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A jargon and hype-free introduction to how Bitcoin really works.

Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time. By stripping away the hype, jargon, and superficial analysis that often surrounds the crypto industry, this book...

Housing Under Platform Capitalism – how can short term rentals be regulated in European Cities?

Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world's cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation—a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method,...

Are we monsters?

A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future.

Self-medicating chimps… curious?

The astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves

The Making of Modern Corporate Finance reviewed in the Financial Times

The Making of Modern Corporate Finance by Donald H. Chew, JR reviewed in the FT

The Third Reich of Dreams – reviewed in the Telegraph

The Third Reich of Dreams by Charlotte Beradt has been reviewed in The Telegraph by Olivia Ward-Jackson.

“I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” – reviewed in the Daily Mail by Bel Mooney

"I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer" by Mary Beth Norton was reviewed by Bel Mooney in the Daily Mail

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, by Benjamin Nathans wins Pulitzer Prize

WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia—and beyond “A book about a past time that is very much a book...

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