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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened- ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
$26.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
$55.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more