you are naturally 'encoded' for — and then find second one, if the first one ends?</li><li>Overcome a major cliff — a fracture point that forces choices about what’s next and calls for you to reenvision the years to come?</li><li>Make your personal economics work so that you can focus on One Big Thing that feeds your inner fire?</li><li>Navigate the fog when you feel uncertain or even outright lost, and build confidence step by step</li><li>Minimise the impact of bad luck and ensure the maximum return on good luck?</li><li>Build personal momentum decade upon decade, so that your most creative and energetic years are spread across an entire lifetime?</li><li>Achieve the imperative to 'Know Thyself' and apply self-knowledge to each phase of life?</li></ul>THE TRANSFORMATION 
 
For the first time, Collins movingly chronicles his own story to reveal how undertaking this project transformed him, changing his thinking and reshaping his emotions in fundamental ways. 'After this study,' writes Collins, 'I will never look at life the same ever again.' 
 
Surprising, story-driven, deeply researched, and uplifting, What to Make of a Life is a book like no other and convincingly shows how a richly fulfilled life is within reach for us all.

What to Make of a Life

Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative

Florence Comite

Pioneering expert in longevity, Dr Florence Comite, provides a comprehensive plan for defy your genetic destiny and live healthier, longer. 
 
What determines how long, and how well, we live? Many of us assume we should look to our family history for clues – will we have a heart attack at fifty like Dad or develop Type 2 diabetes at seventy like Mum? It makes sense that we’d inherit the same path to ageing. 
 
Dr Florence Comite is a clinician-scientist and the leading expert in healthy longevity, who uses precision medicine to help her patients reverse symptoms of biological ageing. Her clinical research reveals that your genes do not have to be your destiny. Even into middle-age, you can reverse the unhealthy trajectory you’re on, live disease- and pain-free, active and happy, and recapture the energy of your twenties. 
 
Invincible offers a comprehensive plan to improve readers’ health and longevity. Dr Comite shows readers how to become students of our own physiology, using assessment tools developed in her practice to identify our unique health trajectory and understand the specific proactive interventions that will stop and reverse biological ageing, metabolic disorders, heart disease and memory decline. Unhealthy ageing is not inevitable; this book will show you how to become invincible.

Invincible

Defy Your Genetic Destiny to Live Better, Longer

Paul Eastwick

A ground-breaking look at the science of love and connection – and an urgent corrective to some of our most fundamental assumptions about attraction. 
 
'In a world saturated with cynical advice about dating and gender, this book is a revelation.' DANIEL H. PINK, author of Drive and The Power of Regret 
 
'One of the most joyfully uplifting antidotes to 21st-century gloom.' THE TIMES 
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We’re told that what men and women desire from relationship is different – he’s looking for novelty, she’s looking for commitment; he’s concerned with looks, she’s concerned with status. 
 
We’re told that we live in a hierarchy of romantic inequality – where some are 10s and others are 2s; where some people are marriage material and others are wired for promiscuity. 
 
But this narrative is unscientific. 
 
Such ideas have their roots in a branch of science called evolutionary psychology, and over the past few decades its ideas have permeated our culture and fuelled a narrative that inspires despair and anxiety – and, in its most extreme form, these ideas have been hijacked in the service of misogyny and violence. 
 
But the truth about human attraction – and the way evolution plays out in our romantic lives – is much more interesting and optimistic. 
 
Bonded by Evolution offers a radical new picture of the roots of enduring chemistry. Distilling evolutionary biology, anthropology and psychology and informed by his pathbreaking research and original experiments at the Attraction and Relationships Research Laboratory in California, psychology professor Paul Eastwick reveals how attraction is best depicted as a process of finding – and, often, creating – a compatible relationship. 
 
Once we understand how ancestral humans sought compatible partners in small networks, we can build a clearer – and brighter – picture of how attraction, sex and relationships really work. 
 
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More praise for Bonded by Evolution: 
 
'Profound and pragmatic, suggesting an entirely different approach to the study – and pursuit – of love.' ERIC KLINENBERG, co-author of Modern Romance 
 
'Rarely have scientific rigor and exuberant optimism been such congenial companions . . . Bonded by Evolution presents an optimistic new paradigm, one that provides clear guidance for romantic success.' ELI FINKEL, author of The All or Nothing Marriage

Bonded by Evolution

What We’ve Got Wrong About Love and Connection

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