Last Minute Christmas Book Gifts
Looking for some last minute Christmas presents? Look no further and check out Caroline Criado-Perez's groundbreaking gender bias exposé Invisible Women, XKCD's Randall Monroe's entertaining bestseller How To, the award winning eye-opening Secret Barrister, Shoshana Zuboff's important examination on The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's fascinating Skin In The Game . Below are some short reviews of each book, combined with affiliate links to a number of online bookshops where you can buy each book to help fund this site.
Review From Book Depository: Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman. Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women's lives. (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or - perhaps through no fault of your own - a defendant. Whatever your role, you'd expect a fair trial. I'm a barrister. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. The innocent are wronged and the guilty allowed to walk free. I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken, who broke it and why we should start caring before it's too late. (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. Shoshana Zuboff shows that we are at a crossroads. We still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in, and what we decide now will shape the rest of the century. Our choices: allow technology to enrich the few and impoverish the many, or harness it and distribute its benefits. (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility. Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work? (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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Book Depository €16.30
Waterstones £13.99
Amazon UK £13.99
Amazon US $18.90
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
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Book Depository €19.66
Waterstones £13.99
Amazon UK £11.88
Amazon US $16.69
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
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Book Depository €9.62
Waterstones £7.99
Amazon UK £6.99
Amazon US $14.49
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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Book Depository €10.68
Waterstones £8.99
Amazon UK £7.68
Amazon US $18.82
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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Book Depository €8.70
Waterstones £9.99
Amazon UK £7.27
Amazon US $14.90
Image Copyrights: Vintage Publishing (Invisible Women), John Murray Press (How To), Pan Macmillan (The Secret Barrister), Profile Books Ltd (The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism), Penguin Books Ltd (Skin In The Game)
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