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<p>Now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Mark Rylance as the Pope. The extraordinary story of how the Vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858.</p><p>A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition burst inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses.</p><p>The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly `baptized' by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I.</p><p>Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and outside leaders like Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a thriller and an authoritative account of a moment that changed Europe forever.</p>

<p>Hard work is irrelevant. Be radically honest. Adequate performance gets a generous severance.</p><p>And never, ever try to please your boss. These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 125 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation bigger than Disney.</p><p>Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy - which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate - and how it plays out in practice at Netflix. From unlimited holidays to abolishing financial approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organization, one far more in tune with a fast-paced world.</p><p>For anyone interested in creativity, productivity and innovation, the Netflix culture is something close to a holy grail. This book will make it, and its creator, fully accessible for the first time.</p>

<i>Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood</i> is the definitive grown-up's guide to a cultural landscape predicated on the primacy and constancy of youth.

The Diary Of A Ceo [Bok / Pocket]

<p><b>The <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of </b><i><b>American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.</b></i></p><p><br/><b>'Essential' </b><i>New York Times</i><br/><b>'A stomach-clenching, multi-perspective, ticking-clock, geopolitical thriller' </b><i>Forbes</i><br/><b>'Tells a terrifying story in a devastatingly straightforward way' </b><i>Guardian</i><br/><br/><b>Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen.</b><br/><b>This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next.</b><br/><b>It has to be read to be believed.</b><br/><br/>There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war.<br/><br/>Until now, no one outside official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Second by second and minute by minute, these are the real-life protocols that choreograph the end of civilization as we know it.<br/><br/>Decisions that affect hundreds of millions of lives need to be made within six minutes, based on partial information, in the knowledge that once launched, nothing is capable of halting the destruction.<br/>Based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, been privy to the response plans, and taken responsibility for crucial decisions, this is the only account of what a nuclear exchange would look like.<br/><b><i>Nuclear War </i></b><b>is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever.</b><br/><br/><b>'This terrifying book is a must-read for every world leader' </b><i>Mother Jones</i><br/><b>'These are scenes straight out of Dr Strangelove' </b><i>Telegraph</i><br/><b>'At once methodical and vivid' </b><i>The Economist</i></p>

<p> <strong>Discover the secrets of upside-down management and doing the right thing with James Timpson's <em>The Happy Index</em>.</strong> </p> <p>With over 2,000 locations across the UK and overseeing multiple operations daily for the past two decades, it's fair to say that the CEO of the family-owned Timpson business knows a thing or two about running a successful company.</p> <p>What makes James Timpson's approach to collaboration, profit and success is simple: let the people you hire run your business.</p> <p>That might seem like a simple concept to a CEO, manager or director but if you think about the hundreds of meetings, hours lost from your day by responding to emails, signing off on projects and more, you will notice that you are still working in a traditional, top-down mindset. Doing this means the team you work with only see themselves as a cog in the machine instead of the trusted, valued colleagues that they are.</p> <p><em>The Happy Index</em> is structured into lessons that will equip you and the people you work with, with the tools and tactics to re-evaluate the ways you manage your business. Offering insight into the ways in which James has overseen the family business, he firmly believes that you will see the benefits of working with an upside-down mindset, not only for financial success but also your team's wellbeing and happiness.</p> <p>Really, though, it's easy. Turn up on time. Trust your team. Do your work.</p>

<p><b><i>Economist </i>Best Books of the Year<br/><i>Financial Times </i>Business Book of the Month<br/><br/>'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google</b><br/><br/>We're living in a time of amazing technological innovation, but we're not paying enough attention to one of the most important innovations of all - one that's going to be a wellspring of progress for a long time to come.<br/><br/>This innovation is to the company itself - a new model is being pioneered by geeks who have instituted a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can - and should - be.<br/><br/>They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would - through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting rather than relying on the boss's instincts. McAfee's groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world.<br/><br/>The future will be 'geek'. By investigating contemporary research in psychology, economics and behavioural sciences, as well as first-hand accounts from the 'geek' leaders of today, McAfee shows us how this new age will transform everything we think we know about how business is done, now and into the future.<br/><br/><b>'The most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organisations' - Adam Grant, host of TED podcast <i>Re: Thinking </i>and number one <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Think Again</i></b><br/><br/>Chosen for <i>Economist </i>Best Books of the Year in 2023 and <i>Financial Times</i> Book of the Month in November 2023.</p>