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  • The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

    by Lawrence James ...
    The renowned historian shares "a stylish, intelligent and readable" chronicle of Great Britain from the seventeenth century to the twentieth ( The New York Times Book Review).Great Britain's geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Iron Hope

    Lessons Learned from Conquering the Impossible

    by James Lawrence ...
    The ultimate guide to mental toughness by James “Iron Cowboy” Lawrence—the greatest endurance athlete in human history.Lawrence’s accomplishments are nearly impossible to comprehend. After breaking two Guinness World Records, he shattered possibilities in 2015 by completing 50 full-distance triathlons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days. Yes, THE IRONMAN®, “the single most difficult day in sports” ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ray Dalio: Principles of a Billionaire Mind

    by James Lawrence ...
    Ray Dalio is one of the most influential investors of the last half-century-but the true story behind his success is not about markets, money, or algorithmic trading. It is the story of a mind engineered through failure, humility, and an obsessive pursuit of truth.Born to a middle-class family and working as a teenage caddy, Dalio's earliest lessons in wealth came not from textbooks but from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 2084 Report

    A Novel of the Great Warming

    by James Lawrence Powell ...
    For fans of The Drowned World and World War Z**, this “sobering and scary (and fascinating) novel—a look at where we’re going if we don’t quickly get our act together” (Bill McKibben,** New York Times bestselling author) regarding climate change—unveils our potential terrifying future.2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the most dire predictio... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Churchill and Empire

    Portrait of an Imperialist

    by Lawrence James ...
    A genuinely original biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire.'A superb history of a memorable subject' Andrew Roberts, bestselling author of CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINYOne of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Passage of the Hurricane

    A Novel

    by James Lawrence ...
    “A propulsive mystery of high verve and wit, teeming with misfits, and fizzing with greed and desire."—Scott Dominic Carpenter, author of Theory of RemaindersIn 1990s San Francisco, the gruesome death of former district attorney Harrison Rose uncovers a 19th-century double homicide aboard the ship Hurricane, and begins the hunt for Inca gold smuggled from Peru to California by wayward Catholic ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • MrBeast

    Engineering Attention: How Jimmy Donaldson Built the Most Powerful Media Machine on Earth

    by James Lawrence ...
    "Jimmy Donaldson didn't hack YouTube. He listened to it—until it reshaped the world around him." MrBeast is not just a YouTuber; he is the first native emperor of the attention economy. In MrBeast Engineering Attention, James Lawrence provides a systems-focused and unsentimental re-examination of how a teenager with no connections built the most efficient media engine on Earth. Lawrence argues ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Mysteries of the Deep

    How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History

    by James Lawrence Powell ...
    A groundbreaking chronicle of scientific ocean drilling—a crowning achievement of the twentieth century—and how it shaped our knowledge of Earth's past.Under the radar—or, rather, sonar—of most people and many scientists, for the last six decades ships have plied the world’s oceans, mining the seafloor for its secrets—and quietly resolving confounding geological mysteries. Continental drift and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Unlocking the Moon's Secrets

    From Galileo to Giant Impact

    by James Lawrence Powell ...
    The Moon is the most viewed object in the sky, the Sun being too bright to look at directly and the planets too far away. The Greeks deduced everything that could be learned about the Moon using only the naked eye, including that it has no light of its own but reflects that of the Sun. They understood the cause of eclipses and used the Earth's shadow on the Moon to conclude that our planet is a ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Faith in Fallacy

    A Century of State-Sanctioned Science Denial

    by James Lawrence Powell ...
    Today, when global warming denial and vaccination denial are alarmingly prevalent, it is crucial to understand that throughout history, science denial at the state level has cost scores of millions of lives. In the Soviet Union under Stalin, Lysenko's denial of genetics led to disastrous agricultural policies, resulting in the persecution and execution of dissenting scientists and widespread ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Ghislaine Maxwell

    Power, Access, and the Woman Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s World

    by James Lawrence ...
    "Ghislaine Maxwell was not a bystander. She was a connector." While the world focused on the crimes of one man, the true engine of the Epstein world was a sophisticated network of access, social fluency, and institutional deference. In Ghislaine Maxwell: Power, Access, and the Woman Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein's World, James Lawrence provides a fact-based, psychologically rigorous re-examination ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Bad Bunny

    From the Island to the World: How Bad Bunny Rewrote Global Pop Culture

    by James Lawrence ...
    "Bad Bunny didn't conquer the world. He reminded it that it was always bigger than English." For decades, the path to global stardom for Latin artists required a "crossover"—an English-language pivot to satisfy Anglo gatekeepers. Bad Bunny broke that model forever. In Bad Bunny: From the Island to the World, James Lawrence provides an analytical and culturally fluent re-examination of the artist ... Read more

    $5.99 USD