The Art of Fairness by David Bodanis

The Art of Fairness by David BodanisCan you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognising that, as the old saying has it, 'nice guys finish last'. But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme, and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done? In THE ART OF FAIRNESS, David Bodanis uses thrilling historical case studies to show there's a better path, leading neatly in between. He reveals how it was fairness, applied with skill, that led the Empire

superficially very ordinary

Self-Sabotage

Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece

and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one of the cool kids

library or nursery classroom

a King sat at a window and sewed

hiding an act of freedom

they are forced to confront the stories that define their sense of themselves and their place in the world

With chapters on every lightning-rod issue

sensual novel of obsession and desire that inspired the Oscar-winning major motion picture

his marriage

'No one writes stories the way Hall does and quite possibly no one ever will