FEATURED TITLES The Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen AED 85.00 The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, the

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The Internet is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen
AED 85.00

The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, there can be no doubt that the web, and the new businesses it has enabled, has transformed the world. But, according to Andrew Keen, this disruption has been a terrible failure. In The Internet is not the Answer, Keen has written a sharp, witty polemic proving that, so far, the web has been mostly a disaster for everyone except a tiny group of young privileged white male Silicon Valley multi-millionaires.

Memory Man
by David Baldacci
AED 71.00

Amos Decker would forever remember all three of their violent deaths in the most paralyzing shade of blue. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light. He would never be free from it.' When Amos Decker returned home eighteen months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job as a detective, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police, Mary Lancaster, visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murder of his family, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them. As Decker comes to terms with the news, tragedy strikes at the local school. Thirteen teenagers are gunned down, and the killer is at large. Following the serious brain injury Amos suffered as a professional footballer, he gained a remarkable gift - and the police believe that this unusual skill will assist in the hunt for the killer. Amos must endure the memories he would rather forget, and when new evidence links the murders, he is left with only one option. Memory Man will stay with you long after the turn of the final page.

Faithful Couple
by A. D. Miller
AED 91.00

The story of a friendship built on a shared guilt and a secret betrayal, The Faithful Couple follows Neil and Adam across two decades, through girlfriends and wives, success and failure, children and bereavements, as power and remorse ebb between them. Their bifurcating fates offer an oblique portrait of London in the boom-to-bust era of the nineties and noughties, with its instant fortunes and thwarted idealism. California binds them together, until-when the full truth of what happened emerges, bringing recriminations and revenge-it threatens to drive them apart.

The Road to Character
by David Brooks
AED 111.00

In this urgent and eye-opening book, David Brooks asks us to confront the meaning of true fulfilment. A famous columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author, Brooks found himself living in a shallow mode. For years, he remained focused on getting ahead and reaping the rewards for his efforts, placing his career before his character. Finding himself at a crossroads, Brooks sought out men and women who embodied the moral courage he longed to experience. Citing an array of history's greatest thinkers and leaders - from St. Augustine and George Eliot to Dwight Eisenhower and Samuel Johnson - he traces how they were able to face their weaknesses and transcend their flaws. Each one of them chose to embrace one simple but counterintuitive truth: in order to fulfil yourself, you must learn how to forget yourself.

The Real-life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team and Growing Your Career
by Jack & Suzy Welch
AED 77.00

You can talk about theories, concepts, and ideologies all you want, but when it gets right down to it, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy, and everything in between. My boss is unbearable. I’m stuck in career purgatory. My team lacks enthusiasm. Our IT department is incompetent. Our strategy is outdated. We don’t understand our Chinese partners. We’re just not growing.

Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
by J. K. Rowling
AED 65.00

In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound and provocative questions: How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others?

All That Glitters (Geek Girl 4)
by Holly Smale
AED 72.00

Harriet Manners has high hopes for the new school year: she’s a Sixth Former now, and things are going to be different. But with Nat busy falling in love at college and Toby preoccupied with a Top Secret project, Harriet soon discovers that’s not necessarily a good thing…

Vanishing Girls
by Lauren Oliver
AED 52.00

Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late.

Assassination Classroom 3
by Yusei Matsui
AED 43.00

Ever caught yourself screaming, I could just kill that teacher? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an F on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call...again? How about blowing up the moon and threatening to do the same to Mother Earth - unless you take him out first?! Plus a reward of a cool 100 million from the Ministry of Defense! Okay, now that you're committed...How are you going to pull this off? What does your pathetic class of misfits have at their disposal to combat Teach's alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?!

Avengers: Rage of Ultron
by Rick Remender
AED 107.00

It was another glorious victory for the Mighty Avengers. Good triumphed over evil and Ultron was shot into space, never to be seen again. Or so they thought. Now, years later, the homicidal artificial intelligence - so long devoted to ending life on Earth - has a new world to conquer. one with its own horrific legacy. When Titan, birthplace of Thanos, falls, Planet Ultron rises in its place! Thanos' brother Starfox must seek the aid of his former allies - but the Avengers he finds are radically different from the ones he once knew.

A Year at Otter Farm
by Mark Diacono
AED 163.00

The taste of a perfectly ripe mulberry was Mark Diacono's inspiration for creating Otter Farm, a unique smallholding in Devon with every inch dedicated to extraordinary produce. Sprouting broccoli, asparagus, artichokes, borlotti beans and chard flourish in the vegetable patch; quince and Chilean guava grow in the edible forest; and pigs and chickens roam freely.

Cottage under the Big Pines
by Susan Southam
AED 163.00

Susan Southam allows readers to look through the window of 'Foxgloves Spires'-her former home of 30 years, located in rural Australia-and into the lushly romantic and soul-filled interior within. The Cottage Under the Big Pines tells the nostalgic love story between Southam and her restored century-old timber cottage in a collection of essay-like chapters, themed around seasons and colours and supported by an abundance of photographs. Southam's writing is heartfelt, emotional and honest; her photographs capture the spirit of her home with its astonishingly beautiful garden, as well as the details of her colour schemes, decoration and furnishings. The Cottage Under the Big Pines provides inspiration and information for readers to apply, but above all it opens our eyes to the humble details of our immediate environment that enrich our everyday lives.

الحضور
by مايكل براون
AED 125.00

رحلة عملية في إدارك اللحظة الحالية وجعلها أسلوب حياة وطريقة يومية للعيش على هذا الكوكب ، وتسهل عملية الحضور للجميع تجربة إدراك اللحظة دون الحاجة إلى إتخاذ طريق طويل ملئ بالتحديات كما يفعل معظمنا عادة . ويرجع السبب في ذلك إلى الأثار العاطفية العميقة والمختبئة بداخلنا منذ الطفولة .

حياة معلقة
by لينا هويان الحسن
AED 55.00

ألماظ المسيحية الدمشقية ، تتزوج الكونت اللبناني المقيم في باريس وتبدأ رحلتها عبر الأطلسي لتكتشف عوالم العرب في المهجر ، وتشيد عالمها هناك ثم تعود مرة أخرى إلى باريس لتنجب الحفيد المنتظر للكونت . كارلوس بدوره يكبر ويتشارك أحلامه مع صديقه الكردي بوتان ، حفيد أشهر أمراء الأكراد الذي يغادر دمشق لإكمال أحلام أبيه ، أما كارلوس فيتابع خط رحلة أمه ألماظ وألماستها الزرقاء في اتجاه البرازيل.

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