Falling Off the Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies. Alex Perry
10 best books like Falling Off the Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies. Alex Perry (Alex Perry): The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's Dear Leader, The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece, The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century, Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish, Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police, Feelers, Endtroducing.....
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
| Author | Gary Keller |
| ISBN | 1885167776 |
This book is really deep. While the title is easily marketable I felt the insight was really profound and one of those books I'll definitely need to reference throughout my journey.
KEY INSIGHTS
- Extraordinary results are determined by how narrow you can make your focus
- Do fewer...
Tales from Outer Suburbia
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 0771084021 |
Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern...
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's Dear Leader
| Author | Michael Breen |
| ISBN | 0470821310 |
Kim Jong-il has been the subject of intense interest and fear in recent months. He has been demonised as 'Dr Evil' for his nuclear programme which puts Korea on a collision course with the US. For this reason, the world has a stake in understanding this man and his little-known country. This account aims...
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
| Author | Edward Dolnick |
| ISBN | 0060531177 |
The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's...
The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century
| Author | Robert Lomas |
| ISBN | 0747275882 |
I chose this book because I wanted to learn more about Nikola Tesla, and it definitely fulfilled my expectations. Although at times I wanted more technical detail, I think that for the most part the author did a good job of describing Tesla's work in layman's terms. There were a few terms I didn't understand,...
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
| Author | Anthony Swofford |
| ISBN | 0743287215 |
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his...
| Author | G. Bruce Knecht |
| ISBN | 1594866945 |
This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and explores the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked tells the story of the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to Americans as "Chilean Sea Bass") and is...
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
| Author | Robert Twigger |
| ISBN | 0688175376 |
Adrift in Tokyo, translating obscene rap lyrics for giggling Japanese high school girls, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger comes to a revelation about himself: He has never been fit nor brave. Guided by his roommates, Fat Frank and Chris, he sets out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from...
| Author | Brian M. Wiprud |
| ISBN | 0312388616 |
Morty Martinez is known in the industry of estate liquidation as a "feeler." If you were to look him up in the Brooklyn yellow pages, he would be listed under "home content removal," but his real job is looking for stashes of cash crammed into tin cans that have been left out of wills, kept out of banks,...
What resonated about Endtroducing... when it was released in 1996, and
what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens
itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted
territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is not
only a master...
| Author | Imogen Edwards-Jones |
| ISBN | 0552153052 |
Heard the one about the airline that has introduced 'corpse cupboards' on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air? Heard the story about the First Class air hostess who got fired for sitting on the face of a passenger during a long haul flight? Heard about the amount of knickers and...
| Author | Jennifer Niven |
| ISBN | 0786884460 |
The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms, the ship became imprisoned in ice, and the expedition was abandoned by its leader. Hundreds of miles...
The Stupid Country: How Australia Is Dismantling Public Education
| Author | Chris Bonnor |
| ISBN | 0868408069 |
This book warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church and ideology are combining to undermine public...
| Author | Tom Hodgkinson |
| ISBN | 0060779691 |
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living:...
Sex and Money: How I Lived, Breathed, Read, Wrote, Loved, Hated, Slept, Dreamed and Drank Men's Magazines
| Author | Mark Dapin |
| ISBN | 1741143209 |
The beer-sodden recollections of the former editor-in-chief of Ralph provide a bawdy insider's look into the world of men's magazines. The history of men's magazines in Australia, from Playboy, Penthouse, and The Picture to FHM, Ralph, and Men's Health is explored. How women become cover girls,...
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals,...
The Science of Storytelling
‘One of my absolute favourite writers’ Decca Aitkenhead
Who would we be without stories?
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships,...
