Facebook only evolved after there was six degrees, Friendster and MySpace, on college campuses like Stanford, people digitising their printed facebooks as early as 1999. Mark Zuckerberg was in high school at Exeter, a classmate of his name Kris Tillery built a database of student headshots and put it online along with their phone numbers,…
Travel journalist Sophy Roberts’s The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an idealistic quest, a mischievous travel adventure and a forgotten and one of best non-fiction story about one of the exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves It all starts with a commission to track down a suitable piano for a Mongolian virtuoso of Siberian descent that…
This is the story of feminism’s success down to complicated contradictory imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights, who have been forgotten in our modern search for feel-good inspirational heroines. You will meet the working-class suffragettes who advocated bombings and arson, the princes who discovered why so many women…
When Slimani went to promote her best selling novel Adele, about a woman addicted to sex, in Morocco, she did not expect to receive a reaction, as he encountered young people keen to discuss the sexual themes her novel raised, women were eager to share personal stories about their struggles with social restrictions. Slimani ensemble…
More is an eloquent and detailed new history of the global economy from Philip Coggan, a senior economist journalist, and former Financial Times columnist – is very concerned that what compound economic growth has achieved is not even generally appreciated. More takes us through the development of the world economy starting with the first obsidian…
Richard Layard founder and former director of the centre for Economic performance at the London School of Economics, forget the GDP, we need to focus on trust, relationships and our mental health in nutshell it is about happiness, after looking across 3,096 USD counties that participated the 2016 US election, votes for Trump were better…
New York Times contributor Kate Murphy, reveals countless conversations she had had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders and proves how only by listening well can we truly connect with others. Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives improve our self-knowledge and increase our…
Trump administration is the leakiest administration since the Founding Fathers created parchment, much of what happens behind the scenes in nearly real-time accompanied by the running commentary from the President’s Twitter account. Washington Post reporters Philip Rocker and Carol Leonnig reveal Trump at his unvarnished, showing the unhinged decision-making and incompetence that has floored officials…
In the great financial crisis of 2007-2008, finance came too close to wrecking the global economy. The presence of rogue behaviour in finance, Nesvetallova and Palan turns to the economist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) who observed that businessmen were proficient at making profit by interfering in markets, and wrote “ something in the nature of…
In the 1970s when social historian Jane Robinson was at high school, there were only four options for British girls to fill up the time between leaving education and getting marries – secretary, nurse, teacher, and hairdresser. Robinson who wanted to go to university despite discouraging career adviser saying “ a degree was no…