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The Blurb On The Back:

What have we done to the internet?
And what has the internet done to us?

Extremely Online reveals how online influence came to upend the world, has demolished traditional barriers and created whole new sectors of the economy. By tracing how the internet has changed what we want and how we go about getting it, this book unearths how social platforms’ power users radically altered our expectations of content, connection, purchasing and power. From how moms who started blogging were among the first to monetise their personal brands online, bored teens and their selfie videos reinventing fame as we know it, to how young TikTok creators are leveraging opportunities to opt out of the traditional career pipeline - the sis the real social history of the internet.

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The Verdict:

Taylor Lorenz is a journalist and technology columnist. This highly informative, narrative book looks at the rise of influencer culture from so-called ‘mommy blogs’ to social media as we now know it, explaining how monetisation happened against initial backlashes to the same and the battle between relatability and aspiration. What comes through is how little tech companies understand their products and how influencers rose in spite of them.

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The bestselling DadSaysJokes is back with an all-new collection of their best jokes, guaranteed to leave you grinning and groaning in equal measure.

Q: What kind of tree fits in your hand?
A: A palm tree.

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The Verdict:

Kit and Andrew Chilvers run the popular Instagram account DadSaysJokes and this book is basically a distillation of it - a load of dad jokes and puns that will make you groan and chuckle. Some of the jokes are so old that they’ve got barnacles on them, a few are US-focused and so may not resonate with UK readers and there are also a couple that don’t work at all. For all that though, it’s more hit than miss and definitely not just for dads.

DAD JOKES: GREATEST OF ALL TIMES was released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2025. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Tired of being too busy but not productive? Sick of feeling over-whelmed and stressed out? Can’t seem to find enough time to devote to either your work or your personal life? Attention Pays offers an antidote to the constant barrage of disruptions we find ourselves faced with. This extraordinary book shows how to unplug from the daily stressors that drive us crazy and plug into the tools, strategies and mindsets that have the power to harness our attention and help us reach our highest potential.

Attention Pays shows how to be highly productive and achieve lasting work-life integration by putting the spotlight on the power of attention and absolute focus. The author discovered, through years of speaking, training and coaching, that we are too consumed with multitasking and tuning out to hear what’s being said. Our minds are so busy we fail to make genuine connections and enhance our existing relationships.

As the author explains, intention is what makes attention valuable. Intention involves seeing, hearing and thinking about who is with you and what needs your focus right now. Attention Pays is all about intentionally investing your attention in what matters at the moment … the people you are talking to, the priorities you are acting on, and the passions you are pursuing.

No matter what you role - executive, leader, parent, business, owner, coach - you can join the Attention Pays revolution by adopting the personal, professional, and global intentional attributes. PERSONALLY: Be thoughtful as an individual. PROFESSIONALLY: Be productive as an individual and leader. And GLOBALLY: Be responsible for your community and your world.

Attention Pays is your guidebook for becoming happier in your relationships, more fulfilled at work, and safer in the world you have created.

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The Verdict:

Neen James is an international speaker and coach specialising in client experience. This slight, but practical guide aims to help readers improve their attention in their personal, professional and within your community/globally and has useful tips for working out what matters to you and assisting in organisation and delegation. However the focus here is on individuals rather than company culture and James’s chatty style didn’t really work for me.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Ecstasy in London.
Crack in Los Angeles.
LSD in Tokyo.
Heroin in Sofia.
Cocaine in Medellín.
Bounty hunting in Manila.
Opium in Tehran.

This is your next fix.

This is Dopeworld.

DOPEWORLD is a bold and eye-opening exploration into the world of drugs. Taking us on an unforgettable journey around the world, we trace the emergence of psychoactive substances and our relationships with them. Exploring the murky criminal underworld, the author has unparalleled access to drug lords, cartel leaders, hitmen and government officials.

This is a deeply personal journey into the heartland of the war on drugs and the devastating effect it’s having on humanity.

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The Verdict:

Niko Vorobyov is a freelance journalist and author who has a conviction for possession with intent to supply. This is a readable if glib exploration of the drug world, offering a history to modern day drug policy and the development of various narcotic substances that’s too heavy with moral equivalence and too lacking in personal reflection to be a truly informative read about the subject.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Reichstag in the spring of 1945.

Berlin’s fate had been sealed four months earlier at the Yalta Conference. The city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution; in reality, it fired the starting gun for the Cold War.

Rival systems, rival ideologies and rival personalities ensured that Berlin became an explosive battleground. The ruins of this once-great city were soon awash with spies, gangsters and black-marketeers, all of whom sought to profit from the disarray.

For the next four years, a handful of charismatic but flawed individuals - British, American and Soviet - fought an intensely personal battle over the future of Germany, Europe and the entire free world.

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The Verdict:

Giles Milton is a writer and best-selling historian. This very readable and informative book explores Berlin between 1945 and 1950 sets out how the agreement between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference set the seeds for the Berlin Blockade and the Cold War. Extensively footnoted and drawing on personal papers from Colonel Frank Howley it’s particularly good on the specifics of governing and everyday life in post-war Berlin.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of white majorities.

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority in the UK and other counties. The early stages of this transformation have led to a populist disruption. One of our most crucial challenges is to enable both conservatives and cosmopolitans to view whiteshift as a positive development.

In this groundbreaking book, political scientist Eric Kaufmann traces four ways of dealing with this transformation - fight, repress, flight and join - and calls for us to move beyond empty talk about national identity. To avoid more radical political divisions, we have to open up debate about the future of white majorities.

Deeply thought provoking, Whiteshift offers a wealth of data to redefine the way we discuss race in the twenty-first century.

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The Verdict:

Eric Kauffman is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College. This book posits that to fight populism in the West politicians should accept white majority concerns about immigration, and consider restrictions on/conditions to the same. Unfortunately, Kauffman fails to explain what he - or indeed white majorities - mean by white culture and as we are seeing in 2025, giving ground to populist extremists only sees them tack harder to white supremacy.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides, Hooch. Weapons. It’s all in a week’s work at HMP Parkhurst.

After 28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at HMP Parkhurst, one of Britain’s most high security prisons. David Berridge has had to deal with it all: serial killers and gangsters, terrorists and sex offenders, psychopaths and addicts.

Thrown in at the deep end, David quickly had to work out how to deal with the most cunning and volatile of prisoners, and learn how to avoid their many scams.

Inside Parkhurst is his raw, uncompromising look at what really goes on behind the massive walls and menacing gates.

Both horrifying and hilarious, David’s diaries will shock and entertain in equal measure.

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The Verdict:

David Berridge worked as a prison officer at Parkhurst and its sister site Albany for 28 years between 1992 and 2019. This book, based on notes that he took as part of his job, paints a bleak picture of a tough job dealing with violent and manipulative men but also men who are suicidal. While strong on the job, I wanted to know more about Berridge, who he is, what drives him, and how the service can be improved to give it a human aspect.

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The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize.

For more than four weeks in the fall of October 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth.

In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Kruschchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground. More often than not, Plokhy argues, the Americans and Soviets simply misread each other, operating under mutual distrust, second-guesses and false information. Despite all of this, nuclear disaster was avoided thanks to one very human reason: fear.

Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources, including the recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days. Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive new account of the Cold War’s most perilous moment.

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The Verdict:

Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe. Published in 2021, this gripping book draws on then recently released KGB files to analyse the Cuban Missile Crisis from both the US and Russian perspective, drawing out how badly Kruschev and Kennedy misread and misunderstood each others positions and how nuclear war was averted by fear and accident more than negotiation and decision.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Even in the midst of runaway economic inequality and dangerous social division, it remains an axiom of modern life that meritocracy promises to open opportunity to all. The idea that reward should follow ability and effort is so entrenched in our psyche that, even as society divides itself at almost every turn, all sides can be heard repeating meritocratic nations.

But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy for the embattled middle classes, while at the same time, even those who manage to claw their way to the top are required to work with crushing intensity. All this sets directly from meritocracy’s successes.

This is the radical argument that The Meritocracy Trap prosecutes with rare force, comprehensive research, and devastating persuasion. Daniel Markovits knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within, as well as how we can take the first steps towards a world that might afford us both prosperity and dignity.

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The Verdict:

David Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale University and director of the Yale Center for the Study of Private Law. This interesting but infuriating book convincingly argues that the USA’s middle classes are locked out of opportunities to advance to the professions and elite education and the elite are forming a self-perpetuating clique but relies on such a narrow view of meritocracy that I was unconvinced by the propose solutions.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Have you ever considered how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe is largely unnoticed by the women doing it and by the wider world, yet women and girls are the first to be blamed the inevitable times when it fails.

With real-life accounts of women’s experiences - based on the author’s original research - this book challenges the culture of victim-blaming by highlighting women’s everyday resistance to harassment and sexual violence.

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The Verdict:

F Vera-Gray has worked for the Rape Crisis movement and is currently Deputy Director at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University. This very readable and unfortunately highly relatable book looks at the steps that women take to avoid sexual violence in their day-to-day lives, drawing on interviews with 50 women from different age groups and backgrounds and showing how it permeates through the generations.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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There’s something about Italy

Food, fashion, art, architecture: there’s no denying Italy has captured the world’s imagination. And we’re here to celebrate it. The Italian Way invites you to explore the country’s countless wonders, from ancient Roman relics to innovative modern art and beyond. By the end, you’ll be more in love with Italy than ever before.

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The Verdict:

If you’re planning a holiday in Italy and want to get more of a sense of its history, geography, food, social life, design and culture then this book is a handy introduction. Broad in scope, it’s full of photographic illustrations and nuggets of information that extend to locations outside the normal tourist zones but it is slightly spoilt by some typographical errors within the text, which is not acceptable for a book with a £20 cover price.

THE ITALIAN WAY was released in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2025. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

The Blurb On The Back:

At the age of 41, Rich Waters received a diagnosis that sent shockwaves through his world: early-onset Parkinson’s disease. But fate had more in store for him; shortly after this revelation, he learned that his daughter was also grappling with a degenerative condition.

Cold water swimming on the Isle of Skye, became his lifeline - a radical wellspring of fulfilment and resilience. Plunging into the frigid depths, Rich found a strong connection with the natural world. The sensation of icy water on his kin mirrored the challenges he faced in his life, and each swim taught a crucial lesson of personal survival.

Guided by Matt Rhodes, known as ‘the viking of Skye’, Rich discovered that the biting cold, the relentless waves and the untamed currents were more than just physical challenges: they were a metaphor for the unpredictability of life itself. In those waters, he learnt to surrender control, to accept the ebb and flow of existence, and to find beauty in the chaos.

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The Verdict:

Richard Waters is an award-winning travel and sports writer. This very personal book is part memoir, part self-help guidance that looks at how cold water swimming and a stoic attitude helped him to come to terms with two life-changing events. Unfortunately it lacks the self-reflectiveness and raw honesty to succeed as a memoir and lacks the general life advice to work as self-help, which is a shame as the descriptions of nature are excellent.

SWIMMING WITH THE VIKING OF SKYE was released in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2025. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Since the end of the Second World War, we have moved from an international system in which war was accepted as the ultimate arbiter of disputes between nations, to one in which it was not. This remarkable book, which combined political, legal and intellectual history, traces the origins and course of one of the great shifts in the modern world.

The pivot was the Paris Peace Pact of 1928, when virtually every nation renounced war as a means of international policy. By 1939, however, that Pact looked like a naive experiment. Hathaway and Shapiro show that it was in fact the critical moment of a new attitude to war, and how it shaped the thinking of those who framed a new world order after 1945.

Though this is a book about the power of ideas and their impact upon history, it is peopled throughout by individuals who brought about these momentous changes. The Internationalists is a significant contribution to understanding international affairs, and how great historical changes come about.

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The Verdict:

Oona Hathaway is Professor of International Law and Political Science at Yale and Scott Shapiro is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale. This is a thorough and engaging look at the legal framework underpinning war as a means of dispute resolution and how the Grotius view of “might is right” was overturned with the 1928 Paris Peace Pact, which changed attitudes to the legitimacy of war and formed the basis of the modern international order.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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In Breaking Bread, expert baker and food writer David Wright explores bread’s deep connection to culture, health and the environment, whilst addressing challenges like industrialisation, food trends and bakery closures. He examines bread’s pivotal role in civilisations, food security and sustainability, questioning its future in a changing role.

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The Verdict:

David Wright is a baker, writer and presenter. This thought-provoking book examines bread and its role in society and the economy, its impact on health and the environment and industry challenges (which is particularly strong and draws on Wright’s own experiences with his family bakery). I wanted more on how gluten intolerance decreases when “proper” bread is eaten and Wright constantly repeats his credentials but it definitely held my interest.

BREAKING BREAD: HOW BAKING SHAPED OUR WORLD was released in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2025. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism”, upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature, periodically readjusting the boundaries between these domains in response to crises and upheavals. They consider how these “boundary struggles” offer a key to understanding capitalism’s contradictions and the multiple forms of conflict to which it gives rise.

What emerges is a renewed crises critique of capitalism which puts our present conjuncture into broader perspective, along with sharp diagnoses of the recent resurgence of right-wing populism and what would be required of a viable Left alternative. This major new book by two leading critical theorists will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the nature and future of capitalism and with the key questions of progressive politics today.

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The Verdict:

Nancy Fraser is Professor of Political & Social Science at the New School for Social Research and Rahel Jaeggi is professor of practical and social philosophy at the Humboldt University, Berlin. This highly academic book, framed as a conversation between the authors uses (and assumes that the reader is grounded in) critical theory to explore what capitalism is, how it’s been viewed in history, how it can be capitalised and how it can be defeated.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Do you ever obsess about your body? Do you lie awake at night, fretting about the state of your career? Does everyone else’s life seem better than yours? Does it feel as if you’ll never be good enough?

Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life tackles head on the pressure cooker of comparison and unreachable levels of perfection that social media has created in our modern world.

In this book, Katherine Ormerod meets the experts involved in curating, building and combating the most addictive digital force humankind has ever created. From global influencers - who collectively have over 10 million followers - to clinical psychologists, plastic surgeons and professors, Katherine uncovers how our relationship with social media has rewired our behavioural patterns, destroyed our confidence and shattered our attention spas.

Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life is a rallying cry that will provide you with the knowledge, tactics and weaponry you need to find a more healthy way to consume social media and reclaim your happiness.

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The Verdict:

Katherine Ormerod is a fashion journalist, social media influencer and a fashion beauty and lifestyle brand consultancy. Published in 2018 this readable book aimed at young women is ripe for an update, mixing academic research and anecdotes from influencers to explain why social media is so bad for your well being but it downplays the role of the mass media in feeding into trends and is quiet on solutions to abuse within the fashion industry.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

The Blurb On The Back:

There is no Blurb on the Back, instead there are the following quotes:

“Stevenson had a meteoric rise from the rags of east London to the riches of Citibank, and his book charts that journey … A darkly funny book that makes a convincing case that high finance is as toxic, reckless and deeply cynical as ever.”
The Guardian

“The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass.”
Irvine Walsh

“Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad - often in the same sentence.”
Sunday Times

“Terrific … an unlikely hero, brimming with wit and a low tolerance for nonsense.”
Daily Telegraph

“A sharp observer, with a gift for colourful if merciless description.”
Financial Times

“Rude and funny … fast-paced … Gary Stevenson’s account of the frenzy and follies of trading ‘trillions a day’ is powerful … he tells a vivid story.”
TLS

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The Verdict:

Gary Stevenson is a former Citibank trader turned YouTuber and anti-inequality activist. This is an absorbing memoir of his life as a top trader at Citibank but the sections setting out how he rose from a working class upbringing in Ilford, Essex to become a top trader making millions of pounds in bonuses are more convincing than the final section, which charts how he became disillusioned with his job and its role in fuelling societal inequality.

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Discover an intriguing collection of notable events, remarkable nuggets and entertaining coincidences from music history - from 1894 to the present - for every day of the year in this constantly surprising compendium.

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The Verdict:

Justin Lewis is an editor and writer specialising in music. This hugely entertaining compendium of pop music facts comprises a number of facts for each day of the year including song releases or the birth/death of people involved in pop music (writers, artists, producers etc). The entries cover events from 1894 up to 2023 and it’s filled with fascinating nuggets that make it perfect for music aficionados and dilettantes alike.

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”Where’s a place in the world for me?
How do I move on with my life?
I’ve done my time.”

Meet the women inside Britain’s biggest female-only prison. The ‘frequent flyers’. The lifers. And the mothers with their babies behind bars.

With her trademark insight and compassion, Dr Amanda Brown shares the most horrifying, heartbreaking tories of the women inside.

From drug addiction to child abuse, self-harm to sex work, the women in her care have been both perpetrators and victims of terrible crimes. But Amanda is doctor to them all.

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The Verdict:

Dr Amanda Brown is a GP who has previously worked in a youth detention centre and Wormwood Scrubs and currently works at Bronzefield. This compassionate sequel to THE PRISON DOCTOR focuses on her work at Bronzefield and provides an interesting insight into what drives some women to crime and the role of homelessness but the tone of the anecdotes never quite rings true and you never find out what happens to the women after their diagnoses.

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When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralised software offers an unstoppable and globally-accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyses the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it tot grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implication.

While Bitcoin is a new invention of the digital age, the problem it purports to solve is as old as human society itself: transferring value across time and space. Ammous takes the reader on an engaging journey through the history of technologies performing the functions of money, from primitive systems of trading limestones and seashells, to metals, coins, the gold standard, and modern government debt. Exploring what gave these technologies their monetary role, and how most lost it, provides the reader with a good idea of what makes for sound money, and sets the stage for an economic discussion of its consequence for individual and societal future-orientation, capital accumulation, trade, peace, culture and art. Compellingly, Ammous shows that it is no coincidence that the loftiest achievements of humanity have come into societies enjoying the benefits of sound monetary regimes, nor is it coincidental that monetary collapse has usually accompanied civilisational collapse.

With this background in place, the book moves on to explain the operation of Bitcoin in a function and intuitive way. Bitcoin is a decentralised, distributed piece of software that converts electricity and processing power into indisputably accurate records, thus allowing its users to utilise the Internet to perform the traditional functions of money without having to rely on, or trust, any authorities or infrastructure in the physical world. Bitcoin is thus best understood as the first successfully implemented form of digital cash and digital hard money. With an automated and perfectly predictable monetary policy, and the ability to perform final settlement of large sums across the world in a matter of minutes, Bitcoin’s real competitive edge might just be as a store of value and network for final settlement of large payments - a digital form of gold with a built-in settlement infrastructure.

Ammous’ firm grasp of the technological possibilities as well as the historical realities of monetary evolution provides for a fascinating exploration of the ramifications of voluntary free market money. As it challenges the most sacred of government monopolies. Bitcoin shifts the pendulum of sovereignty away from governments in favour of individuals, offering us the tantalising possibility of a world where money is fully extricated from politics and unrestrained by borders.

The final chapters of the book explores some of the most common questions surrounding Bitcoin: Is Bitcoin mining a waste of energy? Is Bitcoin for criminals? Who controls Bitcoin, and can they change it if they please? How can Bitcoin be killed? And what to make of all the thousands of Bitcoin knock-offs, and the many supposed applications of Bitcoin’s ‘blockchain technology’? The Bitcoin Standard is the essential resource for a clear understanding of the rise of the Internet’s decentralised, apolitical, free-market alternative to national central banks.

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The Verdict:

Saifedean Ammous is Professor of Economics at the Lebanese American University. This book has useful summaries of the history of money and the development of Bitcoin but his arguments as to how Bitcoin meets the definition of money are unconvincing - no matter how many times he repeats his points - and his Austrian school economic arguments about Bitcoin’s superiority for settlement smacks of wishful thinking over the real world practicalities.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Extremely Online: The Untold Story Of Fame, Influence, And Power On The Internet by Taylor Lorenz
Dad Jokes Greatest Of All Time by Kit Chilvers and Andrew Chilvers
Attention Pays: How To Drive Profitability, Productivity And Accountability by Neen James
Dopeworld: Adventures In Drug Lands by Niko Vorbyov
Checkmate In Berlin by Giles Milton
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration And The Future Of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
Inside Parkhurst: Stories Of A Prison Officer by David Berridge
Nuclear Folly: A New History Of The Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
The Meritocracy Trap: The Tyranny Of Just Deserts by Daniel Markovits
The Right Amount Of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom For Safety by Fiona Vera-Gray
The Italian Way
Swimming With The Viking Of Skye by Richard Waters
The Internationalists And Their Plan To Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro
Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped Our World by David Wright
Capitalism: A Conversation In Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life by Katherine Ormerod
The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson
Don’t Stop The Music: A Year Of Pop History One Day At A Time by Justin Lewis
The Prison Doctor: Women Inside by Dr Amanda Brown
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative To Central Banking by Saifedeen Ammous

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Entries tagged with non-fiction

Extremely Online: The Untold Story Of Fame, Influence, And Power On The Internet by Taylor Lorenz

Dad Jokes Greatest Of All Time by Kit Chilvers and Andrew Chilvers

Attention Pays: How To Drive Profitability, Productivity And Accountability by Neen James

Dopeworld: Adventures In Drug Lands by Niko Vorbyov

Checkmate In Berlin by Giles Milton

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration And The Future Of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann

Inside Parkhurst: Stories Of A Prison Officer by David Berridge

Nuclear Folly: A New History Of The Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy

The Meritocracy Trap: The Tyranny Of Just Deserts by Daniel Markovits

The Right Amount Of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom For Safety by Fiona Vera-Gray

The Italian Way

Swimming With The Viking Of Skye by Richard Waters

The Internationalists And Their Plan To Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro

Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped Our World by David Wright

Capitalism: A Conversation In Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi

Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life by Katherine Ormerod

The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson

Don’t Stop The Music: A Year Of Pop History One Day At A Time by Justin Lewis

The Prison Doctor: Women Inside by Dr Amanda Brown

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative To Central Banking by Saifedeen Ammous