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"How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration" by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a book that explores the reasons behind the failure of megaprojects. The authors draw on Flyvbjerg's extensive experience and projects database to provide insights into the common pitfalls of large-scale projects. The book offers recommendations for reorganizing thinking and practice to avoid these failures, emphasizing the importance of slow thinking, clear goals, experimentation, practical experience, humility, authentic collaboration, and modularity in the planning process. While some readers may find the solutions overly simplistic, the book provides valuable lessons from one of the world's leading experts on megaprojects. [Extracted from the article]

Handbook on the geographies of corruption: edited by Barney Warf, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, 392 pp., £121.50, $154 (hardback), ISBN: 978 1 78643 474 6, £38, $48 (eBook), elSBN: 978 1 78643 475 3 Handbook on the geographies of corruption, edited by In his introduction, Warf cannot help but open by defining corruption, its causes and its consequences, before sharing the ambition of the I Handbook i and outlining the chapters to come. [Extracted from the article]