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New Smart Thinking Book Gift Ideas

New Smart Thinking Book Gift Ideas

The Christmas holiday period is fast approaching! Alleviate the headscratching and add these smart thinking books to your present lists. Give the gift of mental discipline, privacy awareness, bodily knowledge, tech wisdom and social superpowers. Check out some short reviews of each below, combined with affiliate links to a number of online bookshops where you can buy each book.


Stillness is the Key - An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life

Stillness is the Key - An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life

Ryan Holiday

Review From Book Depository: Filled with wisdom and examples from historical and contemporary figures, this book shows how to cultivate this quality in your own life. Because stillness is not merely inactivity, but the doorway to the self-mastery, discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive, noisy world.

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Book Depository €10.96 Waterstones £12.99 Amazon UK £9.33 Amazon US $14.99

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The Body: A Guide For Occupants

The Body: A Guide For Occupants

Bill Bryson

Review From Book Depository: Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

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Book Depository €13.97 Waterstones £12.50 Amazon UK £12.50 Amazon US $13.39

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The Unicorn Project : A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

The Unicorn Project : A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

Gene Kim

Review From Book Depository: The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms--this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.

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Book Depository €24.99 Amazon UK £21.27 Amazon US $22.71

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Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell

Review From Book Depository: Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.

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Book Depository €15.22 Waterstones £16.99 Amazon UK £12.95 Amazon US $15.99

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Image Copyrights: Profile Books Ltd (Stillness Is The Key), Pan Macmillan (Permanent Record), Transworld Publishers Ltd (The Body), It Revolution Press (The Unicorn Project), Penguin Books Ltd (Talking To Strangers)

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