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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Giles Milton - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Giles Milton - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

''A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!'' ANTHONY HOROWITZ SIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER''S WAR MACHINE. In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler''s war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was to prove every bit as extraordinary as the six gentlemen who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who invented a lethal bomb. Another, William Fairbairn, was the world''s leading expert in silent killing. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, and aided by a group of formidable women, these six men and their sabotage attacks single-handedly changed the course of the war. ''Terrific . . . a great read'' IAN HISLOP ''Could not be faster-moving or more exciting'' LITERARY REVIEW Previously published in hardback as The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare .

DKK 141.00
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Deep Thinking - Garry Kasparov - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Deep Thinking - Garry Kasparov - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at the point where it could best human intellect. It wasn't a coincidence that Kasparov became the symbol of man's fight against the machines. Chess has long been the fulcrum in development of machine intelligence; the hoax automaton 'The Turk' in the 18th century and Alan Turing's first chess program in 1952 were two early examples of the quest for machines to think like humans -- a talent we measured by their ability to beat their creators at chess. As the pre-eminent chessmaster of the 80s and 90s, it was Kasparov's blessing and his curse to play against each generation's strongest computer champions, contributing to their development and advancing the field. Like all passionate competitors, Kasparov has taken his defeat and learned from it. He has devoted much energy to devising ways in which humans can partner with machines in order to produce results better than either can achieve alone. During the twenty years since playing Deep Blue, he's played both with and against machines, learning a great deal about our vital relationship with our most remarkable creations. Ultimately, he's become convinced that by embracing the competition between human and machine intelligence, we can spend less time worrying about being replaced and more thinking of new challenges to conquer. In this breakthrough book, Kasparov tells his side of the story of Deep Blue for the first time -- what it was like to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent -- the mistakes he made and the reasons the odds were against him. But more than that, he tells his story of AI more generally, and how he's evolved to embrace it, taking part in an urgent debate with philosophers worried about human values, programmers creating self-learning neural networks, and engineers of cutting edge robotics.

DKK 139.00
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Interesting Stories about Curious Words - Susie Dent - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Interesting Stories about Curious Words - Susie Dent - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown ''s Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language. Who was SWEET FANNY ADAMS? What''s the dramatic true story behind STEALING THUNDER? Why is it CHANCING YOUR ARM when you take a risk? What do bears have to do with LICKING INTO SHAPE? Or robbers with PULLING SOMEONE''S LEG? Why are CIRCLES VICIOUS? And, what''s so bad about a WHITE ELEPHANT? ''Nobody on earth knows more about the English language than Susie Dent'' Gyles Brandreth

DKK 155.00
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Interesting Stories about Curious Words - Susie Dent - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Interesting Stories about Curious Words - Susie Dent - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown ''s Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language. Who was SWEET FANNY ADAMS? What''s the dramatic true story behind STEALING THUNDER? Why is it CHANCING YOUR ARM when you take a risk? What do bears have to do with LICKING INTO SHAPE? Or robbers with PULLING SOMEONE''S LEG? Why are CIRCLES VICIOUS? And, what''s so bad about a WHITE ELEPHANT? ''Nobody on earth knows more about the English language than Susie Dent'' Gyles Brandreth

DKK 139.00
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If Then - Jill Lepore - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

If Then - Jill Lepore - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Radio 4''s Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award ''The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you crossed Mad Men with Theranos'' David Runciman The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their "People Machine" from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy''s presidential campaign, the New York Times , Young & Rubicam, and, during the Vietnam War, the Department of Defence. In If Then , distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, unearths from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. In the 1950s and 1960s, Lepore argues, Simulmatics invented the future by building the machine in which the world now finds itself trapped and tormented, algorithm by algorithm. ''A person can''t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing'' George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo ''An authoritative account of the origins of data science, a compelling political narrative of America in the Sixties, a poignant collective biography of a generation of flawed men'' David Kynaston ''If Then is simultaneously gripping and absolutely terrifying'' Amanda Foreman

DKK 173.00
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If Then - Jill Lepore - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

If Then - Jill Lepore - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Radio 4''s Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award ''The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you crossed Mad Men with Theranos'' David Runciman The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their "People Machine" from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy''s presidential campaign, the New York Times , Young & Rubicam, and, during the Vietnam War, the Department of Defence. In If Then , distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, unearths from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. In the 1950s and 1960s, Lepore argues, Simulmatics invented the future by building the machine in which the world now finds itself trapped and tormented, algorithm by algorithm. ''A person can''t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing'' George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo ''An authoritative account of the origins of data science, a compelling political narrative of America in the Sixties, a poignant collective biography of a generation of flawed men'' David Kynaston ''If Then is simultaneously gripping and absolutely terrifying'' Amanda Foreman

DKK 192.00
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If Then - Jill Lepore - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

If Then - Jill Lepore - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Radio 4''s Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award ''The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you crossed Mad Men with Theranos'' David Runciman The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their "People Machine" from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy''s presidential campaign, the New York Times , Young & Rubicam, and, during the Vietnam War, the Department of Defence. In If Then , distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, unearths from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. In the 1950s and 1960s, Lepore argues, Simulmatics invented the future by building the machine in which the world now finds itself trapped and tormented, algorithm by algorithm. ''A person can''t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing'' George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo ''An authoritative account of the origins of data science, a compelling political narrative of America in the Sixties, a poignant collective biography of a generation of flawed men'' David Kynaston ''If Then is simultaneously gripping and absolutely terrifying'' Amanda Foreman

DKK 126.00
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Humans Are Underrated - Geoff Colvin - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Humans Are Underrated - Geoff Colvin - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

In the dawning age of brilliant machines, what will people do better than computers? It''s easy to imagine a frightening future in which technology takes over the jobs that we now get paid to do, working more accurately and for barely any cost. Computers can already perform surgery, drive vehicles, write articles and do intricate legal work, so what hope will there be for tomorrow''s workforce?Drawing on a wealth of research, Geoff Colvin uncovers the skills that will be in great demand as technology advances - and how they can be developed. In this new machine age, we shouldn''t try to beat computers at what they can do. We''ll lose that contest. Instead we must look to unlikely places, learn from the best, and cultivate the human abilities that make us unique.

DKK 139.00
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A Good Place to Hide - Peter Grose - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

A Good Place to Hide - Peter Grose - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children, 3,500 of them Jews, from the Nazis and their Vichy stooges. Despite the danger, a whole community rallied together, from the pacifist pastor who defied orders to the glamorous female agent with a wooden leg, from the 18-year-old master forger to the schoolgirl who ran suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance.Told using first-hand testimonies of many of the survivors and face-to-face interviews conducted by the author, A Good Place to Hide is the thrilling story of ordinary people who thwarted the Nazis and sheltered strangers in desperate need.

DKK 141.00
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Futureproof - Kevin Roose - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Futureproof - Kevin Roose - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

A New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist''s counter-intuitive guide to staying relevant - and employable - in the machine age by becoming irreplaceably human. It''s not a future scenario any more. We''ve been taught that to compete with automation and AI, we''ll have to become more like the machines themselves, building up technical skills like coding. But, there''s simply no way to keep up. What if all the advice is wrong? And what do we need to do instead to become futureproof?We tend to think of automation as a blue-collar phenomenon that will affect truck drivers, factory workers, and other people with repetitive manual jobs. But it''s much, much broader than that. Lawyers are being automated out of existence. Last year, JPMorgan Chase built a piece of software called COIN, which uses machine learning to review complicated contracts and documents. It used to take the firm''s lawyers more than 300,000 hours every year to review all of those documents. Now, it takes a few seconds, and requires just one human to run the program. Doctors are being automated out of existence, too. Last summer, a Chinese tech company built a deep learning algorithm that diagnosed brain cancer and other diseases faster and more accurately than a team of 15 top Chinese doctors.Kevin Roose has spent the past few years studying the question of how people, communities, and organisations adapt to periods of change, from the Industrial Revolution to the present. And the insight that is sweeping through Silicon Valley as we speak -- that in an age dominated by machines, it''s human skills that really matter - is one of the more profound and counter-intuitive ideas he''s discovered. It''s the antidote to the doom-and-gloom worries many people feel when they think about AI and automation. And it''s something everyone needs to hear.In nine accessible, prescriptive chapters, Roose distills what he has learned about how we will survive the future, that the way to become futureproof is to become incredibly, irreplaceably human.

DKK 139.00
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Life's Short, Talk Fast - Ann Hood - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Life's Short, Talk Fast - Ann Hood - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There's a reason that Vogue calls it 'the quintessential autumn girl show' and that, years later, we're still head over heels with Stars Hollow.Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic town of Stars Hollow. More than twenty years later, it has become one of the most-streamed TV shows, ever.In an anthology as intimate and quick-witted as Gilmore Girls itself, bestselling author Ann Hood invites fifteen writers to investigate their personal relationships to the show. ('It's a show? It's a lifestyle. It's a religion.') Joanna Rakoff considers how Emily Gilmore helped her understand her own mother; Freya North connects with her son through the show; Nina de Gramont offers a comic ode to the unreality of Stars Hollow, Yassmin Abdel-Magied writes about why being a daughter is a permanent state. For anyone who identifies as Team Logan, Team Jess, or even Team Dean, Life's Short, Talk Fast reveals what Gilmore Girls tells us about ourselves - and why it matters.This autumn, get cosy and curl up with Life's Short, Talk Fast, where fifteen leading writers explore what Gilmore Girls means to them in this delightful celebration of a contemporary TV classic.

DKK 166.00
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Life's Short, Talk Fast - Ann Hood - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Life's Short, Talk Fast - Ann Hood - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There''s a reason that Vogue calls it '' the quintessential autumn girl show'' and that, years later, we''re still head over heels with Stars Hollow. Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic town of Stars Hollow. More than twenty years later, it has become one of the most-streamed TV shows, ever.In an anthology as intimate and quick-witted as Gilmore Girls itself, bestselling author Ann Hood invites fifteen writers to investigate their personal relationships to the show. (''It''s a show? It''s a lifestyle. It''s a religion.'') Joanna Rakoff considers how Emily Gilmore helped her understand her own mother; Freya North connects with her son through the show; Nina de Gramont offers a comic ode to the unreality of Stars Hollow, Yassmin Abdel-Magied writes about why being a daughter is a permanent state. For anyone who identifies as Team Logan, Team Jess, or even Team Dean, Life''s Short, Talk Fast r eveals what Gilmore Girls tells us about ourselves - and why it matters. This autumn, get cosy and curl up with Life''s Short, Talk Fast , where f ifteen leading writers explore what Gilmore Girls means to them in this delightful celebration of a contemporary TV classic.

DKK 126.00
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Through Siberia by Accident - Dervla Murphy - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Through Siberia by Accident - Dervla Murphy - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn''t happen - and what happened instead.Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. But by accident, or rather because she had an accident - a painful leg injury -, she found herself stymied in Eastern Siberia, a place she knew very little about. Although hardly able to walk, her subsequent experiences, in an unexpected place, and in an incapacitated state, provided many pleasant surprises. Above all she was struck by the extraordinary hospitality, generosity and helpfulness of the Siberians who made this strange phenomenon - a maimed Irish babushka - so welcome in their towns and homes.This book is an extraordinary story of fortitude and resourcefulness as Dervla Murphy finds friendship and culture in a seemingly monotonous, bleak and inhospitable place far from what we know as ''civilised''. Through Siberia by Accident is a voyage of Siberian self-discovery.

DKK 127.00
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Our Future is Biotech - Andrew Craig - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Our Future is Biotech - Andrew Craig - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

"An essential read for anyone committed to understanding the technologies that will define our future." CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER, BIOTECH ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF APEIRON INVESTMENT GROUP Welcome to the biotech revolution In the last century, technology has transformed the human experience across the world. This has been super-charged by the arrival of the internet, smart phones, AI and machine learning, and created trillion-plus dollar companies and household names like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Our Future is Biotech explains why biotech is next: because our biggest remaining challenges as a species concern biological systems.Biotech companies will solve our most intractable problems, from cancer, dementia, obesity and diabetes to elderly care, mental health conditions, and even clean power generation, agricultural production and environmental degradation. Biotech means that we can all live better, safer, healthier, wealthier, happier, and longer lives. The industry has already delivered "miracle cures" for several diseases, and there is more to come. But despite this, few people are aware of the phenomenal progress being made. Our Future is Biotech addresses this, explaining what biotech is, what is coming next, and how you might profit from it too. Tech has been the most important theme for human progress for the last century. Biotech is next.

DKK 168.00
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Our Future is Biotech - Andrew Craig - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Our Future is Biotech - Andrew Craig - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

"An essential read for anyone committed to understanding the technologies that will define our future." CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER, BIOTECH ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF APEIRON INVESTMENT GROUP Welcome to the biotech revolution In the last century, technology has transformed the human experience across the world. This has been super-charged by the arrival of the internet, smart phones, AI and machine learning, and created trillion-plus dollar companies and household names like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Our Future is Biotech explains why biotech is next: because our biggest remaining challenges as a species concern biological systems.Biotech companies will solve our most intractable problems, from cancer, dementia, obesity and diabetes to elderly care, mental health conditions, and even clean power generation, agricultural production and environmental degradation. Biotech means that we can all live better, safer, healthier, wealthier, happier, and longer lives. The industry has already delivered "miracle cures" for several diseases, and there is more to come. But despite this, few people are aware of the phenomenal progress being made. Our Future is Biotech addresses this, explaining what biotech is, what is coming next, and how you might profit from it too. Tech has been the most important theme for human progress for the last century. Biotech is next.

DKK 241.00
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Letting the Cat Out of the Bag - Sion Rowlands - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Letting the Cat Out of the Bag - Sion Rowlands - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Trimming a parrot''s beak, emptying a dog''s anal glands and neutering a cat - then lunch - followed by some tricky horse dentistry, amputating a lamb''s leg and calming a distressed client... It''s all in a day''s work if you''re a vet: a delicate balance of managing animal welfare and ethics, educating people in pet ownership and aligning their expectations with real-life outcomes. As a job, it spans everything from managing the heartbreak of euthanasia, to informing owners that under no circumstances should they take their dog''s worming pills, even if they''re sure they have worms. During his twenty-five-year career, Welsh vet Siôn Rowlands has experienced almost every animal medical issue imaginable, from rescuing an injured horse from the edge of a cliff to moisturizing a baby elephant. He''s also witnessed ridiculous moments, surreal situations and the real toll it can take on a person. Frank, funny and moving in equal measure, Letting the Cat Out of the Bag is a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the uniquely pressurised world of being a vet.

DKK 160.00
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Letting the Cat Out of the Bag - Sion Rowlands - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Letting the Cat Out of the Bag - Sion Rowlands - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Trimming a parrot''s beak, emptying a dog''s anal glands and neutering a cat - then lunch - followed by some tricky horse dentistry, amputating a lamb''s leg and calming a distressed client... It''s all in a day''s work if you''re a vet: a delicate balance of managing animal welfare and ethics, educating people in pet ownership and aligning their expectations with real-life outcomes. As a job, it spans everything from managing the heartbreak of euthanasia, to informing owners that under no circumstances should they take their dog''s worming pills, even if they''re sure they have worms. During his twenty-five-year career, Welsh vet Siôn Rowlands has experienced almost every animal medical issue imaginable, from rescuing an injured horse from the edge of a cliff to moisturizing a baby elephant. He''s also witnessed ridiculous moments, surreal situations and the real toll it can take on a person. Frank, funny and moving in equal measure, Letting the Cat Out of the Bag is a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the uniquely pressurised world of being a vet.

DKK 127.00
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Hall of a Thousand Columns - Tim Mackintosh Smith - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Hall of a Thousand Columns - Tim Mackintosh Smith - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah''s India.Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan''s journey -- the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and a hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj.Ibn Battutah left India on a snake, stripped to his underpants by pirates; but he took away a treasure of tales as rich as any in the history of travel. Back home they said the treasure was a fake. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is, glittering, grotesque but genuine, a fitting ornament for his 700th birthday.

DKK 141.00
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Operation Sealion - Leo Mckinstry - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Operation Sealion - Leo Mckinstry - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

''Superbly written and gripping '' Daily Express The thrilling true account of Hitler''s first defeat.In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation after a series of lightning military campaigns. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph of Nazi tyranny. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail. The traditional narrative of 1940 holds that Britain was only saved from German conquest by the pluck of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. The image of Dad''s Army recruits training with broomsticks is a classic symbol of the nation''s supposed desperation in the face of the threat from Operation Sealion, as the German plan for invasion was code-named. Yet as Leo McKinstry details, the British were far more ruthless and proficient than is usually recognised. The brilliance of the RAF was not an exception but part of a pattern of magnificent organisation. In almost every sphere of action, such as the destruction of the French naval fleet or the capture of German spies, Britain''s approach reflected an uncompromising spirit of purpose and resolution. Using a wealth of primary materials from both British and German archives, Leo McKinstry provides a ground-breaking new assessment of the six fateful months in mid-1940, beginning with Winston Churchill''s accession to power in May and culminating in Germany''s abandonment of Operation Sealion.

DKK 141.00
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Gunner - Alan Parks - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Gunner - Alan Parks - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

A brand new crime series from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy books ''Great storytelling . . . I loved it'' Peter James, #1 bestselling author of the Roy Grace seriesMarch 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines in France.Keeping the pain in his leg at bay with the help of morphine, Gunner, a former detective, is hoping to lie low as the Luftwaffe begins bombing Glasgow.But when he runs into his old boss Drummond, he is persuaded to help examine a body found in the wreckage. When it turns out to be that of a German, mutilated to disguise his identity, Gunner reluctantly agrees to investigate.As he begins to hunt for the truth Gunner runs into old flames and bitter enemies, before finding himself embroiled in a high-level conspiracy that reaches far beyond his hometown of Glasgow. Partly inspired by the true story of Rudolph Hess''s secret mission to broker appeasement with Britain during the Second World War, Gunner is an atmospheric and addictive new thriller from one of Britain''s best-loved writers. ''Great stuff . . . a vivid sense of place and time and what a main character!'' Ian Rankin, #1 bestselling author of the Rebus series ''A gritty, immersive, genuine page-turner . . . meticulously researched, but with a beautiful light touch'' Bridget Walsh, author of the Variety Palace Mysteries

DKK 159.00
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Get Started on your Mac - Rod Lawton - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Get Started on your Mac - Rod Lawton - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Are you looking to get the best out your new Mac, either as a complete novice or as a convert from a Windows PC?Or are you looking to learn about Microsoft Office 2008 or the latest updates of Apple''s latest iWork suite and its iLife applications?Make sure you''re getting the most out of your machine and understand its full potential. Get Started on your Mac offers a wider, more beginner-friendly scope - an all-in-one reference for those who want to understand the basic concepts rather than the in-depth technicalities. Focusing on the iLife applications which are bundled with Macs including email, iPhoto, iCal, iMovie, iTunes and others, it will help you to enjoy the full Mac experience, and see its appeal as a user-friendly computer that''s ready to be used straight away. Learn to live life to the full with your music, your photos, DVDs and email. With straightforward writing from expert authors, the Teach Yourself computing series cuts through the ''technobabble'', giving you easy and enjoyable access to all of the computer skills you want to acquire.NOT GOT MUCH TIME?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.AUTHOR INSIGHTSLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author''s many years of experience.TEST YOURSELFTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGEExtra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of your Mac.FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBERQuick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.TRY THISInnovative exercises illustrate what you''ve learnt and how to use it.

DKK 126.00
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Gunner - Alan Parks - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Gunner - Alan Parks - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

A brand new crime series from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy books ''Great storytelling . . . I loved it'' Peter James, #1 bestselling author of the Roy Grace seriesMarch 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines in France. Keeping the pain in his leg at bay with the help of morphine, Gunner, a former detective, is hoping to lie low as the Luftwaffe begins bombing Glasgow.But when he runs into his old boss Drummond, he is persuaded to help examine a body found in the wreckage. When it turns out to be that of a German, mutilated to disguise his identity, Gunner reluctantly agrees to investigate.As he begins to hunt for the truth Gunner runs into old flames and bitter enemies, before finding himself embroiled in a high-level conspiracy that reaches far beyond his hometown of Glasgow. Partly inspired by the true story of Rudolph Hess''s secret mission to broker appeasement with Britain during the Second World War, Gunner is an atmospheric and addictive new thriller from one of Britain''s best-loved writers. ''Great stuff . . . a vivid sense of place and time and what a main character!'' Ian Rankin, #1 bestselling author of the Rebus series ''A gritty, immersive, genuine page-turner . . . meticulously researched, but with a beautiful light touch'' Bridget Walsh, author of the Variety Palace Mysteries

DKK 166.00
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Launch in 5 - Will Russell - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Launch in 5 - Will Russell - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

How do you do justice to your business idea? It's a question that entrepreneurs are always asking, aware that 70% of new businesses fail. Starting a business is scary, especially for first-timers, but there is a safe, LAUNCH IN 5 way to do it. If you are launching a new business, this book will improve your chance for success in the most economic, efficient, and painless way possible, before you put large amounts of time and money on the line. It provides a comprehensive guide on how to rapidly turn an idea into a money-making machine - whether it is a side gig or a headfirst dive into the world of entrepreneurship. Because most new businesses are conducted online, it will place an emphasis on how to launch and build a business on the internet, and because most new entrepreneurs are operating within a small budget and timeframe, these concepts are inexpensive, fast, low-risk, and proven. Based on the author's insider strategies, LAUNCH IN 5 will guide the reader through each step of getting their idea out into the world, from inception to launch to ensuring long-term growth. It will also offer tools to help the reader determine whether their idea is worth pursuing (most aren't) and, if not, return them safely to the concept-development stage before they waste massive amounts of money and time launching an idea that will never fly. You'll learn that · Most risk is unnecessary. · You can launch your new business in days (or sometimes even hours). · You can apply the same launch strategies you'll learn here for an online business, an offline start-up a global corporation, with a budget of $50 or $500, 000. These method work in any industry, for any idea. · You can lower the start-up failure rate from 70% to 9% if you follow the guidance in this book. · Most business ideas can have their potential success (or failure) proved in just a week or so, for less than the cost of the latest iphone.

DKK 155.00
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Sell It Like Serhant - Ryan Serhant - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Sell It Like Serhant - Ryan Serhant - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

A lively and practical guide to selling anything ''Ryan is not only charming and hilarious, he could sell milk to a cow. This book is going to be very helpful and humorous to a lot of people looking to up their business game'' Andy Cohen, host of Watch What Happens Live... and New York Times bestselling author of Superficial Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in September 2008. Just nine years later, he has emerged as one of the top salespeople in the world and a co-star on Bravo''s hit series Million Dollar Listing New York, as well as the star of Sell It Like Serhant . He has become an authority on the art of selling. Whether you are selling a property or a hot tub, golf balls or life insurance, Serhant shares the secrets behind how to close more deals than anyone else, expand your business, and keep clients coming back to you for more. Sell It Like Serhant is the blueprint for how to go from sales scrub to sales machine. Serhant provides useful lessons, lively stories, and examples that illustrate how anyone can employ his principles to increase profits and achieve success. Your measure of a good day will no longer depend on one deal or one client. A good salesperson never closes a deal and wonders, "What now?" The next deal is already happening. Serhant shares practical guidance on how to juggle multiple deals at once and close all of them EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Sell It Like Serhant is a smart, at times hilarious, and always essential playbook to build confidence, generate results, and sell just about anything. You''ll find tips on: * The Seven Stages of Selling* Getting FKD: How to Be a Time Manager, Not a Time Stealer* Negotiating Like A BOSS* "The One Who...": Everyone Needs a Hook* Pulling the Indecisive Client Forward* And Much More!Whatever your business or expertise, Sell It Like Serhant will make anyone a master at sales.Ready, set, GO!''Full of smart tricks and tips to make a seller out of you'' PEOPLE.com ''Whether you''re in real estate or an author, you have to know how to sell yourself and your work. Because if you don''t, you can''t eat. This book from one of America''s hardest hustling salesmen is a crash course into becoming great at it'' Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy

DKK 127.00
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER ''As fast paced as a thriller'' Fred Burton , Stratfor Talks '' Pen and Sword Podcast ''Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA''s paramilitary activities...this excellent work feels like uncovering the tip of the iceberg ... Highly recommended for those seeking a better understanding of American foreign policy in action'' Jacob Sherman, Library Journal '' A behind-the-scenes look at the most shadowy corners of the American intelligence community...Well-sourced and well-paced, this book is full of surprises '' Kirkus ''Annie Jacobsen takes us inside the darkest and most morally ambiguous corner of our government, where politicians ask brave men and women to kill-up close and personal-on America''s behalf'' Garrett M. Graff, author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government''s Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of us Die ''This is a first rate book on the CIA, its paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins'' New York Journal of Books ''Having already demonstrated her remarkable aptitude for unearthing government secrets in books like Area 51 (2011) and The Pentagon''s Brain (2015), Jacobsen pulls back the curtain on the history of covert warfare and state sanctioned assassinations from WWII to the present...Jacobsen''s work revealing a poorly understood but essential slice of warfare history belongs in every library collection'' Booklist The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulizter Prize finalist The Pentagon''s Brain Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the C IA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for taking out America''s enemies abroad was even more shrouded in mystery. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute rogue-operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually a cog in a colossal foreign policy machine, moving through, among others, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the House and Senate Select Committees. At the end of the day, it is the President, not the C IA, who is singularly in charge.For the first time, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen takes us deep inside this top-secret history. With unparalleled access to former operatives, ambassadors, and even past directors of the Secret Service and CIA operations, Jacobsen reveals the inner workings of these teams, and just how far a U.S. president may go, covertly but lawfully, to pursue the nation''s interests.

DKK 155.00
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